Hey. Hey kid, c’mere. Listen, I know what you need. I got your hookup, right here in this
bag. Check this out. PS3, baby. Got all the juice you’ll ever need right here. And I’ll give it to you for only $599.
What? Wii? Whaddya mean you’d rather buy a Wii and an Xbox
360 for a few bucks more?! This is-…
really? Not a lot of good games? No interest in Blu Ray? Outrageously high price point?
Huh. Never thought
about it that way. How about this: The PlayStation 3 with an 80-gigabyte hard
drive? I’ll cut the price by $100, just
for you. $499 from $599. If that’s not enough, how about a $399 model
with a 40 gigabyte hard drive (less features, and no PS2 backwards compatibility)
starting November 2?
Just in time for Christmas. Of course, we’re still losing a more than $300 on every PS3 sold,
but… at least maybe we’ll get rid of them and up our chances of winning the Format War.
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Man will you guys give it a rest? You complain when the ps3 is too expensive and then you have tha gall to insult them when they drop their price?
I mean I'm not a sony fanboy (I own a wii and a ds and a pc) but it's obvious you're being rather hypocritical… if sony wants to give their systems away at $300 below cost I don't think you should be insulting them I think you should be thanking them.
Posted by: iluvoats | October 24th, 2007 1:29 am |
I'm not bashing Sony for giving their system away below cost.
I'm bashing Sony for introducing yet another SKU and for removing the one thing that makes the PS3 so appealing (backwards compatibility).
I'm bashing Sony for starting a pointless format war just to they can try to control the future of home media.
I'm bashing Sony for their dumb marketing and lack of innovation.
The whole point of this cheaper PS3 is to sell a Blu Ray player. If they want to lose one of their most profitable divisions in the process, that's their choice.
Posted by: Ron | October 24th, 2007 2:22 am |
lol this makes me laugh, the PS3 really don't give a shit about the 360 or the Wii
There is no "Console War" all they care about is making a profit, like any good business should.
If they have to adapt their price then so be it, its not about being better than the 360 or the wii its about trying to make money.
Posted by: Stove | October 24th, 2007 7:15 am |
I didn't say console war, I said format war. If Sony controls the future of all home entertainment being the owner of the Blu Ray format, the Blu Ray disc manufacturing machines, the Blu Ray player format, and a huge chunk of the movies and TV shows produced, then they stand to make a whole lot more money than they ever could just off video games.
Sony's video game arm has lost millions of dollars. Hundreds of millions of dollars, despite the PS2 remaining very popular.
Posted by: Ron | October 24th, 2007 7:20 am |
That's a shop. I can tell by the pixels and from having seen many shops in my time.
…
Sorry, I know that's an odd thing to say but I've always wanted to say it and as it's a picture of a shop, and I hate the use of the above phrase so much I would gladly put anyone who uses it through fifteen hours of intense physical and mental torture, I thought it appropriate to release my pent up desire to say it and the context means I don't violate my own principles.
So what are we talking about ? The PS3 ?
It's still too expensive and it wont fit on the stand below my T.V. If Sony released it with a free T.V. stand for my T.V. I would buy one… And If it was about $200 cheaper… And came with five games, two pads, a PSP and a lifetime subscription to some kind of porn.
Nar, forget the porn the wife would kill me.
That said, I wouldn't buy an Xbox 360 if you gave me the above package free with the 360 and gave me the 360 for free with a Mc Donalds Cheeseburger…
I hate Mc Donalds…
I could buy all three and I have more than enough cash to support a bad habbit on all of them at once but the PS3 and 360 have a long way to go before I put my hand in my pocket…
The Wii is good, it fits next to my T.V. nicely and so does the charger for the controllers. Not only that the Wife doesn't mind when I put it on, the kids love it and there's plenty of games available for me to play when I'm not coding…
* looks lovingly at the Wii *
As for the format war, who cares ?
Give it three or four years and everyone will be downloading at such a high speed that hard media formats wont even exist other than to burn your pirated software/video/music on to…
Can anyone put their hand on their heart and say that they would go out and purchase a DVD/Music CD/DVD in the shops for $XX.XX when you can just add it to your download list and let it filter its way passively on to your PC while you play on whatever the hell will be out at that time..?
All the current formats will be dead in three or four years or the entertainment industry will be totally shafted by then due to pirating of their products…
Bored now, smell my cheese and see you later!
