now if only they give it online functionality since they're doing so for the 360The_Rick_14

OMG-Virtua fighter 5 does not have online play. I must have been living under a rock. Why advertise free online play if you can't put it into a game?

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If I own a 360 already what's my reason to buy a PS3 if the same game is coming out for both systems? RFNeo

Your answer right here:

yes, the 3 rings of death is bad but you must understand why it happens. It is a bad design when the system gets so hot the solder heats up and when it cools down you have a poor electrical connection. To counter this I have bought 2 coolers; one for the back and one when the unit stands up. It sucks but microsoft "is" taking care of their customers by extending the warranty to 3 years for this design issue. Sure they ate billions but microsoft is much bigger than Sony and can aford to take such a hit. The only way to fix this is with proper cooling. It may be badbut my 360 still works and the games rock. When I get a PS3 or any future console I will add external cooling.

The point is that yes you can buy now for $499 but for how long? We need to have a permanent price drop to assist future PS3 onwers so that game developers have more of an incentive to make games for a particular console. If I own a 360 already what's my reason to buy a PS3 if the same game is coming out for both systems? So far the 360 can go toe to toe tech wise with the PS3. Please don't mention blu-ray because believe or not some people whata videogame player and care less about watching movies. A game developergives a rat's a$$ if your using your PS3 to watch movies. It will hurt sony in the long run if 50% of the people buying PS3's are only watching movies. How will gaming studios recoup production cost if movie watchers are not buying games? I have a feeling that this Blu-ray drive will hurt the PS3 as a gaming machine.

And is it Sony's plan to keep a $600 price point? After seeing interviews with game developers during E3 they want a price battle between sony and microsoft to move and motivate the gaming industry. In two years will we see a 120gig harddrive and 3 bundled games still at $600? I bet that alot of people would have liked a $399 20gig PS3 at this point.

i think they pretty much have to as i stated in another thread. No one wants to go from $500 up to $600. They might keep it at $600 after the 60gb models are gone to see if sales hold up, but i really doubt they will.

But they won'tannounce anything regarding a price drop until all the 60gb are gone. if they said the 80gb will be $500 once the 60gb are gone, no one would buy the 60gb model.

I want to know the reason they want to discontinue the 60gb model. is it because they plan to have all these downloadable games like warhawk and SOCOM?? I don't think Sony needs to compete with the Elite yet as the majority of 360 owners right now have the core or premium.anyway, hopefully this is the last discontinuation we see. I dont want sony to say they are discontinuing the 80gb for a 120gb or something.

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The plan is to stop making ps3's with the emotion engine to save money. What other reason can there be?I really do not consider this a price drop more like a clearance sale to get rid of old stock that did not sale. Sony is forcing people to buy up now or else pay $600 for 20 worthless gigs and a game you have no choice over. Sony is putting a scare into people to increase sales. I was happy 2 days ago when Sony dropped the price but after todays news Sony is just evil. My problem is that when the price shoots back up to $600 sales will drop off again. What game developer wants to make games for a slow selling system?

It's about the games and not this blu-ray movie crap. This is called gamespot not moviespot. How many times do you what to watch the same movie over and over again?