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Who thinks it will happen i do

talk about ote you like guys and girls

I never said it wasn't a believable target, especially sinse Sony say that they will reach that figure by the end of the year with their PS2 sales.

I didn't or rather couldn't believe that Nintendo would stop making consoles after the GC, especially with the amount of popularity surrounding their latest console. I think it would be a foolish move by the company to quit at a market that they seem to be winning back slightly.

Cipro, the target of 50million GCs is by 2005! So it's pretty believable!

Oh, and Ninty aren't stopping console manufacture... it was a misinterpetation apparantly!

Cirus the virus wrote:
> Who thinks it will happen i do
>
> talk about ote you like guys and girls

I LIKE GUYS AND GIRLS! and sypros and also my mate's foreskin

moh_fan wrote:
> PS3 is supposedly able to fit into the docking bay on the back of the
> ps2 so not as a another console more of a upgrade for the ps2
>
> not sure if this true thou.

It most certainly is not true.

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PS3 will not be backwards-compatible - Sony have already said as much.

I exepect it will be another DVD-based machine (unless another high-capacity technology becomes available in the meantime), most probably with a large in-built hard drive and modem with broadband capability.

There will possibly be four controller ports, simply to shut up those who constantly whinge about there only being two. Personally, I wouldn't be bothered if it had just two.

However, with the expected power of the machine, maybe they'll really push the boat out and go for eight ports - or maybe four standard, with 4 USB ports with the option of buying extra USB controllers.

Sony are heading towards a complete home entertainment system, so fully-functional DVD playback (the green-screen cop-out was the biggest mistake they made with PS2) and DD5.1/DTS outputs would be nice, with bult-in hardware decoding.

Who knows - there may even be more expansion possibilities than the PS2 has, with ports to connect to God knows what.

They will hopefully pay a lot of attention to ensuring that all this comes together in a professional system, with nothing feeling like it's been thrown in as an afterthought.

PS3 is supposedly able to fit into the docking bay on the back of the ps2 so not as a another console more of a upgrade for the ps2

not sure if this true thou.

one more thing if ur gonna get a second console like me get a xbox :)

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Ninty won't leave the console industry... after all, at the same time
> the president said that they might, he also said that they expected to
> sell 50million GCs. Now, the PSX sold 100million units, so for Ninty
> to get 50million is more than enough to grab a massive foothold in the
> market. Why stop?
>
> Sonic

I do have my doubts to the press announcement from the new Nintendo president, especially if Nintendo are aiming to sell 50 million GC's. I don't really know what to make of the announcement. I also read somewhere that Sony expects to reach the 50 million sales figure with the PS2 by the end of the year. Nintendo and Microsoft will need to pull their finger out if they want to catch up.

Anyway, the only reason Sony have got so ahead in the console market is because of the machines early release. It wasn't exactly the most memorable of releases either, most of the games that came out at the same time where half finished, and some of the first consoles had faults.
That's why I think sony need to slow down, I fear the PS3 may have the same problems when it is eventually launched, just so the company can get a head start and bring in the sales.

Res, they won't ever implement all of that for the PS3... do you think that we'll all have broadband in 3 years time? What they'll most likely do is make a console exactly the same as the PS2, but with a modem included (or broadband in Japan?), and better graphics...

The PS3 is supposed to download games off the net to the hard drive but there's something I can't quite get my head round. By that time PS2 games will no doubt be pushing themselves onto Dual Layer making them anything up to 17 gig. I have 15 PS2 titles which is anything up to 70gig!! (15x4.7) so for these new games Sony are going to have to ship it with the biggest Hard Disc ever seen and I think People are going to get a bit fed up with the downloads, even with broadband these will take at least overnight. I think they should stick to how things are for these simple reasons 1)Retailers will go out of business 2)no instructions 3)can't sell or lend games to mates and it's just better having discs as backup incase your console naffs up! It would be cool having online retailers that you could browse, look at screenshots, play a demo and actually buy then download from directly but I think it's all a bit far fetched because of the file size.

or if the PS3 drive had a DVD writer then wow, buy the game online, download then make the disc yourself, piracy would be a serious issue though, ok I'm babling so I'll stop now;-)

Ninty won't leave the console industry... after all, at the same time the president said that they might, he also said that they expected to sell 50million GCs. Now, the PSX sold 100million units, so for Ninty to get 50million is more than enough to grab a massive foothold in the market. Why stop?

Sonic

Supposedly two years until the next playstation is revealed, I think it's too early. The PSone has been around for nearly 10 years, and it's still selling, so I don't think sony need to rush into bringing out another console.

Especially sinse nintendo are supposedly quitting making consoles after the cube, which will only leave microsoft as any real competition, and they aren't planning another console for a few years yet. At least I think their not.