"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The release of the PS3 was delayed. It'll be out in March rather than
November. The reason? They want to ensure they can cope with
demand/supply,
as well as deliver something reliable, without being hasty.
Things must be going pretty bad if the PS3 is going to miss Christmas.
Perhaps as Microsoft was with Vista, Sony was simply being too ambitious
with their PS3 and simply cannot deliver what they initially promised.
To me, this spells an automatic victory for the Wii. Pretty much anyone
who wanted an XBox360 has gone one by now. When Christmas comes, there's
only going to be one console on the shelves: The Wii.
The Sony fans are going to buy a PS3 no matter what. For the rest of us,
the only way I could see the PS3 doing well at this point is if Sony
announces a massive price drop (very unlikely, as it's said that they are
already selling at a lost at US$600 per unit), or if all the Wii games
magically end up sucking (also unlikely IMHO, but probably less so than
Sony's price drop). Even then, if someone wants more 3D horsepower than the
Wii can provide, there's still the XBox360 as a viable alternative to the
PS3, at almost half the price (YS$300 for the "XBox360 Core", US$400 the
"XBox360 Platinum").
The Wii games would have to be pretty sucky for this "strategy" to work
though, as they too will probably be much cheaper than the competition.
Nintendo says that they "cannot imagine" their games costing more than US$50
whereas Sony is expecting their games to be in the US$60-US$100 range.
- Oliver
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