haha

Have you noticed that no matter how much people defend $ony, they never dispute it when you say all versions of PS3 are selling badly?  That's what makes defending Wii or 360 so rewarding.  No matter what $ony Fanboys say, all we have to do is point to the sales figures, and there's nothing they can say about it.  If PS3 was a good system, then wouldn't somebody actually buy them? hahaha ... [read more]

Wrong again

"Hey loser, the only difference between the 60gb and 80gb model is the hard drive size."

Did you forget the pack-in game Motorstorm?  And do you see the ... [read more]

Your comprehension skills suck!

First of all, if you could read as well as a first grader, you'd know that I said I don't own any XBOX original games.  All I said was if I wanted to play XBOX original games, I would have bought an XBOX, and NOT bought a 360.  I bought a 360 to play 360 games.

 As for the hardrive comment, I'll just repeat (again) what I already said.  NOBODY who bought a 360 is forced to purchase a hardrive.  MILLIONS of people are playing 360 games without ... [read more]

Answer

All game demos are the exact same as their retail version.  The only difference is they'll either let you play only the first few levels, or they might put a time limit on how long you can play the demo.  Some games are still fun with only the demo version! heh heh

You don't need to pay anything for an XBOX Silver account. (Internet accesss is needed tho)  Silver service allows you to download patches, demos, update your 360 firmware (needed ... [read more]

Nothing more they can do

In a division that is losing Microsoft billions, MS made the right move to spend over a billion dollars to help their customers out of the mess that MS made.

Anti-Sega fanboys suggested that Sega should have given a rebate on the Sega Saturn for everybody who bought a 32X.  But the simple fact is hardware companies DO NOT make money on console sales. (Or will make a small amount of money in certain situations, but nothing compared to software sales)  Same goes for the ... [read more]

Here's your answer

I didn't own an XBOX, nor did I own a PS3 or Gamecube.  I sat out that generation.  But with the advent of XBOX 360, it has renewed my interest in video games. (Achivement points are addictive)

So I don't play any XBOX games on my 360, but I know the list of old games that are playable on my 360.  A lot of games don't work I admit, but the ones that do are given graphical enhancements.  It's the exact opposite for $ony, their old games actually ... [read more]

I gotta agree

Pretty much the only reason why I don't buy Nintendo anymore (I used to love Nintendo) is because on all their systems, it's Mario this, Yoshi that, and Donkey Kong all the way home.  I LOVE the original Mario's (Up to Super Mario World on SNES), and they are still playable today!  But after a while, I got bored of the new Mario's, and I actually prefer the old ones over the new ones.  It's like Nintendo lost their creative genius they ... [read more]

Put the pipe down...

You mean Memory Stick cards are "only" $10 more??  So I "only" have to give $ony an extra $10 for absolutely nothing???  Why don't you buy an SD card and send me the $10? LOL

I didn't say you can't play CDs or DVDs in a PS3.  Read what I said, you can't play PS3 games without buying a Blu-Ray disc.  There are no PS3 games that don't come on Blu-Ray, even ones that could fit on a regular DVD-9.

And if you're ... [read more]

Consider this

If there were 2 versions of GTA4 (or any game for that matter) for the PS3, one was complete and the other one wasn't complete, which one would you buy?

And this is what you said before:

"Nice play on semantics by your source which conveniently happened to be an Xbox site."

There was no play on semantics.  They quoted a representative Rockstar Games.  Maybe the title of the article was an interpretation, ... [read more]

What are you talking about?

All I said was you have to compare the most expensive versions of each console.  Just like if I compared the price of the 360 Core to the 80GB PS3, that would be an unfair comparison.

 As for the hardrive comment...  Really???  Companies try to sell you their own devices (360 HD) to make more money?  I guess that's a new concept to only you.

 You're defending the proprietary king, $ony.  If you buy a sony camera, you're stuck ... [read more]

huh?

So you admit 360 has more exclusive games, and cross-platform games are better on 360.  Then you say that's just because it's easier to program on the 360.

 hahaha  OK, I agree!

Moron

If you don't compare the elite 360 to the 80GB PS3, then you are not comparing the same thing.  I could compare the cost of the 360 Core system with the 80GB PS3, but then you'd cry like a baby.

 You can't compare the price of the 360's most expensive version with the PS3's 2nd most expensive.  That is, unless you're a $ony Fanboy! LOL

Can you read?

The Houser interview was actually given by the official Playstation magazine.

The Hosi Simon interview was posted on the XBOX website, but it was not GIVEN by them.  They were reporting from Game Radar.  Micorosoft did NOT give the interview.

If you can't tell the difference, then that's probably why you like PS3.

And did you read this quote:

“But I guess if you want the complete experience with the ... [read more]

Keep waiting...

