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Posted by Brandon Sandman Bell on Monday December 15, 2008 - 07:49 AM

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» Sony PS3: A sinking ship?

So claims CNN Money's Eric Krangel. With the economy in recession and Nintendo and Microsoft's consoles priced at $250 or less, Krangel believes that the PS3 is "flopping" due to its high price tag. As for Blu-ray, one of Sony's key selling points over Xbox 360, Krangel sums it up pretty simply: "Too bad no one seems to care about hi-def DVDs. The differences between Blu-Ray and DVD are hard to see on a TV less than 50"."

The question is, how much of the PS3's sluggish sales are due to pricing? And if they do cut prices, how far should Sony go? $300? $200?

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Click to view Terrak's User Page Terrak (585)  Click to view Terrak's User Profile Talk to Terrak in the Shout! Box Dec 28, 2008 - 09:20 pm
Correct me if i'm wrong but didnt 2 studios that made ps3 exclusives Lair and Haze in the process or already out of business? That has to be a worry for future exclusives, that plus the less then stellar sales for sonys big gun titles like LBP and resistance 2 the signs arent good for the ps3, and many touted this year the year of the ps3.

Meanwhile the Wii releases nothing substancial and trounces the opposition??

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Click to view Cannyone's User Page Cannyone (21)  Talk to Cannyone in the Shout! Box Dec 23, 2008 - 04:36 pm
» Does Anyone Else Remember the Sega Saturn?
I feel a degree of pity for PS3 fans. I know you want to be loyal. And you probably hate Microsoft an Nintendo. It also seems that you don't want to listen to talk about Economics. But do you remember back when the original Playstation was launched? At that time there was another console by the name of the Sega Saturn. Alot of people argued that the Saturn was technically superior, even if it was harder to program for...

But, as a consumer, all that initially mattered to me was; 1. the games and 2. the price. See the Playstation was $300 and the Saturn was $400. So even though the Saturn was fairly popular, the Playstation sold allot more units and that meant that more publishers chose to support that platform.

Now what does that have to do with the PS3? It's simple, now the PS3 is higher priced and selling fewer units. This means that eventually it will become less viable for a game developer to spend the money to program for that platform. And when the games are no longer there, there's no compelling reason for people to buy a PS3.

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Click to view p4l1ndr0m3's User PageI am an AMD Agent p4l1ndr0m3 (339)  Click to view p4l1ndr0m3's User Profile Talk to p4l1ndr0m3 in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Dec 18, 2008 - 12:54 pm
you can sh!t in one hand and wish in the other, but the price of the PS3 isn't coming down any time soon

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Click to view DanT's User PageI am an AMD Agent DanT (513)  My XFire username is: wanchaiwarrior Click to view DanT's User Profile Talk to DanT in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Dec 18, 2008 - 11:54 am
I still contend that HD programing is becoming readily available through direct means (FIOS, Roku, etc.) and therefore the days of DVD and Blu Ray are numbered. Who needs a disc when you can get your entertainment instantly from a menu?

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Click to view DKBK's User Page DKBK (84)  Talk to DKBK in the Shout! Box Dec 21, 2008 - 08:58 am
Right now it doesn't make sense to have digital distribution for movies except in a couple select areas because of ISP restrictions.

In all for a handful of places, if you stream 4-5 HD movies a month, you'll blow over your limit.

I don't see that changing from customer pressure on ISP for the next 4-5 years. And remote areas might never get there.

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Click to view x4 Critical's User Page x4 Critical (396)  Talk to x4 Critical in the Shout! Box Dec 20, 2008 - 08:22 am
I have an extensive DVD and Blu-ray collection, but I would absolutely love to be able to buy Blu-ray quality movies like one does for music with iTunes. No disks to swap, no hassle, just click, download and watch a movie. Would be great for the kids too.

However, even with 1.5TB drives out right now, I would need a farm of HD's, and downloading 25GB movies at a time would not only take forever, but would most likely get me kicked off my ISP.

And I refuse to pay to stream movies and to only keep them for a few days. I pay for it, I own it.

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Click to view Labotomizer's User Page Labotomizer (989)  Talk to Labotomizer in the Shout! Box Dec 24, 2008 - 10:39 am
Over the next few years you'll see revenue compensations from the movie and TV studios to ISPs for download bandwidth. It's the natural offset. That programming would normally make the cable/internet provider money through advertising and OnDemand costs. As long as the movie studios compensate the carriers for bandwidth it won't count towards any download restrictions.

It'll also be additional incentive to buy a movie rather than steal it since legal content won't cost extra to download. (or get your service terminated) I'd guess it's a couple years away but as the cable 3.0 spec, FIOS and U-verse are more widely available we'll have 100-150 Mb at home for what we're paying now.

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Click to view Yoshi's User Page Yoshi (2226)  Click to view Yoshi's User Profile Talk to Yoshi in the Shout! Box Dec 18, 2008 - 06:44 pm
I was wondering the same thing but really it comes down to the audio as well as a couple other factors. Bottom line it will be a long time before the audio can be streamed at Blu-Ray levels with 1080p video as well. Though this could be moot since the normal home user doesn't have a theater system. For them the audio would sound about the same out of the TV speakers.

The other factor would be how to get the media to the end user. Right now Comcast has a limit of how many Gigabytes you can download a month that really wouldn't work for HD movies.

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Click to view Soldier36's User PageI am an AMD Agent Soldier36 (639)  Click to view Soldier36's User Profile Talk to Soldier36 in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Dec 17, 2008 - 08:22 am
cooldk you would be better off without the crapbox in that collection!

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Click to view Aftermath's User Page Aftermath (181)  Click to view Aftermath's User Profile Talk to Aftermath in the Shout! Box Dec 17, 2008 - 02:25 pm
and you'd be better off dead

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Click to view Kromis's User Page Kromis (657)  My XFire username is: kromis Talk to Kromis in the Shout! Box Dec 21, 2008 - 02:47 am
*applause*

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