Leaked PS3 info!

[London Geezer]

DISCLAIMER: This is not 100% confirmed, it's info i got from a very reliable source at EA. If you don't believe it, just DON'T. I'm not sure i believe it myself.
DO NOT TROLL.
DO NOT POST A ONE LINER SAYING SONY IS DOOMED OR THAT I'M A TROLL FOR POSTING THIS.
Just DISCUSS, as if this was a real case scenario, about the consequences for Sony.
It's most probably one of those situations Sony can get out of, cause it's not confirmed.

Nice stuff leaked right into my drive:

In order to meet launch in spring the ps3 will feature a drive that will only be able to read single layer BD disks and will not be compatible with DVD and CDROM's

This means that backwards compatibility is sacrificed in order to reach launch date
Another problem sony is facing now is a backlash from the movie industry who want multilayer disks for additional content, these disks will not be playable on the ps3

PS3 lauch spring : only Japan (so the strange drives with no backward comp would only affect these machines! Probably not even all of them!)
autumn /summer: USA
october november : PAL

suposedly this info comes from EA internal documents

Now discuss

 

[Gholbine]

Sony sacrificing their biggest strength (backwards compatibility) just to meet the launch date?

That's not just unlikely, it's laughable.

 

[Gholbine]

Also, they've no rush to release in Japan, and they certainly wouldn't sacrifice backwards compatibility just to get the machine out in Japan as quickly as possible. If this document was evenly remotely feasible, this sacrifice would be made in order to release in the US first, to get Blu-Ray players out ASAP, as well as slow the Xbox 360 onslaught.

 

[Nick Laslett]

This obviously has serious consequences for the Japanese market.

But as you say the issues will be sorted by the time of the US/Europe launches, then for a lot of us it is a non-issue.

I don't think Sony should rush the Japanese launch, the Rev is more dangerous to them in Japan than the 360.

They could do a worldwide Q3 launch with a system without these flaws.

Reminds me of the botched PSX launch, where key software features were not available at launch.

It will be a blow to lose backwards compatability, because even though the 360 backwards compatibility is pretty poor, it is still better than nothing.

 

[EndR]

Yeah..
Scratching the bc-compability sounds VEEEERY odd, Sony have been touting it very loud so that dosen´t seem believable..

the machine being released in late 2006 in PAL-territories is more likely...

but yeah.. 100% NOT confirmed information so taking with a grain of salt..

 

[hey69]

you buy a nice 99$ ps2 thats what they want you to do!
what better backwards compatibility can you get? just use a ps2 muhahaa

on a serious note: This is probably one of the few scenarios they could do for launching in the spring.
maybe only japan gets a crippled bluray drive and the usa and eu gets a fully equiped BR drive.


about those launchdates, sounds plausible

 

[Gholbine]

I ask again, what purpose does releasing a crippled machine in Japan serve for Sony? The only consequence it will have is giving the PS3 some bad press.

If they're truly unable to get a proper Blu-Ray drive out by Spring next year, then they will delay, not release a crippled machine in a territory they'll dominate regardless of release date.

 

[rabidrabbit]

l-b, you're a troll

Who did you f^ck to get this "information"?

I think he f^ck'd you brainless , this is just not l-b anymore

 

[London Geezer]

l-b, you're a troll

Who did you f^ck to get this "information"?

I think he f^ck'd you brainless , this is just not l-b anymore

You don't wanna know...
But if this info turns out to be fake, i'll be well pissed off! All that work for nothing!!!!!!!

 

[Gholbine]

You don't wanna know...
But if this info turns out to be fake, i'll be well pissed off! All that work for nothing!!!!!!!

If...?

Dude, this information is so ridiculous it wasn't even worth posting.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Surely it's more likely they'll postpone a few months. They've done that before haven't they? Having said outright PS3 will play 13,000 BC titles they'll find it hard to explain that one away. Plus what's the point in putting in 'hardware BC' aids and writing emulators if they can't read the disc?! Sounds like major bunk.

 

[wazoo]

What would make no sense is to release some kind of drive on Day1 and upgrade it later.

It did not happened with the DC. It will not happen with the Xbox360.

As for this info, no confidence.

 

[London Geezer]

Hey don't shoot the messenger... I have worked hard for that!

 

[_phil_]

and the BD transfer rate is ?

 

[hey69]

530 ParSecs / second

 

[rabidrabbit]

I can see this soon appearing on ign, Gamespot and other sites "news" and "rumours".

And l-bo starts to think he holds The Staff Of Power And Wisdom and uses it for the good of mankind.

 

[London Geezer]

I can see this soon appearing on ign, Gamespot and other sites "news" and "rumours".

And l-bo starts to think he holds The Staff Of Power And Wisdom and uses it for the good of mankind.

AHAHAHAH It will be on these boards as "Look, this guy had sex with an EA employee and got this info off him!!"

Oh god i'll be the videogame whore on cyberspace for eternity!!!

 

[-tkf-]

suposedly this info comes from EA internal documents

Now discuss

EA certainly knows alot about something that hasn't anything to do with games

 

[Andy]

London Boy, now you've done it...




This is gonna be headline news on theinquirer now, I hope your happy with yourself

 

[Jon Brittan]

There are only two things that would make me even begin to give this information any credit whatsoever:

1. It's posted by london-boy and he has traditionally had (fair and well tempered) leanings towards the Sony camp coupled with a well balanced and well measured approach to his postings in the forum. I don't think though that he would post anything particularly negative about a Sony console unless he was at least reasonably confident of the source (to be honest I think the same would apply to non-Sony material also).

2. The suggestion that it's only the Japanese launch that would be affected. I think that, with X360 having been available for a number of months by that point there is only so much that Sony can do with words to hold back potential customers, an announced delay may be just what is needed to allow a few more people to slip towards an X360 instead. Sony won't be happy about the time gap between the release of the X360 and the PS3 anyway, they certainly won't want to be seen not to be able to release the PS3 on time as well, so what if the concession they had to make would only affect one market and only for a brief period of time? The Sony brand is so strong in Japan and the desire of the Japanese to get their hands on the machine may well be great enough that, if any territory were going to accept a "broken" product it would be there.

I still think the information sounds highly debatable and could create a fair amount of negative publicity and maybe negative feeling in the consumer base (especially given the fuel it would potentially give to MSs marketing department, "They can't launch at the same time as us and they can't even finish their product while still being able to compete with us"), but it will be interesting to see. Real "wait and see" information, I doubt it's accurate personally, but if l-b trusts the source then it will at least pique my interest.