Analyst predicts Blu-Ray-less PS3
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I am Penguin
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Who knows, maybe he is right! I mean, surely they can cut out the Blu Ray and then install a DVD player and Linux with a Virtual PC/Xbox emulated on the powerfull PS3 hardware. Then the PS3 can play all the Xbox and PC titles. Crysis included. LOL.
phoenix
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My dear man, you appear to have been infected by whatever ails that "analyst", why the man needs analysis himself and quite possibly a tight-fitting jacket and padded room.
Emulate a state of the art gaming pc indeed!
The Joker
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My dear man, you appear to have been infected by whatever ails that "analyst", why the man needs analysis himself and quite possibly a tight-fitting jacket and padded room.
Emulate a state of the art gaming pc indeed!
ROFLMAO
Very well said mate.
How can he and so many others by into this utter crap!!
I am Penguin
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ROFLMAO
Very well said mate.
How can he and so many others by into this utter crap!!
Put it this way, although I said it with humor and sarcasm, tongue in cheek, You have to admit and agree my mate, my dear man,
Its very much so more probable on a PS3 than the reverse situation can ever be true or probable on a Xbox360.
phoenix
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Penguin:Not for a moment did I think you were being serious.
I still have my reservations about emulating a gaming PC on PS3. ;-)
I am guessing that you would have to get Windows shoehorned into working on the
Cell architecture and then pare it down so that it fits comfortably within the PS3's
512Mb of memory, while leaving sufficient memory for running PC games in all their
glory.Methinks it would take some smart programming to make the GeForce 7800 on which the PS3's Reality Synthesiser is based compete with nVidia and AMD's finest.
As I am not a programmer or hardware guru, I cannot say with any degree of authority that it cannot be done. As a layperson, I say that It looks as though anyone wanting to emulate PC on PS3 has their work cut out for them.
I still have my reservations about emulating a gaming PC on PS3. ;-)
I am guessing that you would have to get Windows shoehorned into working on the
Cell architecture and then pare it down so that it fits comfortably within the PS3's
512Mb of memory, while leaving sufficient memory for running PC games in all their
glory.Methinks it would take some smart programming to make the GeForce 7800 on which the PS3's Reality Synthesiser is based compete with nVidia and AMD's finest.
As I am not a programmer or hardware guru, I cannot say with any degree of authority that it cannot be done. As a layperson, I say that It looks as though anyone wanting to emulate PC on PS3 has their work cut out for them.
lilDeath
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Did I miss it in the article or where was it mentioned that the DVD-drive replacing the Blu-ray drive was to compete with the PC?
The only reason I saw was for costs.
I actually don't see this prediction so far-fetched.
The economy and companies are not doing good, everyone is trying to save money wherever they can.
They could easily bring out an alternative PS3 DVD-drive version in addition to their current Blu-Ray one. I am willing to bet that there will be people buying them. It can make quite a difference on the overall price.
PLUS, sony is STILL making a loss on every PS3. How long can this continue?
There are loads of people (I know several) who don't want to buy the PS3 because they either 1/ do not want the blu-ray drive 2/ don't have anything to play on it 3/ cannot afford it.
On the tangent of it becoming a PC competitor, yes it can. XP / Vista does have a mobile / tablet version and there is also an extremely light version that install in under 300-500MB of disk space. So, why can't this be ported to the PS3 or any other console for that matter? GPU's are doing more and more processing than ever before.
Nothing is impossible in this day and age.
The only reason I saw was for costs.
I actually don't see this prediction so far-fetched.
The economy and companies are not doing good, everyone is trying to save money wherever they can.They could easily bring out an alternative PS3 DVD-drive version in addition to their current Blu-Ray one. I am willing to bet that there will be people buying them. It can make quite a difference on the overall price.
PLUS, sony is STILL making a loss on every PS3. How long can this continue?
There are loads of people (I know several) who don't want to buy the PS3 because they either 1/ do not want the blu-ray drive 2/ don't have anything to play on it 3/ cannot afford it.
On the tangent of it becoming a PC competitor, yes it can. XP / Vista does have a mobile / tablet version and there is also an extremely light version that install in under 300-500MB of disk space. So, why can't this be ported to the PS3 or any other console for that matter? GPU's are doing more and more processing than ever before.
Nothing is impossible in this day and age.
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Solitude
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I actually don't see this prediction so far-fetched.
They could easily bring out an alternative PS3 DVD-drive version in addition to their current Blu-Ray one. I am willing to bet that there will be people buying them. It can make quite a difference on the overall price.
PLUS, sony is STILL making a loss on every PS3. How long can this continue?
There are loads of people (I know several) who don't want to buy the PS3 because they either 1/ do not want the blu-ray drive 2/ don't have anything to play on it 3/ cannot afford it.
You are thinking the same as the analyst. The problem being that the PS3 with a DVD-drive will not be able to play any games since the games come on Blu-Ray. Hence it won't be a game console anymore.
The PS3 may not have done as well as they have hoped but I do believe that it's because of it that Blu-Ray won the HD war.
Deceptor
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I kinda only agree with the third point.
I think Sony aren't weighing these things up properly. Will they really benefit by releasing a system like this and then having to get retailers to sell 2 copies of every game one for Blu-ray and one for the blu-ray less PS3's.
Just seems like an act of desperation when really they shouldn't be desperate at all with 10 Million units sold last year.
Just seems like an act of desperation when really they shouldn't be desperate at all with 10 Million units sold last year.
Solidus
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Good point, they should've actually kept the 20GB model cause it never had wireless. They would've had a much bigger market share, thats where M$ has them beat.
lilDeath
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Uhm, no. You didn't get my point actually.
I didn't say they are going to replace the Blu-ray one. I said an alternative version with DVD "in addition to Blu-Ray version" and that it would cater for specific people only.
It is only logical people won't be able to play their blu-ray games on DVD. I mean really now.
Read my post again.
lilDeath
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Sure, no problems.
The major point I wanted to get across was that it shouldn't be as far-fetched as everyone thinks it is. Lots of companies have made the stupidest decisions for whatever reasons they fathom up.
Of course, there will have to be some sort of business model behind the decision to make it viable. I was just giving an example of a possible scenario to indicate it is not that unimaginable.
The major point I wanted to get across was that it shouldn't be as far-fetched as everyone thinks it is. Lots of companies have made the stupidest decisions for whatever reasons they fathom up.
Of course, there will have to be some sort of business model behind the decision to make it viable. I was just giving an example of a possible scenario to indicate it is not that unimaginable.
The PS3 has awesome games. I don't own one and I am not planning to anytime soon but it does have some great games.
Deceptor
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I'm playing MGS4 at the moment, on act 4, and it's freaking awesome.