Monday, November 13, 2006

Playstation 3


So I am sure everyone is aware that Sony has decided to release a new version of its popular game system, Playstation. This will mark the 3rd version of the game system that was first introduced in 1994. There is one problem that I feel is linked to this new release, it is very limited. Many reports have already stated that there will only be a handful of PS3's brought to the United States; many reports that I have heard suggest only about 300,000 will be sold here. That is not the only problem we face. The other problem is that Sony has said it will stop producing games for its highly popular PS2 console, but that any games produced to date will work on the version 3 console. Is Sony out of its mind? Millions of PS2's are played around the owrld every simgle day and if Sony is only intending to sell about 3000,000 copies of the PS3, where are the PS2 owners supposed to play their games; or even worse, what will they play when they want new games? It isn't like we can just simply go buy the new version. Not only are there limited copies, but the 2 version of the PS3 - a 20gb version and a 60gb version - sell for $499 and $599 respectively. As a PS2 owner, I am upset that Sony would throw its loyal game players under the bus like this. If they were continuing to make both PS2 and PS3 games it owuld be one thing, but I feel like Sony is trully making a mistake with this latest move.

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