The Offical PS3 Discussion Thread

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[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

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[Dr Kain]

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[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

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[emeGoji]

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[Dr Kain]

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[Dr Kain]

The new PS3 is a white 40GB.

Oh, and the 80GBs with Motorstorm have been discontinued, and they are going to release it with a different game.

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I had heard about the white 40 GB model, and replacing Motorstorm with a new game makes sense since Motorstorm 2 is coming out.

[KingGhidara]

[quote]The doubters have been silenced. Sony has done in one year what took Microsoft 6 years to accomplish: post a profitable quarter for their gaming division. This, despite the massive costs incurred with providing state of the art Playstation 3 technology at an affordable price that includes the Cell microprocessor, Blu-Ray, a standard hard-drive, and free online play with dedicated servers.

Sony is no stranger to reporting profits; before the Playstation 3 was released Sony had dominated the videogame business for years. However, with the costly inclusion of Cell and Blu-Ray, Sony lost money on their videogame division last year on behalf of their love for gamers by providing a machine that is unrivaled at a price that could be afforded by mainstream consumers. Below are the figures reported for Q3:

Operating Income (millions of U.S. dollars)

Sony Corporation $1,661

Game $113

These results, fresh off the heels of the reports of Sony working on a 45 nm version of Cell and shrinking the Blu-Ray diode component to 3 mm, Sony clearly has the best hardware engineers in the videogame business — and that’s what they know how to do best; run a videogame business. Microsoft was bleeding for years due to the costs of the Xbox 360, the red ring of death fiasco, and lackluster hardware/software sales. But, that’s what we’ve come to expect from Microsoft: delivering inferior hardware at inflated prices due to terrible management.

[b]Not only has Sony’s videogame division returned to profitability, but the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 in 2007. According to their respective financial reports for Q3 earnings, Sony sold 4.9 million Playstation 3’s compared to Microsoft’s 4.3 million Xbox 360’s. In Microsoft’s “best yearâ€

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I'd say so. Maybe people who don't know what they're talking about will shut up now (referring to the stupid fanboy war on other boards). They've been at the video game thing for 10 years now... they KNOW what they are doing, just like Nintendo and MS.

And maybe companies will stop freaking out about the "low install base" problem they think there is. It's been out for a year and it's not as cheap as the Wii, so it won't equal the number of units the 360 has sold so far and as we have seen it hasn't been able to keep pace with the Wii. But neither has the 360. But this report just shows that it's a bad excuse.

Bottomline is I am happy to have one. I use it to watch movies and play games. I play online with the PS3 more than the 360, but part of the reason for that is my 360 pretty much hates my router while the PS3 loves it.

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[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

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