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Iveyboi on 26 May 2011

Sony finally makes a smart move that I can defend. Cheers!



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shuraiya on 26 May 2011

Rumors about rumors; you can tell E3 is right around the corner.



kurasakiichimaru on 26 May 2011
Griffin said:
superchunk said:

Makes sense and a smart move.

This same move is why I expect NeXtBox and PS4 to not be very much more powerful than Nintendo's upcoming machine. They learned their lesson from this gen and will focus on keeping a closer price while still being slightly more powerful.

This of course helps Nintendo too as they will no longer be robbed of 3rd party support as devs push their games accross all platforms to spread the costs per item.

win win scenario.

If they don't go much more powerful then the cafe then nobody will buy the xbox or ps4.  Anything less then top of the line PC graphics right now is unacceptable.

Nope. Price is more important than graphics.



Fumanchu on 26 May 2011

Sony didn't specify the amount of RAM...but they did show us a demo of Uncharted.  I can't imagine it looking the same with half the ram now.



NYANKS on 26 May 2011
kurasakiichimaru said:
Griffin said:
superchunk said:

Makes sense and a smart move.

This same move is why I expect NeXtBox and PS4 to not be very much more powerful than Nintendo's upcoming machine. They learned their lesson from this gen and will focus on keeping a closer price while still being slightly more powerful.

This of course helps Nintendo too as they will no longer be robbed of 3rd party support as devs push their games accross all platforms to spread the costs per item.

win win scenario.

If they don't go much more powerful then the cafe then nobody will buy the xbox or ps4.  Anything less then top of the line PC graphics right now is unacceptable.

Nope. Price is more important than graphics.

When there is no other option people will take what they are offered.  Graphics will still be great, and it's not like everyone is gonna move to p.c. because the specs aren't "hardcore" enough.



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megaman79 on 26 May 2011
Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:

The 3DS apparently has 128mb of ram, I guess the graphical difference won't be as big as DS vs PSP this gen? Anyways I can see a lot of fans being upset about this but it's for the best right?


Sony customers have got to stop expecting so much from this company, they're just not as big as they once were.

Going cheaper is the smartest move, and its proof (finally) that they're learning from their mistakes.



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richardhutnik on 26 May 2011

If it only the internal memory scaled back, that looks like it is in par with the PS3, considering the size of the screen.



gustave154 on 27 May 2011

noooo don't downgrade the ram... i am okay with no internal memory but 256MB ram is too looooooooooow =(



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ElGranCabeza on 27 May 2011

DOA



Metallicube on 27 May 2011

While some techies here might disagree, this is a smart move by Sony. Few people care about horsepower, particularly in a handheld. Yet many care about price.