PS2 Price Cut On The Way? 68
GameDailyBiz reports on analyst predictions of an upcoming PS2 price cut. From the article: "Although some analysts have said a price cut to $99 for the aging console would be a possibility, Sebastian believes the cut would be a more moderate $20 drop. 'We now believe a price cut on Sony's PS2 is more than likely ahead of the E3 video game conference. Specifically, our industry checks indicate that Sony is planning to cut the PS2 price to $129 from the current $149 before the end of this month,' he said."
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Makes Sense (Score:1)
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Yep, I'm due.... Of course I'll probably blow the $20 on an accessory or new game anyway.
Re:Makes Sense (Score:2)
I tend to avoid the slim PS2 for the laser burnout reason, and the fact that you can't put a hard drive in it without soldering stuff to the mainboard. I have 2 old-style (a V4 and a V7 PS2
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A $20 drop is nothing. (Score:3, Funny)
Making it third party (Score:1, Offtopic)
The PS2 platform is still a great platform with a lot of room for improvement. Imagine a gaming console that can be accessed by the millions of developers, programmers, amateurs
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It's a common misconception that game consoles always sell at a loss [actsofgord.com], mostly propogated by the amount of press Microsoft gave out about their X-Box business plan when that console was released. Fact is, Nintendo and Sony make money on the hardware.
Allowing homebrew games on a console would suck out a lot of the profit for the console producer, so it will probably never happen.
How would PS1 homebrew hurt Sony? (Score:1)
Allowing homebrew games on a console would suck out a lot of the profit for the console producer, so it will probably never happen.
In which way would allowing homebrew on the PlayStation 1 console suck money away from Sony? There aren't any new commercial PS1 titles coming out anyway that they would compete with.
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What losses? PS2 is still the most profitable video game system.
"...release the PS2 as open-source or cheaply licensable and give others access to making new hardware, new software and new accessories."
Yeah, because the OSS version of the PS2 wouldn't compete with the PS3 and dig into their future profits. What the heck are you smoking?
"Imagine a gaming console that can be accessed by the millions of developers, programmers, amateurs and third parties that could make things better."
It's called a PC with a 3D graphics card. I'm sure I'll get modded into oblivion for standing up against an OSS viewpoint, however.
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I think Sony could breathe a TON of life back into their current inventory of licensed games (and even new games adapted) for the PS2 -- they don't need
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Ahh, yes. I remember the brief period in time when Connectix sold a PS2 emulator (Connectix Virtual Game Station). They even withstood the lawsuit Sony threw at them. But then they sold it to.... Sony.
Oh well, there were a few months when my Mac was a kick-ass game machine.
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I'm sure I'll get modded into oblivion for standing up against an OSS viewpoint, however.
Well, maybe if it had been an honest and/or thoughtfull OSS viewpoint. Hell, I'm not sure it was even an OSS viewpoint at all. That, my friend, was a garden varietty troll, having a bit of fun...and you bit the hook.
I mean, come on...."the whole Will-MS-buyout-Sony situation" ...you kidding me?
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Sony will never be able to "open" up the dev tools for the PS2 due to the licensing issues. Nintendo is the only one in a position to make all or part of theirs open... or even the SNES toolkit. Mode 7 and other features offer a lot of room to work still.
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By the way, bizarre-host.com suspended your account, will it get back running soon? I'm interested in your topic
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BTW: My site is back up and running: www.revolutioninsider.info
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Xbox is the money loser (Score:2)
The xbox on the other hand has been bleeding tons of cash. I don't think it's ever had a profitable quarter and they've lost up to one billion per year.
Anal-ysts (Score:1)
Isn't this standard practice, do we need to be told this is what is expected?
Re:For that price... (Score:2)
The PS2 has a much larger library and cheaper games for it. The DS can provide some experiences the PS2 can't, but the opposite is also true - try DDR, any of the EyeToy games, or Guitar Hero with the DS and see how well that works for you.
That's not even a valid comparison, really. It's like comparing crayons to ballpoint pens. They both do the same thing on the surface, but beyond that...there's not really they've got in common.
Good move, but not enough... (Score:2)
Oh well. My PS2 is on it's way to the grave anyway...
Drop it to $99.... (Score:3, Funny)
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Much over due (Score:2, Insightful)
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Overdue price drop (Score:1)
So I have another 2 years to wait? Sony's already *lost* the money on the production of these things. Least they can do now is try to recoup some of it so the losses on the PS3 will hurt slightly less.
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I'd rather take it with a 20-30g harddrive, no blu-ray, and have it be $200 less.
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Hogs of War PSX! (Score:2)
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Hate to break it to you, but you can't save PSX games on PS2 cards.
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You can copy back and forth though. So he could free up space on his existing cards by offloading his old saves onto a PS2 card.
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umm... (Score:2)
Sure the PS2 has some solid titles, but nothing that would make you jump on one if you didn't already own one by now and need a replacement. At least Zelda TP for GC is coming up soon. The only title would be Okami for PS2 that could pos
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I picked the PS2 essentially because of its popularity - I wanted a huge library of good, cheap (used) games available. I went to a local game store and got Gran Tourismo for $3 (used)
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If they make it cheap enough I might buy one just in order to play Katamari.
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Microsoft is moving into new territory with their $10 platinum favorites games... and I see that being more of a draw than anything. If Sony can do that as well with their player's choice line, they will sell millions. Even with the Revolution, 360, PS3, etc. on the shelf I could still see huge sal
Time to buy a PS2! (Score:1)
ah, it's good to be behind the tech adoption curve - stuff is always cheaper, like my 2.6 GHz 752MB 11b/g laptop that only cost $500, so I could spend my money on going to Vancouver with my girlfriend this weekend (total cost around $400 for the full trip).
you can spend your money on adopting tech early, and get less sex.
or you can spend your money later after the tech wave, and get more sex.
I vote for t
Re:Time to buy a PS2! (Score:2, Funny)
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I'll wait until the PS3 and Revolution come out, and buy one of them say around President's Day, at a slight discount - then pick up the other one when it goes on sale.
If you need to save more money to get more sex (Score:1)
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Now, for you, perhaps you find that overspending on tech helps you in that regards, I really don't know. Each consumer has to decide where to spend his or her own limited resources.
For example, if you were Bill G, spending $5 million to get a really cool tech device is about what you made by thinking about it, so it's a reasonable amount of money to spend.
Yo
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Not really. This account I created a couple of years ago, but I have two other accounts I no longer use that go back to pre-dot-com days.
I was on the Internet before it was Arpanet, used to be a student at Simon Fraser University and we used 300 baud modems if we were lucky (1200 baud was cool when it came out).