Topic: PS3 Facing Delays - 2007?

[capamerica]

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Originally posted by: jasonditz
Wasn't the engine for it at least also being ported to the Rev supposedly?

Ya you can get Unreal Engine 3.0 for the Revolution, at least thats what I have heard.
I'm going to contact them and find out.

[KDR_11k]

I've heard that as well... then again maybe 'IBM can make for', and 'IBM is willing to sell to Sony for' are wildly different.

Sony can make them itself so IBM would be stupid to charge too much, never mind that it was a joint project in first place and there are probably contracts that prevent either of them from charging the other much for it.

[BigJim]

Well the writing is officially on the wall... sites (GameIndustry, 1up) are reporting a delay to November. No surprise there, despite all of Sony's denials until now. I didn't expect a delay to early 2007 in North America because I thought they'd be utterly stupid to allow that to happen, but even that seems like a possibility now.

360 would have 2 Christmases under its belt and Revolution with several months advantage. Sony could catch up to Revolution by holiday '07, but Microsoft must be relieved. This is starting to get pretty interesting.

[capamerica]

I would hate to be a Gamer in the UK right now. If the PSP release is anything to base the PS3 release on Europe might not see a PS3 untill late 2007 or early 2008. O_o

I also have a gut feeling this isn't going to be the last delay for the PS3. Sony is really screwing things up this gen. I wouldn't be surprized if the system is pushed back to Early 2007 in Japan.

[ShyGuy]

Wow, this is going to be an interesting generation. Maybe the #1 spot will go to whichever console gets the first killer app.

[Caliban]

Apparently Sony is having a press conference tomorrow (Wednesday the 15th) about the PS3. I read this on newtechnix.com. Will they finally say anything about price and release date? i hope they do, even though I'm not getting a PS3.

[jasonditz]

Beware the Ides of March.

[Smash_Brother]

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Originally posted by: jasonditz
Beware the Ides of March.

Ha!

Stole the words from me...

Also, how sad would it be if Sony was delaying the console so they could come up with a suitable ripoff for the Revmote?

[King of Twitch]

Yahoo just said that Kutaragi officially announced the delay and that "Japanese newspapers reported [it] earlier because consumer electronics makers and movie companies were unable to reach an agreement on the development of the copy protection technology for the Blu-ray Disc drive, which is used in the console."

I still don't get it! How could Kaplan have known about it so far in advance?

[TrueNerd]

I find all of this hilarious. Not that I hate Sony and I want them to die, I'm rather fond of my PS2, but I love seeing the big dog go down. And that's what's happening here, man. Sony may have screwed the pooch, bit off more then they could chew and some other cliche that would be appropriate here.

I know a lot of things have to go Nintendo's way for them to get back in the console wars in a serious way, but a lot of things already have gone their way. Microsoft still hasn't put a 360 into the hands of everyone who wants one and Sony is delaying the PS3 and possibly pricing it ridiculously high. It's right there man. Nintendo's just gotta friggin TAKE IT.  

[Hocotate]

It's almost unreal how many bad things have been happening to Sony. I'm sure you've all heard about the dualshock incident  

Everything is set up so nicely for Nintendo. This is going to be a very interesting generation.

[KDR_11k]

Sony could have avoided the trouble with Immersion, MS paid the fee and bought a part of Immersion, Sony tried to be cheap and hoped they could defeat Immersion's patent in court with a really bad defense.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Sony is going for broke, and as a Nintendo Advocate, I support thier decision 100%!!! GO SONY!!!

[Shecky]

FWIW, this Immersion case has been going on for a while.  Immersion is also quoted somewhere saying that even if they win, the amount they'll collect will be less than what they would have gotten had Sony licenced the technology.

[Nile Boogie]

Well lets just hope they really don't come out the same week as The Revolution. They're now saying 60gig HDD and Linux OS built in. Sony could take the loss and try to undercut with a price point under $500(usd). For everything that thing can do I'd be rather scared if I was MS. Nintendo on the other hand needs to have Zelda ready to combat this monster.

[BlackNMild2k1]

But Zelda: TP is set to release next mon..... uhh wait, no it isn't....

[animecyberrat]

Sony does not want to kill off ps2 just yet, its the only thing they have that makes money, so it makes more sense bussiness wise to delay ps3 for another year because ps2 is getting so many big games this year and Sony knows that even those people who get into xbox or rev now are still up for grabbs latter.

About price, by the time Sony is ready to launch ps3 they will have been able to figure out a way to get the cost down to a reasonable point. Sony is actuly better off coming ion later than sooner because if they come out in 2007 they can sato consumers, ps3 is the wave of the future, xbox 360 is just last years model and isnt even as good. And people will beleive it. MS fanboys arent going to stick with xbox once rev comeout, since its oging to siginficantly improve every single area that makes xbox worth owning anyways.



Things are just looking better and better for Nintendo.





As for BRd verses HD-DVD, I dont even care, I am just getting stared building my dvd collection and wont likely ever upgrade to hd or blu ray since I wont likely ever get a HD tv.  

[wandering]

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Well lets just hope they really don't come out the same week as The Revolution. They're now saying 60gig HDD and Linux OS built in. Sony could take the loss and try to undercut with a price point under $500(usd). For everything that thing can do I'd be rather scared if I was MS. Nintendo on the other hand needs to have Zelda ready to combat this monster.

Linux built-in could really make a differnce. Suddenly, the ps3 isn't an expensive console but a cheap computer.

And, it's almost enough to make me want the ps3 to be somewhat succesful. It'd be worth it to have the mainstream realise there's other operating systems besides windows out there.

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Things are just looking better and better for Nintendo.

Never underestimate Sony. They could screw up, but I think it's just as likely that they'll have the ps3 out in time for the holidays and at a semi-reasonable price point.