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PlayStation 3 News by Games Industry.biz
An Australian technology website has suggested that a revised PlayStation 3 could be less than 18 months away, citing "a Sony insider" as its source, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.
The Smarthouse report refers to the proposed machine as a "PlayStation 4", but goes on to state that it will be based on the same chipset as PS3, differing from the current model only in the "drive bay and attachment area". According to the source, it will also include a software suite for managing streaming of content to TVs and hi-fis, and feature improved output.
A Sony spokesperson declined to comment on the story, classing it as speculation.
Smarthouse quotes the source as saying, "We have even looked at a Sony home server based on PlayStation technology. This would allow consumers to connect home automation devices to the Sony server while also delivering online gaming and access to an extensive movie and music library."
The idea of a full-fledged PlayStation 4 coming so soon after the company's vast investment in designing and launching PS3 is far-fetched. But expanding PS3's abilities as a media server, connected to multiple devices in the home, would be consistent with Sony's oft-repeated vision of PS3 as a multimedia home entertainment centre.
The device outlined in the aritcle is also consistent with Reuters' recent report that Sony is considering launching PS3s with larger hard drives, much as Microsoft has done with the Xbox 360 Elite.
However, PS3 hard disks are industry-standard components, and users are free to fit larger drives themselves if they wish. Many of the other features described in the story could be achieved by updating the PS3 firmware, with no need for a hardware revision.
One - cut a hole in the box. Two - put your junk in that box! Three - get her to open the box. And that's the way you do it.
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Sony know they have to focus on marketing the PS3 so it's no wonder they're not commenting on this latest rumour.
But if it's true, then I'd have to question why Sony feel the need make another machine so soon after the release of the current PS3 as their experiences with the PSX, which by all accounts was a total flop, should have surely taught them something and this new machine sounds like it might be very similar. Good luck to 'em if it is... I mean my PS3 has a 160 GB HDD, HDMI, a BD drive and numerous memory expansion slots, what else do I really need?
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BadBoyBonner
04/05/07 @ 13:46
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Think the use of industry standard components is to be applauded.
Personally I can not believe Microsoft has had the audacity to market the slight modification (i.e. a HDMI port) and a bigger Hardrive – as a new Xbox model. Surely they are just natural updates to the machine over it’s lifecycle. I take my hat off to them – the cheeky twats. At least what’s talked about here (in the article) might offer something new at no cost if it is a firmware update. Now as I bought a 360 when it first came out (an haven’t bothered with a PS3 to play games I already have) please Sony stop me from buying a new Xbox Live console(better name than Xbox720) and release Playstation 3.5. It would be easy – double both sets of memory giving it a gig, chuck in a few more cells (or make all 8 parts of the cell run) and provide it with two pads as standard that work on PS3 games one with rumble the other a Six Axis. The console costs that much that it is not going to make much difference in price – but would allow it to exceed the 360 in a much more timely fashion. Job done and a much faster climb back to the top. |
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BadBoyBonner
04/05/07 @ 13:49
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In fact reading my own post - I think it is the machine Sony SHOULD have launched with. I mean come on, the extra 512mb could have made all the difference, and is the least one could expect with something launching over a year later.
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BadBoyBonner
04/05/07 @ 13:51
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All joking aside.
Who on here honestly thinks that there will be as much time between the Ps3 to PS4 as there has been between ps1-ps2 and ps2 to ps3? |
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SeesThroughAll
04/05/07 @ 13:55
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Who on here honestly thinks that there will be as much time between the Ps3 to PS4 as there has been between ps1-ps2 and ps2 to ps3?
Of course it won't, they just lost their market share. On the other hand though, even in the fairly likely event of MS winning this gen, I doubt they will support the 360 for as long as Sony supported the PS2. They do historically have a "upgrade or else" policy. |
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BadBoyBonner
04/05/07 @ 13:59
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Probably the biggest decision will be when MS are going to launch the next system.
Does the big push for Vista mean they are looking at a longer window - it appears so. Or should they try and get the Next next gen (lol) out ASAP and crush the PS3? |
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A cheaper PS3 sounds good to me but what exactly are they going to remove to make it cheaper? They can't take out the BD drive as games rely on it as is the standard HDD. The other specs would have to remain the same to ensure games run the same so that just leaves the HDMI and memory card ports.
