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PAL Gaming Network :: View topic - Sony halts production of original PlayStation
Sony halts production of original PlayStation by Chris Leigh PALGN News: Plug finally pulled on best-selling console.
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I had no idea they were still being manufactured.
Well i suppose i assumed they still would be subconciously.
It was obsolete the second the ps2 come out.
Does anyone know how much they cost brand new these days?
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A PSOne over here'll cost you ~£30 (so ~74 AUD) with loads of games.
'Tis the end of an era.
RIP PS1. *salute*
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Our psx **** itself after chipping it and playing it a billion times.
*salutes MGS3 style*
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Wow, I didn't know the PS1 was still being prodduced!
How long did the NES have?
Would have to be around 10 years?
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Well I think they sell PSone to the less...
Known countries.
but I'm just as shocked as you guys.
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Quote: : Wow, I didn't know the PS1 was still being prodduced!
How long did the NES have?
Would have to be around 10 years?
Dunno about the NES but I'm pretty sure that the SNES was still being made in Japan well into N64's lifetime.
The Mega Drive is still being made in Brazil 15 years after it first came out and I think the same company was selling Master Systems along side it up until recently.
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R.I.P. to the PsOne.
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'The Mega Drive is still being made in Brazil 15 years after it first came out and I think the same company was selling Master Systems along side it up until recently.'
Hmm, can't see that being true, to be honest - excess stock Mega Drives may still be sold in Brazil (and, for all I know, other countries).
But actually manufactured?
When Sega announced it was withdrawing from the hardware market when the Dreamcast hit the rocks, I seem to recall the company saying all hardware manufacturing would cease?
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^when did dreamcast hit the rocks?
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-u-49-en-70-17a4.html
they're selling 'refurbished' dreamcasts with gamepacks on play-asia.
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Yes, but what I meant (as well you know ) was that Sega manufacturing Dreamcasts has definitely stopped.
Therefore, the chances that Mega Drives are still being put together at a plant somewhere are, IMO, slim.
Must grab me one of those DCs though;
Saw 'em a while back and forgot about them.
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Quote: : Does anyone know how much they cost brand new these days?
The Mr.
Toys GameWorld in the City has one PSOne in stock with a $79.95 price tag.
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Wtf? gamecubes are 90 bucks now, and they're still flogging psones for 80?!
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Quote: : Wow, I didn't know the PS1 was still being prodduced!
How long did the NES have?
Would have to be around 10 years?
The NES (or the famicom) was manufacured from early 1983 to about 2002, so about ninteeen years.
It's still being manufactured en-masee if you count unlicenced hardware.
In fact, if you combine the estimated 40+ million famiclones (pirate NES hardware) sold with the 80 million* units of official hardware, the has NES easily outsold the PS1, and is still being manufactured legally, since the NES patent expired last year, and now anyone can make an NES if they want.
(*I don't know where Wikipedia gets their '60 million NESes sold' figure, but with 35 million NESes sold in the USA and well over 20 million sold in Japan, it's basically impossible for it to be only 60 million, since it was very popular in many major european countries like France and Italy as well.
60 million is most likely only the 'NES' branded hardware, and does not count hardware branded 'Famicom')
Quote: : 'The Mega Drive is still being made in Brazil 15 years after it first came out and I think the same company was selling Master Systems along side it up until recently.'
Hmm, can't see that being true, to be honest - excess stock Mega Drives may still be sold in Brazil (and, for all I know, other countries).
But actually manufactured?
When Sega announced it was withdrawing from the hardware market when the Dreamcast hit the rocks, I seem to recall the company saying all hardware manufacturing would cease?
It actually is still manufactured, but not by Sega - it's licenced to a local company.
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Quote: : Hmm, can't see that being true, to be honest - excess stock Mega Drives may still be sold in Brazil (and, for all I know, other countries).
But actually manufactured?
When Sega announced it was withdrawing from the hardware market when the Dreamcast hit the rocks, I seem to recall the company saying all hardware manufacturing would cease?
It's not actually Sega itself doing the manufacturing, it's another company called Tec Toy.
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I just checked up on it - the Famicom (NES) was actually produced for over 20 years in an official capacity by Nintendo, so I've updated the article to show that it was 20 years.
Last edited by David on Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:31 am, edited 1 time in total
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If i find one i'll definitely pick up one new.
Could be worth a bit.
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Must be due to 2 reasons:
1) Dual Shock
2) Need to concentrate on PS3
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PS1 is dead, I owned one for a brief period, but sold it when Dreamcast came out!
I didn't like it much, loading times were bad, I idn't like many games, I loved the N64.
I did buy a PS2 though, so I didn't hold a grudge.
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Based on today's standard, of course the loading time on PSone is bad.
However, based on PSone's era, the loading time was consider pretty good...
Definitely better than PC Engine CD & Sega CD.
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No matter the loading time, loading time itself is bad.Cart was still the way to go back then imo.
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^ i disagree, optical media was always going to translate to consoles and somewhere along the line some company needed to take the plunge and completly embrace it.
likewise, there was always going to be a crossover or CDs and Carts.
i'm not saying either was the correct media for the time, they were both necessary.
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Quote: : Based on today's standard, of course the loading time on PSone is bad.
However, based on PSone's era, the loading time was consider pretty good...
Definitely better than PC Engine CD & Sega CD.
Wrong - PC engine and Mega CD both had far better loading times (in general) then PS1 games.
PS1 and PS2 (both with poor load times) are easily the slowest loading major consoles ever (3DO and Neo Geo CD are not major).
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Quote: : No matter the loading time, loading time itself is bad.Cart was still the way to go back then imo.
Oh no dout obs, no doubt that cd's and later dvd's would need to be used as a medium for games what with the increase in quality (and therefore size) of textures and music/sfx and such, and also the popularity of in-game fmv's, but that's why i said back then, as such high quality music and graphics etc couldn't be fully utilised anyway.
I reckon it was prolly the last generation that could fully get by without an optical medium.In all fairness, the n64 was becoming constricted by storage constraints nearing the end of it's life cycle....
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Quote: : wtf? gamecubes are 90 bucks now,
Where?
This dude at school told me that they were $150...
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