Sony spouts more BS.

[JPS]

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They lowered the price in Japan and upped it in Canada

[highwind]

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its funny that they're considering price cuts now, but essentially said "no way in hell" last week.

oh well. hopefully they WILL cut it, and it'll help the system sell.

Totally. Oh, and games that people wanna play. That'll help too. haha. I'll probably get one when MGS4 is released.

[Magus]

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wait what about MGS3 lol

[highwind]

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I beat MGS3.

It was neato.

boink.

[Magus]

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Oh, good. :3

[highwind]

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Yeah, and I also think that MGS4 will be the first game to take advantage of the cell processor and the blu-ray dvd capacity.

[IRC]

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"With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen," Harrison says. "But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."

I don't know. I'd consider the touch screen a gimmick. Granted the only game I've played where it really comes into effect is Contact, but really they did nothing you couldn't do with a normal control set up.

The thing I don't get about the Wii is that I've got two friends who have em but I never see them play an actual Wii game. They just play Virtual Console games or Wii Sports. I don't think the Wii's high sales and the PS3's low sales are actual reflections on the systems themselves but just the price.

I would buy a Wii because it's cheap but Wii Sports and the Virtual Console aren't worth $250 to me. The 360 actually has games I'd play, but just casually so it's not worth the $400. And the PS3 is just too damn expensive to consider regardless of what game they had. It could be virtual oral sex and I'd have to think about it.

[DarkwingChuck]

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Yeah, and I also think that MGS4 will be the first game to take advantage of the cell processor and the blu-ray dvd capacity.

Kojima's said a few times already that the only use for all the extra Blu-Ray space is holding all the hi def FMVs. That's pretty much all taking advantage of Blu-Ray capacity is ever going to mean.

And that article says that Sony is considering price cuts as part of their break-even strategy which to me means don't expect it any time soon. A price cut is the opposite of break even strategy until production costs drop. They've said before PS3 will definitely take longer to reach cost reduction than PS2 did and they waited a year and a half to drop the price on that. Face facts people, it's going to be $600 for a while to come unless the retailers get desperate like they did in Japan.

[John Mora]

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Well, Japan was also given open pricing on the 60 GB units. We were not.

[highwind]

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Kojima's said a few times already that the only use for all the extra Blu-Ray space is holding all the hi def FMVs. That's pretty much all taking advantage of Blu-Ray capacity is ever going to mean.

That Lair game (the dragon one) is supposed to be over 4GB per LEVEL. So if there are 10 levels...that's 40GB of...game.

So......yeah........no.

[Chad]

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And Resistance was 22GBs.


There used to be a day when filling an entire CD was inconceivable. (Edit: I before e, blah blah blah)

[John Mora]

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Maybe Kojima's just really efficient?

[IRC]

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Maybe he just doesn't want to go all out. I don't mean that as a criticism. Just do you have to max out the disc to get a good game.

[Valkysas]

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which would make it easier to port MGS4 to another system that doesnt happen to have blu ray, but has about equal graphical capabilities.

[Jamos]

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Kojima is a mad genius.... it must be all be part of his plan.