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binary solo on 27 June 2013

What rubbish. If PSEye is going to retail for $60 (at a substantial profit margin I would think) then Sony could have launched PS4 at $449 with Eye bundled and make less of a per unit loss than a non-Eye PS4.

Actually a $449 PS4 with Eye would have been a better move IMO.



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ironmanDX on 27 June 2013

Smart move.



Dr.Grass on 27 June 2013
arcelonious said:
Dr.Grass said:
arcelonious said:
Dr.Grass said:
Dark_Feanor said:
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford


This is now the 2nd time this quote has been used on VG today.

This time it seems unapplicable though. What do you mean? Or are you just trying to be smart?


I think that they're trying to compare the automobile and assembly line to a console that shares a lot of similarities with an already available PC.

LOL WHAT.

That's not what that quote means. It means that Ford did something new and unprecedented and didn't base his modus operandi on the general consensus of the populace.

LOL.


I know, I was speaking about the difference in impact between what Ford did and what Microsoft is trying to do.

No wonder I get banned so often for calling people dumb.

(not you btw)



r3tr0gam3r1337 on 27 June 2013
ethomaz said:
adriane23 said:
The original SKU, if true, had to have included more than just the camera if it was going to be $500. Gotta love "sources".

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using this drive, 

Seagate 1TB SSHD Solid State Hybrid Drive

or a 240gb SSD capacity might me small but performance will be the key point

for $500 they would include a basic HDD probably somthing like this, 

Samsung 1TB HN-M101MBB Spinpoint M8



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Darth Tigris on 27 June 2013
Lafiel said:
Darth Tigris said:
Greatly devalues the PS Eye for the entire Gen. If the main penalty for including it is only price parity with one of your competitors, not sure if that is worth it. Feels more like a lack of confidence in it's worth.

Is that so?

I think a good portion of multiplatform titles will have Kinect features, most of which should be available to PS4 Eye owners aswell. And most first party titles will make sure to include some Eye functionality anyway, so in my opinion there could be quite a lot of PS4Eye support due to the Kinect.

That's certainly possible.  I'd imagine that the same ones complaining about Kinect being forced on us will gladly go purchase a PS Eye at that point and preach about it's value, completely missing the hypocritical irony (see PS+ mp requirement response) ...



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MoHasanie on 27 June 2013

Smart decision, but nobody will buy a PS Eye now. If Sony wanted to sell it as a seperate device then they should have made it as powerful as the Kinect 2.0.



    

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maximus22 on 27 June 2013

Hmm. So if the camera is $60 then I wonder what the $499 sku will include?



Hynad on 27 June 2013
Darth Tigris said:
Lafiel said:
Darth Tigris said:
Greatly devalues the PS Eye for the entire Gen. If the main penalty for including it is only price parity with one of your competitors, not sure if that is worth it. Feels more like a lack of confidence in it's worth.

Is that so?

I think a good portion of multiplatform titles will have Kinect features, most of which should be available to PS4 Eye owners aswell. And most first party titles will make sure to include some Eye functionality anyway, so in my opinion there could be quite a lot of PS4Eye support due to the Kinect.

That's certainly possible.  I'd imagine that the same ones complaining about Kinect being forced on us will gladly go purchase a PS Eye at that point and preach about it's value, completely missing the hypocritical irony (see PS+ mp requirement response) ...


That's a lot of maybes and assumptions to make your complaint fit your agenda.



S.T.A.G.E. on 27 June 2013
MoHasanie said:
Smart decision, but nobody will buy a PS Eye now. If Sony wanted to sell it as a seperate device then they should have made it as powerful as the Kinect 2.0.


They've always given people the choice. I think the article is bullshit because Sony has never forced the eyetoy in any of their Playstations for two generations now. This would be the third and they still haven't really sold it to the audience.



Heavenly_King on 27 June 2013

if the camera cost $60 how the hell the cost of the console would have been $500? At most I see it costing $450 as it is being bundled.



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