Official PS3 Discussion Part II

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PS3 sales are apparently up....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/1....ap/index.html

All it took to increase sales was a price drop to $399, some decent game releases, and some better advertising. I wonder how they ever thought of that?

[pinnacleguy2]

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All it took to increase sales was a price drop to $399, some decent game releases, and some better advertising. I wonder how they ever thought of that?

Hahaha, kinda makes you wonder what all those tops execs get paid so much for doesn't it?

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Hahaha, kinda makes you wonder what all those tops execs get paid so much for doesn't it?

seriously.

they launch for $599, with no games justifying the purchase. They then market it with odd baby doll commercials that only make sense to the agency that was overpaid to came up with it.

It's a year in, but at least they are doing things right now.

[Pared]

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It's a little fortuitous that the Wii is running out of hardware

Why can't the Sony Exec's just SHUT UP and focus on driving PS3 sales?? Quit worrying about your competition. At this point, you have a system with only decent games, a terrible online infrastructure and constant delays among the "hot" titles.

If they ran the company as smoothly and as efficiently as their firmware updates they'd be doing a lot better. You have no idea people don't realize you can play DVD's and have them upscaled on the PS3.

Sell the system on what it can do, not just the name. Obviously the Playstation brand isn't as strong as they thought it would be.

[SLAYER]

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FW 2.01 coming soon

I guess this will include DivX and Profile 1.1 support.

[SLAYER]

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For right now, a rumor until "confirmed"..

..but over at SlickDeals.net & CAG (*Source*), the next Wal Mart secret sale is the 80GB PS3 @ its original price of $499 w/ 10 in-store blu ray movies for free. Add in the 5 free blu-ray deal (found here), and you have a 80GB PS3 with 15 blu-rays.

It supposedly will run from 11/24 at 8:00am through 11:59pm on 11/25.

[gschwendt]

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FW 2.01 coming soon

I guess this will include DivX and Profile 1.1 support.

I believe it's only going to be a bug fix for some people having problems with the 2.0 upgrade.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Need a clarification. Does the PS3 have an optical output to connect to my receiver because someone told me it doesn't, it only uses HDMI. This would seriously blow because no point in buying a PS3 if I can't use my surround sound system to play or specifically play movies. My receiver is only a few years old but doesn't have a HDMI input and I'm not going to buy a whole new sound system just for a PS3. Seems like this would be a serious error on Sony's part not to include this output considering you're including a blueray player.

[nemesis04]

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Need a clarification. Does the PS3 have an optical output to connect to my receiver because someone told me it doesn't, it only uses HDMI. This would seriously blow because no point in buying a PS3 if I can't use my surround sound system to play or specifically play movies. My receiver is only a few years old but doesn't have a HDMI input and I'm not going to buy a whole new sound system just for a PS3. Seems like this would be a serious error on Sony's part not to include this output considering you're including a blueray player.

[edmus]

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I picked up a 40gb PS3 yesterday. I had no idea what a tank this thing is! I placed it on my TV stand on a shelf next to two VCRs that are stacked up (there's plenty of space between the PS3 & the VCRs). This is a heavy-duty TV stand that can handle 100+ lbs per shelf.

I pop in the APF2k8 disc & immediately hear an extremely loud non-stop buzzing sound. Its so loud that I can't even hear my TV. I'm thinking "Crap, there's something wrong with the PS3!".

It turns out that the VCRs are buzzing as a result of the PS3 spinning the disc. When I hold onto the top VCR I can feel it shaking like crazy. What's funny is that if I touch the top of the PS3 I can't even feel the vibration at all, yet its making its way across the shelf & over to the VCRs.

I placed some business cards under the corners of the top VCR and that got rid of the buzzing noise. I'm still a little concerned about the reliability of any component placed on the same shelf as the PS3. These are old VCRs, but I was planning to upgrade to Tivo or a DVD recorder soon.

The PS3 isn't as quiet as I thought it would be. I guess it is still quieter than a PS2, but I noticed a small quick chirp sound between plays on APF2k8. I don't know if that's the hard drive or the disc drive. I know I'm probably just being paranoid...

[Altimus]

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I picked up a 40gb PS3 yesterday. I had no idea what a tank this thing is! I placed it on my TV stand on a shelf next to two VCRs that are stacked up (there's plenty of space between the PS3 & the VCRs). This is a heavy-duty TV stand that can handle 100+ lbs per shelf.

I pop in the APF2k8 disc & immediately hear an extremely loud non-stop buzzing sound. Its so loud that I can't even hear my TV. I'm thinking "Crap, there's something wrong with the PS3!".

It turns out that the VCRs are buzzing as a result of the PS3 spinning the disc. When I hold onto the top VCR I can feel it shaking like crazy. What's funny is that if I touch the top of the PS3 I can't even feel the vibration at all, yet its making its way across the shelf & over to the VCRs.

I placed some business cards under the corners of the top VCR and that got rid of the buzzing noise. I'm still a little concerned about the reliability of any component placed on the same shelf as the PS3. These are old VCRs, but I was planning to upgrade to Tivo or a DVD recorder soon.

The PS3 isn't as quiet as I thought it would be. I guess it is still quieter than a PS2, but I noticed a small quick chirp sound between plays on APF2k8. I don't know if that's the hard drive or the disc drive. I know I'm probably just being paranoid...

I see you never expierenced the 360. My PS3 is as quiet as I would want it to be.

Mine is a 60gb one though so there might be some difference between them. One thing I did know is different is less ventilation on the 40gb so make sure your system has plenty of room for ventilation.

[tc23]

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Picked up a 40 GB version over the weekend. First thing I noticed is how quiet it was compared to my 360. I flipped over to watch the Bears game and I forgot it was even on.

Just counting down the days til The Show 08

[edmus]

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I see you never expierenced the 360. My . One thing I did know is different is less ventilation on the 40gb so make sure your system has plenty of room for ventilation.

Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize the 40gb had less ventilation. Mine should hopefully be okay as its not in an enclosed TV stand. There's plenty of space on both sides & in back, and its got enough room above it to stack another PS3!

Yeah, you guys are right -- I never bought a 360 because I didn't want to deal with the reliability issues, plus I wanted to play "MLB The Show". So I have no idea how loud a 360 is.

[ThreeKing]

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Ever since the 2.01 update, Call of Duty 4 has frozen twice on me already.

[Eton Rifles]

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Three king, I read today that the 2.01 update was causing COD4 to crash. It seems to be fixed now though.