How much will this PS3 cost

Omg, why cant anyone get anything straight? The ps3 will cost a tad more than the 360. Mabey like 425$. 360 is 400$. Not 700$, not 600$ not 500$ not 300$ not 200$, not 700$+, not 200$-
And who would pay 700$ for a system. Dr.cool made a big point there, thats why the ps3 iss seling their system for that much.
425$$$$$$$$$$

 

Huh whats with all this talk about $700 systems. The ps3 will be $400-under $500 ($450 maybe?) The 360 has already been released and the core bundle is $300.

Hey where's the rasengan? all i see is a pic of that darkness thing. The PS2 was also around $400 when it first came out. The most expensive gaming system that I've seen is Sony's PSX (not the first one, it's basically a PS2 with lots of extra stuff that never made it to America and it still cost $700 if you import it now)

How did MS become two companies? Sorry I take A.P Government next year so i don't know this stuff yet.

 

Wha..they ddint release psx everywhere Well i never heard of it in Canada. here in canada, the xbox360 costs 499$..the core costs arround 399$. Dont know american prices. But i predict that in Canada ps3 will cost 525$. Dahm, a Canadian dollar is 85cents american, but things are still way mroe expencive up here.

 

Actually the price isn't confirmed. That was around what they first said it would be priced as but they said it's expensive and they're trying to cut costs. Meaning that if they sold it at that price they'd make too big a loss on each console. So they started removing stuff but I don't think it's helping that much. I expect above $500 unless they really go crazy taking stuff out.

 

I work directly with the Sony corp. and from what I am hearing is that the PS3 WILL COST $299.99 dollars. But im not going to say it will be $299.99 when it launches but that’s where it stands now. When a company releases a new console no company will make money the first year, it takes a number of years before they will make money because of the high cost of licenses the company has to purchase and the cost of production etc. The biggest cost for Sony is going to be the new Cell processor, which should cost the company $160 per chip. YES, the PS3, will play the PS2 and PS1 games! And honestly think about it who is going to pay 600 or even 700 dollars for a PS3.. well I know I would not.
How much will they lose, Arriving at $399, the PlayStation 3 would still be losing around $100 per unit, which adds up to around $1.18 billion of losses for Sony if year one sales predictions of 14 million units prove true. They are expecting a world wide launch around April 2006.


How powerful will the PS3 be: On paper, the PS3 is 2x more powerful than the Xbox 360 and 15x more powerful than the Nintendo Revolution. It has a processing capacity of 2.18 TFLOPS, which is put into context when you realize the FASTEST computers in existence can only do 36 Terraflops. It is said to be 35x more powerful than the PlayStation 2 . Sony will have an online service very comparable to Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. How much will they lose, Arriving at $399, the PlayStation 3 would still be losing around $100 per unit, which adds up to around $1.18 billion of losses for Sony if year one sales predictions of 14 million units prove true.


Here are the official technical specifications for the PS3, from Sony:
CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS

Storage
Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)
AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

 

No, what ever those sony dudes told you, are complete idiots. You gotta do the research. The ps3 it will be more powerfull(in terms of loading and that stuff), but not 2x more powerful. And why do u say it will be 25x more powerfull than the rev.? The rev's specs havent been released. GpU wize, the 360 and the ps3 are almost the same. You know what read the las 7 posts from ps3 graphics ok? To lazy to explain. The CPU,i havnt done alote of research, but i know it cannot be 2x more powerfull than the 360.360 has more generating processing, while the ps3 has more tflop.
FOR GRAPHIC INFO about the PS3 and 360, go visit the thread on ps3 graphics. Dont read the first couple parts, because they are untrue, read the last parts. last 7-5 posts.

 

is there any way you can prove you work with sony??

 

he got lots of info wrong. Like the chip is 100$ not 160$..i think he made that up. He's a super fan boy...lol ..one fanboy class higher than me.

 

PS3 > XBox360
Need I say more?

"IMHO" So don't flame me you bastards!

 

The ps3 is said to be [bold]399-450$[/bold]......... [bold]read the thread!!!!!!!!!!!!![/bold] They cannot sell it 600$. What is wrong with you? Sony already said that they are selling their system for the same $ as the 360! stop posting down that its goign to cost 500+ u
Shoot, I didnt realize that i was reading the first page!lmao sry, so yea that is ment to the person who posted that first page. who is Zinn

 

Actually Sony hasn't said anything about the price. They were just some journalist's assumptions.

 

im sure specs that the ps3 promised wont ever appear at launch day just so the price can be reasonable. if you have a system that costs $700 a big crowd you cut out are the kids.

 

Actually it was just Sony CEO hinting the price range.

 

You don't get a hint do you? They were not CEO's words, the journalist just made it all up.

 

we should be thankful if the ps3 is $700 though if you think about it the best gaming computer is 7,000$

 

The ps3 isnt 700$. It doesnt even cost taht much to make. OMG...lol there goign to loose -100-200$ on everysystem making it. No concol ever was 700$. Not even the ps2. [bold]not 700$,600$,500$.[/bold] its..
[bold]300$-450$[/bold]
no, computeres gpu is as strong as the rsx or 360's ATI. Its pointless for idiots to buy a computer that is 7000$ if its gpu is weeker than the ps3's and 360's.

 

Ok it can't possibly be around the $300 range. Simply because the CEO said it would be expensive and the only thing they took out after he said that was a hard drive so that's $100 less. Note that this is all hypothetical. All right if the starting point was $300 BEFORE taking out the hard drive then it would not be considered expensive because that's around the normal console release price. If it was $400 it also would not be considered expensive because they already had a rough estimate on the price of the XBox 360 at that time which was about $400. Thus it had to be at leas $500 when Ken Kutaragi said it was going to be expensive. Thus after removing the hard drive it would come up to $400 minimum hypothetically. But they haven't announced a price yet. If it was all finalised then they would just say $400 and no one would mind because it would be around the same as the XBox 360 with hard drive. So logic states it has to be higher than $400. $450 would still be reasonable for them to announce immediately if that's where they got its retail price down to. So it makes sense that if they were to release it now it would probably be a minimum of $500.

 

Dude, the thing only cost $500 to make. They usually sell for a lote less than what they make. I would agree with the 450$. But not 500$

 

How do you know what it costs to make ps3? I think only sony knows that.

 

Exactly. Plus think about it properly. Each XBox 360 is sold at a loss of $126 so the cost of making one is about $526 for the bundle with hard drive. And the PS3 has more functions built into it plus a next gen DVD drive. And no hard drive which despite how Microsoft sells one should be about -$50 to the price. So logically a Bluray drive not available on market would probably cost maybe $70 more than the DVD drive in the XBox 360. Then there's the double HDTV output which should be like I dunno $20 extra. Bluetooth is cheaper though so it should be like -$40. And the PS3 has a nice shiny finish so slightly more by maybe $5. Add that all up and the PS3 would possibly cost $550. But this is all guessing. And not to mention the new Core processor. That should be like $100 more so the cost by my rough badly estimated figures is $650. So if they sell it at $300 they'll lose $350 per PS3. If they sell it at $400 they'll lose $250. But if they sell at $500 they'll only lose $150. So let's agree at least that they need to seriously rip out a lot of options to afford selling it below $400.