VetteDude said:
Rainbird said:
VetteDude said:
PS3 didn't fail to have the grunt. Sony took it out to continue selling PS2's. And it wasn't a cost-cutting measure at all. The Emotion Engine is cheap to make, they just took it off the PS3 mainboard to keep PS2 sales strong. And it is still selling decent. PS2 just had a hardware revision like last year...put the power supply on the console instead of the brick.
NGP is 2 generations away from PS2. I think they will honestly.
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It was most certainly a cost cutting measure. Maybe they also wanted to keep the PS2 going, but they certainly wanted to cut down on the PS3 cost too.
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Emotion Engine added probably a few dollars to the PS3 production price. PS2 gets them $99 a sale. So it was probably a combination of "We can save a few bucks to get PS3 closer to profitablilty as well as keep PS2 sales (Our profit workhorse) going strong"
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Agreed, though it was certainly more than just a few dollars in the big picture. The EE would be taking up space on the motherboard, making the MB bigger than it needed to be, and a development team would have to continuously update the emulator (it wasn't purely hardware emulated).
