Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:32 PM PT Posted by Anne B. McDonald
Our colleague, Martyn Williams of IDG News Service, reports today that a business newspaper in Japan is reporting that Sony will delay the PlayStation 3 (below) until the fall.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun paper said that the delay in
the PlayStation 3 is due to the late development of copy protection technology for Blu-ray Disc, which is the optical disc format that will be used in the console.
Sony, which could not immediately be reached for comment, is due to brief developers later Wednesday on the latest news concerning PlayStation 3, Martyn says.
The company had previously announced a launch for the console in the "spring" but had never been more specific. However a delay has been widely expected for some time because of hold-ups in Blu-ray Disc commercialization.
The copy protection system for Blu-ray Disc and a competing format, HD-DVD, is called
Advanced Access Content System (AACS) and is being developed by a group of eight companies: IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros.
The system was supposed to be finished last year, but talks continue toward version 1.0 of the system.
The delay has already forced Toshiba to push back its HD-DVD player launch plans, Martyn tells us. Toshiba had been planning to launch a player in Japan in December but
now expects to sell its first player in the U.S. later this month. At present an interim version of AACS has been released to allow companies to release their first video disc players.
Anyone out there disappointed?
This sucks. I can't believe they pushed it back. Sony really should becareful with how they go about releasing things. Man
I'm still not buying a Xbox 360!
It was bad enough for Sony that Microsoft got their system out months ahead of time, including for the holiday season. That is hard to fight against. If MS has a year for their Xbox360 to pick up market share before the PS3 is launched, Microsoft has won this battle without question. Too bad it is too late now for Sony to cut their losses and swap in the DVD format and support blu-ray add-ons in the future.
Don't care!
PS 4 ever!
opens the door for nintendo's revolution.....
Nintendos going nowhere
360 is sweet but PS3 is beter
it's never too late
Im not fussed, My brothers getting the 360 and im buying the PS3. Im the man with the plan people ! haha
Everyone knows, that according to The Great Prophecy, the XBOX360 will drag all those who play it into video game hell, and the PS3 shall be the savior of all.
PLAYSTATION 4 LIFE!!!
Why is the ps3 better???? The 360 and ps3 contain the same graphics almost to the T , the extra cores mean NOTHING , the cores are used for multiprocessing , like in game A.I. and such , not for gameplay , graphic and gameplay wize they are identical , so n00b , why is the ps3 better than the 360?????
X-Box needs developers that can actually utilize their system, which, last time I checked is only one, the Dead or Alive people. PS3... well I expect that release to be as slow as its loading time... zzz... Seriously, the only one advancing out of the top 3 is Nintendo. And they're not even using a stronger graffix whatever, they just use what they have. Seems smart to me. By the way, I'll get a PS3 over the XBox 360 anyday. 360 is just a nice looking XBox generation 1.
however the ps2 , was HORRIBLE , and the xbox did nearly 7 times what the ps2 did , so to say the ps3 is 5 times better than the xbox origional , yes , so is the 360 ....... graphics and speed yes 733 mhz to what 3.2 ghz roughly ........ ok so both ps3 and 360 are 5 times better than the xbox version 1 , that said back to square one the ps3 and 360 are 12 times better than the ps2 ........ DUH!
ps3 is the coolest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am the number one fan of sony , and Everything electrical i own is sony.SONY SONY SONY FOREVER!!!
"Privacy and security experts charged that the technology built into many of Sony's music CDs since March is unnecessarily invasive and exposes users to threats from hackers and virus writers...."
If Sony can't be trusted with simple things such as CD's ... how can we trust them with a $400+ gaming system?
Sony - please repeat: Greed is not good! ...
I'm glad I got a 360. And its just now getting the best games (Fight Night 3, Burnout, Oblivion). BTW - 360 PGR is better than ANY PS2 racing game.
The real funny thing that noone is mentioning, is this will allow MS to release Halo 3 long before the launch, and games will be in the second generation for the XBox 360 - which means MUCH better than the initial games for the PS3. It usually takes a full year for games to really fullfill the promise of a new platform, and 360 is in the driver's seat for now.