Maybe in 5 years, PS3 systems will be down to $299, and they'll have 4 good games for the system.

 Meanwhile, I'll keep playing my 360.  Oh look, another achivement!!

He's not saying "Boo progress!"

In the history of video games, every time they chose a media format, the format was already established in the marketplace.  That is, until the PS3.  PS3 was the first system that almost came out BEFORE the standalone version.

 Think about it like this.  What if PS1 attached DVD drives to their system?  Would the system games even use up 4.7GB?  Of course not!!  It would only drive the price of the system up, and provide no ... [read more]

What is it then?

If PS3 isn't a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, then what is it?  A Resistance player??  Until the PS3 actually comes out with good exclusive games, then it's just a "cheap" Blu-Ray player. (When you consider that other Blu-Ray players are insanely expensive, but HD-DVD is still cheaper than PS3, with $299 models on the horizon)

Oh wait, you're right.  The PS3 also makes a very nice George Foreman grill.  This guy I know has one, and he can make 1 ... [read more]

haha

I have a career.  And even with all the money I've made, I've never thrown $60 in the garbage.  I don't waste money.  If there were 2 stores in my city, one sold 360's for $500 and the other for $440, I wouldn't buy the $500 one!!  I'd be stupid to do so.  Same goes for PS3.  If Resistance was so important, then that's only one reason to pay more for a system.  For every other game, they are the same on 360 as they are on ... [read more]

Damn you!

I'm jealous of you!  I got the 20GB version of XBOX, and my HD was filled after the first month.

 Welcome to the world of XBOX 360 (if you do decide to get it).  The main focus will no longer be playing through games to get to the end.  Now, you must accumulate achievement points.  Every retail game has 1000 achievement points, and Live Arcade games contain 200.  I find this the most addictive part about the 360.  You can start right away ... [read more]

yup

You're right when you say the graphics are pretty much equal (and actually favour 360 if you believe professional game reviewers).  I like when that guy said the PS3 has style.  Ya, so does my Foreman Grill! LOL



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I just bought

I just bought a Foreman Grill, and ya it does look like a PS3.  In fact, I tried some PS1 & PS2 games in it, and it actually ran them better than the PS3.  The anti-aliasing is great!



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huh?

"Comes down to price again??? Stop being so angry that you cant afford to live like a high roller like me."

 What exactly are you saying here?  Because PS3 is more expensive it's better?  There's a name for people like you, "early adopter". (Although Sony calls them "suckers")  Being an early adopter has absolutely NOTHING to do with income.  People who work at McDonald's could save up for a PS3, so don't call ... [read more]

List your sources...

"as games go up in size 360 is at a real disadvantage (go read some of the developers talk about the size crunch)"

 Please list your top 3 sources on this.  And don't ... [read more]

Very nice

"PS3 sucks. Waste of money. The games are a let down.  The 360 is a thousand times better because the games rock and i'm not forced into paying for a bluray player, but can instead, buy the HDDVD add on, IF i want it."

Very nice comments.  I didn't think a Wii guy could be so nice to the 360.  Of course it's easy to be positive when your system is #1.  I have to hand it to Nintendo this generation, they knew exactly what the ... [read more]

It's not a DVD player?

"So all you see the PS3 as is a dvd-player? Thats funny because i can do alot more things with my ps3 multimedia wise than you can with your 360 or Wii."

 It's funny how you ... [read more]

CORRECT!

Corporations have the reputation of forcing unnecessary technology down the public's throat.  Remember Laser Disc??  What a joke!

 Same goes for movie formats.  With DivX compression, you can fit a full movie of close to DVD-quality into 700 MB.  That means you can either fit one movie on a CD (YES, a CD!), OR about 5 movies on a DVD.  Why can't you buy legit DivX movies anywhere??  Why is the public forced to purchase one disc for every movie ... [read more]

$ony

To answer your question, Micorosoft has exactly the same amount of 360's as $ony has PS3's.  The number is 3 right now for both of them, and it's assumed it'll drop back to 2 after Christmas. (Hint: MS will drop their Core system first, AND THEN $ony will drop their basic system)

 How does the number of systems translate to making more money?  If anything, MS will make less money by offering the less expensive system.

Yes, Microsoft ... [read more]

Um, it's August.

How many systems sell the exact same numbers for every month of the year??  The fact is most sales for systems occur late in the year (Oct-Dec).  The Wii has been selling well up until July, and that is a testament to the superiority of the system.  The Wii is STILL outselling the PS3, even after a 50% drop, so what does that say about the PS3???

Just watch, starting Oct or Nov, the Wii sales will increase dramatically.  (And they should decrease ... [read more]

Where do you make up your facts?

Wii is still selling out at some places.  List your source that the PS3 is outselling Wii.  You're a damn liar.




