alot of ps3 news...

a little summary of what is in there:
"They start off by saying that the Cell Processor and the Blu-Ray drive are the main reasons that the PS3 will be expensive to produce, expensive as in it will cost them $900 at launch to produce one console, with this falling to $320 after three years."

"Reagrding a simultaneous worldwide release, ala Xbox 360, Yasuda said that this will not happen as the Internet infrastructures differ in each individual market - whatever that means. Another odd comment he made at the event was that Sony does not regard Xbox as a competitor, and may even consider working with Microsoft to develop games."

"SPonG are reporting that the offical launch date of the Playstation 3 in Europe will be a very late March 2007."

"Yasuda further said, Our primary competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this - extremely bold words indeed, Sony isnt worried quite so much about the Microsoft Xbox 360, or the Nintendo Revolution, as they are about software pirates."

"It would seem that Sony are following the path that Microsoft have taken, and that a hard drive will not ship with every PS3 sold.
On the official Playstation product page the following statement appears:
"Storage media (HDD, Memory Stick, SD memory card, and compact Flash) are sold seperately."


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