Somehow I can't see this new model being cheaper somehow as Sony have just announced that they're dropping the cheaper 20 GB HDD model anyway, which lets face it is the very model they should be selling in Europe, where the 60GB HDD PS3 is considered expensive. No, it'll be some sort of multimedia home entertainment hub aimed at the filthy rich and, thus, will be a massive flop. I bet a tenner on it! LOL |
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The PS3 is supposed to last 10 years(!), although you can bet a PS4 will be along a year or two before then. Personally I can't see Sony holding to that schedule and I'm certain the next XBox will be out well before then.
Allowing the hard disk to be easily replaced with a standard unit is a great move from the consumers point of view, but not from Sony's point of view. I bet if they could get rid of that feature they would. They started out with 2 sizes of hard disk and there's no reason to think they won't introduce a larger disk model again (at a larger price and profit, after all it seems to work for MS no matter how much of a rip-off it is. |
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"Of course it won't, they just lost their market share. On the other hand though, even in the fairly likely event of MS winning this gen, I doubt they will support the 360 for as long as Sony supported the PS2. They do historically have a "upgrade or else" policy. "
whos lost what market share its way to early to tell saying sony have sold the same as M$ in the same amount of time means they are still on course to do well. what annoys me is when m$ did this with the elite there was no comments like this very petty
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based on the same chipset as PS3, differing from the current model only in the "drive bay and attachment area"
Is the drive bay an expensive component? I know it's not a standard type (there's no slide out tray) so maybe this is a more expensive item. Switching this for a standard tray drive could reduce costs. What's meant by the 'attachment area'? |
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@Kanga
Common sense :) They've already alluded to the new 'chassis' so it's a straight fact that there's some reshaping going to happen plus there's been other quotes from Sony re 'reconfiguration' (my word) of the innards. The simple fact is that Ken is out of the way now and the likes of Stringer and Harrison can start getting real with the PS3. I think you can basically forget anything you were told by Sony prior to March and start listening afresh from now on. If these guys have the cajones for the job then they'll be thinking along radical lines as they can afford to as it's no loss of face for them within the organisation as the PS3 isn't THEIR baby. Therefore, I wouldn't bet a limb on any particular part of the current PS3 surviving in a 'refreshed' model. The 2007 battle is already over and lost but Sony have shaken up their squad to try and stop the 2008 & 2009 battles becoming a foregone conclusion ...
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>Some games worth buying would be a start.
Come off it. It's not been out long, same as the wii. At the moment, the price is appealing to the hardcore nerd gamers who'll buy anything just to get the "latest thing". They dont need games. It's sold nearly 4 million units already (compared the the 360's 10 million units, which has been out for over a year longer). Come christmas there will be an innevetable price drop. During the next 18-24 months it'll drop to below 200 quid, and then it'll become a mainstream machine, and will have the games which people crave for. The ps3 will then take a strong lead again as everyone who has a ps2 upgrades. You fan kids can wish all you want that it wont happen, but it will. |
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chupachups
04/05/07 @ 16:16
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"The ps3 will then take a strong lead again as everyone who has a ps2 upgrades.
You fan kids can wish all you want that it wont happen, but it will. " So if by Xmas 2008 this hasn't happened, and the Wii and/or 360 are still ahead you'll eat your hat? |
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@Gurgeh
"Allowing the hard disk to be easily replaced with a standard unit is a great move from the consumers point of view, but not from Sony's point of view." I can't possibly see why this would be bad from Sony's POV... If all this is true, which I doubt very much, it'll most likely be the slimline cheaper version. @Darren "A cheaper PS3 sounds good to me but what exactly are they going to remove to make it cheaper?" Over time they figure out how to reduce the number of components in consoles. Less components, less hardware failures (not always tho) less cost. Can't remember where I read it, but PS2 was reduced in number of components by about half in slimline. |
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"So if by Xmas 2008 this hasn't happened, and the Wii and/or 360 are still ahead you'll eat your hat?"
If by christmas 2008 the ps3 hasnt outsold the other two, then i'll quite happily post on the forums in big capital letters saying "what do ya know, i was wrong". But for the moment im quietly confident that the ps3 will outsell the other two. Hell, it might even outsell the 360 this year (not so sure about the wii though). |
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Carrybagma
04/05/07 @ 19:27
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One - cut a hole in the box. Two - put your junk in that box! Three - get her to open the box. And that's the way you do it.
What's that all about? |
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