Exclusive UBISOFT PS3 game on the way

[Shin-Ra]

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/789/789758p1.html

Also, surprise surprise Yves Guillemot wants a PS3 price cut!

[u_nick]

Good news. I've been lovin Ubisoft these days, so hoepfully they announce something cool.

[Gamekid]

I read about the same article. I've been hearing that a price cut will come before the end of this year, but sony has yet to confirm a price cut of any kind.

[Maximus]

Apparently it is for Europe only so I expect some sort of EU constitution propaganda myself!

Seriously though - it is good that the PS3 is starting to pick up exclusives, not only because they sell games, but it help devs better understand and tap the PS3's potential. I will definitely put this in the rent column for now.

As for a price cut, Sony will definitely have one when they have a hardware refresh, 65nm Cell/XDR/RSX, cheaper BD drive, cheaper HDD, less cooling required, smaller power brick, all-in-one wi-fi/BT/LAN module and a cheaper manufacturing process has already been implemented so I expect a price cut to £329 for the UK, €449 in the EU, $449 in the US and 45,000 JPY in Japan. All this by October and announced at the Tokyo Game Show which has always been a happy hunting ground for Sony in the past.

[Gamekid]

How do you know that sony will announce a price cut this October?

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Apparently it is for Europe only so I expect some sort of EU constitution propaganda myself!

Seriously though - it is good that the PS3 is starting to pick up exclusives, not only because they sell games, but it help devs better understand and tap the PS3's potential. I will definitely put this in the rent column for now.

As for a price cut, Sony will definitely have one when they have a hardware refresh, 65nm Cell/XDR/RSX, cheaper BD drive, cheaper HDD, less cooling required, smaller power brick, all-in-one wi-fi/BT/LAN module and a cheaper manufacturing process has already been implemented so I expect a price cut to £329 for the UK, €449 in the EU, $449 in the US and 45,000 JPY in Japan. All this by October and announced at the Tokyo Game Show which has always been a happy hunting ground for Sony in the past.

undercut the elite, i like it, but i doubt it.

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

undercut the elite, i like it, but i doubt it.

I actually took into account the removal of the Core SKU and a price cut on the Premium and Elite.

Sony will have to cut to at least $450 to remain competitive over Xmas, anything more than that and MS will beat them.

As sad as it seems, people don't care about Blu-ray, they only see the price difference between the PS3 and the X360. Sony must remain competitive if they are to keep any third party exclusives.

[Shin-Ra]

The PS3 doesn't have a power 'brick' to shrink down, I guess you meant the internal power supply is shrinking/using less components to reduce costs?