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Deberg_1990 · 11-17-2006, 11:28 PM

So....who has a PS3?? Whats it like?? I plan on perhaps getting a Wii, but i want to see what the people say first.........Whats the scoop??

Worth $600 ???

kcxiv · 11-21-2006, 05:39 PM

i been looking around, and i cannot find anything really positive about a ps3. YOu can find alot of posts on various messageboards about people having a blast with their Wii.

So, still looking for a review for the ps3 that people are having a blast with.

oaklandhater · 11-22-2006, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by kcxiv

i been looking around, and i cannot find anything really positive about a ps3. YOu can find alot of posts on various messageboards about people having a blast with their Wii.

So, still looking for a review for the ps3 that people are having a blast with.

I played it the nice thing about the ps3 is its much easier to stream video on a ps3 then a xbox 360.

mcan · 11-22-2006, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcxiv

i been looking around, and i cannot find anything really positive about a ps3. YOu can find alot of posts on various messageboards about people having a blast with their Wii.

So, still looking for a review for the ps3 that people are having a blast with.

BlueRay Technology is freaking awesome. The whole idea is very practical and obvious. Smaller laser = More stuff on the disc. Once the production side gets caught up, the media itself won't be much more expensive, and eventually, BlueRay will be everywhere.

As for the PS3. I don't really care, except that it's going to further the BlueRay technology. As for the PS3 hatred I see, I think it all goes back to consumer bias. If you own a Chevy, you have to hate Ford and vice versa. Since XBox has been out for a year, most of the hardcore gamers (who would normally like to get a PS3) are already biased against it.

**dirk digler** · 11-22-2006, 08:05 AM

Independent reports have been coming in saying that Sony missed it's revised goal of 400,000 units at launch by more than 50%. Indications are that the system can not being made any faster and Sony will struggle to get 400,000 by the end of the year. At that rate, even if every system is sold, they will never catch up with Nintendo or Microsoft.

Sony made a fatal error in putting TWO untested technologies in their latest system. It raises the price, complexity, and output of manufacturing dramatically. Current reports are showing that:

- Approximately 10% of Cell Processors that come off the assembly line are usable (compared to 70%-90% for most other processors)

- All the Blu-ray diodes (laser that reads the disk) have all been diverted to the PS3 because of their inability to manufacture them fast enough.

- Less than half the stores asked by Bloomberg Online said they had enough PS3's to fill their just their preorders.

The bad Cell Processors that Sony has to throw away are cutting directly into their bottom-line. Sony's lack of ability to make the systems fast enough will not only hurt their profits, but their stance in the video game industry. Nintendo and Microsoft will pick up the slack of millions of people who want a new game system this holiday.

If Sony doesn't pick up the pace soon, this console war will be over (for Sony at least) before it even starts. If it takes Sony 6 months to ramp up production, Nintendo and Microsoft will have an huge lead that not even Sony would be able to reach.

oaklandhater · 11-22-2006, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dirk digler

Independent reports have been coming in saying that Sony missed it's revised goal of 400,000 units at launch by more than 50%. Indications are that the system can not being made any faster and Sony will struggle to get 400,000 by the end of the year. At that rate, even if every system is sold, they will never catch up with Nintendo or Microsoft.

Sony made a fatal error in putting TWO untested technologies in their latest system. It raises the price, complexity, and output of manufacturing dramatically. Current reports are showing that:

- Approximately 10% of Cell Processors that come off the assembly line are usable (compared to 70%-90% for most other processors)

- All the Blu-ray diodes (laser that reads the disk) have all been diverted to the PS3 because of their inability to manufacture them fast enough.

- Less than half the stores asked by Bloomberg Online said they had enough PS3's to fill their just their preorders.

The bad Cell Processors that Sony has to throw away are cutting directly into their bottom-line. Sony's lack of ability to make the systems fast enough will not only hurt their profits, but their stance in the video game industry. Nintendo and Microsoft will pick up the slack of millions of people who want a new game system this holiday.