Oh, and don't get me wrong, I'll be buying plenty of PS3s and selling them on ebay for 200% of the sale price :) for at least the first 6 months... hahaha
did anyone stop to consider this a ploy to continue to develop the PS3 past the 360's capabilities? i did & if that isn't what they are doing, it should be
Why is the PS3 better? Ask yourself, why is the PS2 better than the XBOX?
PS2= More game titles than the XBOX could ever muster up. PS2 have more licenses and XBOX had to always play catchup. Ended up having to replicate the same "original" games designed for the PS2. There are countless XBOX titles that have been converted from PS2. All of the XBOX titles are terrible.
So you can see who's the original.
And to the fool who said that PGR3 is better than any PS2 racing game ever...Get your head out of the sand. You're comparing a new generation console with an older one. Of course they don't compare. Of course it looks better. But just wait until the PS3 comes out. You'll regret your 360 purchase.
Sony have a habit of delaying things. We didn't complain about it when the PS2 finally came out did we?
It's funny when Japanese gamers remain downright skeptical about the PS3, US gamers embrace Sony's hypeware/vaporware wholeheartedly. These are some of the issues I always read about on 2ch(they have their own "Usenet" thing) and personal blogs:
1) We're happy with the PS2. Do we need PS3?
2) We're happy with the current DVD format. Do we need Blue-Ray?
3) Sony has a history of releasing glitchy products at launch. Should we wait and see?
4) What kind of games will be available to the PS3? What Sony has shown are prerendered demos otherwise not much different from those on the 360.
5) How much is the system going to cost? $500? How much are Blue-Ray movies going to cost? $50 a pop? Are we all hardcore enthusiasts with cash to burn?
6) Why should we pay extra for a "supercomputer" in a chip when Nintendo's offerings can be equally fun but much cheaper?
It certainly seems they've grown up a lot. Now it's time for us to check our fan-boy attitudes. :)
I dont know how peolpe think the xbox is better than the playstation.Its simply because they have halo.The first thing someone says when you ask them why xbox is so good they say its because of halo. simply put if there was no halo there would be no xbox to this day.PS for life.
that really sucks when they delay it so much, and also that will affect their market sales, of course! in this news, now that every body knows it going to be delayed. not just me that will get pist off. costumers, especially the kids, is sony having to much "pride" to their system? many are really looking forward to this especially this coming spring, even me myself too!
this is bad due to the trust to some loyal playstation fanatics, somehow it will affect the there trust..
ClOuD99.
"Xbox 360 has provably more performance than PS3. Keep in mind that Sony has a track record of over promising and under delivering on technical performance. The truth is that both systems pack a lot of power for high definition games and entertainment.
However, hardware performance, while important, is only a third of the puzzle. Xbox 360 is a fusion of hardware, software and services. Without the software and services to power it, even the most powerful hardware becomes inconsequential. Xbox 360 games?by leveraging cutting-edge hardware, software, and services?will outperform the PlayStation 3." -IGN
I'm glad I bought mine...
SONY: "Soon, Only Not Yet"
This is Bill Gates fault, he's holding up the BlueRay process to give his X Boob 360 more time to make him money. He knows that as soon as the PS3 comes out nobody will buy his X Boob 360.
whoever said that the xbox 360 is the same as the PS3 is ****in dumbass.
the ps3 has BETTER GRAPHICS(PS3's graphics card is 2x better than 2 7800GTX's!!!...unlike Xbox 360, regular computer graphics -_-), more FASTER(Cell processor) more POWERFUL ram as well as it is much more SMALLER. (The Xbox 360 is almost the same size as an Xbox, just looks more cooler).
PS3 is much cooler so i definately would get a PS3 over a Xbox 360.
PS3 4EVA!
I wonder why SONY are giving a lame excuse for delaying PS3. It just make me sIcK.
If PS3 takes Years 2 come... I'll WAIT.
Yes, I am Very Disappointed!! I Called at EB Games at Mall Every Monday but I never Heard Nothing at all but I am Still Waiting. I Saw the Internet about PS3 and I found it at about 5:00 a.m. I can't Believe it! Wait until this November. Oh, Well. I will wait. Thanks!!
