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October 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Sony's woes continue with PS3 delay
Poor Sony. Last week, it detailed the problems behind the millions of defective, prone-to-combustion laptop batteries it's recalled, which is costing the company $429 million.
Now today, according to reports, it's going to be shipping 20,000 fewer PlayStation 3 video-game units than it had originally announced, due to a delay in part production.
That delay won't affect shipments in the U.S., which is slated to get 400,000, as opposed to the 80,000 units now scheduled to drop in Japan.
Notably, the company is already planning to sell the units at a loss, with the 20GB model priced at $430. That's not an uncommon practice for game-system vendors, though, who make up the loss through software and licensing sales.
Sony is currently running at a 94% profit loss this quarter, due to the battery recalls and troubles in its gaming division.
By the way, if you think discussing video-game consoles is too end-user-y for an enterprise IT blog, well, you may be right.
But then again, have you seen the specs on the high-end system? In addition to having Blu-Ray optical drive and built-in 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, it will be the first commercial device powered by the Cell processor, a 3.2GHz chip that Sony developed with assistance from IBM and Toshiba. Boasting seven SPEs, the chip is said to perform at 218 gigaflops. Maybe there'll be a place for one in your server room?
Posted by Ted Samson on October 30, 2006 02:35 PM
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The PS3 rules!
Blu-ray is about 7x (double sided) bigger than DVD. It's still bigger than HD-DVD (20GB more). That's only for starters, the motion sensisvity feature almost LITERALLY puts you in the game (move controller like a steering wheel, move controller as your walking, you get the picture). And to top things off, Sony was nice enough to (only a bit) add a tad bit more to the specs- certain ones. The vram is 50% but hey, the 360 uses the vram as "fake" system ram (simular to AGP which got discontinued to pci express), not meaning the ps3 ONLY has 256mb as it has this for system & video ram!!! =512mb!! Also the ps3's video card is mensioned to be TWICE as powerful as one of Nvidia's recent releases. Just got back from your Holiday and computer is bust?
NO WORRIES!!! Just rely on the ps3 for this with it's memory card reader feature!! I hav'nt heard of the 360 supporting a web browser (the sega saturn/Dream cast can) but of course the ps3 does.
HAHAHA.. look at the ps3 sales.. they stink! Do yourself a favor and get a WII and 360..
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