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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Animal Mother on July 16, 2007, 07:36:03 PM

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Animal Mother on July 16, 2007, 07:36:03 PM

http://gamers-creed.com/Consoles/42.html

"According Game Informer magazine, a $399 40gig PS3 system is on the way, but it will have no backwards compatibility. They actually expected to hear the announcement at E3 on it. So they may have just heard different rumblings altogether."

WTF !?!?!?!?!

lol i bought Virtua Fighter 5 from a friend at work for $10.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: THX on July 16, 2007, 08:26:38 PM

$400?  i\'d hit it

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Viper_Fujax on July 16, 2007, 09:01:55 PM

tempting. All id want to play is god of war 2, which id probably only play once. Sold the rest of my ps2 games

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Nolaws on July 17, 2007, 02:31:27 AM

I dont understand why they would remove software emulation if it is somehow "free" for them.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: videoholic on July 17, 2007, 04:11:36 AM

to make people buy the more expensive one.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Titan on July 17, 2007, 08:24:44 AM

Quote from: videoholic

to make people buy the more expensive one.

Its going to work :( My PS2 is done so I need a PS3 that can play all my PS2 and PSX games.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: FatalXception on July 17, 2007, 12:51:33 PM

Don\'t the current PS3s actually have some PS2 hardware?

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Phil on July 17, 2007, 01:15:40 PM

And don\'t the European PS3s already have the backwards compatibility stripped from them?  

If Sony can cut the price by getting rid of it, I don\'t see why they shouldn\'t.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Titan on July 17, 2007, 02:59:58 PM

Quote from: Phil

And don\'t the European PS3s already have the backwards compatibility stripped from them?  

If Sony can cut the price by getting rid of it, I don\'t see why they shouldn\'t.

Yeah but for their die hards who have games all the way to the beginning suffer. I have PSX games and PS2 games I like to still play.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Phil on July 17, 2007, 03:22:25 PM

how much does a used PS2 cost right now?  you can probably find one for under a 100 bucks.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Unicron! on July 17, 2007, 04:03:50 PM

Quote from: Animal Mother

http://gamers-creed.com/Consoles/42.html

"According Game Informer magazine, a $399 40gig PS3 system is on the way, but it will have no backwards compatibility. They actually expected to hear the announcement at E3 on it. So they may have just heard different rumblings altogether."

WTF !?!?!?!?!

lol i bought Virtua Fighter 5 from a friend at work for $10.

Are we sure this is real? This is the only place I heard that.

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Unicron! on July 17, 2007, 04:06:24 PM

Quote from: Phil

And don\'t the European PS3s already have the backwards compatibility stripped from them?  

If Sony can cut the price by getting rid of it, I don\'t see why they shouldn\'t.

Well backwards compatibility is still there and works very nice in EU. If you dont update your firmware from 1.5 to something higher you will certaintly have issues. Only some titles seem to have a few issues with the latest FW but these are getting fewer and fewer with each firmware released which improves and fixes problems

Title: 399 PS3 on the way
Post by: Raz The Friggin Grea on July 18, 2007, 07:56:14 PM

The last thing they need is another model out there. Focus on a price drop, sell the current units.