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sagema said:Sony wants to match Microsoft on their Elite. A larger hard drive. I remember them giving a lecture on not needing to upgrade the PS3 for 10 years(In fact they still say that). It has only been 6+ months and now they are releasing a larger hard drive, they are removing the emotion engine, and later they promise another version with controller ports, new chips, and rumble features back in. So much for any plans to not mess with the 20gb version that's supposed to last 10 years. If Microsoft drops the 360 price to $200 it would be the end of Sony. Remember Microsoft has $60 billion in the bank to blow, and they spent $1 billion on free console repairs.
All this money being thrown around. It should be about the games.
LOL where do you come up with this stuff. You love making things up dont you? Sagema you consistantly say things that are suprisingly ignorant, that i still have trouble believing you are 27. In fact SSBB_lover is 14 and has a better sense of reality and uses more logic than you do.
Have you ever thought to research and comprehend whats going on, rather than just assume it is so.
Microsoft created the Elite with the increase of HD size because they planned long ago to give it a TIVO function. You need a bigger HD to record video. Sony did not need to upgrad their hard drives, nor are they doing so in response to Microsoft. Did you not know the patent for the upgraded ps3 was filed way back before we knew of the elite? i dont think you did. The ps3 Hard drive is an interchangable PC hard drive. If you get the 499 version, and spend 100 bucks getting a 300gigabyte Hard drive, for 599 you could easily have a system that holds more than any other console. Thats how easy it is.
Sony used the PC interchangable HD for a reason, they are not doing a TIVO function and therefor are not beefing up their HD space for that reason.
I remember I told everyone that Sony was pushing the 60gig version down to the 20 gig price and releasing a new version for 599. Those people laughed saying it wasnt going to happen. Guess what? It did. Wanna know why? because I know whats going on. You should too, if you tried.
You also need to remember microsoft made the decision to rush their system out on the market before it was tested propperly. The end result was the red ring of death, microsoft will spend more than 1 billion. Thats only their announced estimate, but they are not stupid enough to say how much they expect it really will cost. Their move rushed the console but nabbed the games.
ok what did sony do? they held off their system for over a year. The reports were coming in that the ps3 prototype was overheating due to the power of the console. They took a year to fix that, now its the coolest system on the market. The console came out later, but its far more stable.
Microsoft is blowing money on their games by the way. You think franchises went exclusive for the 360 because they felt like it? lol microsoft bought them out. Thats how exclusives work. Lets also look how those billions of dollars are being spent. Take digital anvil for example. Great company that went to microsoft to publish their games. Only microsoft spent a load of the money buying out digital anvil itself, they ported the games into console titles, sold the others to ubisoft and put the best of the staff into microsofts game studio, then dismantled the company itself. Microsoft is like the borg.
Sony is putting their money into creating new franchises and setting up a new wave of console entertainment. Remember, both microsoft and sony are mostly relying on third party developers at this point, so their money has no effect there other than publishing.
You really need to learn this stuff.