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Anyone plan on camping out for a PS3?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Brookerton, Nov 15, 2006.

  1. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    The poor review issue has been there for a while. Plus early adapters either ignore or understand the risks with being a first-waver: crappy games that look and play like the PS2/Xbox versions and systems that go wonky. I bought an Xbox within the first three months of its debut and my hard drive went down quickly. I heard problems with the 360, so I held off for a while. Still haven't bought one yet. But I'd be more likely to now that they've gotten through the glitches.
     
  2. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    I really haven't seen any poor reviews. They all seem to be 8-of-10-ish. CNet is the only one I can remember reading, but it seems like there was another as well. Where'd you see bad ones?
     
  3. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    The NY Times:

    A Weekend Full of Quality Time With PlayStation 3
    By SETH SCHIESEL
    Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company’s new video game system just isn’t that great.

    Ever since Mr. Stringer took the helm last year at Sony, the struggling if still formidable electronics giant, the world has been hearing about how the coming PlayStation 3 would save the company, or at least revitalize it. Even after Microsoft took the lead in the video-game wars a year ago with its innovative and powerful Xbox 360, Sony blithely insisted that the PS3 would leapfrog all competition to deliver an unsurpassed level of fun.

    Put bluntly, Sony has failed to deliver on that promise.

    Measured in megaflops, gigabytes and other technical benchmarks, the PlayStation 3 is certainly the world’s most powerful game console. It falls far short, however, of providing the world’s most engaging overall entertainment experience. There is a big difference, and Sony seems to have confused one for the other.

    The PS3, which was introduced in North America on Friday with a hefty $599 price tag for the top version, certainly delivers gorgeous graphics. But they are not discernibly prettier than the Xbox 360’s. More important, the whole PlayStation 3 system is surprisingly clunky to use and simply does not provide many basic functions that users have come to expect, especially online.

    I have spent more than 30 hours using the PlayStation 3 over the last week or so and may have played more different games on the system — 13 — than probably anyone outside of Sony itself. Sony did not activate the PS3’s online service until just before the Friday debut. Over the weekend a clear sense of disappointment with the PlayStation 3 emerged from many gamers.

    “What’s weird is that the PS3 was originally supposed to come out in the spring, and here it came out in the fall, and it still doesn’t feel finished,” Christopher Grant, managing editor of Joystiq, one of the world’s biggest video-game blogs, said on the telephone Saturday night. “It’s really not the all-star showing they should have had at launch. Sony is playing catch-up in a lot of ways now, not just in terms of sales but in terms of the basic functionality and usability of the system.”

    Sadly for Sony, the best way to explain how the PlayStation 3 falls short is to explain how different it is to use than its main competition, Xbox 360. When I reviewed the 360 last year, I wrote: “Twelve minutes after opening the box, I had created my nickname, was in a game of Quake 4 and thought, ‘This can’t be this easy.’ ”

    I never felt that way using the PlayStation 3. With the PS3, 12 minutes after opening the box I realized that Sony inexplicably does not include cables to connect the machine to a high-definition television. Keep in mind that one of Sony’s main selling points has been that the PS3 plays Blu-Ray high-definition movie discs. But high-definiton cables? Sold separately. The Xbox 360, by contrast, ships with one cable that can connect to either a standard or high-definition set.

    Then, before you are even using the PS3, you have to connect the “wireless” controller to the base unit with a USB cable so they can recognize each other. If you bring your PS3 controller to a friend’s house, you’ll have to plug back in again. The 360’s wireless controllers are always just that, wireless.
     
  4. CitizenTino

    CitizenTino Active Member

    Think people who overpaid for a PS3 in the opening weekend were pissed? How about THIS schmuck?

    http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/20/overzealous-ebayer-drops-900-for-sony-playstations-3-of-them/
     
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