Sony Announces $600 Blu-Ray Player

[Cryptin]

This is not actually game related news but I'm not surprised that it happened. Sony is releasing a $599.00 Blu-ray player. $400.00 cheaper than the one currently being sold. I wonder if this will affect the price of the PS3?

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[Talenvor]

Is it the same Blue-Ray player as the PS3? For the same price I don't see why anyone would buy it instead of the PS3 since you get more bang for your buck buying the console.

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Originally Posted by Talenvor

bang

are the ps3's exploding?

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Cryptin

This is not actually game related news but I'm not surprised that it happened. Sony is releasing a $599.00 Blu-ray player. $400.00 cheaper than the one currently being sold. I wonder if this will affect the price of the PS3?

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They went on record saying their won't be a price drop for 2 years I believe. Honestly, this will only hurt PS3 sales. Now non-gamer early adopters will just buy a blu-ray player instead. Why the fuck would you EVER do this?

[Mkopec1]

Originally Posted by Akileese

Honestly, this will only hurt PS3 sales. Now non-gamer early adopters will just buy a blu-ray player instead. Why the fuck would you EVER do this?

PS III is smallfry right now, they still own the gaming industry with PS II.

They want to flod the market with blueray, saturate the market and own that too.

[Vorph]

Uh, how about because all the "non-gamer early adopters" out there right now are buying HD-DVD players that cost half as much as the current Blu-ray player?

[Cadrid]

So to compile a list of what has hurt the image/allure of the PS3:

-Loss of numerous exclusives
-Incredibly high price
-Egotistic snobbery (i.e. Ken Kutaragi)
-Assaults in PS3 pre-order lines
-Very poor launch line-up
-Delayed European release
-Smaller viable PS2 library for Europe (and Japan/US in future)
-No rumble feature
-New $600 Blu-Ray player

Did I miss something?

[Akileese]

Originally Posted by Cadrid

So to compile a list of what has hurt the image/allure of the PS3:

-Loss of numerous exclusives
-Incredibly high price
-Egotistic snobbery (i.e. Ken Kutaragi)
-Assaults in PS3 pre-order lines
-Very poor launch line-up
-Delayed European release
-Smaller viable PS2 library for Europe (and Japan/US in future)
-No rumble feature
-New $600 Blu-Ray player

Did I miss something?

Can we start a new thread called " What has hurt the image of the PS3" with a sticky on it? Start with those, and everytime those fucktards have a press release, we can just add whatever they say to it.

[Slide]

Originally Posted by Cadrid

So to compile a list of what has hurt the image/allure of the PS3:

-Loss of numerous exclusives
-Incredibly high price
-Egotistic snobbery (i.e. Ken Kutaragi)
-Assaults in PS3 pre-order lines
-Very poor launch line-up
-Delayed European release
-Smaller viable PS2 library for Europe (and Japan/US in future)
-No rumble feature
-New $600 Blu-Ray player

Did I miss something?

-Top developers crapping on the Cell for general purpose gaming.
-Shit development toolkits.

[Cor]

I thought this topic was going to be like -

"Title - Sony Announces $600 Blu-Ray Player."

"Post - Its called the PS3!"

I'm disappointed.

[I don't see how Sony releasing cheaper standalone units can be anything but a good thing -- for the consumer anyway.]

Edit - Just saw this on another forum..

Amazon.com: Philips BDP9000 Blu-Ray Disc Player: Electronics

Amazon.com: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-Ray Disc Player: Electronics

$550 and $600 players. Why the big deal about this announcement?

The PS3 is considerably better value than these other players too. I'd definately take a PS3 over a standalone unit, and I imagine most people would.

[RiskyChris]

Originally Posted by Mkopec1

PS III is smallfry right now, they still own the gaming industry with PS II.

They want to flod the market with blueray, saturate the market and own that too.

Yes.

Let's say Sony has two choices to devote resources: 1) pump up PS3 marketting/R&D to boost performance, and 2) work their asses off on BRDs to get the strongarm into the media war.

Since the PS3 is almost an irreversible failure at this point, it's not economically viable to try to win the console war. Bigger fish are to be had by having the HD format...

...which is why the PS3 has a BR drive in it anyway =/

[Lorrac]

This is a clever scheme by Sony to get rid of their ps3 stock - they just repaint the stockpiled ps3, disable the cell and there's their cheapo blueray player.

[Slide]

Originally Posted by RiskyChris

Yes.

Let's say Sony has two choices to devote resources: 1) pump up PS3 marketting/R&D to boost performance, and 2) work their asses off on BRDs to get the strongarm into the media war.

Since the PS3 is almost an irreversible failure at this point, it's not economically viable to try to win the console war. Bigger fish are to be had by having the HD format...

...which is why the PS3 has a BR drive in it anyway =/

Shame Bluray and HD-DVD will tank anyway, by the time there's any real uptake of HD people will be streaming it on demand over TCP/IP anyway. Both formats are Laserdisc v2. HD on a crappy codec is only 20Mbits/s as it is, half the developed world has access to broadband as fast as that or better already.

[FoghornDeadhorn]

Originally Posted by Akileese

Can we start a new thread called " What has hurt the image of the PS3" with a sticky on it? Start with those, and everytime those fucktards have a press release, we can just add whatever they say to it.

When I saw that they called Rumble a "last generation feature" I thought of exactly this. We need a "Sony PR are incompetent fuckups" thread although I guess a more general term like "Sony are incompetent fuckups" would work.

[Lyenae]

All PS3 would have had to have done to win the launch line up would have been to preview some of their stellar in house PS2 launch titles, select the best ones, then spend a year converting/enhancing them for the PS3.