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Xoj said:

SaviorX said:

jarypo_87 said:
Sony goes for external power supply, new ps3 revision in late 2010 or early 2011, 199$ price point, 250GB HDD, smaller blu-ray drive, expanded, vastly better playstation network service, Final Fantasy 7 Exclusive, Final Fantasy Versus Exclusive, god of war III, GT 5, Killzone 3, something new from media molecule, Uncharted 3, inFAMOUS 2, The Last Guardian, new IP from Insomniac, MAG will get some sort of huge expansion that will pump blood into the veins of the game with massive legs, Quantic dream's 2nd ps3 exclusive (remember the engines done, and better than anything on the market, games will come out fast.)

Sony's preservation will surely pay off.

1st,2nd or Exclusive 3rd party Developers who now have engines that make any competitive platform look out dated:

Gurella Games
Polyphony Digital
Media Molecule (Physics/creation based)
Naughty Dog
Quantic Dream
Team ICO
Santa Monica Studios.

Do people really think that with big games in 2010, the best talent in the industry, the best graphics engines in the industry, all proprietary, Arguably the single most impressive first party line up of developers ever crafted, finally finishing their hard work on their engines, that Sony will simply let the competition win?

Surely the Wii will dominate, Nintendo doing what Nintendo does best. Be happy for them.

But Sony is not going to roll over and die. Microsoft may have Halo, they may have a closing and relatively small lead, but the PS3 is on absolute fire. This is not going to run out.

Ahh....wishful thinking. Beautiful ain't it?

it already happen with 299$ slim, no one believed sony could do it, but they engineer the machine so well they managed to cut the price.

though, by the end of the year i expect them to at least drop 250$ and bundle their motion controls and may LBP or RE 5 alternative or similar game

In fairness when you look at the original launch model it was extremely over engineered in quality terms for what you expect traditionally in a console.  The current models are about where they should have been at launch, still not sure why they went so mad on some of the design originally.  The biggest savings of course have been Bluray doing well (hence costs plummeted with mass production on diodes) and natural cost cutting on the GPU and CPU. 

We may see a price cut in the US next year to try and keep pace with the 360 when it cuts, but I think Europe is safe for Sony so it might not be a global cut as they strive to be profitable.