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Originally Posted by Windbreaker
I will happily shell out 400-500 for a ps3, its ~36% better then the xbox360 and 400-500 would place it at about 36% more expensive, sounds like a good deal, also releasing it a year after the xbox will not hurt the sales, its obviously a superior console so people will buy the shit out of it. Sony is a farcry from handing over its title to the number #1 console.
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How on Earth did you arrive at those figures? 36% better?!? One - how do you assign numerical values to the hardware itself? Basing it just off of specifications released?? Two - Once you have, how do you assign numerical value to the interactions between that hardware (which, in my opinion has more to do with performance than the number of "symmetrical cores" a system has) to come up with ~36% better?
No one to my knowledge has run any sort of benchmark software on any of the next generation consoles. So, I'm really interested in how you drew that conclusion.
No, Sony isn't going to lose the race entirely this next generation, but with the money Microsoft is going to be putting into the release of the 360, the easy to work with developer tools (I've read they're much easier to work with and around than Sony's) and the year they're going to be on the market sans Sony is certainly going to do wonders to bridge the gap between Sony and Microsoft concerning the market.
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Originally Posted by Bacchanal
If it's going for $500, I'll buy it on launch day. If it's more, then I'll just have to save more money. I will own one ASAP either way. I just hope they also have some good games at launch.
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What if they don't? Are you still willing to pay $500 for a real pretty system that plays sub-standard games?
I'll probably end up buying a ps3, but it's going to have to have a catalog of good looking titles before I can justify to myself spending $500 on it.
Same goes for the 360 and Revolution as well. Sure the consoles are neat, but it's the games that are going motivate me to lay down the extra dough and the extra space in the living room.