If Sony doesn't pick up the pace soon, this console war will be over (for Sony at least) before it even starts. If it takes Sony 6 months to ramp up production, Nintendo and Microsoft will have an huge lead that not even Sony would be able to reach.

couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

Valiant · 11-23-2006, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by BigChiefFan

Developers ARE spending more time on developing games and the price went up $10 each for the next generation of games because of this(and greed). Also, I provided a link that clearly shows games are already using MORE capacity than what a DVD9 can hold. Here's the link, again...

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Resista...-ray-disc.html

Keep in mind that's just a launch title. The games will become more expansive as time goes on and developers figure out the hardware better.

All that link shows is sony is using the extra storage for music and bonus material.. Nothing substantial to the game... Agian you have proven nothing about the blu-ray being viable to the average consumer..

Blu-ray/hd-dvd are only good for home storage use...

And check all of our blu-ray dvds at work a good 50 plus.. NOt one was entirely used...

Valiant · 11-23-2006, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

so, does anybody here actually HAVE a PS3 or a Wii? or is just a buncha people arguing about how fast a HDDVD spins over a blue ray disc

We have the ps3 and 360 in our breakroom at work, and I have a 360 at home and maybe a wii soon.. That little ****ing thing is awesome...

**007** · 11-23-2006, 12:44 AM

Got the Nintendo here. I refuse to call it a W......

Valiant · 11-23-2006, 12:54 AM

[QUOTE=Dallas Chief]Actually, it is not laughable. We need to start looking at this from a different perspective. Think Marketing versus Information Systems. The expanded capacity gives the software providers, i.e. Fox, Warner Bros, Disney, Sony, EA, RockStar, etc the ability to create unique packages of software. Possibly a game and a movie on one disc. How about adding featurettes to the game title? How cool would that be to have 3 animated shorts with the third iteration of Halo? Movies with 5 alternate endings, the possibilites are limitless...all in HD.

Sony is not alone in promoting the Blu-ray format. It will be an industry standard. I would say that it is safe to assume that blu-ray technology will become more mainstream in 2007 and the average retail price will be well below $500. Blu-ray, and HD-DVD for that matter, will allow consumers to have another medium, other than cable, etc. to use the capabilities of the new TV's that they are buying today and in the future. Between now and 2009 we are about to witness the biggest consumer electronics spend in history, and it will be on HDTV's. The content to drive these TV's will become just as important as the sets themselves.

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How many people do you know care about gettingn 5 alternate endings or some crappy animated shorts??? I will chalk it up to different groups for different things on my opinion compared to yours...

The storage will never be used in this line of consoles as a game will not run off of the console without some serious loading and slowdown.. The memory cache on the ps3 or 360 could not handle a 15g game without some serious slowdown or mulitple loading zones.. Ala Dead Rising or the new FF...

The blu-ray technology is great but will not be realized by the console s until the next lineup come out...

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A good majority of people will upgrade to the new hdtv's but but I would say 30% of the population will just by the convertor box to use they existing tv's for the new format when it launches...

People are not hating on PS3 because of thier 360 love... It is getting the bad press for the way they have tried to force its greatness on the consumer... It is a great technology for the future, but not for the price now as competitors are offering better deals in the consumers eyes...

Hell in my opinion Nintendo is going to win this round with the least technological advance console, no movie playback or fancy features..

Valiant · 11-23-2006, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ

The movie packaged with the PS 3 is 50 GB, and that is Talladega Nights. Black Hawk Down is 50 GB as well as Click. There are a few others I believe but I don't know the whole list off the top of my head. These have just started coming out about a month ago and it is becoming more standard for the movies to be 50 GB rather than 25 GB.

The movie itself is not 50GB that is what I am getting at... That thing if filled with fluff, you are getting a disc with useless extras..

The only dvds that have been worth their money is the LOTR extended versions...

