PS3 prices

[Zanicnight]

I know I will be playing my PS3 come Dec. as long as they do not back up the date again. I been watching some of the previews for the games and they look just beautiful. Also I hear that Sony is taking off the region codes on there blu-ray drive. Which mean you can play jap imports on the PS3. But then again that is what I heard I am not sure if it is true.

[captain_nintendo]

I almost spent the time to write a really long rant but I'm tired and I'll just say this: The market battle is won and lost in Japan, as we've discussed the Japanese don't want to play Halo, the Japanese want to play Boong Ga Boong Ga and mosquito sims. SONY makes more Japanese geared games so SONY will rule.

You forgot that the Japanese market does like Nintendo And I think Nintendo will finally take a bite out of Sony's pie over there in Japan.

I think that here in the states, you can buy the Wii and the 360 for the same price as a PS3. If I dont own any of those consoles, you can bet I would probably buy the other 2 first. And I am sure that is the way most of the American market will think.

Over here, it's about pricing. You know it is not about processing power. The Xbox and PS2 proved that. Of course I am sure Xbox / PS2 sales were getting close everywhere else other than Japan.

[yap]

SONY makes more Japanese geared games so SONY will rule.

Sony hardly makes any games at all, and from what I've read a lot of their 3rd party exclusive developers are jumping ship.  Sony makes games like God of War and Gran Turismo.   3rd party developers create the weird games that are very hot in Japan.

I think the Wii will probably rule Japan.  Maybe Sony will rule Japan.  I doubt the 360 will rule anything.  |D

[TraderJake]

the $499 model does not include wi-fi, memory stick support, or HDMI output

http://www.scei.co.jp/cor.../release/pdf/060509ae.pdf
see page 3.

So basically, everybody who really is a "hardcore" gamer will want the 599 unit.

The more I look at it, the more I cant begin to understand it. They ripped of Nintendo, charge way more than Microsoft did for the 360 and will probably still sell a ton of these.  :-/

Wow, I just saw that. Although Microsoft did the same thing, I can't help but say wow to that fact, especially since the low end version will not be wifi capable out of the box. In this day and age, I would think that this little fact is a huge deal, and has been hinted, hardcore people will sure have to spend a lot of money on the "nice" system. It's almost as though Sony wants to fail.

[Antimind]

I dunno.. Blu Ray stikes me as "new age laser disk"...lol

I know I'll get a PS3 eventually (like when I can get it from a crackhead cheap) but there's no way in hell I'll pay the asking price for it. Not that many interesting games mentioned (actually not one). Wii is the console I'm looking most forward to being that I already have a 360. I think Sony screwed the pooch and there's prolly a lot of developers that are pissed off at Sony for shit PSP game sales (even though Sony didn't make said shit game). It's all about NINTENDO.

[phoenix1967]

Wii makes a very strong showing at E3, 360 has a whole slew of stong titles on the horizon (Gears of War is looking incredible!), and PS3 has an overpriced system that's going to have a hard time catching up.

Right now it looks like Nintendo is poised to win back a sigificant portion of the Japan market from Sony, imo.

[captain_nintendo]

Wii makes a very strong showing at E3, 360 has a whole slew of stong titles on the horizon (Gears of War is looking incredible!), and PS3 has an overpriced system that's going to have a hard time catching up.

Right now it looks like Nintendo is poised to win back a sigificant portion of the Japan market from Sony, imo.

Could be, but let us not forget that Sony owned Japan in the past decade. I wouldn't throw this history out the window.

The PS3 does have several good games that showed. MGS4 is obviously the big hitter. I wouldn't count Sony and the PS3 out just yet.

[Zanicnight]

This link from E3 says that the Jap intrest is looking at PS3.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3150896

From the looks of it All of Nintendo release line-up is just a series of sequals.
But PS3 is looking like it is in the same boat. With MSG4, FFXIII, GTA4 and a new GT. but Assassin's Creed looks like it might be a good game and so does Heavenly Sword. It will be a close run in Japan between the two systems. I can see a lot of people getting both of them.

