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panajev
Act like you never heard of Sony keeping £1 = $1 with their products lately...
PSX2 : 114 pounds(VAT not included) in UK, $179 in the US
It is the VAT that's jacking up the European prices.
If in the U.K. they release at £249-279, we can expect $249-299
And what do you make of Japanese launching price of 48,000 Yen??? Kutaragi rips off poor Japanese consumers???
Deadmeat, I would also like to point out to you ( as if you listened to me ever ) that the PSP's SoC will be shrinked to 65 nm not too long after its introduction
Unlikely. 65 nm fab capacity is limited and all reserved for CELL. PSP will not migrate to 65 nm until CELL migrates to 45 nm some time in 2007~8.
I would not be TOO worried about performance of the PSP or Sony's e-DRAM process as the new thrench capacitor approach for e-DRAM they developed with Toshiba
Not applicable to 90 nm process. And PSP ASIC is a 90 nm product, not a 65 nm product.
So how large is PSP ASIC going to be???
1. Take a PSX2OAC measuring 86 mm2
2. Triple the eDRAM(or more)
3. Throw in an H264 decoder.
4. Throw in a DSP.
5. Throw in a second MIP CPU.
6. Throw in a wireless LAN logic.
And what do you get? A beast exceeding 200 mm2 in die size. Back to the glory days of first-gen Emotion Engine fab days.(Which you may remember as having costed something like $120 a piece to fab)
Oh, and when they were making projections when they were working on their 130 nm manufacturing process they expected to push their technology to the level of a 600 MHz SoC to have 256 Mbits e-DRAM... PSP shoots for 333 MHz
Which proves your projection was wrong.
Paul
Quite odd, infact I think Deering just contradicted himself. Just a few months ago he said the price of the PSP would be similar to that of the GBA SP.
Well, that was before the restructuring and cash-crunch....
Deadmeat, your dreams of a 300 dollar PSP won't happen
You are right, it will cost more.
I'm going to be laughing my ass of when it's released at 99-150 dollars.
And how is SCEI is supposed to make a profit off at a price of $150 when it costs over $300 to put one together??? Did you not hear? Kutaragi said he had no plan to lose money on hardware anymore. Deering is saying the same thing.
Infact, this whole conversation reminds me of the pre PS2 price hysteria, you know, where everyone thought the console would be 500+ and then were shocked when it was released in the USA at 300.
That's because PSX2 cost $500 to build and SCEI ate $200 loss per machine. Those days are over according to Kutaragi and Deering. SCEI has no cash to lose on hardware. It even resorts to issuing bonds to finance CELL R&D.
), and if the PSP does hit at $250 it will still be a bit high, but not so bad as to keep them away in droves. $150-200 would be the key range--and I doubt it would get in there for a while--but if they start at $250? That would still be quite acceptable for the device it is.
