Anyone thinking about the PS3?

[havocx]

Pre ordered mine from EB (third one in line), maybe I'll get it right way maybe I wont. If I do I'm not sure what Ill do with it. On ebay they are selling from 1000 to 2300 cdn. Thats vary tempting. If I do sell it, it makes it an investment with profit. If i keep it its an expensive toy. I by no means think its wrong either way but $2300 for a $700 investment is fantastic.

I don't understand the logic of the people who are willing to pay that much though, I mean you don't make make more then a couple hundred a day, (if your lucky) take a day off work and stand in line for yourself. Instead of working weeks to pay someone else to do it for you.

I wont lie I had mine listed one Ebay.ca the day I stood inline (it was the first listed one on the Canadian ebay) but because my Feed back wasn't over 50 they pulled it down (it's currently 40). I don't understand what feed back numbers have to do with anything but the powers that be said its the pre sale rules.


But like all capitalists I'm willing to take any fools money.

[Altimas]

Yeah I did that with the 360...Bought one for 400$ish and sold it for 1100.00... easy money.

[gibby]

Videos games take up alot of storage but aren't into the terrabits that an HD movie has. It all comes down to programing and software if they overload a dics with a thousand layers that might have mild different features that not even HD will pick up then you can use 100 for the same purpose and mostly everything relys on the lighting. Oblivion fits onto 1 dics and its one of the largest games ever produced the only thing comes near is on the pc and has multiple dics. I highly doubt that addition of the BlueRay will improve anything but possibly sound and even thats iffy... Software is the thing that people are working on, hardware's nearly secondary.

Yes, it might not utilize the storage capacity...yet. You have to remember, Sony plans on having this system around for the next 10 years. You need to consider the future and what's possible in games and development. Software and hardware goes hand and hand. Sure, you can make compelling games on the current gen systems but gamers/consumers always want more more MORE!!!

As a member of a development team, we've already had meetings with programmers as to what's possible with the PS3. Features we had to hold back on because of processing power and memory limitations of previous systems are now possible on the PS3. I won't say the sky is the limit as time and scheduling comes into play, but it's good to know we can improve on existing features that we plan to focus on. And with time, every developer will come to grips on how to take advantage of the PS3's capabilities.

[robnix]

Videos games take up alot of storage but aren't into the terrabits that an HD movie has. It all comes down to programing and software if they overload a dics with a thousand layers that might have mild different features that not even HD will pick up then you can use 100 for the same purpose and mostly everything relys on the lighting. Oblivion fits onto 1 dics and its one of the largest games ever produced the only thing comes near is on the pc and has multiple dics. I highly doubt that addition of the BlueRay will improve anything but possibly sound and even thats iffy... Software is the thing that people are working on, hardware's nearly secondary.

I think you meant Terabytes, and there's no Terabyte optical storage yet.

Oblivion comes on 1 single layer DVD, which is 4.7 gigabytes, a Dual Layer DVD, which is what most movies are holds 9.4 GB. Blue Ray and HD DVD hold 23.3/46.6 GB and 15/30 GB for single and dual layer respectively.

Just an FYI.

[Armory]

Thanks for the correction last time I had to figure HD-DVD crap was... God I'm getting old. The PS3 is nice and has alot of crap that won't be used for 2 more years, at which time... I'll buy one but for the up front buck and the know hardware issues that PS has had with new releases (overheating=spontanious combution) I'll wait and enjoy my 360.

[skife]

i'm waiting for the price drop on the 360, i'm not a huge sony fan, i've had 5 PS2's go down on me, even 2 new design ones.
i'm still on my orginal xbox, buddy is still on his orginal first run xbox.

I only want a 360 for Forza 2, and a few other games that are coming out.

have a PSP, the screen is nice, batterylife sucks, and its really uncomfortiable to hold for a large amout of time, the only game i really do like for it is LocoRoco.

