Saturday, October 14, 2006

Consumers rethinking PS3 purchase


LOS ANGELES, CA, United States (UPI) -- Delayed release dates and a steep price are driving U.S. and Canadian consumers to think about gifts other than Sony`s PlayStation3.

Michael Patcher, director of research for Los Angeles-based Wedbush Morgan Securities, said consumers said were considering buying games for their existing consoles rather than wait for the next generation system, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said.

The PS3 console is scheduled to launch Nov. 17 in North America.

The PlayStation3 is expected to cost in the United States between $449 and $599 -- more than $300 higher than the PlayStation 2 at its launch and $160 higher than the Xbox 360 a year ago.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

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Suggested retail price by region*
Region Expected pricing at release
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Japan Japan JP¥49,980 Open price
United States United States US$499 US$599
Canada Canada C$549 C$659
Mexico Mexico MXN$7,999 MXN$9,499
European Union Eurozone
(excluding Finland)
499 €599
United Kingdom United Kingdom GB£375† GB£425†
Switzerland Switzerland
CHF 749 CHF 899
Norway Norway
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5000 NOK
Denmark Denmark 4295 DKK 5495 DKK†
Sweden Sweden
-
5999 SEK
Finland Finland €550 €650
Australia Australia A$829 A$999
New Zealand New Zealand NZ$999†
NZ$1199.95†
The PS3's 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM ("SIT"), is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independantly. It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields. The PPE, SPE's and other elements ("units") are connected via an Element Interconnect Bus which serves to connect all of the units in a ring-style bus. The PPE has a 512KB level 2 cache and one VMX vector unit. Each of the SPEs is a RISC processor with 128 128-bit SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE contains 256KB of non-cached memory (local storage, "LS") that is shared by program code and work data. SPEs may access more data in the main memory using DMA. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2.18 TFLOPS[38]. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 218 GFLOPS single precision float and is reported at around 26 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.