Phil said:
I really hope Microsoft's attempt in an early next-gen transition doesn't influence Sony (or Nintendo) too much in cutting their own console's lifespan more than necessary.
Sony's hype machine and online fan-person followers could always make Microsoft look like SEGA if XBox Next is released prior to PS3.
I think, however that there is much more at stake with the next console launches, Sony keeps claiming how they shipped 80 million PS2s world wide in about 5 years of the console's life cycle and the PS2 is not even a $99.99 console yet, I would wager that MS needs to make sure that XBox Next's mass prodution fabs are working full tilt to make sure the console is also available in comparable quantities. Of course people want games too but for now we can only say time will tell what the final specs will be.
I just hope they stick a custom R6X0 based GPU instead of the R500 custom as well as 1024MB+ of GDDR5 or whatever to stay competitive with PS3.
version wrote:
i pay 500-600$ , if sony give me 1 giga ram and 1 teraflops
I agree with this price point and your wish, as long as its also backward compatible with PSX and PS2 and that it would probably offer something like what the PSX emulator Bleem for Dreamcast offered IMO as 640x480 res with full Trilinear+antialiasing+anisotropic texture filtering for both PSX and PS2 games (realizes that this is probably impossible) if it had that I think PS3 would be hotter than Tickle me Elmo and Pokemon cards for their time.
hey69 wrote:
well people, what you guys think, i believe for one thing that the american launchprice will be higher then last generation (299$)
since, the dollar lost 33% of it's value in the recent years
inflation and higher cost for technology for next geration
since europe was shafted anyway with the launch of xbox and ps2 (payed 540euro on launchday)
i believe a 399euro pricepoint will be made in europe and a 399us $ in america
I notice that you are mostly refering to the European launch and the USA launch, however keep in mind that in 1994 Japan, PSX was selling at around $450+ price point and Saturn was at either $450 to $499 price point, basically the expected US price point for 1995 was "supposed" to be $399.99 US on launch day for at least both consoles, that is until SEGA screwed up and in a desperate move launched 4 to 5 months prior to the announced launch and totally made themselves look like the bad guys.
Now as a difference, the DC in Japan had something of a $349 or less price point and the Japanese PS2 launch I forget the price but it did not matter cause most of those consoles went on Ebay to a much higher price point than the US launch.
Basically I see this, PS3 will have a bleeding edge specs list and it will probably have to have either a built in harddrive, a network card or both and become XBoxy but with possible Tivo or movie/music recorder capabilites or some kind of media center that has to be included with the default console.
Then take into account the large PS2 and even PSX established fanbase and just like Halo 2 was sold out mostly because of hardcore gamers, then we can argue that PS3 will sell out even if it is launched in the US at $399.99 and probably $499.99
As for XBox 2, I think its too early to tell because launch will depend on what games are made for launch time's 6 month window, I think I feel that MS wants to make XB2 an online multimedia center console with bleeding edge tech so I feel that a $499 price point seems adequate as long as the console offers some really unheard of power to ease those Halo fan's minds.