Posted by: Photoshop | October 24th, 2007 7:40 am |
Interesting. Maybe playstation has really lost theyre minds. I personally wouldnt be caught dead with one, considering the planned obselescence of major video game companies. PC FTW!
Posted by: chris | October 24th, 2007 11:58 am |
I doubt in a few years "hard media formats wont even exist"…perhaps in a few decades, or half a century, but the most that is going to happen in a few years is larger, faster hard disk drives.
With that being said, teleportation will probably be invented this week…
Posted by: jesus | October 24th, 2007 8:16 pm |
I wont use the shop line this time, I still feel dirty from the last time and no amount of scrubbing with bleach makes it any better…
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Jesus : "the most that is going to happen in a few years is larger, faster hard disk drives."
You miss my point and the end of the sentance :
"hard media formats wont even exist other than to burn your pirated software/video/music on to…"
Hard drives are a given, what else would you download stuff to prior to burning it to a CD/DVD ?
In three or four years people may still be selling hard media like CDs and DVDs but the majority of people wont be buying them.
If you look at the net you already have the ability to stream T.V./Music/Video direct to your PC. If you look at your cable box you already have T.V. on demand services.
In three or four years… O.K. maybe five! …What is going to be the point in opening up a video rental shop when you can rent the videos direct from your cable box at whatever time you want for less than it costs to rent the same film from a rental store ?
In the U.K. the only rental stores which exist are massive chains and the only reason they exist is because they don't just rent films. They sell games consoles, games, sweets, crips, popcorn and sell of their ex-rentals at a fraction of the cost they are in the shops. There are no privately owned rental shops in the city where I live. If you turn back the clock five years they were a viable small business, turn the clock back ten years and there was one in every village.
I no longer bother to get off my arse and walk up to the rental shop because all I need to do is pick up my remote, open the ToD menu and I get access to pretty much every title they have right in my home.
If I wanted to and I could be bothered to wait then all I need to do is open up my laptop, do a torrent search, add the movie to my download list and wait for it to complete.
In three or four years the average speed of a home connection will be far in advance of what it is today. With higher speeds comes quicker uploads and downloads, with that comes faster file sharing and with that comes more piracy.
The last time I bought a music CD was 1995. The guy sitting next to me has never actually bought a Wii game for his Wii but has about 40 games. When my cable company lost the rights to show me "Lost" i simply downloaded them all from the states and watched them.
…My point is simple and clear…
Companies cannot continue to charge (here) £3.50 for renting a film when it costs £0.00 to download it, they cannot charge £35.00 for a game when it costs £0.00 to download it, they cannot charge £7.50 for a music CD when it costs £0.00 to download it.
Hard media in this respect will die a death in the next three/four/five years purely because my generation is getting in to its mid thirties and we all know about this kind of thing, the younger generations all know about it now already and I know kids of seven who use torrent software. The older generations who don't know much about computers are dying off and once we get to a stage where the majority of the target audience no longer wants to pay for things they know they can get for free if they simply wait a few hours, which is where higher bandwidth connections come in, the companies selling this stuff to us are going to have to rethink…
They already are re-thinking in the music industry because no-one actually buys CDs any more… Video is next and that wont take long… Then it's the game industry which will take the fall.
To sum up!
I said hard media would be dead in a commercial retail sense because the cost of the product in the shops is too high compared to the personal cost of time spent downloading the same product at given our current average bandwidth.
In three to five years our average bandwidth will be far in excess of what we have now.
The computer savvy population is growing, with that piracy of products grows and with that the production and retail of CDs and DVDs is going to continue to suffer to a point where the only viable option left is to levy a charge for the download of the product via the net.
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Jesus : " With that being said, teleportation will probably be invented this week… "
Depending on what your definition of teleportation is and the scale of it… It already has… But that's a story for another time.
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Oh, and Jesus… There's some guys in a big building down the road from me who have been ringing a bell every Sunday and waiting for you for the past like 2000 years…
The least you could do is show your face!
Posted by: Me Again! (photoshop) | October 25th, 2007 4:20 am |
I'll buy one if they go below 350usd. I simply cannot justify taking 500 bucks worth of food out of my kids' mouths for a GAME. I'd damn near kill to play the next Ratchet & Clank game among others, but 500 bucks? I've bought CARS for less than that.
That said, I agree it's all about the Blu-Ray format war. If HDDVD goes down in flames, Sony will make so much money they'll have orgasms just looking at the bank statements.
Posted by: Bill Vincent | October 28th, 2007 11:23 pm |