And that is my point on these discs, there only value is you could literally get multiple movies or eposides on the discs compared to dvd's which is awesome..

But you are not going to get one actually movie to fill up a blu-ray by itself even in 1080p/i..

kcxiv · 11-23-2006, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by mcan

BlueRay Technology is freaking awesome. The whole idea is very practical and obvious. Smaller laser = More stuff on the disc. Once the production side gets caught up, the media itself won't be much more expensive, and eventually, BlueRay will be everywhere.

As for the PS3. I don't really care, except that it's going to further the BlueRay technology. As for the PS3 hatred I see, I think it all goes back to consumer bias. If you own a Chevy, you have to hate Ford and vice versa. Since XBox has been out for a year, most of the hardcore gamers (who would normally like to get a PS3) are already biased against it.

i know thats true about the hating going on Me personally, i dont give a shit who makes the system,as long as its a system i like, i bouth Nes, Snes, N64, Dreamcast, Ps1 and a xbox. I wasnt impressed with a ps2.

From what my friends have been telling me about the Wii thats what i am going to get. Everyone is having a blast with their Wii.

I knwo a few people with a ps3, and none of them have said anything that has sold me on that.

I am going to buy a Wii for sure. They are supposed to release mroe this week and next week. So we will see.

While Blue Ray may be awesome. Sony totally f'ed up this Launch. I think they are done personally.

**007** · 11-23-2006, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by kcxiv

i know thats true about the hating going on Me personally, i dont give a shit who makes the system,as long as its a system i like, i bouth Nes, Snes, N64, Dreamcast, Ps1 and a xbox. I wasnt impressed with a ps2.

From what my friends have been telling me about the Wii thats what i am going to get. Everyone is having a blast with their Wii.

I knwo a few people with a ps3, and none of them have said anything that has sold me on that.

I am going to buy a Wii for sure. They are supposed to release mroe this week and next week. So we will see.

While Blue Ray may be awesome. Sony totally f'ed up this Launch. I think they are done personally.

And that is why I choose to say Nintendo.

meStevo · 11-23-2006, 02:23 AM

Nintendo has automatic success with he Wii because of the price point IMO.

If I had a child and I wasn't a gamer, and they're begging for a PS3 or 360, they're getting a Wii for Xmas.

I conned my parents into a $300 Sega CD somehow but $500-600 is a bit much.

A lot of the additional space being used on the HDDVD/BlueRay discs is uncompressed audio too, which a lot of people aren't going to be in a position to appreciate.

I'm a 360 fanboy, because primarily I own one, and all of the hype for the PS3 is utterly ridiculous. The biggest one, and I apologize if it has already been mentioned....

Sony has stated the life cycle for the PS3 will be 10 years (Google it). Ten! The PS2, which was a great success (and in japan initially bought more for the 'cheap DVD player' than for the games - resulting in huge initial concerns because system costs were not being recouped by accessories and game purchases...) and has only been out 6 years last month.

I expect in the next 2 years we'll see an incorporated HDDVD drive (assuming a clear victor, if not, a BD external drive will be introduced) at the current or slightly decreased price points, and in 4-5 we'll be oogling screens of the next Xbox.

With this staggered release, one company coming out with one, and then the other a year or so later, someone has to slip up to determine the winner of this race. How long will the cycle continue? A generation or two, or has Sony already done enough slipping to be unable to catch up?

It should be interesting to watch, I love my Xbox and I think it's been nicely executed. As objectively as I can look at it, I just can't see the PS3 as a success, it has SO much to prove, and SO much to catch up on.

Meanwhile, Nintendo will reap the benefits with some little non HD system that caters to the millions upon millions who have owned their handhelds.

With the significantly lower powered Wii really being such a niche system, with games that will be like nothing that can be on the 360 and PS3, i really wish they'd whore out their franchises and allow large epic Zeldas, Metroids and Marios and stuff in glorious HD on the other systems... they can't compete.... people that are die hards for those franchises will buy a 360/PS3 AND a Wii for their franchises.

ok... /babble off. Thanks for the predictable but nonetheless interesting read through this thread.

