What Sony needs to do to change the PS3's future

A $100 price drop is not going to save the PS3, especially since Microsoft can easily match.   Sony needs to do something more drastic.  Here is what I recommend:

1.  Drop Blu-Ray as a requirement and sell a DVD/20GB version of the console @ $299 for Christmas. 

2.  Re-release all games that are worth re-releasing on DVD on a 'budget' line of games.  

3.  Promise to not release any games on Blu-Ray (so people feel safe buying the DVD PS3).  

4.  Buy or produce a exclusive (even timed) for Christmas '07 that will make the PS3 worth owning

5.  Do all this without looking like they are in a panic. 

A $100 price drop is not going to save the PS3, especially since Microsoft can easily match.   Sony needs to do something more drastic.  Here is what I recommend:

1.  Drop Blu-Ray as a requirement and sell a DVD/20GB version of the console @ $299 for Christmas. 

2.  Re-release all games that are worth re-releasing on DVD on a 'budget' line of games.  

3.  Promise to not release any games on Blu-Ray (so people feel safe buying the DVD PS3).  

4.  Buy or produce a exclusive (even timed) for Christmas '07 that will make the PS3 worth owning

5.  Do all this without looking like they are in a panic. 

 

 

Hulabaloza

A $100 price drop is not going to save the PS3, especially since Microsoft can easily match.   Sony needs to do something more drastic.  Here is what I recommend:

1.  Drop Blu-Ray as a requirement and sell a DVD/20GB version of the console @ $299 for Christmas. 

2.  Re-release all games that are worth re-releasing on DVD on a 'budget' line of games.  

3.  Promise to not release any games on Blu-Ray (so people feel safe buying the DVD PS3).  

4.  Buy or produce a exclusive (even timed) for Christmas '07 that will make the PS3 worth owning

5.  Do all this without looking like they are in a panic. 

 

 

Hulabaloza

A price drop is all that’s needed. If the console comes in at around £349.99 within the next 6months Sony will move more PS3 then Microsoft could ever do...Pixelgen

dude i hate to be a @ss but really shut up. i am sick and tired of this topic i'am not woryed about Sony's future at all! if Sony loose FF big freaking deal! they have so meny games in there pocket its nuts plus E3 is not even here so they could have a whole slew of new games planned! so really enough is enough (once again sorry for sounding like a @ss hole but really this Sh!t needs to stop jackle2071

[QUOTE="Pixelgen"]A price drop is all that’s needed. If the console comes in at around £349.99 within the next 6months Sony will move more PS3 then Microsoft could ever do...ghaleon0721

Why does blu-ray matter? It will do nothing to make games better and very few people have any real interest in a blu-ray player. The only thing it does is turn PS3 purchasers into 'wait and seers' and eventually into Wii / 360 owners. All those PS3's sitting on the shelf? They are there cause the console is too expensive.Hulabaloza

Here is an excerpt from Sony's gaming division's executive meeting minutes....... 8:00 am: Meeting comes to order 8:01 am: The plethora of Microsoft Fanboys and misinformed knuckleheads appearing on gamesite forums is discussed. It is resolved that none of these people really know what its like to be a multi-billion dollar company competing in a $7 billion dollar a year world-wide industry. 8:30 am: It was resolved by teh board that none of these people (that guy with the FF1 Fighter Avatar especially) should be taken at all seriously. 9:00 am: The board reviewed the sales data and realized that their system was selling faster than the competition and would reach the same sales figures as Microsoft in a much shorter period of time. 10:00am: The issue of exclusives was discussed, most recently Devil May Cry. One board member asked "Don't we pay them to make games just for us?" to which the chairman replied "No". Another board member asked "Do they have any contractual obligation, explicit or implied, with them?" To which the chairman also replied "no". Another executive then asked "Well then why didn't they make games for the other console last generation?" The chairman replied "Because it sucked and no one bought it" 11:00am: Meeting adjournedghaleon0721

This needs to be stickied. 

thats rich dude

remove blu ray to change the ps3's future?

you must be living under a rock or with a cannibal tribe in the Amazon.......or both to not see that HDTV's are plumeting in price every month and all tech trends are pointing towards blu ray

stop your whining

what a horrible idea.

[QUOTE="Hulabaloza"]Why does blu-ray matter? It will do nothing to make games better and very few people have any real interest in a blu-ray player. The only thing it does is turn PS3 purchasers into 'wait and seers' and eventually into Wii / 360 owners. All those PS3's sitting on the shelf? They are there cause the console is too expensive.ghaleon0721

I love HDTV.....I'm on my second. Yet, I have zero interest in HD/Blu-Ray. DVD's look great. My cable signal looks great. I have money and am a techy and don't care......so I'm sure the mainstream user could care even less.
 

I also know that downloads are going to kill the disk formats within 5 years. Most people obviously agree with me, cause almost no one is interested in these formats. They aren't selling. Sony is basically crucifying the Playstation brand to sell it.

[QUOTE="ghaleon0721"][QUOTE="Hulabaloza"]Why does blu-ray matter? It will do nothing to make games better and very few people have any real interest in a blu-ray player. The only thing it does is turn PS3 purchasers into 'wait and seers' and eventually into Wii / 360 owners. All those PS3's sitting on the shelf? They are there cause the console is too expensive.Hulabaloza

I love HDTV.....I'm on my second. Yet, I have zero interest in HD/Blu-Ray. DVD's look great. My cable signal looks great. I have money and am a techy and don't care......so I'm sure the mainstream user could care even less.

I also know that downloads are going to kill the disk formats within 5 years. Most people obviously agree with me, cause almost no one is interested in these formats. They aren't selling. Sony is basically crucifying the Playstation brand to sell it.

The entire PC industry is waiting on baited breath for Blueray to come full force.

You yourself will own one in your next computer purchase.   It will probably be a 50GB Blu-ray Recordable drive.

You WILL have one so stop pissing in the water you will be drinking from.

We've needed another optical medium 5 BLOODY years ago.

Tell me, how often do you backup your 200 GB hard disk to DVD right now?  Every day? 

Do you really burn 20 DVD's?

Another thing about these "Screw the PS3 network downloading will RULE ALL" people.

Look... Unless we have reliable hard disk computer systems that won't lose data... It simply won't work.

Most people aren't properly backing up their data already. If I lightning bolted your house and blew up your hard disks I bet you and similarly 99% of the people in the world would lose all their data irrecovably. Optical backup is probably the only realistic solution.

Network downloading has a bright future but it simply won't replace anything anytime soon.

By the way, the PS3 is the only networked console with GIGABYTE ethernet. So when the Wii and 360 are crawling at 100 speeds the PS3 will be cruising at 1000.