PS3 Discussion Thread

[miracle]

well i asked SP about this and he said it's okay
so, who got to touch it at least?

[desi_soulja]

i havent yet.. but in a week.. i should have my very own PS3 which i payed exactly 97 cents for LOL.. i love nice ppl

[Missing-nin]

I may get to play it tomr. at EB....unless all the nerds who didnt get one raid the store =/

[ryu.kariudo]

i think the PS3 is a flop, the first 5 games or so that came out are total piece of shits (forgive my language but its true), regular at best they got 6/10 ratings from a couple of good review sites like gamespot. the starting line up of games is critical for a system.

sony has lost exclusivity of the GTA franchise and some others which sold millions of ps2's for them whether they like to admit it or not. its funny they bragged about the ps2 outselling all the console when the reason for that is exactly what they lost. graphics dont sell a game system. the games do.

i know some people will sleep in the streets in a sleeping bag to get one but once they realize the system isnt like the ps2 with less 3rd party exclusivities, the sale's will drop a lot. just like their famous psp, nintendo is crushing them with the ds.

also at a 675$CAN~600USD + tax price tag with no games or memory card. i think i rather get a brand new pc for that price so ill pass thanks. its heading in the same direction as the psp, slowly dying with its "revolutionary" format, the all mighty blue ray's/umd's.

the reality is, sony is full of themselves and doesnt care about their players. they only look at their sales chart.

[Kigga]

^^ you're really harsh on SONY, but its somewhat true

Originally Posted by Missing-nin

I may get to play it tomr. at EB....unless all the nerds who didnt get one raid the store =/

dont get your hopes up, its most likely to be sold out 400,000 units in 50 states? ppl on line probably not going to get it either, the problem for buying the ps3 is the blu-ray, that messes up the games and the damn price, im going to get it when the bugs are fixed and the price drops, a lot

[Missing-nin]

^No i will not be buying one. They have one there that u can play.

[*Sparda*]

Fuck the PS3, I'd rather get a hand held system this year and the DS looks promising. Not sure I'f I'll get the Wii this year. I'll just wait out the console wars.

[ryu.kariudo]

Originally Posted by kiggakid

^^ you're really harsh on SONY, but its somewhat true

well the truth is harsh a lot of times... a good example is at E3 when they were only giving specs of the ps3 during the entire conference pretty much and talking about how "cell processor" and blue-ray is superior to everything. i hate sony because they dont listen to their fans,have a huge ego and think they cant fall. im not saying this because im a fanboy of another company, im saying this because its the truth and because they only want to fill their pockets.

the ps3 and norton can be compared to each other, they both had past success thats why they sell alot. i just hope the gamers wake up and see what sony is doing and that we dont get another "norton" (piece of shit product but overrated and trusted because it was good in the past).

when the Playstation 1 came out they never talked about specs and forcing people to use another disk format, it was simply. you want great games? we have them.

i think the path nintendo chose was intelligent. good price,games,innovative controller in good games. screw having the best hardware and specs

[Victor Von Doom]

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

i think the PS3 is a flop,

How do you know that? We haven't seen the sale numbers yet.

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

the first 5 games or so that came out are total piece of shits (forgive my language but its true), regular at best they got 6/10 ratings from a couple of good review sites like gamespot. the starting line up of games is critical for a system.

I've been to high profile review sites like Gamespot and the PS3 game reviews are not as bad as you like it out to be. Resistance: Fall of Man, Ridge Racer 7 and Tony Hawk Project 8 all got good reviews. Launch games is critical for a system? That is bullshit. Most launch games suck. Hell, no one expects launch games to be good. If anything, the games that comes out the year after are the most critical since those the games people want to play the most.

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

i know some people will sleep in the streets in a sleeping bag to get one but once they realize the system isnt like the ps2 with less 3rd party exclusivities, the sale's will drop a lot. just like their famous psp, nintendo is crushing them with the ds.

I don't see the competition ranking in any 3rd party exclusives. The only exclusive party stuff I seen from the 360 is stuff from Tecmo like DoA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2. In reality, all three major consoles is going to have a hard time securing 3rd party exclusives. Developing cost for games got higher now and unless the game it be a sure hit you won't see much third party exclusives. Going multiplatform is their best bet.

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

also at a 675$CAN~600USD + tax price tag with no games or memory card. i think i rather get a brand new pc for that price so ill pass thanks. its heading in the same direction as the psp, slowly dying with its "revolutionary" format, the all mighty blue ray's/umd's.

We don't know how much the damn thing sold yet and your saying it's dying? What the bloody hell is wrong with you!?

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

the reality is, sony is full of themselves and doesnt care about their players. they only look at their sales chart.

Just like every business in existance?

[Yedi]

Have someone tested it yet? i just wonder how mutch it sounds and how quick the game loads.

[ryu.kariudo]

Originally Posted by Victor Von Doom

How do you know that? We haven't seen the sale numbers yet.

I've been to high profile review sites like Gamespot and the PS3 game reviews are not as bad as you like it out to be. Resistance: Fall of Man, Ridge Racer 7 and Tony Hawk Project 8 all got good reviews. Launch games is critical for a system? That is bullshit. Most launch games suck. Hell, no one expects launch games to be good. If anything, the games that comes out the year after are the most critical since those the games people want to play the most.


I don't see the competition ranking in any 3rd party exclusives. The only exclusive party stuff I seen from the 360 is stuff from Tecmo like DoA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2. In reality, all three major consoles is going to have a hard time securing 3rd party exclusives. Developing cost for games got higher now and unless the game it be a sure hit you won't see much third party exclusives. Going multiplatform is their best bet.


We don't know how much the damn thing sold yet and your saying it's dying? What the bloody hell is wrong with you!?


