Originally posted by BTFan:

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In that case, I doubt the PS3 will be able to catch up in terms of sales to the Xbox 360. There's already an 8 million difference (worldwide sales), no price cut in 2009 will definitely increase that number.

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Originally posted by Ankoku:

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I agree with shaffaaf, 8 million is pretty minor in the long term...what's scary is that microsoft will need to release a 360 v2 or something like that because the system is hardware wise, a step behind the PS3...I don't have a PS3, but I do have a 360 (which by the way I love) and a Wii (which kinda just sits there...probably bound for ebay) but will not buy a PS3 until a solid price cut...I think its coming, and this is all just a way to keep up interest, I would imagine dropping the price $100 would win Sony the console war

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Originally posted by lxhotboy:

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Are you so sure that microsoft will have to release a newer console? LOL Crytek just claimed to have peaked the processor in the PS3 with the making of Crysis so dont count your eggs before they are hatched. One has a superior CPU and one a superior GPU so basically the PS3 being more powerful is still an opinion. Peak performance that hardware was intended to perform is not always achieved.

At the same time EA says the Xbox 360 is maxed out but again we will have to wait and see.

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Originally posted by Interestx:

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Someone was saying recently that by 2015 the PS3 will over-take the Xbox 360, bit too late by then I'd say, but ok if you want to be left a whole gen behind.

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Originally posted by lxhotboy:

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Truth be told Sony isnot going to tell the world they are going to drop the price of the PS3. I am ready for it to happen but really, If they announced they would drop the price with a PS3 that was cheaper and had a bigger HD then a lot of people wouldnot buy the PS3's that are already in stores and still in Sony's warehouse. They need to clear as much of their inventory as possible on the old PS3 before releasing the slim. Some will still want the original models regardless. Microsoft did the same remember? They denied a price cut on the Xbox 360 and then it happened. But not until they were ready to confirm the price to the world.

Its coming. Its coming soon no matter how much Sony denies it. Denying the price cut is called effective marketing.

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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I mean the cell tech....seriously what benefits dose it have that is not out done with more standard tech that might consume a nano watt more energy...........

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Originally posted by lxhotboy:

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If they announced they would drop the price with a PS3 that was cheaper and had a bigger HD then a lot of people wouldnot buy the PS3's that are already in stores and still in Sony's warehouse. They need to clear as much of their inventory as possible on the old PS3 before releasing the slim.

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now now thats what we have the 360 mini oven for. i was going to play the saturn is like the ps3 card but you know people jump on that like a Chinese man on rice.

Sony shot themselves in the foot on this one, so the same could be said about the 360. its not about units sold its about $$$ made anyone in the biz knows that.

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Originally posted by DXR88:

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now now thats what we have the 360 mini oven for. i was going to play the saturn is like the ps3 card but you know people jump on that like a Chinese man on rice.

Sony shot themselves in the foot on this one, so the same could be said about the 360. its not about units sold its about $$$ made anyone in the biz knows that.

Sony has to lower the price its either that or they'll be on the top of the Console woos right there with Sega. it wouldn't surprise me if Apple was the next contender for the games market. we lost Sega and got MS we lose Sony we get Apple.

it wouldn't be bad either, if you look at it right apple has had exp with priporitory hardware.

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Its like it but there are 3 huge differences, the PS3 is doing well enough outside japan( yes it dose not compare to the PS2 but then what dose.... 2 they are working hard to get the coding knowable and kits to the developers), 3 its getting games made for it, hell its chosen over the PC to dev too.


the only real problem with the PS3 is price, you knock 100-200 off it and it will do as well as the 360 because people want the other console to fill out their library with. Now if it was easy to code for exclusivity could come into play and sony could be driving the industry but alas that's where they shot themselves in the foot, unlike sega that removed theirs with a rocket.

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You know you are right. Honestly i dont know for sure about the sega saturn road but i do put it into my equation as well for we dont truely know if they will ever figure out how to code effectively for the PS3. I honestly hope they do but that is something that Sony needs to be working on night and day to get a devkit out to developers that will show the true power,RUMORED, to be capable of the console. Maybe they already have something as good as gold in the works or maybe they dont. Who truely knows.

Then you look at Microsoft who did exactly what you said. They shot themselves in the foot as well. Come on now you have a Billion dollar company who releases a console with a major flaw for gamers who like to put in long hours on a console. Learning is not that hard if you do your homework. Even Sony's original PS had issues with heat. I know of several instances were launch PS were played for long hours and the consoles malfunctioned with lens problems, this still was not as big an issue as the RROD but Sony admitted the problem and fixed the PS that my friend had for free. After that he never had any problems when having his PS on for more than 24 hours while playing. I think it happened around the time resident evil was released on PS. Microsoft really has no excuse for the mistake. Heat in these consoles should be one of the first test that any company checks out especially when they want to use a console to be the center of your media entertainment and know people are going to put long hours on it. What the hell were they thinking? Besides lets get this thing on shelves.

Could you imagine if a car companies ignored the issue of keeping a engine and other parts cool enough to run for long hours at a time. Could you imagine if they said, "Well, you can only drive these things for about 30 miles and then you need to cut them off and let them rest." LMAO Heat is an issue with anything built mechanically or electronic you got to check it out and do the testing before you release it to the consumers. Even the iphone has heat issues. Not saying I recommend leaving a phone in the car in the summer but then again you know its going to happen so plan for it.

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The over heating issue and DRE on the PS2 are 2 or really 3 serrate issues, overheating was due to the layout of the V1-3 revisions , V4+ had better heat dispersion(heat sink was placed.... ABOVE the board instead of below), then you had DREs crop up on their larger 2nd or 3rd lens unit, it came up randomly but was due to cheap manufacturing, the next big DRE issue was from the new smaller laser unit found in the first slim models. Some revisions never had DRE issues least until the unit hit 5+ years of age. Its a hodgepodge of issues that they tried to fix, MS has basically ignored the easy break ovens issues time and time again even the new fix aint much of a fix....