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Sony scored a big hit with the PS1 and platinum games, which were affordable quality games that had to sell a certain amount to turn platinum, while N64 was still trying to sell cartridges for £64.99 Sony's platinum range came in at £19.99 and proved a big hit.
I am glad to see they are carryiing on the tradition with there PS2 platinum range. I mean lets face it GT3 is a far superior game to Project Gotham and yet it is have the price. They say you have to pay for quality but on this evidence you don't.
> This new GC disc might look nice, but at the end of the day it only
> holds 1.5Gb of data on 1 side. A DVD can hold 8.5Gb on 1 side using
> dual layer mode or 4.25Gb of data on 1 side in single layer mode. The
> GC discs are still custom, so the press tooling and printing setups
> are all non-standard - which will mean a greater expense. Pressing
> & printing plants can use existing DVD templates from the PC
> and/or home DVD movie market - but this is not the case with GC discs.
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What site did you copy this small piece of text from?
I know there'd be no reason for you to copy this small piece of text normally, but you don't seem the type to have a clue what you're talking about normally.
The fact that the GameCube is more affordable than the PS2 obviously doesn't come into the equation here.
Moron.
Stop doing all these annoyingly boring console war starting post please Mr Freak, you're just becoming a right royal pain in the A55
> But at least Sony used a cheaper format to bring their games to
> people, what is it, 15p for a CD with the amount they produce
> compaired to, I dunno how much those cartridges are, but they were a
> lot more. But Sony still make a profit on all the games, they were
> just able to do so in a way that ment people could afford their games,
> which probaly helped make them more money, seeing as customers could
> afford two games at a time compairewd to Nintendo 64's one at a time
> (if that made sence).
>
> But Nintendo with their gamecude have those new discs, and they are
> even better than a CD, storage wise, so don't count them out, they
> relised their mistake with the cartridge and have done the work to
> improve that, and have taken over Sony in that respect.
This new GC disc might look nice, but at the end of the day it only holds 1.5Gb of data on 1 side. A DVD can hold 8.5Gb on 1 side using dual layer mode or 4.25Gb of data on 1 side in single layer mode. The GC discs are still custom, so the press tooling and printing setups are all non-standard - which will mean a greater expense. Pressing & printing plants can use existing DVD templates from the PC and/or home DVD movie market - but this is not the case with GC discs.
Jez13, Techno Freak, what games do you think I should buy? You're obviously the most experieced PS2 fans I know. What d'ya reckon?
=oP
But Nintendo with their gamecude have those new discs, and they are even better than a CD, storage wise, so don't count them out, they relised their mistake with the cartridge and have done the work to improve that, and have taken over Sony in that respect.