Price cuts for the PlayStation 3 video game console are among the factors Sony is studying as it seeks to break even in its money-losing gaming business next fiscal year, a company executive said Wednesday.
GB: "With this feature, we will be taking a look at 15 of the most interesting facts about the PS3."
I knew all of those things. I'll add one that many dont know (if you are a hardware person you do). you CAN actually swap bluray drives between systems. The drives themselves are interchangeable but the board that interfaces is not. So anyone who has a dead optical drive can just get a replacement and swap the interface board and be back to reading discs in no time. I've had to do this myself on both a 20gb B01 as well as a 40gb L01 unit.
you can also replace the spinning hdd with an SSD for improved (not life changing) performance as well as quieter and cooler system reliability. The physical spinning drives draw more current and generate heat as a result. Using an SSD means no moving parts and thus will have less current draw and reduced fan noise from not having to spin as much as usual to offset any heat generated by the spinning hdd.
Still one of my favorite Playstations next to the Playstations that came before it and after it.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
Let the price cut be in Europe. I want the PS3 to be £300. £425 is too much.
Yes i agree £425 is just ludicrous its a lot of money and sony will struggle to sell at that price.Sony must lower the price they have to,or its over for them,£300 and ill snap one up to place besides my amazing Xbox 360.SONY you hearing US the buying public LOWER the price or lose masses of potential buyers its as simple as that,and anybody who doesn't agree is a FOOL
"Sony is studying as it seeks to break even in its money-losing gaming business next fiscal year"
That's a great thought of that guy. But they won't be able to break even for some time. Because:
Shipping one million PS3's has cost them already 300 million dollar.
Launch attach rate was 1.5 game average sold per unit (probably only Resistance to most of them, some bought COD3 probably). That attach rate hasn't been proven to go up besides their news that they shipped 5 million copies of games. Still shipped is not sold.
How will they ever break even when the loss per unit is somewhere around 300 dollars, and they sell what, 1.5, maybe 3 games at highest at this point in time. They have free online, so no income there, only more money lost.
Their businessmodel of the PS3 ain't healthy. Simple as that. Break even? Cut the BluRay drive, get in a normal DVD drive. Make online gaming paid to make it a premium service (at this point in time it doesn't have the premium quality of XBL) and get some kick ass games out there in a very, very short time
take on losing even more money than they already do. IGN was saying that Sony's Game divison loses are over 2 billion dollars. I can't see how they can afford to lose any more money on this system. IF MS price cut the 360, they could seriously bury Sony in this video game generation.