lol if im wrong then shoot me. i cant see things getting much better at all really. hopefully the standard of the poor games will rise but the AAA titles im just not sure about. the cell is great and they might well tap more power from it, but it's let down by the gpu.
I'm still in disbelief that you think the PS3 has peaked already before even it's first set of exclusive titles are released, and as for the GPU, you know how the PS3 is engineered, developers are finding new and innovative ways to get around the limitations of the GPU on the PS3 all the time, just take a look at insomniac's development slides on how they were taking advantage of the PS3's architecture on RFoM and compare them to the new slides that they have on how they are taking advantage of the PS3 in Resistance 2, it's crazy how far they've come terms of innovation and development of PS3 games and thats in just a few years, thats why I believe the the PS3 over the course of it's life is going to grow from strength to strength because every year the developers technique's and how they programme the PS3 are going to evolve to make better use of the PS3's architecture like they did with the PS2.
with multi platform games when it comes down to it, it always ended up in a graphical debate and the ps3 versions are pretty much all equal or end off worse. its been like that for well over a year now.
But honestly think about it, most of these multi-platform games that are coming out took 2/3 or more years to develop and that development was lead on the 360, we all know this, if Sony say for example today end up convincing a few development teams to use the PS3 as the lead platform it would take years before we saw the out come of that, this is not something that's going to happen over night, that's why I say believing that the PS3 has had it's peak already is just madness seriously, especially considering the position it's currently in.
sony may well have a 10 year expected life span, but by year 6 i bet another xbox is out and by that point - its not really going to matter. MS would then have a more powerful and easier
This I actually think could be a possibility, but it's a possibility I think that anyone with any sense would not like to see happening, I really don't need to go into the pitfalls of a console market without any healthily competitors, this would be very bad for the consumer, actually it's quite a worrying prospect.
id love to know why they got the ps3 to market a year and a half later than they should have done. one that graphically at least is really on par with the 360 when it should have been much better.
I'm really not sure why people say this, firstly it wasn't a case of having an extra year and a half it was more a case that they was a year and a half behind, another reason for the delay also is that they was having mass production issues with the blue laser diode, I'm sure people have selective memory problems on here sometimes.
they might know the market, but they always seem to act as if they are cutting their own feet off. remove bc from the 40gb - why? even if i dont use it on my 60gb, its still a selling point, and 'cost' is a rubbish reason, the chipset costs a few quid at most. thats just one example lol.
This is funny, that was actually one of the better moves that they did, and it's probably the reason why the PS3 is the lead console in Europe today, because of the streamlining they did by introducing the 40gb PS3 with no back compat, no card reader, 2 less USB's and no SACD they was able to offer the PS3 at a more respectable price and this bumped up sales, it was even noted in this years SCEE Gaming Conference
"A price cut in the summer of last year helped lift PlayStation 3 sales", seemed like a clever move to me, ok, most people in this forum may of been bummed out thinking "oh why did they drop BC etc" but you have to think outside the box, think about the main demographic, obviously this wasn't such a big issue as everyone thought it was because the 40gb pack has been selling like hot cakes in Europe.
oh thats another thing - sacd. why remove it from the 40gb?
they could have kickstarted the entire format again - people with 60gb's and a hdmi amp have been enjoying some brilliant multi channel albums from the likes of floyd, snow patrol, peter gabriel, the endless amounts of classical material ect and thanks to the ps3 doing so very cheaply - but sony in their wisdom chose to kill it stone dead instead. great move sony!
To cut down costs, it's that simple, did you know that Sony had to pay an extra licensing fee for every console sold for it to be enabled to play SACD?, cutting SACD out of the PS3 saved them a hell of allot of money, end of the day it was feature that barely anyone cared about tbh, or even new what it was, I know you an audiophile and and enjoy SACD, I enjoy it also, and DVD-A's, but lets face it, they are pretty much a dead format, and to trying to revive it in a time were CD sales declining at an alarming rate and more people are purchasing from on-line music stores than in retail it would have been a very silly move.