By the time PS3 comes out, 360 technology will be almost obsolete
this sucks man i waited fr ps3 fr 1 year more than x box 360
Blah blah Xbox rulez blah blah PS3 is the best blah blah twice as fast better graphics blah blah blah........
You idiot fanboys don`t have 2 braincells to rub together. Go and play in some traffic.
"Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 03:05 AM (PST)
By the time PS3 comes out, 360 technology will be almost obsolete"
Doesn't matter. SONY is not going to trash their entire spec list to try to improve it by whatever improvements the market has come up with in 9 months.
I think it's funny how many of the PS fanboys all said the XBOX 1 was TOO BIG to carry to friends houses. I wonder... did you ever try putting it in a backpack? The playstation 2 was only an inch or so thiner then the xbox and we havn't even seen what the PS3 looks like outside of a photograph.
Who knows, maybe they'll be the same size, will you then buy an Xbox?
One thing is for sure, Microsoft WANTS this market, they have the money to lose, Sony does not.
Why can't people admit Sony dropped the ball big time on this. They obviously forgot the failure of the Sega Dreamcast. They grew to confident and lazy, Microsoft completely pulled the rug out from under them. Now they are struggling to push it out, probably cutting corners in quality. Man, this PS3 is a disaster for Sony. I feel (NOT!) for those waiting on the PS3, probably won't realize the full "PS3 experience" until '07. Have fun sony boys, I'll be there waiting online with my 360 when you decide to grow up!
I laugh at these people who are boosting about the PS3's theoretical performance. It isn't even out yet! Better than 2 7800GT's? We'll just have to wait and see, won't we? Personally I doubt that big time. It will be a good console though but I think you will find the actual performance a bit more down to earth when it is finally released. Wait and see people. Probably not a whole lot better than the 360.
Grow up? It's a brand preference, like Windows over Mac, or Gateway over Dell. So don't tell us to "grow up".
Glad I bought a 360, so I don't have to worry about Sony's crap. The longer and longer it goes, the less likely I am to get one.
It's just a video game console. Another diversion to what's really going on in the world. Just another thing to eat up your hard earned money!
cnels: Frankly, and it may sound bad, a video game system....or any diversion, really, is more important to me than political turmoil in a third world country that will in no way affect me. We'd reached a point in our society where most of us don't need to be concered with things like that.
ummmm, like who cares. come on guys, get a freakin life! who has the time to play video games when there is entire real world out there!
Dude, I could care less about any of this. I just want a PS3 because the of the titles that are going to be released for it, like, umm...new Tekken games. Why? Mainly because Tekken is awesome. Also, the odds are, that the titles for the PS3 will be longer in content because of the 50GB blu-ray disks. But XBox 360's are pretty sweet too. Except for the fact that the best game out for it so far has been Geometry Wars. Which is totally sweet.
ha why would I be, "The BEST for last".
beside it's SONY, i'm sure the customers will be sastisfied with their products. Also, my ps2 will last for another 5 years! it's over 5 years old now but still got a lot of power in it.
I just bought three new rpg games, so it'll keep me busy until then.
In 5 years, a PS2 will be about as powerful as a Commodore 64, comparitevly.....
Delaystation 3
lol, funny, sad truth is all developers build games on pc's , and pc's always have better graphics. Never Wanted a Ps2, never looked twice at a 360, with 2 7800 gtx's, 2 gb's of ram, and a Dual Core P4 955, i would take on the ps3 anyday. Pc's are just better, come on, you think games like Fear or original Far Cry will ever make it to console
um....
playstation is like video game crack, cant get live without it
Um....get it over with and buy a 360. The best online gaming you will see. PS3 - smoke and mirrors as always.... I think Sony should create a new game called "White Elephant" and release it as their marquee launch title.
No big deal. It'll be worth the wait, trust me. All those 360 fanboys will gloat, but I can wait until this Beast is here...
No surprise! Just remember if it is going to come out it will be in Japan first! They will at least make the American market wait at least 6 months later for it! You will not see it until mid 2007 at the earliest! Sony too concerned with the PSP! I'm sure they are not worried! LOL!
