Playstation 3 Information, hardware, games discussion Part II

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That's what they built the PS3 for...it's MORE than gaming system bro. Y'all can say what you want about the price, but if it can out perform Samsung's $1,200 player...AND not to mention have NEXT GEN GAMING...it's WELL worth the money imo

That depends. In who's mind?

600 bucks NOT a good price for a gaming console. At all. That's pure spin. I don't want and before this never even cared about a blu-ray player.

Now people can rationalize this all they want to for being screwed over by yet another overpriced Sony product, but im not buying gaming machines to play movies on.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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That depends. In who's mind?

600 bucks NOT a good price for a gaming console. At all. That's pure spin. I don't want and before this never even cared about a blu-ray player.

Now people can rationalize this all they want to for being screwed over by yet another overpriced Sony product, but im not buying gaming machines to play movies on.

my point exactly.

[Skerik]

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Apologies if this has been posted. I'm not reading the whole damn thread.

Independent Review of Sony PS3 Online Service

http://ozymandias.com/archive/2006/11/12/Independent-Review-of-Sony-PS3-Online-Service.aspx

The fact is, in its quest to surpass Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, Sony may have overlooked the most fundamental reason for online connectivity: playing online games with others.

Sony has carefully avoided all discussion on this topic, save for mentioning that Resistance: Fall of Man will support 40 players. The developers themselves are the only ones to have made any comments on the service provided. Resistance will offer up a full suite of online support, including “its own buddy list, clan registry, in-game messaging and chat services”. This is unfortunately damning for Sony as none of the PlayStation Network’s functionality is integrated into the game. The game’s buddy list, and Sony’s are two completely distinct entities.

The developers explain that Sony did not deliver the online libraries in a timely fashion. However, the author suggests that Sony never planned on providing a fully featured online system. He implies that Sony has only recently realized their mistakes and attempted to correct it. As we’ll see tomorrow, this assessment is actually closer to the truth than one might expect.

The reality is that the friend’s list support that Sony have provided in their libraries is terrible. From within a game, you are notified when your friends sign on and sign off (with a nice translucent overlay)…and that’s about it. Developers have no way of interfacing with this list in any useful manner. You can’t find out if your friends are watching a movie, surfing the net or playing another game. If you send them an invite, you have to hope they sign on to the same game you’re playing before they’ll even see it. Furthermore, there is currently no functionality to even “accept” the invite. It’s just a message to come join a game; it won’t actually take you to the game. Developers have to deal with that problem themselves.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Apologies if this has been posted. I'm not reading the whole damn thread.

Independent Review of Sony PS3 Online Service

http://ozymandias.com/archive/2006/1...e-Service.aspx

Hence it being free.

[Skerik]

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Hence it being free.

Well, yeah. Fewer adages are as true as, "You get what you pay for."

[backbreaker]

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not worth it.

[chippered]

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That depends. In who's mind?

600 bucks NOT a good price for a gaming console. At all. That's pure spin. I don't want and before this never even cared about a blu-ray player.

Now people can rationalize this all they want to for being screwed over by yet another overpriced Sony product, but im not buying gaming machines to play movies on.

This is my gripe exactly. If they would have made a game console only version without all the bells and whistles, i'd have bought one instead of a 360. I'm fine with them trying to expand their buyer base, but they seem to be ignoring their main fanbase, which is gamers. For those that dont want the extras, its a waste IMO.

[RockyTop1]

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not worth it.

Thanks for that. Way to contribute to the conversation, lol

[CaptainZombie]

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This is my gripe exactly. If they would have made a game console only version without all the bells and whistles, i'd have bought one instead of a 360. I'm fine with them trying to expand their buyer base, but they seem to be ignoring their main fanbase, which is gamers. For those that dont want the extras, its a waste IMO.

Maybe they look at their $499 version as the low-end system for gamers. LOL! I've been saying the same thing since BluRay and the price point has been announced. Sony is alienating people with the price, but their are the masses out there that will eat all of this up.

Thanks for that. Way to contribute to the conversation, lol

[USF11]

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Apologies if this has been posted. I'm not reading the whole damn thread.

Independent Review of Sony PS3 Online Service

http://ozymandias.com/archive/2006/1...e-Service.aspx

One thing in defense of sony, they could add a XBOX live type system later on down the road with a system update.

[Bacardi151]

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reports from japan indicate ps3 not 100% backwards compatible

http://www.2old2play.com/News/PS3_Back_Compatability__Not_Perfect

[CaptainZombie]

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reports from japan indicate ps3 not 100% backwards compatible

http://www.2old2play.com/News/PS3_Ba...y__Not_Perfect

"CNET Japan is saying over 196 PS2 titles are not playing correctly (or at all) on the PS3. Some games function but lack any type of sound. Sony says that they didn't expect 100% of the games to work on launch and will be working on the problem, in some cases, apparently one title at a time."

People will be rather upset at 196 titles not working and I imagine that number to rise. Nothing is worse than the XBOX 360 BC where we haven't had an update in 3 months.

[Flawless]

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Somebody got a hold of 100 PS3's.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128756

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[Heelfan71]

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I could care less about BC . I have never used it on any system. COme to think of it, I could care less about Ps3 either I guess it's important to some.

[CaptainZombie]

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Somebody got a hold of 100 PS3's.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=128756

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Flaw, what if these are at a Best Buy or Target back room where the employee works at. This guy is just acting like he owns all of these?