Just like every business in existance?

we dont need to see them theres only a limited number of units. 500k i think. its not like they wont sell.

i hardly call games that get 6 to 8s a good launch. at least when the x360 launched it had some good games going for it that got 8-9s. of course an excellent launch game is critical that gives people a first impression on what to expect from the system (like halo when the xbox game out or if your retro, mario for the NES that sold for millions of copies and systems). nobody asks for perfection but provide us with 2 or 3 excellent games at launch please? not everyone wants to wait forever for an excellent game.

err here's some good ones dead rising,gears of war,saints row,halo 3,oblivion (and a bunch of others and also some that are on pc too but pc doesnt count since its not a console.) hell even 1st party, i dont think sony will release anything good in their launch.

its not about the sale numbers, everyone knows they'll be high at first. im talking about later if ever people realise its basicly just a ps2 with better graphics and bunch of junk in it raising the price by 300$ minus the GTA and a few other exclusives they had on ps2.

when the x360 came out they never forced us to buy the HD-DVD drive for 200$ more, its sold seperatly. but the ps3, we have to buy their damn blu-ray crap thats in the ps3, its forcing us to pay for stupid features we dont want.

i see you missed the word ONLY in my sentence. not all companies care only about profit

[LONGTIME]

Hehehe *is not going to buy as many Japanese PS3s as he can to sell next week*

I played one for a minute at the Toys R Us here. Pretty quick, good sound, I was too busy trying to figure out when they would have more on sale though. I'll let you guys now the rest if/when I get one.

[seiya]

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

,saints row,

i don't care that game is swag, complete shitty copy of GTA

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

when the x360 came out they never forced us to buy the HD-DVD drive for 200$ more, its sold seperatly. but the ps3, we have to buy their damn blu-ray crap thats in the ps3, its forcing us to pay for stupid features we dont want.

if you don't like it and can't afford it then don't buy it and stop complaining about it

[Digital Masta]

Originally Posted by Victor Von Doom

Just like every business in existance?

Companies don't really make profits off their game systems because of how much they cost to make OR it takes years. Sony would have been better off making their system cheaper and selling more than making it so damn expensive.

[PC Chris]

The home console industry is sorta dying to be honest. companies lose money more then they gain it wont be long till its done.

[desi_soulja]

really, you guys are complaining about how expensive the ps3 is.. I was reading some news on what some people did; they had taken apart the ps3 and did some work on it and found out that sony is lossing profit for every ps3 sold. They were saying that the $600-700 system is actually worth about 800 or 900 dollars(which is stupid cause i dont know why sony would be doing that). I think the Ps3 is worth every penny and also agree with Victor Von Doom

This is just my opinion

[Victor Von Doom]

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

we dont need to see them theres only a limited number of units. 500k i think. its not like they wont sell.

It's 400k. Still, I'll wait to see sales numbers before calling anything a flop.

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

i hardly call games that get 6 to 8s a good launch. at least when the x360 launched it had some good games going for it that got 8-9s. of course an excellent launch game is critical that gives people a first impression on what to expect from the system (like halo when the xbox game out or if your retro, mario for the NES that sold for millions of copies and systems). nobody asks for perfection but provide us with 2 or 3 excellent games at launch please? not everyone wants to wait forever for an excellent game.

I don't know about you but I'm willing to wait for an excellent game. I don't see launch titles to be important to be honest. IMO, they are just there to gurantee early success. Let's not forgot we don't get what a console is capable of through a launch title. We gotta wait a few years for that.

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

err here's some good ones dead rising,gears of war[size=2],saints row,halo 3,oblivion (and a bunch of others and also some that are on pc too but pc doesnt count since its not a console.) hell even 1st party, i dont think sony will release anything good in their launch.

Oblivion will be ported to PS3, and Saint's Row is a cut and paste of GTA with a character-a-character mode.

Originally Posted by [/SIZE

ryu.kariudo][size=2]its not about the sale numbers, everyone knows they'll be high at first. im talking about later if ever people realise its basicly just a ps2 with better graphics and bunch of junk in it raising the price by 300$ minus the GTA and a few other exclusives they had on ps2.

Just like how the 360 is just an Xbox with better graphics with a $300/400 price tag? Really, these systems are just suit-up versions of the previous model. The plan is providing better service than the other guy.

Originally Posted by [/SIZE

ryu.kariudo][size=2]when the x360 came out they never forced us to buy the HD-DVD drive for 200$ more, its sold seperatly. but the ps3, we have to buy their damn blu-ray crap thats in the ps3, its forcing us to pay for stupid features we dont want.

Then don't buy it.

Originally Posted by [/SIZE

ryu.kariudo]i see you missed the word ONLY in my sentence. not all companies care only about profit

A major business that DOESN'T want to make money? Sure man, whatever you say.

[Rhasae]

Ah.. I have yet to even further sell my soul to Sony for a PS2 (I'm poor... ^^;, my N64, GBC and PS1 were all gifts...)

To get one of them newfangled PS3s I'd have to sell my internal organs... aich...

(Still want one though...)

[Ero]

Originally Posted by ryu.kariudo

when the x360 came out they never forced us to buy the HD-DVD drive for 200$ more, its sold seperatly. but the ps3, we have to buy their damn blu-ray crap thats in the ps3, its forcing us to pay for stupid features we dont want.

the thing is if u just want a standalone blueray player, it'll cost you more than a PS3, it'll be at least in the 900 range. So the bluray thing isn't a fault for the PS3

Other than that, i hate the ps3, its getting overhyped so much.

[San Goku]

The amount of freaking stories my cousin told me what happend at stores and stuff, is hularious, he can't even tell me every thing. I have to wait till I come home from school to hear the rest.