[Soopa Villain17]

Heck I'd just wait and buy one after all the hype and price goes way down. In fact I've just bought my very own N64 off of e-bay a few days ago! Got it in the mail today and I'm so excited I'm about ready to wet myself! Golden eye, Mario 64, and Zelda here I come!

Lol... I would be hooking it up right now, but I'm making it serve double duty as my toy as well as an x-mas present for my daughter. I'll just hook it up at night, play like crazy and then stash it away before I go to bed.

So far i've got

NES
SNES
N64
PS2

and as far as I'm concerned those play all the games I've ever wanted to play anyways! I'm not really much of a new game gamer, I just like all the old school stuff that I played with my buddies growing up.

thats not nice , getting your daughter a present that she probaly wont even use just so u can use it. go buy another one they only cost about 30 dollars if that

[Soopa Villain17]

But like all capitalists I'm willing to take any fools money.

amen

[fire1811]

No I wont be getting it.

System = to expensive
Games = to expensive

[gibby]

Well, I was able to take a sneak peek and play a few games yesterday. One of those games was Resistance. All I have to say is...WOW!!! The game looked great(it wasn't even running in 1080p yet...rather 720p) and the action pulled you into the game. Of course, it's your standard FPS game but it definitely rivaled anything seen on the PC today. I also got to check out Heavenly Sword...they've got some interesting gameplay modes in it and the animation in the game was top notch. Good stuff. It definitely changed my mind about waiting...unfortunately, I wasn't one of the lucky ones to score a pre-order so I'll be waiting regardless. LOL!

Time to start saving up those loose change!

[Lenny]

SEGA Saturn FTW!

I'm not really into newer games. I have an XBox just for Halo 1+2, MorrowWind, and GHPTP.

I love my Dreamcast and Saturn though. With games like NiGHTS, Panzer Dragoon, and Crazy Taxi, you can't go wrong!

Anyone know what platform and when Chrono 3 is comming out? I love Chrono Trigger, and Chrono Cross was like an orgasm for my PlayStation, but I haven't heard any word on Chrono 3...

[FlawleZ]

SEGA Saturn FTW!

I'm not really into newer games. I have an XBox just for Halo 1+2, MorrowWind, and GHPTP.

I love my Dreamcast and Saturn though. With games like NiGHTS, Panzer Dragoon, and Crazy Taxi, you can't go wrong!

Anyone know what platform and when Chrono 3 is comming out? I love Chrono Trigger, and Chrono Cross was like an orgasm for my PlayStation, but I haven't heard any word on Chrono 3...

Lots of people loved Chronocross. I don't think I ever played it for some reason.

I too have a Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, you name it I have it. They were awesome systems. I used to have Panzer Dragoon Saga, sold that for $230 on ebay.

[Skywalker]

Also why pay that much for a system when you can pick up the best one ever made for less than $50 and most games for a couple bucks a piece.

WORD!!

[tribalman]

i'm actually nobody is posting about the pit falls of blu-ray and hd-dvd. personally i'm not a video downloader and i although i will borrow dvd's from friends and i don't (gasp) copy them to vhs, dvd, or onto a hdd, i think the video protection on it is garbage. just because some people pirate stuff, doesn't mean most people do. well, "a few bad apples" i guess. as i stated somewhere else, i don't want to have to buy an expensive blu-ray disc, an expensive blu-ray player, blu-ray software, and a blu-ray monitor/tv. "To play a Blu-ray disc you need to use dedicated software that can handle the HDCP part of the AACS encryption standard " -bit-tech.net

"On first attempt we got a region code error message. I then went into the software and selected Region B. Restarting the software, the disc then played but with strange graphical corruption. Restarting the PC sorted this and although the problem didn't reappear it was a ratter ignominious start.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to grab screencaps of the software - the HDCP protection prevented us getting caps with anything on them.
" -same.

a little old of an article, from january as i can't find the recent review they had listing the problems i mentioned at the begining of the post, but here's a link. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/23/next_gen_drm/