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Monday, February 26, 2007

PS3 Backwards Compatibility

It is being reported that the PAL version of the PS3 will not ship with the chip which makes it backward compatible. Selected titles will be backward compatible, however, Sony are not yet listing which titles will be. You can check on this linkto see the FAQ which covers the topic. Good luck with that because Sony have a message on there (which is the image reproduced with this blog entry) that says the list won't be updated until the 23rd of March.

Apparently this has been done as a production cost cutting measure. The sad thing is that while this will save money on the production of the console Sony are not prepared to reduce the price of the console to the end user. That means that the RRP will stay exactly the same.

You couldn't say that things were looking all that good at Sony HQ. Hopefully for those people in Australia who purchase a PS3 it is just internet gossip. However, if the rumours are true then things are not shaping up too good for Sony with the PS3 receiving a lot of bad press and poor sales results in the US.

posted by thecynicalgamer @ 4:29 pm  

4 Comments:

  • At 6:48 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I agree, not really what they wanted at this stage. The PS3 is a machine I think will be excellent to own and it will eventually have plenty of attractions to promote it. But right now and at that cost it will be hard for them to move the units. I want one but just can't justify it and if I did I wouldn't be able to afford a bloody game, let alone a second controller. Another thing is the whole HD thing. To really get the most out of these new consoles, you need a HD display. To this date, not many Aussies have true HD displays, and not many have the pseudo HD displays they have been selling for the last few years. Instead of buying the PS3, I'm going to hold onto my $1000 and when the great games come out for my new Wii, I'll have plenty there to get the games. What is the use of a high tech game console when you can't afford the games, or the display to truly enjoy them.

     

  • At 10:38 am, Blogger thecynicalgamer said…

    I think you are right. Price is the biggest killer for this console. The funny thing is that a gamer wouldn't hesitate to spend $2000-$3000 on a gaming desktop but the general public aren't prepared to spend $1000 on a gaming console. Those hard core gamers may spend $1000 every 12 - 24 months upgrading their graphics card alone. History tells us that the PS3 should be around for 4 years.

    I think $1000 is a price barrier for a console. Sony will be doing some hard work to get people to pick up on the technology early. I think you'll find that most people will wait till the price comes down. Sony definitely doesn't like to drop the price on any of their over priced products (look at the Sony Vaio range of notebooks - completely over priced).

    Just off the top of my head, wasn't the original Playstation console (ie PS One) $750 when it was first released in Australia? That is upon initial release not after the price was dropped. Can anyone confirm that?

     

  • At 2:30 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I bought the original Playstation for around the $700 mark early in the piece. I guess you're right with the price though, the gaming pc is a much more expensive item to have. As for length of generation, 4 years is selling the longevity short. The original playstation came out in Australia November 95, with the PS2 arriving in Novemeber 2000 and now the PS3 in March 2007. So around 6 years if you average it out. $1000 sounds pretty good now, especially with the Bluray player included, which are selling for around the $1500 mark.

    On a side note, thanks for the recent story rich site. I've been able to add this to my daily read bookmarks. :)

     

  • At 5:46 pm, Blogger thecynicalgamer said…

    Anything for you threeps. ;-)

    I understand that the consoles have been around for longer than four years, but I remember reading something last year about Microsoft or Sony (or both) wanting to reduce the time it took to bring out a new console.

    I thought the original PS1 was around $700. See, now that you think about it, that wasn't a cheap console at the time. The Megadrive and Super Nintendo were a lot cheaper than that.

     

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