Sony to shrink future spending on PS3 chips

Company may stop in-house production of the advanced chips used in the game console to boost its semiconductor unit's earnings.

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[RompStar_420]

PS3 Rules...

I have owned an Xbox 360 for about a year now and just recently bought the PS3, I wanted to also get the Wii, but I can't find it anywhere and was luck to even get the PS3 one day I was strolling through the Fred Meyer and there is was the last model, I havn't seen any for about a month now (either or).

PS3 has a built in HDMI, trust me, that's a huge difference compared to the Xbox 360, which don't support HDMI at all currently...

EVen tho there aren't that many game, more will come out, as it is with new console releases. The controller has some motion sensors in there, so you can drive a car in a game without pressing any controllers, just moving it (lacks from xbox 360), ohhhh, and then there is the built in blue ray drive, which is kick ass, I already bought some blue ray movies and with the HDMI connection, picture seems flawless and the sound is better also.

Ahhh, network access to PS3 is free, not $50 a year like for xbox 360 and you have much more choices, you can even backup the whole hard drive and parition it to install another OS, much more freedom, in Xbox, I am kinda locked in to whatever MS thinks is good for me.

Don't get me wrong, I like the Xbox 360 and Halo 2 is a pretty good game, but :- ) I prefer the PS3, I will now be only buying the best titles for the Xbox 360 and all the rest for the PS3.

[dargon19888]

Uh ok.. but what does this have to do with the Article?

Seriously, I admire someone who is willing to scream "PS3 ROCKS!" or "RULZ".

But the point of the article was that Sony is making a business decision to no longer manufacture key chips that they used and that they are looking to contract out the production of these customized chips.

The interesting thing is that Sony is taking this step and rather than continue to invest in 45nm production process.

The implication is that Sony finds that there is a short term benefit from outsourcing the custom production of their chips to companies that continually make the investment in their production capabilities.

This would mean Sony is following industry trends where they are designers and assemblers and are not interested in the production of components.

It appears to be a departure from the Japanese way...

[baswwe]

Xbox 360 v2.0 has hdmi..coming soon...

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[Dr. B]

Whether or not that's true...

the PS3 is so expensive right now that it's killing off a large amount
of sales it might otherwise have. In some ways, it's the same
problem that killed the Pippen back when - It's marketed as a
cheaper alternative to another product (Blu-Ray for the PS3,
Computer for the Pippen), but people see it as a really expensive
video game machine - because at heart, that's what they are.

[theprof00]

look

The xbox cannot have hdmi. It is very simple, If your games arent going to be able to hold HD type information, then you will be playing half an hour dvd games. They do not have the kind of storage that a blue ray or hd-dvd holds.
Plus, if you told me that M$ was releasing a new system two years after their last one, I think it would shut a lot of M$ fanboys up. Because that racks up a nice 1200$ bill over 5 1/2 years, where investment in the last three Sony consoles would have cost 1100$ over the last 12 years and comparably look at the games of the months compared to the box.