PS3 launch delayed on November...

[zidac]

It may be old news but...

Quoted from here: www.the-magicbox.com/index.html

- SCE president Ken Kutagari announced that the PlayStation 3 launch will be delayed to November 2006, due to Blu-Ray spec finalization, mainly for copyright protection. The PS3 will launch in November 2006 worldwide, before Thanksgiving in all territories. Sony plans to produce at least one million units of PS3 each month, and the goal is to ship 6 million units worldwide by the end of March 2007.

- PlayStaton 3 will launch with the new PlayStation Network Platform service, which offers online gaming services similar to Xbox Live. The new service will be "free".

- PlayStation 3 will have a built-in 60GB 2.5" hard drive, which will be preloaded with Linux operating system. The hard drive can be used as a home server, it will be fully upgradable. Kutaragi told software developers that every PS3 will have a hard drive installed, as it is mandatory. Sony has not decided whether the hard drive will be sold as a separate (mandatory) peripheral or bundled with the console.

- Sony confirmed that all PS3 games will be released only on Blu-Ray discs, as DVDs are too easy being duplicated. PS3 is still capable to play DVDs and CDs, and fully backward compatible with PS2 and PSone.

- Sony announced that the final PS3 development kits will be shipping out to production studios in June; currently more than 15 companies are development middleware and dev-tools for PS3.

Any thoughts? Personally I'm quite worried about the Blu-Ray area (if you know what I mean ).

[vic01]

I ope the Blu-ray disks are not expensive... It uses high technology.

[archaznable]

Playstation 3 would be release in November 2006 check this site it has tons of PS3 faqs.

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March 14, 2006 - At its PlayStation Business Briefing 2006 held in Japan, Sony announced today its production plans for BD-ROM discs (Blu-ray). As it turns out, all PlayStation 3 games will ship on Blu-ray to help prevent piracy. In other words, no "cheap" DVD releases.. Of course, the system will still play PS2 and movies on DVD.

The company expects initial BD-ROM production to reach 2.5 million in Japan and Europe and 5 million in the US.

What do you think about Sony using just the Blue Ray disc to counter piracy. ? Is this worth a try?

[fenrir72]

A big investment needs some security right? Hope the prices go down no? At least we have 8 months to save hehehe.

[Uberjam]

that blue ray disc would really be problematic. it certainly won't be cheap. oh well, marami pa rin naman magagandang games sa PS2 right?

[fenrir72]

But FFVII re-make and DOA4 (No reason for Itagaki to use the alibi of the PS3 being underpowered...........unless it was jointly developed using exclusive Microsoft technology no?) coming, the former being a no brainer while the latter..........speculation on my part.

Remember back then when a Philips DVD player used to weigh like a block of cr@p? And cost around Php 25,0000? Thanks to PS2, DVD prices went down and the format became a preferred or accepted format for the movie and game industry.

What I am wondering though.....besides the higher data compression capability ( DVD BR is high density?), whats going to be the selling pitch? In DVDs, it was the higher resoltion and sound encoding, and compression................................gaming wise, it was all up to the graphics processor and the CPU. PS2 failed in the "anti-aliasing" department and the lack of video RAM. To much centralization on their Emotion Engine made it chug a bit, Xbox was a powerhouse but lacked Japanese RPG, Dating Sim makers support. Heck, even noww despite what seems to be heavy hitter japanese developer backing, Xbox360 is still a clunker in Japan........................maybe a misplaced form of nationalism?

[fenrir72]

Yoich Wada SquarEnix prez stated in response to some questions about FFVII remake "............it will be difficult, but if the demand is great..............."

Yeah, demand my @ss! The only reason to buy the PS3 is the deciding factor!

Get ready to save kimosabes!

[zidac]

It'd be great if they did remake FFVII for the PS3, they may be able to fit the whole game in one Blu -ray because of it's compression, plus if the rumors about the PSone version not being complete are true, they may be able to do so in the remake (but that'll make Advent Children's Aerith seem weird).

[ALeX]

if they do decide to remake ffVII i hope they make ruby and emerald weapon easier to beat... i can remember the frustration of dying over and over ack in my highschool days. and considering the capacity of blue ray, i hope they decide to come up with remakes of the older metal gear series.