Analyst: Cheap PS3 Identical to Costly 360. Price Similar to PSOne

The "cheap" PS3 and the "expensive" 360??, wot the hell is this t**t going on about?, i get sick of everybody banging on about the PS3 is cheap because u get a Blue-ray player!... this is about games consoles right?, i couldn't give a s**t about a HD player, i have no intrest in HD movies, will people stop getting distracted by the add ons & let focus on what console give the best gaming experience, you know games,.... fun

I don't understand why dont they make a version that is without blueray and one that is with blueray?
....I guess it's because nobody would buy the blueray version.

Sony has to force people into Blue-ray now, they've commited to it, it's going in all there new lap tops & desk top viao's, if this fails for them it will be a massive blow.
they are hoping to do with blue-ray what they did with DVD in the PS2, which is bring it to the mass market, only problem now is unlike DVD blue-ray isn't the only current future format & there's only really duff films avalible at the moment anyway. the problem with Sony is they see the PS3 as a Blue-ray player with a Console bolted on the side, that's the problem!.....
& if you look @ the designm that's what it looks like too!.

The GAMES are on Blu-Ray, so it wouldn't work.

The GAMES are on BD-9, which is a straight red-laser-readable DVD formatted as a BluRay disk, so it would work.

Some PS3 games may be on BD-9 in the same way that some PS2 were on CD. That doesn't mean that All PS3 games will be on BD-9.

It seems that Resistance: Fall of Man already has a disc footprint of 22 GB which needless to say won't fit on a BD-9 disc. This will have to be on a BD-25 at least - hence the need for a Blu-ray drive in all PS3s.

I am starting to get tired with the guys of Spong now with their false heading of topics along with poorly written points on gaming in general....they seriously need to get better writers...I could do better!

PS3 is not identical to 360 in anway, 360 is about choice, PS3 isnt end.

Then there is that link for those 'Juicy Images' wtf?!! Is someone smoking too much weed or what?!

That links takes you to that useless article about 'PS3 new hardware'! FFS!! ITS NOT NEW!!

I believe that what was meant here was the "lower priced" PS3 model - the PS3 "core" if you will and the "higher priced" Xbox 360 model - the "premium" model. He's not trying to say the PS3 is cheaper than the Xbox 360.

If you purely compare the hardware, he has a point. The "premium" 360 has a 20GB HDD, wireless controllers, no wi-fi networking, no card reader and no HDMI. The PS3 "core" has a 20GB HDD, wireless controllers, no wi-fi networking, no card reader and no HDMI.

If we assume the CPUs and GPUs are roughly comparable (a contentious issue, I know, but bear with me here) then the only significant hardware difference between the PS3 "core" and the 360 "premium" is the Blu-ray drive.

Unless Microsoft offers the HD-DVD add-on for less than $100 the PS3 wins out purely on hardware included for the price. Even then, the PS3's Blu-ray drive can be used for games when Microsoft assure us that the HD-DVD drive won't be.

Note: I know not everybody wants an HD-DVD or Blu-ray player. We're just evaluating what you get for what you pay, not how useful you think that hardware will be to you.

How does quoting someone mean we have given this story a "false heading"?


The the only significant hardware difference between the PS3 "core" and 360 "premium" out of the box is the PS3's Blu-ray drive.


Please read the article. There are some differences in the hardware, the power button is different, there are LEDs next to the power button. Not huge differences, true, but there are some differences.

Also the images themselves are new.

"SuperSaiyan4" How About You Get A Life And Stop Chattin Breeze. Spong Is A Great Site, Get Yourself Over To Ign For Some Older News!!!

chattin breeze.... i never heard that 1....

somewhere in that article the guy says they both have DVI, to my knowlege neither does or will. confirm?

There's currently no DVI cable for the 360 - there were rumours a while ago that it had no digital video out - and there has been no announcement as far as I'm aware of a DVI cable for the PS3.

What the "analyst" was probably trying to get to was that they both support HDTV resolutions up to 720p. I've heard the PS3 can do 1080i and maybe even 1080p over component, but I don't know if it's been officially announced, most of the talk has been about the HDMI resolutions.

No, he comparing the specs on the low-end PS3 to the high-end 360, and saying they're virtually the same. He nevers says that the PS3 is cheap anywhere other than in his comparison.

Though clearly this analyst is a techtard, because there's no way you could compare the 360's PPCs and the PS3's Cell, especailly given that latter is completely unproved.


Yeah well, let's see where Microsoft takes 360 with it "Windows Live" capers. Both Microsoft and Sony are trying to get a firm grip on the home media hub, is all.

I just think it's sad that the games industry has come to the point where we no longer talk (argue) about the games that are on our consoles?, that's all, it just seems like if i wanted a pair of tweezers i'd buy a pair, i wouldn't go out & spend more money on a Swiss army knife?..... i dont need all the other s**t, this is where i think the PSP went wrong, it didn't focus on it's sole purpose, to play games...does that make any sense?....to anyone?....it's a Friday afternoon.... i need a beer.