Locked: Editorial: PS3 Could Be Sony’s Last Console

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trestres on 26 October 2008

What? Paul Warren actually found a way to troll against the Wii in this thread when no one else mentioned it. Unbelievable... not.

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Kantor on 26 October 2008

stephen700 said:
Sony deserve to loose to the Wii and the 360 and the PC.
If i did not know better i would say it's almost like they want to loose as much money and customers as possible.
They failed to have a better motion support than the Wii and i am talking software here - the hardware is very capable it's hughly undersupported by sony.

For the PC gamers they fail to support in game mouse support so any PC game on the PS3 is inferior gameplay to the PC version so why would PC gamers go to the Ps3 ! - my next game bioshock will be the PC version not the ps3 verion for this reason.

For the X360 they usually fail to exploit the Blu-ray to add game features like videos , production info , or other bonus content in most cases. And regarding motion support many games end up with the same lame interface the 360 gets which as i mentiond is inferior to the PC version.

It's really amazing they are not doing actually worse - still the good thing is that the undeserved success with the Ps3 may yet produce some better games in the future.

You do know that if the PS3 launched 200 bucks cheaper and the price cut from there, the X360 would have been destroyed by now, right? That and losing GTA timed exclusivity are the two biggest mistakes Sony has made this gen imo.

Of course, they couldn't really afford to make it cheaper. The hardware was too good.

Well, Sony's learnt something from this.

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MikeB on 26 October 2008

Nothing stops Sony from releasing a PS4 which would technically be less ambiteous than the PS3 is today. The PS4 doesn't need to be very different from what the PS3 currently is, the PS3 IMO paved a lot of the way for a PS4.

A PS4 will probably have Ethernet, Bluetooth, Blu-Ray drive, default harddrive, etc just like the PS3 offers today, I don't think it will be the step up as it was from PS2 to PS3. A faster clocked Cell processor with more processors on chip, a newer graphics chip, more RAM and bigger harddrives, that's about it I imagine a PS4 to become at its core, though hopefully Sony will push for some virtual reality add-on hardware which may require significant additional R&D to make appealing and affordable (for PS3 and/or PS4).

Looking at the PS3 specifications it was clear from the start the PS3 was not made to make a quick profit (selling more units early on would result in higher short term costs), IMO the design is far more geared towards setting long term goals, providing good quality hardware and paving the way for new technology / better approaches.

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Max King of the Wild on 26 October 2008

I agree MikeB.

Ps3 helped blu-ray with the format war and that sets up for the Ps4 next gen. Hell we are already seeing space issues with games comming out right now.

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SpartanFX on 26 October 2008

MikeB said:
Nothing stops Sony from releasing a PS4 which would technically be less ambiteous than the PS3 is today. The PS4 doesn't need to be very different from what the PS3 currently is, the PS3 IMO paved a lot of the way for a PS4.

A PS4 will probably have Ethernet, Bluetooth, Blu-Ray drive, default harddrive, etc just like the PS3 offers today, I don't think it will be the step up as it was from PS2 to PS3. A faster clocked Cell processor with more processors on chip, a newer graphics chip, more RAM and bigger harddrives, that's about it I imagine a PS4 to become at its core, though hopefully Sony will push for some virtual reality add-on hardware which may require significant additional R&D to make appealing and affordable (for PS3 and/or PS4).

Looking at the PS3 specifications it was clear from the start the PS3 was not made to make a quick profit (selling more units early on would result in higher short term costs), IMO the design is far more geared towards setting long term goals, providing good quality hardware and paving the way for new technology / better approaches.

very good points

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DMeisterJ on 26 October 2008

starcraft said:

DMeisterJ said:

hsrob said:

Joeykanga said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:
Just like Gamecube was Nintendo's last console...

This is all I can say.

Me too.

/thread?

Also, the XBOX wasn't profitable, didn't stop Microsoft from making a second one did it? Hell, MS was 3-4 billion in debt? SCE may have lost all the PS2 money, but they still have the 2 billion or so the PS1 made. So we'll see at least two more systems from them. The next one that may or may not waste the PS1 money, and then one last effort.

Anyhoo, failthread?

Are you implying that Sony is in the same sort of financial position Microsoft is?

Did you even read the editorial?

No, I'm implying that you can lose money on a console but still come back, I'm also implying that there have been companies that have lost more and came back.

Did you read the article?

I know you're not stupid, so you couldn't have read the thread and then decided to post it here.