A cut price PlayStation 3 (PS3) with a smaller hard drive and no backwards compatibility with previous consoles goes on sale later this month. The £299 PS3 has a 40-gigabyte hard disk and will be released in Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Sony has also slashed the price of the 60GB model from £425 to £349, as it hopes to ignite sales. Ray Maguire, head of PlayStation UK, said he expected the PS3 user base to double by Christmas. Mr Maguire said the release of the 40GB PS3 was a "strategic decision" and not the result of lower-than-expected sales of the PlayStation 3. "We have done market research, looked at fans' forums and the feedback from consumers is that they are anxious to get into PlayStation 3 but it is too expensive," he told BBC News.
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Whoa hows that for double-speak! Two underlined sections seem to contradict what they are saying...
Sony's going to have to do what MS does and take a several billion-$$$ loss on the hardware if they want the platform to catch on.
LOL. However, Nintendo outplayed both of them by selling cheap hardware that wasn't just a dumbed-down PC.
Sony's going to have to do what MS does and take a several billion-$$$ loss on the hardware if they want the platform to catch on.
LOL. However, Nintendo outplayed both of them by selling cheap hardware that wasn't just a dumbed-down PC.
Yep, they're selling a beefed up GameCube for the most part.
I do think that the PS3 would've killed if they released a model at a decent price. Playstation fans would rejoice, they'd still have exclusives, and probably sold a lot more consoles than they have. Instead, many have jumped to the 360 (which is pretty awesome as well) or the Wii even (Zelda and Metroid, woo! ) .
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This is what I heard and I believe it, Sony is not that stupid in my opinion not to release it without some sort of BC.
This is what I heard and I believe it, Sony is not that stupid in my opinion not to release it without some sort of BC.
You SAY that, but then you look at their track record over the last couple of years....
btw did anyone notice that Play.com have started selling Xbox360 Premiums for £199
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Sooo, how does people not buiyng the hardware because it is expensive not translate into lower sales... I'm sure Sony things the majority of their customers are blatant idiots for saying and doing the atrocities they do. Well for some reason even the gamecube had more sales in the same time period of it's launch, adding to the fact that the Gaming market has grown quite a lot in 5 years and the best selling period for the PS3 was the launch timeline where most all the PSaddicts got their fix (no disrespect to PS3 owners intended, only to some fanatics like some who even dropped engagements to buy PS3's).
(singing like pavarotti) I love my Wiiiiiii.
not everyone is concerned so much with backwards compatablity. I know I'm really not. I got rid of most of my ps2 games long before I got a ps3 because I was bored with them. I don't really need to be able to play games from the past because I rather play games that are out now and the future.
not everyone is concerned so much with backwards compatablity. I know I'm really not. I got rid of most of my ps2 games long before I got a ps3 because I was bored with them. I don't really need to be able to play games from the past because I rather play games that are out now and the future.
The fact remains, however, that there's still people who would still like to play their PS2 games, given how little PS3 games there are right now. Only thing is, the 40GB won't have any PS2 games compatibility.
At least you can find PS2 cheap these days, however.
I don't know what it is you're not getting about this, but there is no backwards compatibility with the 40Gb model. None, zip, zero. Not even software and Sony has said they wont be spending money on it.
I know for a fact that the cheapest i think this will gof or is about 688... thats what we have it as a starting sale price at work...
Price of a new PS2 - £100.
Erm, hang on. How can that be? We've been told that the European PS3 uses a software emulator to make it behave like PS2, which is why it had less emulation on launch.
So, they're really not giving anyone anything, and probably still raking it in! Oh god no!
Well, I'll still wait until I win the lottery to buy one. or ten.
First version of PS3 with hardware BC: Basically had a PS2 in it with the Emotion engine (CPU) and Graphics Synthesizer (GPU).
Second version of PS3 with software BC: Had no Emotion engine (CPU) but included the Graphics Synthesizer (GPU) for the software BC.
Current 40Gb version of PS3 with no BC: Excludes both Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer. Furthermore Sony says they will not be supporting BC anymore because you have 65 games to choose from on the PS3 by Christmas 2007.
First version of PS3 with hardware BC: Basically had a PS2 in it with the Emotion engine (CPU) and Graphics Synthesizer (GPU).
Second version of PS3 with software BC: Had no Emotion engine (CPU) but included the Graphics Synthesizer (GPU) for the software BC.
Current 40Gb version of PS3 with no BC: Excludes both Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer. Furthermore Sony says they will not be supporting BC anymore because you have 65 games to choose from on the PS3 by Christmas 2007.
Would you have jumped of a cliff if a new next gen. system did not support B.C. at all?
Why do they even bother with B.C. anyway, it is just marketing strategy.
Most people think it is nice to have, but would not miss it in the first place. (most just check to see if it works once or twice, only hardcore people really need it) People tend to play the games made for the system itself not older B.C. games.
If you were a PS2 guy, and jumped to 360, you don't have B.C. anyway... not for your PS2 collection.
First version of PS3 with hardware BC: Basically had a PS2 in it with the Emotion engine (CPU) and Graphics Synthesizer (GPU).
Second version of PS3 with software BC: Had no Emotion engine (CPU) but included the Graphics Synthesizer (GPU) for the software BC.
Current 40Gb version of PS3 with no BC: Excludes both Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer. Furthermore Sony says they will not be supporting BC anymore because you have 65 games to choose from on the PS3 by Christmas 2007.
Would you have jumped of a cliff if a new next gen. system did not support B.C. at all?
Why do they even bother with B.C. anyway, it is just marketing strategy.
Most people think it is nice to have, but would not miss it in the first place. (most just check to see if it works once or twice, only hardcore people really need it) People tend to play the games made for the system itself not older B.C. games.
If you were a PS2 guy, and jumped to 360, you don't have B.C. anyway... not for your PS2 collection.
First of all, where in my post do you see my opinion on anything related to this? All I'm posting are facts pertaining to the build of PS3s.
But since you asked, BC is more important for me this gen than it would've been last gen. I didn't have a PS2, I had an Xbox so it was nice to play Halo 1&2, GTAIII and others.
As for getting into the PS3, particularly since I don't have a PS2, I wanted to play games like God of War, Shadow of Colossus and a couple others that don't come to mind right now. The problem I have is that I think the 60Gb is too expensive but the cheaper one now doesn't give me BC. So I guess we'll see what happens.
One last point, I keep saying that what annoys me most about Sony are the outright lies they tell people. It's even more annoying when the fanbase takes up the lies as gospel and then make excuses when the lie is revealed. For example, in 2006 Phil Harrison made this comment: "backwards compatibility, as you know from PlayStation One and PlayStation 2, is a core value of what we believe we should offer. And access to the library of content people have created, bought for themselves, and accumulated over the years is necessary to create a format. PlayStation is a format meaning that it transcends many devices -- PSOne, PS2 and now PS3." Therein started the basing of the 360s "incomplete" software BC. Then Sony went to software BC... but, but, but Sony supports more titles!. Now they took it out. Well, no one wants it anyways. It's that double standard of supporting a company no matter what wrong it does that is completely illogical to me.
a 40gb version so far its not worthy, i guess the only real good version will be the 60gb ntsc sku
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