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Got game? Living-room consoles grapple for consumers' eyes ... - EDN.com

Console profitability for Sony will depend on price, which has yet to be announced, but the higher the price, the lower the potential Sales volume of consoles, games, and Blu-ray movies sold and, consequently, the slower the cost-reducing pace due to volume efficiencies, lithography reductions, and the like. Sony hasn't yet announced whether PS3 will come with a hard-disk drive. Like Microsoft, the company may create two SKUs (stock-keeping units) with the hard-disk drive as a separate accessory on the lower priced console. Sony has recently announced that it will not offer a centralized game-server service, such as Xbox Live, but instead, as with PS2, rely on game developers to implement their own online capabilities (Reference 19). This move will reduce costs but will also reduce revenue and, potentially, profit. It is a bit surprising, for two reasons: With games such as EverQuest, Sony has shown that it has the expertise to create such a service. Second, competitors Microsoft and Nintendo, which plans to offer the Virtual Console for purchasing and storing downloadable versions of legacy console games on Revolution's flash memory, see online services as key to the communal experience, along with the profits, they're attempting to cultivate. Microsoft - More available

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