PS3 Release Date , Price , Capabilities , Preorder

Same here
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/681/681199p1.html

 

Thanks for adding those links to this thread.

I don't expect that the Devstation developers show is going to answer any of the release date or pricing questions that we have. I expect this to be a fairly technical and esoteric show. It will however, be an important moment for Sony to show that they actually have functional development kits, contrary to recent and somewhat suspect reports: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/sony-insider-deleted-for-ps3-comments-148088.php

 

Do you guys know if a hardrive will be coming with the Ps3. What I've read and heard there won't be a hard drive, but instead they would use some sort of memory sticks, similar to PSP. They would release a 80 gig hardrive later on after the launch (prolly around 6 months) but it would only be for media storage such as movies, pictures, mp3's and so on.

So that would pretty much eliminate the need for packages ( core, Premium). The only MAIN difference between 360 core and premium is the hardrive which Ps3 will lack. So why would they make 2 seprerate packages?

Like i said this is the info I found on several sites and just wondering what you guys would think about it if it were true.

 

i find it funny how people say you cant copy blue ray.they said the same thing about xbox 360 modchip and there nearly made already.as for the PS3 i think it wont be here in australia until 2007.as for the price im guessing about $600-$800 the xbox 360 is going out for $650 when its released.

 

hdd is for hard drive disk

 

Would anyone know when Sony might show more details on the PS3? and please dont say E3, thats such a long wait away.

 

My opinion is this.....Sure, Blu-Ray players may be extremely expensive but they will not be manufactured in such a large quanity immediately as the ps3. Meaning that the more parts you order at one time, the price of each piece goes down. That being said, the market for the ps3 is much larger than the market of the stand-alone Blu-Ray player. Simple supply and demand principles.

Also, it may cost only $100 to manufacture a Blu-Ray player like you said but you have to remember that you are also paying for the idea and development process.

 

there is supposed to be some show in feb or march, but its not know if the ps3 will be there. hell i cant even find info about this show..

 

It is obvious to me the the PS3 is experiencing some type of problems because sony has yet to release any new information about it. Makes me glad that I have a 360 to hold me over.

 

they did this last time. they toyed with the information, but they had their reasons and they were not due to problems. if they release too much now m$ will pounce on it, trying to beat them.

 

Well lets look at what we do know. There is no actual up and running PS3, Blueray disc players cost around $1000, all the video that we have seen of the PS3 is just prerendered, and when ever someone asks sony about the release date they say it will be about by spring. If you think about it spring is a big time frame. The official first day of spring is March 20 and the first day of summer is June 21 so if sony releases the PS3 between those two dates then sony could officially say it made it out by spring.

 

omfgkughskhjg koo koo we got another disser of the pre-ren who doesnt know why it was
done so.

and do you work at sony? no. so u dont know if there is a running ps3 or not. sony has not
come out and said this, only conspiritors.

 

Um ok when the CES convention was being held the PS3 was just an empty shell behind a glass case.

 

did you open it? did anyone open it? even if its empty, it doesnt mean there arnt working
ones. maybe the working ones were in testing and they just shipped a case to display
because a real one would slow testing

the reson the videos were prerendered were because they were using a simple 2.4ghz
computer, not a ps3. the videos were what the ps3 is cabable of. they had to be prerendered
because the computer they were displayed on were no where near capable of the abilities of
the ps3.

 

anubis,
You are playing the appologist, an excellent complement to Koko's misinformation campaign.
I think it's a safe to assume the demo was pre-rendered video. If they had had anything ready to play (a smoothly functioning dev kit with and a finished game) they wold have. It's not surprizing that the combo is not ready yet, considering release will not be until November 2006. Production of a finished game takes a few weeks to produce 500,000++. A console will take a little longer to produce as many as are needed for the launch. However, I expect 2 months of production time should be enough.
Therefore, I'm not surprized there is not a game ready to play, since the target release date is still over 10 months away.

 

[bold]Stryfe[/bold] you are very correct with what you say. That is exactly all we know of the PS3 so far and the rest is predictions.

ignor anubis, anything said against PS3 in the smallest of ways will make him flame up against you.[bold]chandlew[/bold] you are also right but you will get used to this from anubis soon.

The fact is every website i have read say the PS3 was nothing but an empty shell. This must have come from some where and I believe the people who where at CES rather tan a PS3 fan boy.

Also the videos where pre-renderd. You have no other reason to believe otherwise. No one actualy played the games. The only half kind of demonstrations I got where on Unreal tournament 2007 and Fight Night Round 3 which are both coming to the 360, so have no proof of how more powerfull the PS3 is.

 

Thanks man for backing me up.

 

sometimes its hard to argue against the ps3 fan boys cos if you look at it xbox360 has been released, this means every bit of good and bad detail has been exposed so its easy to say look some 360's overheat they ae rubbish or they are very noisy, how bad. With the ps3 it hasn't been released so it's so easy to say ps3 won't be like that, it will have none of these problems.

 

fanboys unite, huh?

anything i say for the ps3 u just say im a fanboy. im just saying whats been said by the ppl. the reason i fight people about the ps3 is cuz they dont know anything about it, no one really does. im not saying its good or bad, but from whats being shwn it is the dominate system to be. if they lack, then ok. those graphics were done showing hat the rsx does but in video form. much like those movie trailers you see and say "omg they are realtime" well no they are not, they are made into videos much the same way. do not ignore what is contrary to you, because that is seriously ignorant.

 

anubis,

Every time you get backed into a corner you resort to the same line "nobody knows anything." Very philosophical, and I suppose since you know you know nothing you therefore know more than the rest of us?

It's a lame cop-out.

There are plenty of facts to work with in many veins of PS3 discussion: There is history, there is the present compliment of technology, there are market forces. Don't just flake when you get caught out on a limb.