About an above comment, yeah PC's do have better graphics......if you want to spend $4,000 for it. I don't see why you would do that when I get a 360 is just about as good for $400.....plus not having to deal with software issues, a million patches, and a crap on-line environment.
I bought the xox 360 months before launch because I knew the ps3 would be delayed. What I didn't know was that the 360 would suck so much dikc at first. the games are starting to get a little better but I think the ps3 will hit the ground running. I felt robbed the first time I played maden 360. it was defintiely a step backwards from ps2's version
I dunno if anyone said this already, but: I bet that Bill Gates is whooping for joy. Yes because he will have more undisputed time in the next gen console market, but also because Halo 3 was not ready to come out until this fall and now Gates get to keep his promise that Halo 3 will come out on the day that the PS3 comes out.
As far as I'm concerned about disappointment, I dont give a crap about consoles until they make a mouse and keyboard controller for the consoles or they sell the console OS for PCs.
wen i said that the graphics of a PS3 is better than 2 7800gt's, it was a fact mentioned on the e3 2005 dvds...it could be changed to be more or less, i dunno. I don't work for Sony.
the onli thing is that it will be proberly harder to actually see/notice the better detail...Ian.
Chad, that report on the xbox 360 vs PS3 that you are showing the link of is biased, the data was given by MS you fool...MS of course want to make their xbox 360 seem better. If it was from a independant, unbiased source, it would seem more believable.
Hmm, I didn't know that IGN was Microsoft. If you're basing that on the fact that 360 was in the address, they have ps.ign.com, cube.ign.com, etc...
hey buy Nintendo Revolution. it'll probably be cheaper then bot the 360 and PS3. not to mention that just because they have better games (depending on how you look at it) doesn't mean they are better. First of all, the Xbox 360 had a bad start with the rumours of crashes going around. Of course, it could've just been something to say "oh the 360 is so good it crashes itself! im going to buy one!" but truth be told they didn't have a great start. In my opinion, they'd sold many more if they could've introduced Halo 3 as a launch title, but hey why not just rush it out into stores before it's ready? That won't affect anything *roll eyes* The Playstation system was never really that amazing anyway. I'm not one to say that Nintendo had the best graphics because since the Playstation was released, it hasn't seen the top of that list. But Nintendo has revolutionized the gaming world time and time again. They're the smart ones, not like the ones who think looks make it all. Although, Bill Gates entering the gaming console world didn't exactly take anything out of his pocket did it? Genius, that guy...
What's this blu-ray disc thing Sony is using? What's so much better about it than DVDs?
I didn't say that IGN was microsoft...u misinterpret what i wrote. i said that the data provided was by MS, i never said anything about basing what i said on its website's name (xbox360.ign.com)...i HAVE been on ign's websites before.
"We decided to put this Microsoft-provided information up undigested. Thus, enclosed is a Microsoft-made comparitive analysis"
that is what i meant Chad...you only read that Xbox 360 is better...not who provided that information.
with the blu-ray discs, they are better than dvds because they hold around 50gb of storage instead of 4.7GB single layered disc. taht means that companies who put movies onto dvd can put more extra features, game designer puting more detail,features and maybe increase a games length.
that explain it for u rar?
Wow yes thanks. That's amazing. When is this being released is it around the time of the PS3 or is it sooner?
that, i have no idea...i just know the basic stuff about it.
You're all idiots for being Playstation 3 fanboys. The Xbox 360 is AMAZING. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Also, the Playstation 3 launch titles look... like crap. Except for Metal Gear Solid 4. And besides that, haven't you noticed how the controller looks like a bomerang and the console itself is a GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL!
"With it's new patented design, the money drains directly down the gutter"
"Chad, that report on the xbox 360 vs PS3 that you are showing the link of is biased, the data was given by MS you fool...MS of course want to make their xbox 360 seem better. If it was from a independant, unbiased source, it would seem more believable." Yea, so does Sony.
Come on, sony is washed up. How can you fools think the Ps3 is so damn tight. No one have even seen a game played on it in real time. And if you think that just because the games are on Blu-ray they will be so much longer than 360's, your a dumb ass. Companies are not going to spend millions of dollars more on a game just for the ps3 at least not for the first 2 years. 360 rules bitches