Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Prices for Euro PS3 games cheaper than Xbox 360

Interestingly, many thought PS3 games would sell for the same price as Xbox 360 games at €69.99 in Europe, £49.99 in the UK, but they will actually sell for the same price as games for the cheaper Nintendo Wii console. This means the price of PS3 games is €59.99 in Europe, £39.99 in the UK, AUD $99.95 in Australia and NZ $109.95 in New Zealand.
Unfortunately, these prices are only guaranteed for the first five games Sony releases, which might mean that future games will be more expensive, although this is yet to be officially confirmed.
 
In addition, downloadable 'PlayStation Network' games will be available, and these include fl0w, Super Rub a Dub and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection. These will sell during an 'introductory period' at prices ranging from €2.99 to €9.99 – or US $4 to $13, while other downloadable content, such as addition songs for SingStar or additional tracks in racing games among others is set to cost from as little as €0.99 per download.
 
Happily, the download of Gran Turismo HD will remain free as in the US and Japan.
 
In a statement, David Reeves, President and CEO of SCEE said that "Not only will it be completely free to register on the PlayStation Network with no subscription fees and access to many free demos, but with these competitive prices for additional content we are able to offer the consumer both top quality games on Blu-ray discs and a whole range of downloadable content from the PlayStation Network. With over 30 first and third party disc and network games available at launch, we are confident that this will be one of the most successful launches of all time."
 
Everyone else working at Sony can only hope he's right!

@ 11:16 PM

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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
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 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.