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Sony Lowered NGP Hardware Specs to Cut Costs

Sony Lowered NGP Hardware Specs to Cut Costs

Nick Hernandez 16 Feb

Sony has been hard at work designing their new NGP, while designing the device the design team had one important lesson in mind: the Playstation 3 was a great piece of hardware at launch but it’s high price tag held it back and caused it to fall behind both Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

“I can’t talk about a definitive price at this stage,” SCEI’s senior VP of product development, Shuhei Yoshida said. “But since the very beginning we had a target in mind. So, when considering various features, we always had our price range in mind.”

“There were elements that we found pretty cool, but had to set aside to remain on target. It’s a big lesson we learnt from the PS3. There’s no point putting everything you want into a device and doing the math later. We always had the price and consumer in mind. We had to sell something that people could buy.”

This does not mean that the NGP will sell for $150 since Sony “can’t sell the NGP for the same price as a PSP” which currently retails for $169.99 and should be seeing a price drop before NGP launches. A more reasonable price to compete in the market would be against Nintendo’s 3DS that has a price tag of $250. Do you think it’s worth the buy?

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Nick Hernandez

based out of London, Ontario; and has been flexing his literary skills for about 2 years. Initially attracted to the space due to his kinship with the creative minds that tend to socialize through the gaming industry, and having played games all his life; it led to a natural willingness to learn more about both the people, and entities that drive innovation in the space. A self-confessed Conter Strike: Source aficionado he claims the aforementioned as his favourite game of all time, simply due to the sheer amount of hours he has spent in the game. An optimist by nature, Nick tends to see the best in everyone, even if they can’t in themselves.

One Response

  1. james braselton

    hi there well buy a 3ds becuase of zero storage and 3ds as a whopping 2 gb flash storage why wont sony offer a 16 gb ssd ps3 for faster read write speeds

    27 May

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