If Sony made a sub $399 PS3 at launch- would it have outsold the PS2 and force MS out of gaming?

[HappySqurriel]

Turkish said:

HappySqurriel said:
If the PS3 only cost $399 and included the Playstation Eye and Playstation Move it would have bankrupted Sony or the system would have only been modestly more powerful than the Wii.

Uh no, PS Eye is just a camera with no exotic features. A 399 ps3 wouldve been equal to a 360.

It is a HD webcamera and those were still pretty expensive in 2006/2007, besides that Motion Plus wasn't included with the Wiimote by default in 2006 because the technology was still too expensive ...

When you start to add in the consequences of Sony spending less R&D money on the Cell processor (because it would be too expensive of a CPU to use in a conventional console) you start to realize that Microsoft couldn't have produced the Xenon CPU without piggybacking on Sony's R&D and therefore even the XBox 360 wouldn't be equal to what it is today.

Certainly, I was being dramatic when I compared it to the Wii, but (realistically) a $400 system that includes the PS-Eye and move would (probably) have been a dual core PowerPC processor running at 2.5GHz, 256MB of memory, a GPU based on the Geforce 6600, and a DVD drive. If Sony wanted to keep the Blu-Ray drive the processing power and memory would have needed to be further scaled back.