Late Night Consoling

Problems with the Bluray specifications? Aren't there aready BR movie players that you can buy? I would've thought the specifications were already done. Maybe PS3 games will use some format which wasn't nailed down, nor needed, when the movie players were made and shipped.

If the PS3 comes out in 2007 it had better seriously kick the Xbox 360's ass to justify that wait. I guess it'll be able to take advantage of presumably lower RAM prices and so on. Maybe it'll be like a reversal of the PS2 and Xbox where the Xbox was much better for most cross-platform games because it came out later with slightly better hardware. (Well, much better hardware, but the same ballpark.)

So sick of all this PS3 rumored delay BS. Ignoring that a specific release date has never been mentioned...

Who is this unnamed spokesperson? Since when does a spokesperson, speaking an behalf of a company, remain anonymous? This story (the one referenced in the Shack blurb) seems like a rehash of the same story that has been floating around for the last few days (i.e. the Merill Lynch crap) with the addition of the Enterbrain info (which is interesting but not necessarily indicative of anything).

I would wager that if there is any authenticity to the unnamed spokesman it is really just a Sony employee who might not really be privy to the company's full PS3 plan, schedule, or status. Would a they even go on record with such talk, considering it might get them fired :)?

Further I'd wager that the Blu-ray problems mentioned by said "spokesman" refer to the delays in the AACS finalization process which were extant at the time the "spokesman" was asked for comment. The delay issues were RESOLVED (as far as current gen players are concerned) on or around the 17th of Feb; in time for several of the companies concerned to make their recently announced product introduction deadlines (which happen to be spring ones).

See:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=13083
http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6308373
and
http://www.aacsla.com/press/

The delays sounded like they were more about what features will be switched on in early machines (no MMC) rather than anything hardware engineering related. One could speculate that certain members of the AACSLA created delays to inconvenience certain other members of the group but that would be conspiracy talk ;).

I haven't seen a credible shred of evidence that indicates a 'delay' to whatever plan Sony has for the introduction of the PS3. Will it come out later than Spring? Maybe, but every day that goes by and Sony doesn't waver from their position that it will ship in Spring, lends more credibility in my mind. I don't see SCE as the Valve of hardware manufacturers. They may inflate the software side of things but they don't lie right up to a release date for hardware. If there were a hardware delay I believe we'd here about it from a credible source within Sony. With GDC and E3 coming, they'd have little to lose (in acknowledging a delay), since they could use those events to create delayed purchase anticipation if needed (stalling xbox360 purchases if they care, which I don't think they do).

In fact I might as well put my release theory up right here. Ever hear of R'U' (red)E? (rhetorical I hope). Well the E in E3 is usually red (or at least it was) and the 3, well that doesn't need explanation does it? May is in Spring. So I think they are going to bomb the world with the PS3 the week of E3. Just release it bam, but of course there will be leaks from GDC on down. I can think of good counters to every reason put forth this scenario shouldn't happen but I haven't seen (as I said) any compelling evidence why it can't. Of course I'd be a fool if I didn't admit I might be wrong, but how many units do you really need for a spring launch anyway?

Regardless, the delay speculation is just that, but at least someone should come up with better reasoning and some real evidence. It sucks seeing the stock dip on his kind of crap (though I suppose it makes for an opportunity if you didn't get in earlier, hmmm).

It seems to me that Sony is trying to follow the same strategy that gave it a boost in the last generation. Remeber is the inclusion of the dvd player which was still somewhat new and expensive at the time. Making the buy decision on the ps2 was made easier by the fact that you got a second dvd player or maybe your first as a bonus.

Seems like they want to do the same thing with the blue ray tech. I think it will work out for them in the long run but its unfortunate that their release date now seems tied to finalization of the blue ray spec.

My friend and I were wondering about this earlier today but any ideas on why MS doesn't let developers try to create their own backwards compatible patch and let MS test it to speed up the process, assuming said developers wanted to get a patch out?

So the PS3 could potencially come out early 2007. I wonder how/if this will hurt Sony.

So when EA announced they were slashing new game prices I guess they didnt mean for the 360 right?

I'd like to see some more PSP games that aren't just reworkings of existing games...

Time to buy a 360

I've never liked Mega Man... It's just completely out-classed by the Metroid series.

Too bad if the Prince of Persia movie ends up terrible they won't be able to rewind and try again.

I don't think and I bet most people agree that the ps3 will not launch in spring. Sony might still be aiming for that time but even they are unsure it will happen, so my guess would be they want to have everything ready for spring and start mass production for the fall. If they wait any longer to start the actual productiong stage the shortages will be overwhelming and this time it won't work in their favor.

Sony representative -"The PS3 will make you happy"-

Test Lab dude -"Psss, sir, we got the report in, the PS3 cannot make people happy"-

Sony representative -"Oh....ok....anyway, the PS3 will look shine!!!"-

Ahhh, more PS3 news! Gotta love it!

i am excited about what is said in the 1UP preview of Top Spin 2

it's nice to know they went for more gameplay depth. after what happened with Amped 3 i was afraid they might have gone the other direction and dumbed it down.

yay!