Source: http://emaglive.com/index.php?showtopic=1988

Many developers find that the costs of developing on Sony's platform can outweigh many of the benefits. Sony's royalty on each disc sold is twice the royalty Microsoft levies on their system. Additionally, each extra month of development that the platform requires can raise the break-even point by as many as 50,000 and 80,000 units on big titles.

Jack Tretton head of Sony Computer Entertainment America revealed earlier this summer that Sony had a strict policy against "buying" exclusives. "We have a very different approach to exclusives than some of our competitors," stated Tretton. "We don't buy exclusivity, we don't fund development. We don't, for lack of a better term, bribe somebody to only do a game on our platform."

The thing is if Sony doesn't buy game exclusives then the only way Sony is going to sell consoles is make better mulitplatform games, but if the development costs and time consumed to make the game outweigh it's benefits then the future for the PS3 isn't looking good because exclusive games are what consumers looking for:

- Halo 3 [Xbox 360]

- Gears of War [Xbox 360]

- Bioshock [Xbox 360]

- MGS4 [PS3]

- GTA IV [PS3 and Xbox 360]

- Grand Turismo 5 [PS3]

My question is what is Sony's plan to improve the PS3 sales? Where

1: Sales of the PS3 is behind the Xbox 360 and the Wii.

2: Game development will cost more on the PS3.

3: Sony doesn't want to buy exclusives

Source: http://emaglive.com/index.php?showtopic=1988

Many developers find that the costs of developing on Sony's platform can outweigh many of the benefits. Sony's royalty on each disc sold is twice the royalty Microsoft levies on their system. Additionally, each extra month of development that the platform requires can raise the break-even point by as many as 50,000 and 80,000 units on big titles.

Jack Tretton head of Sony Computer Entertainment America revealed earlier this summer that Sony had a strict policy against "buying" exclusives. "We have a very different approach to exclusives than some of our competitors," stated Tretton. "We don't buy exclusivity, we don't fund development. We don't, for lack of a better term, bribe somebody to only do a game on our platform."

The thing is if Sony doesn't buy game exclusives then the only way Sony is going to sell consoles is make better mulitplatform games, but if the development costs and time consumed to make the game outweigh it's benefits then the future for the PS3 isn't looking good because exclusive games are what consumers looking for:

- Halo 3 [Xbox 360]

- Gears of War [Xbox 360]

- Bioshock [Xbox 360]

- MGS4 [PS3]

- GTA IV [PS3 and Xbox 360]

- Grand Turismo 5 [PS3]

My question is what is Sony's plan to improve the PS3 sales? Where

1: Sales of the PS3 is behind the Xbox 360 and the Wii.

2: Game development will cost more on the PS3.

3: Sony doesn't want to buy exclusives

it's called UT3.c0mplex

Hi there...

I just wanted to know who's the girl in your signature?

I wasn't trying to compare which console has more power i just wanted to know if what Sony said was true or not.

Thanks alot for you help

BTW how do achieve a constant frame rate?

My First Question

According to Ken Kutaragi the PS3 is capable of running games at 120 Frame Rate Per Second in the future.

Website: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12629

Sorry if this is old news to most of you's :|

But this is sort of new to me.

1. Is there any other reliable sources that supports Ken Kutaragi claim, besides from Sony? If there is please list the sources.

Example: Hardware companies [TV's], Game developers, etc... Any reliable source saying "yes" the PS3 could or has the cell processing power to run games at 120 frps or it doesn't have the power?

My Second Question

Sony [PS3] claims that their product [PS3] is a superior game console with incrediable cell processing power.

PlayStation 3 Specifications

CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

2. Is there any reliable source apart from Sony that have or can prove the PS3 could do all the things that Sony [Ken Kutaragi] say they can do or proof that the PS3 can't do all those things?

Microsoft have released a comparison chart

Website: http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p1.html

Which they claim that the Xbox 360 is superior. Since it's from Microsoft i think it maybe biased so i would like to find information from a unbiased source.

This topic is not to debate about which console is better.

I would like to say "thank you" in advance

umm you can copy your PS3 saves to a USB HDD or a USB or a memory card eg. memory card duo/ SD card /SF ...

Also you can back up everything on your HDD to an external HDD via PS3's backup options
choasgod

How much would a USB Hard Drive cost?

Thanks alot

All my games are saved to my Hard Drive.

What happens if my PS3 brokes? I don't want to loose all my saved data. For the PS2 they had a "memory card" and for the PS3 what is there that i could use for backup?

Information like:

- Will they use DVD or HD DVD?

- Release date?

- Name of the console?

Right now if there's no information when will Microsoft release information?

It has to do with how active the game is like: forums, reviews, game help and tracking and wishlists etc...