JBucc · 11-23-2006, 05:29 AM

I got to play Wii sports Wednesday. It was fun.

oaklandhater · 11-23-2006, 06:11 AM

any one here who got a wii play Madden yet I hear it completely changes the game?

11-17-2006, 11:28 PM
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11-22-2006, 08:05 AM	#169
dirk digler Please squeeze Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Clinton, MO Casino cash: $3244644	Independent reports have been coming in saying that Sony missed it's revised goal of 400,000 units at launch by more than 50%. Indications are that the system can not being made any faster and Sony will struggle to get 400,000 by the end of the year. At that rate, even if every system is sold, they will never catch up with Nintendo or Microsoft. Sony made a fatal error in putting TWO untested technologies in their latest system. It raises the price, complexity, and output of manufacturing dramatically. Current reports are showing that: - Approximately 10% of Cell Processors that come off the assembly line are usable (compared to 70%-90% for most other processors) - All the Blu-ray diodes (laser that reads the disk) have all been diverted to the PS3 because of their inability to manufacture them fast enough. - Less than half the stores asked by Bloomberg Online said they had enough PS3's to fill their just their preorders. The bad Cell Processors that Sony has to throw away are cutting directly into their bottom-line. Sony's lack of ability to make the systems fast enough will not only hurt their profits, but their stance in the video game industry. Nintendo and Microsoft will pick up the slack of millions of people who want a new game system this holiday. If Sony doesn't pick up the pace soon, this console war will be over (for Sony at least) before it even starts. If it takes Sony 6 months to ramp up production, Nintendo and Microsoft will have an huge lead that not even Sony would be able to reach.
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11-23-2006, 12:54 AM	#174
Valiant Valiant 'The Thread Killer' Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Kansas City Casino cash: $6402380	[QUOTE=Dallas Chief]Actually, it is not laughable. We need to start looking at this from a different perspective. Think Marketing versus Information Systems. The expanded capacity gives the software providers, i.e. Fox, Warner Bros, Disney, Sony, EA, RockStar, etc the ability to create unique packages of software. Possibly a game and a movie on one disc. How about adding featurettes to the game title? How cool would that be to have 3 animated shorts with the third iteration of Halo? Movies with 5 alternate endings, the possibilites are limitless...all in HD. Sony is not alone in promoting the Blu-ray format. It will be an industry standard. I would say that it is safe to assume that blu-ray technology will become more mainstream in 2007 and the average retail price will be well below $500. Blu-ray, and HD-DVD for that matter, will allow consumers to have another medium, other than cable, etc. to use the capabilities of the new TV's that they are buying today and in the future. Between now and 2009 we are about to witness the biggest consumer electronics spend in history, and it will be on HDTV's. The content to drive these TV's will become just as important as the sets themselves. --------------------------------------------- How many people do you know care about gettingn 5 alternate endings or some crappy animated shorts??? I will chalk it up to different groups for different things on my opinion compared to yours... The storage will never be used in this line of consoles as a game will not run off of the console without some serious loading and slowdown.. The memory cache on the ps3 or 360 could not handle a 15g game without some serious slowdown or mulitple loading zones.. Ala Dead Rising or the new FF... The blu-ray technology is great but will not be realized by the console s until the next lineup come out... ---- A good majority of people will upgrade to the new hdtv's but but I would say 30% of the population will just by the convertor box to use they existing tv's for the new format when it launches... People are not hating on PS3 because of thier 360 love... It is getting the bad press for the way they have tried to force its greatness on the consumer... It is a great technology for the future, but not for the price now as competitors are offering better deals in the consumers eyes... Hell in my opinion Nintendo is going to win this round with the least technological advance console, no movie playback or fancy features..
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11-23-2006, 02:23 AM	#178
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11-23-2006, 05:29 AM	#179
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