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Originally Posted by Null
True, however i really dont see this as hype. this is just talking about the facts of what the processor is. Not how the PS3 will use it. i'd agree with you if in the artical they started talking about how good of graphics it can pull off and all that. but its just really explaining what the cell processor is.
even with PS2, they never hyped up the facts of the processor, they never lied about its speed and such, they just hyped up what the PS2 could do with that speed. same as all the consoles did.
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This is how the whole "hype" thing starts. Sony claiming that they are going to be using this new processor that is able to achieve amazing things. Start throwing numbers out that doesn't even matter to the general public. Sony knows that to the general public Bigger Numbers = Better Machine.
I will agree that MS falls in the same catagory. That is how they got the Xbox out on the market.
Sony so used the ignorence of the General Public with the PS2. I won't say the they flat out lied about what the PS2 could do. But they sure showed their bells and whistles of the machines. Something that was rarely shown during this generation.
This is how I see Sony hyping their machine. With the whole "new technology" thing. With all the ooohs and aaahs that come with it. Same way Nintendo is trying to hype their Revolution.
So now the question comes in, right now the talk around the internet is that this new "Cell" technology is going to be used and they will be using the whole Blu-Ray disc. How much is thing going to cost them. What are they going to have to take a hit on. We all know that if they release all this "new" technology, it isn't going to be cheap. Are they going to go ahead and release it at about $400, and jump all game prices up to $60-$70 (as most experts say is going to be the cost of games in the future). Or are they going to try to release this machine in the $500+ area.