REVOLUTION or 360?

[Kugetsu]

Sony has already confirmed that they will leave online all to the developer and Sony will take no part in a unified online service such as Xbox Live.

Prices have been rumored to be $399 - $899. Expensive eh?

Why do people keep coming up with numbers like this? It was never rumoured to be anywhere near $900 (at least not by a viable source). It was rumoured to be between $299 and $499 (at the most), and since they aren't including the HD it will most likely cost as much as the more expensive 360 if not possibly $100 more. No way it's going to be even near $600 or $700, let alone $900 (at least in US money).

[KillerRay]

I get my numbers from http://www.gamespot.com and http://www.ign.com :p Even Sony said "It's Expensive".

Blu-Ray... 3 Ethernet ports.. 6 USB Ports.. 2 1080p output.. all those inputs.. blu-tooth.. cell chip..

How can that be under $499 without them losing $200+ dollars.

[Chanel]

I get my numbers from http://www.gamespot.com and http://www.ign.com :p Even Sony said "It's Expensive".

Blu-Ray... 3 Ethernet ports.. 6 USB Ports.. 2 1080p output.. all those inputs.. blu-tooth.. cell chip..

How can that be under $499 without them losing $200+ dollars.

The money they lose per unit they can regain in their total gross profit from the number of units they're going to sell. (yay economics!) This is of course providing that Sony is smart enough to produce enough units. Thankfully the 360 is already making headlines thanks to their shortages so Sony and Nintendo can learn from Microsoft's mistake.

[Kugetsu]

I get my numbers from http://www.gamespot.com and http://www.ign.com :p Even Sony said "It's Expensive".

Blu-Ray... 3 Ethernet ports.. 6 USB Ports.. 2 1080p output.. all those inputs.. blu-tooth.. cell chip..

How can that be under $499 without them losing $200+ dollars.

$299 is expensive, everything above that is also expensive (heck, $150 is expensive for some people). That leaves a large room for error as "expensive" can be any price depending on the person..

Every console since the PS and N64 (I'm sure even before that as well, but I can find no record of that, though it would make sense) has lost money per unit sold (though not as much as the XBox did, they took a gamble and it worked out). So they are going to lose money from it, but they'll also gain from the number of units sold and even from peripherals and other things that will be sold along side it. Just like the Revolution is going to sell extensions to their controller and that sort of stuff to make up for their extremely low price (we know that their technology doesn't cost less than $200.) At the same time, their technology will draw many people so they'll also be selling (hopefully) at a steady rate as well. These companies have so much money that if they actually end up losing money overall, it will probably be so minimal that it won't cause much of a fuss.

Quoting one of the gaming magazine I read (I forget which, but it was about the price if the PS3):

"Nothing has been officially mentioned of the price as of yet, though, Sony isn't stupid. They are going sell the console for as cheap as they can without making a noticable decrease in revenue. They've already made some major cutbacks, so the only way the price can go is down."

Ok, that's not quoted word for word, but it's pretty close. The price isn't going to be any higher than originally thought (I think $499 was the original rumour) since just about everything that has been done to it's original design has been removals. If they were to wow us with some additions instead of taking things off, the price, would of course, be much higher.

[Twisted Sanity]

There is no definate news that Sony have no online strategy. Whilst Xbox Live is a great service, it does require gamers to pay for it, and plenty of casual gamers won't be bothered paying money for an online service they'll almost never use.

Sony has confirmed that it will allow developers to create their own online services, but it's too early to say that Sony won't develop any unified online architecture, or something like it.

Remember that the orginal Xbox didn't come with Live straight away. Sony aren't stupid. They know that Nintendo and Microsoft are both pressing Online, and to not do the same would be suicide.

Just wait till E3. Then we'll know for certain.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/31/sony- ... xbox-live/

There we go