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A few days ago I heard the Sony is already planning the Playstation 3. They are teaming up with AMD to make the console a massive 1000 times more powerful than the Playstation 2. This is all well and good but I recently splashed £300 out for a Playstation 2 and have already got ISS Pro and SSX for it, but after hearing about the PS3, it has disheartened me to buy anymore games, i suppose im just over reacting though because its not due for four years but surely Sony should be concentrating on new games for the PS2. And I would also like to comment on HOW could they make a console 1000x more powerful than the power house playstation2!? Surley this is impossible
Sega started work on the DC 2 a week after the DC's American launch, and the N64 was in planning for about 4 years before it came out... that's just how companies work.
Mind u, the PS2 was rushed.. badly.
SonicRav
Mind u, the PS2 was rushed.. badly.
SonicRav
I posted about the PS3 ages ago and no-one blelieved me, I suppose my 'out in less that 3 years' theory was a little unbelieveable but hey, I told you so! I don't think it will be 1000 times better, I mean it could run 1000 times more efficiently, mind you a screen-door of a russian submarine would be more 999 times more efficient that the Playstation 2 so I don't think that this is an unreasonable target!
I don't quite know what we would see on it but hey, maybe a bunch of sequels. The thing that gets me is that there are loads of people with game Ideas, just look at the forum, and no BIG names are interested in taking them up on the idea. So we might see Virtua Fighter 7, having said this the Gamecube could be going the same way with Rare having secured 2 possible titles for a Conker's Bad Fur Day sequel: Grabbed By The Ghoulies - (Ghost Theme?) and Conker's Other Bad Fur Day - (Very Original). But back to the topic, the Playstation 3 wont be here for another 3 - 4 years from now and so I wouldn't worry about buying PS2 games, and plus with the compatability we have seen from Sony so far you shouldn't have any problems even playing Spyro 1 on you PS3...
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I don't quite know what we would see on it but hey, maybe a bunch of sequels. The thing that gets me is that there are loads of people with game Ideas, just look at the forum, and no BIG names are interested in taking them up on the idea. So we might see Virtua Fighter 7, having said this the Gamecube could be going the same way with Rare having secured 2 possible titles for a Conker's Bad Fur Day sequel: Grabbed By The Ghoulies - (Ghost Theme?) and Conker's Other Bad Fur Day - (Very Original). But back to the topic, the Playstation 3 wont be here for another 3 - 4 years from now and so I wouldn't worry about buying PS2 games, and plus with the compatability we have seen from Sony so far you shouldn't have any problems even playing Spyro 1 on you PS3...
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PS3 will probably be out in 3 years, and it will probably be £300 and everyone will claim it's a rop off.
It seems gaming and hardware is the only industry where inflation doesn't have an affect - due to all the advances in technology and all that.
Anyway, PS2 would be more appealing at £240.
Dan
It seems gaming and hardware is the only industry where inflation doesn't have an affect - due to all the advances in technology and all that.
Anyway, PS2 would be more appealing at £240.
Dan
Yep, that '1000' times thing got me thinking too. Knowing Sony it probably means that it will retail at £300,000 and be the size of a house.
On a serious note though, it could also signal the start of yet another next gen race. If Sony are wise, they will make it more backwards compatable than the PS2 was, i.e. it will play 100% of PSX and PS2 games, therefore allowing current PS2 users to continue buying PS2 games with no worries.
I'm surprised that since the press releases on the PS3 that Sony haven't yet confirmed this, as it will surely affect sales of current PS2 titles as evidenced by what you have just said in the initial post.
Still, I think that we are looking at a good 3 years at least before the console hits the high street in Tokyo, and 4 years before it gets to the UK, so developers aren't going to be too troubled by the news.
Now then, the fun part. Are they really going to call it the PS3? Or are they going to call it that but just use a mirror image of the 3 instead of the normal one.
If the PS2 was the third place, is the PS3 the fourth place?
And won't this confuse the less intelligent consumer? I don't think they'll call it the PSIII either, Pentium might have something to say about that.
In Russia, the word three translates into 'tree', so in Russia that's what they'd get, the PS Tree. I'm starting to ramble now so I'll stop.....
On a serious note though, it could also signal the start of yet another next gen race. If Sony are wise, they will make it more backwards compatable than the PS2 was, i.e. it will play 100% of PSX and PS2 games, therefore allowing current PS2 users to continue buying PS2 games with no worries.
I'm surprised that since the press releases on the PS3 that Sony haven't yet confirmed this, as it will surely affect sales of current PS2 titles as evidenced by what you have just said in the initial post.
Still, I think that we are looking at a good 3 years at least before the console hits the high street in Tokyo, and 4 years before it gets to the UK, so developers aren't going to be too troubled by the news.
Now then, the fun part. Are they really going to call it the PS3? Or are they going to call it that but just use a mirror image of the 3 instead of the normal one.
If the PS2 was the third place, is the PS3 the fourth place?
And won't this confuse the less intelligent consumer? I don't think they'll call it the PSIII either, Pentium might have something to say about that.
In Russia, the word three translates into 'tree', so in Russia that's what they'd get, the PS Tree. I'm starting to ramble now so I'll stop.....
A few days ago I heard the Sony is already planning the Playstation 3. They are teaming up with AMD to make the console a massive 1000 times more powerful than the Playstation 2. This is all well and good but I recently splashed £300 out for a Playstation 2 and have already got ISS Pro and SSX for it, but after hearing about the PS3, it has disheartened me to buy anymore games, i suppose im just over reacting though because its not due for four years but surely Sony should be concentrating on new games for the PS2. And I would also like to comment on HOW could they make a console 1000x more powerful than the power house playstation2!? Surley this is impossible