Xbox Next and PSX3 : Where they are going....

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Xbox Next : A $299 stripped to bare lean-and-mean game console.
PSX3 : $840 all-in-one wonder that plays and burns DVD, PVR, and might make you toast and doubles as a room heater.

One of two is taking the wrong path, obviously.... Considering that it was PSX2's DVD playback and not game playing feature that sold the initial batch of machines, I cannot be sure if SCEI's $840 "All-in-one-wonder" strategy is flawed....
 
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well, we know the base PlayStation 3 won't cost $700~$900.

the 'PSX' Home Server version of PS3 might cost that, though.

the base PS3 will be Sony's standard $299 price point. we ALL know this.
 
...because my name is Deadmeat, and despite all the quoting and linking and comments going on like this:
Reeves further suggested that in addition to a PlayStation 3 "intrinsically linked with PSX", "also there might be a normal PS3 for gamers, who just want to play the movies and have better games." The "home server" version of PlayStation 3, which has "all-singing, all-dancing features with maybe a hard disk drive", could retail for "whatever it might be, 600 or 700 Euros" according to Reeves, while the alternative might be for people who "just [want] to pay 200 Euros for a new generation games machine".
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...the only thing I can pick up out of that is Sony's desire to make an "$840 all-in-one wonder." That's it. Obviously nothing else was said, after all did you see it? all-singing, all-dancing features with maybe a hard disk drive? That's EXACTLY what they're going to do--nothing else--and it will go head-to-head with the Xbox Next at $299!

Kya-ha-ha-ha-ahaaaaaa! I have figured it all out!




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Get a grip.
 
Sony will not be so incredibly stupid as to launch a basic PS3 for more than $299, and allow Microsoft, Nintendo and perhaps others to take over, or enter, the $200~$300 videogame console industry unchallenged.
 
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Could PSX3 make its impact as a HD-DVR and justify its $840??? SCEI sold first million PSX2es as the cheapest DVD player on the market, not as the game console. Can PSX3 duplicate this feat and establish itself as the cheapest HD-DVR on the market??? I am sure CELL's FLOPS can be put to good use and do H264 encoding in software, while competition look to hardware solution...
 
Sony will not be so incredibly stupid as to launch a basic PS3 for more than $299, and allow Microsoft, Nintendo and perhaps others to enter the $200~$300 videogame console industry unchallenged.
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But the "new" SCEI would price PSP at 48,000 Yen/250 pounds, so what prevents them from pricing PSX3 HS at 80,000 Yen at launch???
 
There will be one version of PS3 sold at USD 300 in the USA, learn to live with it. Maybe a "PSX" version of PS3 sold 1-2 years after PS3 launches for a premium though.
 
You're accepting their "600-700 euros" comment as rote in your current pricing spasms, yes? Doesn't that also mean you have to accept the "200 euro" point as well?

Plus, how is it you're finding a the potential price difference unbelievable here, while the current difference between the PS2 and PSX is at that gap and more? Prices aren't determined by the absolute cost of your components, but by what the market will bear, and what a company is able to pull off.
 
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There will be one version of PS3 sold at USD 300 in the USA, learn to live with it.
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But hell, I would pay $1000 for a version with a Blue-Ray recorder and a big HDD with enough capacity to store say 30 or 40 hours of HDTV recordings.
 
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in a word, Microsoft
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SCEI's PSP sales projection. SCEI thinks the world goes crazy over all things SCEI and think they can do whatever they want...
 
But hell, I would pay $1000 for a version with a Blue-Ray recorder and a big HDD with enough capacity to store say 30 or 40 hours of HDTV recordings.
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It would probably be worth it if you have the need for HDTV recording, and I do think they will make a premium PS3 sold a year or so later with a bigger HDD and such.
 
But hell, I would pay $1000 for a version with a Blue-Ray recorder and a big HDD with enough capacity to store say 30 or 40 hours of HDTV recordings.
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It would probably be worth it if you have the need for HDTV recording, and I do think they will make a premium PS3 sold a year or so later with a bigger HDD and such.
 
SCEI's PSP sales projection. SCEI thinks the world goes crazy over all things SCEI and think they can do whatever they want...
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if Sony/SCEI does become THAT arrogant, they will learn what they should already know from seeing what happened to Nintendo and SEGA.

I think Sony/SCEI knows what they can and cannot do.

thankfully Microsoft and Nintendo are around, and healthy, (even with LESS than 20% of the console market each) to keep Sony from pulling insane prices.
 
You got it backward. $840 PSX3 HS comes first, $200 PSthree comes many many years later...
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Says who??? You?! :LOL:

I can't even believe I'm even wasting time here, this has got to be the most thick headed thing I have *ever* heard out of you.
 
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