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

See, why do you think its sole purpose was to play games? PSP was always a multi-purpose device.

Just because we have a strong connection to the games industry, we colour companies' intentions. However, looking back, the PS1 had a CD-player, the PS2 had a DVD-player, the PS3 is going for the home entertainment hub, Xbox has had a similar set of "enhancements".

It appears that convergence is the way of the world these days. Do you have a camera on your mobile phone? How about a calendar? Alarm clock? Games? Heck, even SMS on phones is a convergence of mobile and pager.


I'm going to get one right now, so don't expect any more updates! :-)

Off Topic, but I wonder what the PSThree will look like.
And I wonder how long it will take them to release it.
Remember, the original PlayStation and the SP2 went through TONS of hardware revisions. You wouldn't know it if you didn't know what to look for, but, say, the original 10,000 Series is a world away from final run Phatline PlayStation 2 hardware.

Same can be said for launch PlayStations and the final pre-PSOnes.

How about you go get a life? Spong is a good site however the articles imo tend to get a little too exagerrated...

And that aggravates you so much, you feel a strong desier to (take the time out of your incredible life) and post wingeing about nothing! anyways this is far to much of my time wasted already!

i have no time for you, i just dont like people cussin a site like spong that update's gameing news immediately, when they dont even have 2% of the ££ IGN, Gamespot ect have!

22G? The game is defenitely not that big, they must of added tons and tons of bullshit to it so they can say 'see, we do need ble-ray'

The fact is though, they have added it and they have the chance to add it. You'll never get that much whatever it is in Gears of War.

Maybe they have added many more channels to the sound track, maybe they have localised it in more languages, maybe they have huge textures for the landscape, maybe they have added special features like God of War. Who knows?

Whatever it is they have added to R:FoM will never appear on an Xbox 360 game in the quantities required to get the disc footprint up to 10GB unless Microsoft go back on their word.

Also, Insomniac is an independent games developer who have no reason to bloat their game just to prove Sony's point about developers needing the space of Blu-ray.

Oh, I know, I know! There will be "developers commentary" as a feature when you play the game.

And the E3 videos, and a 2 hour "making of" the game.

Brilliant.

I'll always remember 1080 Avalanche for having the title theme's music video.

No reason aside from massive amounts of goodwill from Sony for making their point for them...

Forget about stupid ideas of devs "making a point". The fact is that the blue-ray drive will be an advantage for developers in that they will be able to store awesome amounts of data. Bigger levels, with more detail, more information etc. Cast your minds back to the days when PC games came on a 1.4MB floppy, and that seemed ample. When CD-ROMs came along, initially one could be sceptical about needing 700MB of data for games, but eventually the extra capacity transformed games; and again the same happened with DVD. To mock Sony for implementing a forward-thinking data medium for PS3 just shows naivety. Super Gayun's just showing that he is a clueless imbecile that may be able to read the words, but he certainly does not understand them.

You can call it a forward thingking data medium, I see it more as the narrow end of the HDCP wedge. You can see it as an altruistic benefit to gamers everywhere, I see it as Sony doing what they think is good for Sony. I also don't think that Sony encouraging a developer to show off the data storage capabilities of the Blu Ray is a "stupid idea". Trusting Sony to do anything beneficial to consumers(without ulterior motives), THATS naivete.

I will note however, that at the introduction of the CD-ROM, games already spanned multiple floppy disks. How many multiple DVD games are extant? Just becasue its bigger, doesn't mean its better, load times for games now are already very irritating, should Blu Ray prove worse, it could be an unfortunate step taken too soon for crass reasons that have nothing to do with making better games now. I thnk the DVD9 has a few more good years left, and a few multiple DVD games won't hurt anyone, Now that I think about it, Blu Ray is hardly the kind of quantum leap that the switch to CD-ROM was, its actually sorta underwhelming when you think about it...so that was a pretty disingenuous comparison...

tyrion, you are such an *ss, the ultimate $ony fanboy or PR, always finding the bright side of Fony pathetic decisions... look, look, if the P$3 costs so much it's because $ony don't want you to hurt your spine, so they are emptying your wallet for you to walk home lighter!!! Thx so much $ony, without you I would have become a paraplegic gamer with all this gold loading my pockets...lol... you are so pathetic tyrion... do you actually belive what you're writting??? I hope for you that you aren't the fanboy you sound to be & really work for Fony, at least this would part of your bullshit desperate PR work!!! Cheers...

Ah yes, personal attacks and rhetoric, the first resort of the intellectual elite.

Lets, see. Dollars in company names to indicate greed; check. Mis-spellings of company names to indicate untrustworthiness; check. Accusing poster of working for the company you don't like; check. Facts and counter arguments; um, not so much.

You are entitled to your opinion of me, of course, but try to base your opinions in facts if you wish to be taken seriously. I have defended Sony, it's true, I've also in the past defended or praised Xbox 360, Live, Wii, Gamecube, DS and Nintendo. I have also bitched about most, if not all, of the above.

I have an opinion, it may not be aligned with yours, but it is mine. I have as much of a right to express my opinion here as you do.

Now the facts here are; R:FoM is up to 22GB, that size game can't be delivered for the Xbox 360 unless Microsoft allow the HD-DVD drive to be used for games and Insomniac is an independent games developer.

At no point in my post do I say that a 22GB game is a good thing. I allude to the idea that being able to produce a game that size may be a good thing and that restricting the size of games to under 9GB may be a bad thing.

If you are going to do anything except sling mud, please try to counter the facts and assertions that I have put forward. If all you can add to this discussion is name calling and baseless accusations, then go ahead, but I won't reply.

Dear tyrion, you are the fact!!! a fantroll trolling... I really do hope that you work for Fony... otherwise, sad... so sad...