[yap]

Who cares who wins Japan?  USA is the bigger market.

[captain_nintendo]

Who cares who wins Japan?  USA is the bigger market.

Huh  

I always thought that Japan was the bigger video game market as far as sales goes.....

[Zanicnight]

Last time I check the the japanesse market is a large one. They larger percentage of gamers in there market and who every wins japan will live to fight the next war even if they lost out in the USA.

The gamecube is a prime example of that.  

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Huh  

I always thought that Japan was the bigger video game market as far as sales goes.....

Damn straight. Them asians love their gaming. Look at where all the game induced deaths happen, people quit their jobs to game and then die because they don't take breaks.

As far Nintendo vs. PS3 in Japan I have no idea, I'd still say SONY will win. In the U.S. I think SONY will take the market as well. I know for a fact that all my semi-halfway-gamer friends are creeped out by the Wii and I'd assume most parents will be too. Price is not really the issue among the parents who buy this stuff for their kids. I've seen parents drop sooooo much cash in gaming stores it's rediculous. I know the gamer crowd's all about Nintendo but from the street all I hear is 360 and PS3.

[Tynstar]

I know for a fact that all my semi-halfway-gamer friends are creeped out by the Wii and I'd assume most parents will be too. Price is not really the issue among the parents who buy this stuff for their kids. I've seen parents drop sooooo much cash in gaming stores it's rediculous.

Why are they freaked out about it? Parents wont be. 249/499/599. 249 is the way parents will see it. Price does matter to most parents. Sure you get some that will buy anything but most won't.

[yap]

Damn straight. Them asians love their gaming. Look at where all the game induced deaths happen, people quit their jobs to game and then die because they don't take breaks.

Those game related deaths are in Korea and China.  Which, last time I checked, isn't Japan.   And anyway there may have been a couple of video game related deaths in the past few years, that hardly makes asians insane video game killers.  Give me a break.

As far Nintendo vs. PS3 in Japan I have no idea, I'd still say SONY will win. In the U.S. I think SONY will take the market as well. I know for a fact that all my semi-halfway-gamer friends are creeped out by the Wii and I'd assume most parents will be too. Price is not really the issue among the parents who buy this stuff for their kids. I've seen parents drop sooooo much cash in gaming stores it's rediculous. I know the gamer crowd's all about Nintendo but from the street all I hear is 360 and PS3.

Some parents spoil their kids, but the vast majority are concerned with price.  If you're talking about a family who's going to buy a videogame system for their children who can't afford one, it's going to be a hard sell when you think about the types of games that are available on the PS3 (Grand Theft whatever, FPS whatever, Blood Whatever) vs a vastly cheaper console that has lots of all-ages kids games (Mario Whatever, Sports Whatever that looks like Legos).

Really you're somewhat delusional if you think parents are going to be excited to buy their kids a PS3 over a Wii.  And if they're not going to buy a Wii because they're "creeped out" or whatever, what makes them pick a PS3 over a 360?  They're going to play nearly the same games, including tons of Mature rated ones, and the 360 is cheaper.  Something just doesn't compute with any of that logic.

[yap]

http://biz.gamedaily.com/...ndustry/feature/?id=12699

"Bloomberg: PS3 Launch Hampered by Lack of Dev Kits

With another 6 months to go before Sony launches its PlayStation 3, reports have surfaced that publishers have not gained access to final hardware, making it difficult to create games that utilize the console's power or to support the system at all this holiday.


Financial news publication Bloomberg.com is reporting that when the PlayStation 3 launches this November there will be "fewer and less-powerful games because the company hasn't given final technical details of the new console."

"A lot of developers have not gotten the kits,'' said Sega of America president Simon Jeffrey while attending E3 last week. "There certainly will not be a lot of titles available."
"

Maybe that's why every parent in USA will have no problem dropping 600 bucks on their kid's system.