Posted by Gilgamesh on 06/24/06 22:31

<SoloSalsa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Alright alright. Everyone has heard about nex gen, and surely the PS3.
> Many of you should know this: The expected price will be 599
> USdollars. Expensive, yes, no doubt, of course. Far fewer of you know
> that Sony also is making a blu-ray player, just a home theater movie
> player, for release in October (they've had it in Japan for years).
> The BD movie player will cost 999 USD.
> So can someone shoot some sense at me? The PS3 also is a DVD and BD
> movie player, and a 7-cored video game system. Why the heck does it
> cost less than a BD movie-only player?

They plan to make the profit from the games.
They are also changing the games licencing so you only have a
non-transferable right to use it which means that any second hand games
complete with original disks, manuals, boxes, etc will be illegal.
This will force (LOL) people to buy new games rather than second hand.

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