Sony has reported that the PlayStation 3 is seeing gradually declining production costs and growing popularity of the console has led to a strong improvement on the company's balance sheet. Sony also noted that the company shipped about 37 million game consoles and more than 267 million games during the year. Sony's "PlayStation" unit posted a $1.2 billion USD loss for the year, an improvement ...
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Originally posted by varnull:
Blah blah blah... as with everything.. the longer you make it the cheaper it becomes to manufacture (unless you are making high end tube amps with rare and specially sourced/made dwindling component supplies)
Why is this even news? It should be in the "state the bleedin obvious" section!
Originally posted by windsong:And thats just the 40GB. i'm wishing for the same.
Now if only they can get some kick ass games for it to be worth shelling out 400 bucks for..
Originally posted by nobrainer:
yep they achieved this by removing backwards compatibility in the european model, then removing it from the american model, then cancelling all backwards compatibility fixes saving on wages for the debuggers, they also decided to inflate the prices of their first party games & sell old titles via the psn at extortionate rates and sell add-ons for unfinished titles like motostorm & fully working ps2 games but only if you purchase them again!
they also sacked a huge proportion of the gaming workforce and then got foxconn to manufacturer the PS3 if you don't know who foxconn are they are the ppl that were spread all over the UK papers for using sweatshop type slavery. Oh and lets not forget global price fixing.
and i can w8 to see all the revenue from the sale of content in sony's "Home" and from selling all PS3 user details to advertising agencies.
Seeking to lift ad dollars, Sony to track user data
Reports on Chinese iPod Sweatshop Suppressed Foxconn
Sony Hints At Downloadable PS2 Games On PS3
Sony really knows how to screw its customers
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MS selling old consoles as 'new'
French website logic-sunrise who is usually pretty clued up on these things indicates that Microsoft's new 199 Euro's Xbox 360 packs with 2 games and 2 wireless controllers are in fact OLD machines. After opening 10 of them, they found that the machines have been converted to new and all have non-falcon motherboards, old Hitachi 47 or Samsung MS25 drives and the repair center sticker on them. They suggest that you do not buy these packs and if you want a brand new machine, then fork out 199 Euro's for the arcade pack or 269 Euro's for the premium pack.
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Although to be fair, the above Sony screw might not have been Sony itself screwing a customer, but rather some screwball retailer drilling down on Sony's behalf.
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Zero tolerance for fanboy flame starters!
These forums are for (insert company name) fans so anyone that comes here trashing (insert company name) or it's fans will be dealt with very harshly. I'm sick of these stupid fights and back talking me about it isn't a good idea.
Originally posted by link:i was showing anti consumer behaviour which was my point on how sony have been able to reduce the cost of the ps3 from the removal of hardware charging a premium for larger hard drives when in actual fact they cost less than a few dollars between the sizes, to foxconn making the hardware as they do for nintendo, m$, apple, gigabyte, ati, nvidia, ect, but as i stated the reasons behind news articles also need to be explored not just the press releases by public relations staff that make a living out of cherry picking.
Okay that was way too much wasted google-fu time.
Part is here:
https://servicesplus.us.sony.biz/Par...px?stype=parts
Actual product is here:
http://www.sony.com.au/catalog/product.jsp?id=XS8303
Why on earth there is a screw that expensive for a speaker I have no idea. Just another reason to hate Sony I guess.
Originally posted by canuckerz:Bravo
@ nobrainer
It's called economics, get over it. And by trying to manipulate information you are part of the problem.
Quote:By all means buy what you like but remember what you buy and how you buy it dose matter.
You are probably wondering why bother nitpicking it’s a “good enough” game, you forget humans are lazy and apathetic, if you don’t keep the game industry on its toes it will make more crap fests because it can get away with it and then charge you more for them, the more the people do not care about quality the more the industries and governments will take advantage of the people, those willing to give up liberty for safety deserve neither, the same can be said for quality in media, those willing to give up quality for overpriced under delivering products deserve neither entertainment or their money.
Originally posted by TSRSteve:I find those "need more games" comments for ps3 rather old. It has had many games been put on the market recently and has plenty more to follow.
Sony blah blah blah. We need MORE GAMES and like nobrainer says quit trying to pass off all these old games as something special, they had their day already and they're not worth 10 bucks. What good is a kick ass console that only has mediocre games?
I haven't played a game on mine in weeks. The only thing I've been using mine for is playing bootleg Doctor Who videos I download from isohunt because I'm too impatient too wait for them to play here in the US. Maybe I'll just trade it in on one of those popcorn things.
Quote:it has games...mostly mediocre casual stuff with a handful of titles that are worth while...like the WII :POriginally posted by TSRSteve:I find those "need more games" comments for ps3 rather old. It has had many games been put on the market recently and has plenty more to follow.
Sony blah blah blah. We need MORE GAMES and like nobrainer says quit trying to pass off all these old games as something special, they had their day already and they're not worth 10 bucks. What good is a kick ass console that only has mediocre games?
I haven't played a game on mine in weeks. The only thing I've been using mine for is playing bootleg Doctor Who videos I download from isohunt because I'm too impatient too wait for them to play here in the US. Maybe I'll just trade it in on one of those popcorn things.
But if you continue to complain can i just ask...what games would you like...
Quote:The only one's I'd describe as that would be the PSN downloadable games.Quote:it has games...mostly mediocre casual stuff with a handful of titles that are worth while...like the WII :POriginally posted by TSRSteve:I find those "need more games" comments for ps3 rather old. It has had many games been put on the market recently and has plenty more to follow.
Sony blah blah blah. We need MORE GAMES and like nobrainer says quit trying to pass off all these old games as something special, they had their day already and they're not worth 10 bucks. What good is a kick ass console that only has mediocre games?
I haven't played a game on mine in weeks. The only thing I've been using mine for is playing bootleg Doctor Who videos I download from isohunt because I'm too impatient too wait for them to play here in the US. Maybe I'll just trade it in on one of those popcorn things.
But if you continue to complain can i just ask...what games would you like...
Quote:once you lower 90% of games down 1-3 points a lot of "average" starts coming out of the woodwork, 7s the new average for gaming don't cha know :PQuote:The only one's I'd describe as that would be the PSN downloadable games.Quote:it has games...mostly mediocre casual stuff with a handful of titles that are worth while...like the WII :POriginally posted by TSRSteve:I find those "need more games" comments for ps3 rather old. It has had many games been put on the market recently and has plenty more to follow.
Sony blah blah blah. We need MORE GAMES and like nobrainer says quit trying to pass off all these old games as something special, they had their day already and they're not worth 10 bucks. What good is a kick ass console that only has mediocre games?
I haven't played a game on mine in weeks. The only thing I've been using mine for is playing bootleg Doctor Who videos I download from isohunt because I'm too impatient too wait for them to play here in the US. Maybe I'll just trade it in on one of those popcorn things.
But if you continue to complain can i just ask...what games would you like...
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