[PS3] The Next Neogeo?

alright people sony is scaring me now. It took me a lot to suck it up to fork over $600 for the damn system but whats this I hear???? $90 a game ahhh wtf I mean this is getting too spendy for me now. I playstation and i knew sony was going to make a bunch of false promises again but if they keep going this route they are looking turning the PS3 into the next neogeo. Not that neogeo was a bad system because I love most of the games on that system its just it was too much $$$ was the real downfall. The dust will settle soon so we will know what is going on soon

Yes but its jsut like every other gaming system, It will come out expensive and within a month or so, It will be like half that price.

I doubt that will be the case, whereas consoles in the past were already way behind the power of a PC, these new consoles aren't, which means the technology costs a lot, and it will stay that way.

Now although prices will drop a lot in a few months, it wouldn't be more then a 25% price drop, and i even doubt that will happen so fast.

Still if the game price is true, then they would be screwing themselves, $90 would be way to much, and since i don't think Sony is stupid, i have my doubts that it's real, or it has been taken out of context (some games come with stuff that you need for that game like a special controller)

i knew i was gonna be alot for the games but dont think its that much,
saw somewhere the games were around $60-75 but thats still far to much to me, but we can only wait and see

It's a real shame it is. So much money but for what? Stupid blueray player? Just Sony's way of making more money. You have HDDVD which are just as good but at 1/2 the cost. It's just rediculous of them charging $90-99 per game. It wont touch $100 as the head of the NA branch of Sony said, but then again he also said that $99 is below $100 which implies it's probaly going to cost somethign like that.

Not to mention about the technology behind it. On the grapics stand point it's plain funny. The RsX GPU is a down clocked G71 which is found in the 7900/7950 cards. Where as the Xenos of the 360 is a R500 which is the basic found dation for the newest ATI cards that comes out this year. Stupid of them doing the opposite of what MS is doing. Shame on them.

So you have this over priced system because of BluRay that has a super powerful Cell processor that is held back with a weak underclocked 7900GT. Not to say much about the 360 which is the complete opposite, a very powerful GPU with a weak ass CPU. Now you are basically down to two systems. One with great graphics but shitty physics or one with great physics and shitty graphics.

Stupid people on both sides. WHy can't they be like Nintendo and say... Lets put a slightly better GPU and CPU in our current system, give it a new look, and add a crazy controller into it. Then you'll have a weak system but with great potential.

NoPeace - out

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Originally Posted by NoPeace

It's a real shame it is. So much money but for what? Stupid blueray player? Just Sony's way of making more money. You have HDDVD which are just as good but at 1/2 the cost. It's just rediculous of them charging $90-99 per game. It wont touch $100 as the head of the NA branch of Sony said, but then again he also said that $99 is below $100 which implies it's probaly going to cost somethign like that.

Not to mention about the technology behind it. On the grapics stand point it's plain funny. The RsX GPU is a down clocked G71 which is found in the 7900/7950 cards. Where as the Xenos of the 360 is a R500 which is the basic found dation for the newest ATI cards that comes out this year. Stupid of them doing the opposite of what MS is doing. Shame on them.

So you have this over priced system because of BluRay that has a super powerful Cell processor that is held back with a weak underclocked 7900GT. Not to say much about the 360 which is the complete opposite, a very powerful GPU with a weak ass CPU. Now you are basically down to two systems. One with great graphics but shitty physics or one with great physics and shitty graphics.

Stupid people on both sides. WHy can't they be like Nintendo and say... Lets put a slightly better GPU and CPU in our current system, give it a new look, and add a crazy controller into it. Then you'll have a weak system but with great potential.

NoPeace - out

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Very VERY true, i agree with everything you said there nopeace lol

The $600 initial console price is SLIGHTLY understandable...

But $90 per game? Absolutely ridiculous. I still cringe whenever I buy a $40 dollar PS2 game. If I have to spend $40 dollars on a game, it better be FRIGGIN' good.

No WAY am I spending $90 on a game when I can get the same satisfaction with less than half the price. Heck, I still get a crazy kick out of my old Dreamcast games.

But that's just me... If people really need super intense graphics and visuals to turn their gaming groove on, then power to them.

They'll just be spending much more money than I will.

Yeah but you know theyll have to cost that much as 70% of games people own will be copys.

Only reason most people bought a ps/ps2 was the copys imo. Without them its gonna die :p

from what i have been seeing games for the launch are still $59.99 for most pre-order's still TGS 2006 should clear that all up though. Hmm i wonder what kind od stuff Ken had to say today? I think it will be great the things that I know is i will own that and the nintendo Wii but the xbox 360 still hasnt shown me anything that has pulled me in yet.