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The Dwarf is right

Wii IS a better system than PS3.  I own a 360, so I prefer that over Wii, but even I can see that Wii is a way better system than PS3, and the sales numbers are what proves us right.  Wii is #1 right now.

 I'm glad you spent $600 on a DVD player.  I've also got some magic beans to sell you, too. lol

Look at the facts!

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sales are about equal for stand-alone systems.  The ONLY thing driving Blu-Ray sales up is the PS3.  But you gotta be a moron to think people bought a PS3 to watch movies.  Sure they will watch movies on it, but that's not why people bought it.  They bought it for the games.  As soon as the PS3 gets an exclusive game that's worth playing (Resistance is a mediocre game on a system with a lot of bad ones), then Blu-Ray movie sales will ... [read more]

You made an intelligent argument, but...

First of all, it was Sega CD, not Saturn.  Saturn had very few FMV games, as Digital Pictures went out of business shortly after Saturn came out.

 I'll give you an example to illustrate my point.  When Dual Layer DVDs came out, I got a DL DVD-drive.  At the time, regular DVDs cost $1, and DL discs cost $5.  Needless to say, myself and the public didn't buy many DL discs.  Why not??  They store twice the information.  The reason is because ... [read more]

Can you read english??

My argument wasn't an HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray one, it was DVD-9 vs Blu-Ray.  So first off what you said is completely off topic.

 Also, sales for both new high definition formats are BAD.  Yes, they are collectively bad for both formats.  Even if Blu-Ray is currently outselling HD-DVD, Blu-Ray sales are still slow!

 Spider-Man 3???  Pirates of the Carribean??  Unless you're 10 years old, you gotta get better taste in movies.  ARRRRR, ... [read more]

Get off the pipe

The first time in history a new system was introduced with 2 SKUs was the XBOX 360.  The 2nd was PS3.  You're telling me that Sony didn't copy MS??  hahahaha

 Now as soon as MS released the XBOX 360 Elite, Sony came out with an 80GB version of PS3 with Motorstorm.  How can you not see the pattern here?

 Nintendo didn't event motion sensing, but Sony definitely copied them by including a motion sensing controller with their ... [read more]

There's a new concept...

It's called sarcasm.  I don't have time to explain to you what sarcasm is, but keep that word in mind when you re-read my last comment.




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But...

If you look at the sales figures WITHOUT including PS3 Blu-Ray numbers, then HD-DVD & Blu-Ray are around equal.  Yes, Blu-Ray has a slight edge in software sales, but as soon as PS3 actually comes out with a good game, Blu-Ray software sales will drop.


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Question

If 360 supports both openGL and directX, then why would it be hard to port openGL PS3 games over to 360?

 I don't have a PSP, so I don't know if it can run DivX.  If it can't, then you won't be able to fit a movie on a 2 gig memory card.  I'm sure if you used your homebrew software, you might be able to run DivX.  But that doesn't represent the majority of PSP owners, and Sony CERTAINLY doesn't get any credit for people running their ... [read more]

Get your facts straight!

If you subtract the amount of Blu-Ray players sold in PS3's, then the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war is actually pretty even.  After all, if somebody spends $600 on a gaming system when it first comes out, you know they're gonna be playing a lot of games on it.  Even if they also buy a couple Blu-Ray movies.

Maybe one day Blu-Ray will be something.  Today it is nothing but the one thing that's holding the PS3 back.

Blu-Ray sucks

Why are you supporting a format that is half the speed of 360's DVD drive?  So even if you could fill a disc (which is difficult unless you fill it with cut-scenes), you can't get the information off the disc fast enough to do anything worthwhile with it.  Developers are now saying that Optical Drive speed is becoming one of the biggest limiting factors to gaming today.  Combine that with the fact that the 360 has more RAM, and you can really see ... [read more]

Goes to show you...

Never trust Sony.  They lied about not having problems with the initial run of PS3s, and now they stole your Motorstorm.  That's how they can offer a copy of Motorstom with the new 80GB version.  They just stole all the games from customers who sent their system in for repairs.

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Commies never win

Ok I admit, communism has more to do with politics than it does with video games.  So a better label would be Sony is a proprietary bitch.  Every time new hardware comes out, they want to make their own damn proprietary format.

VCRs come out, so everybody picks VHS, and Sony goes with its own Betamax.
CDs come out, so Sony supports its own Mini Discs.

Digital Cameras come out, the whole industry agrees on SD cards... except for one company.  ... [read more]

Sony has it backwards

It's supposed to be the first console to hit the market is the most expensive, and the last should be cheap.  Nintendo had it right, they released their console a year after 360, and is significantly cheaper.  And look at their reward for intelligent thinking!  With the PS3, it came out a year after 360 also, but was the most expensive of the three systems.  What a stupid mistake.  Don't they realize that all the early adopters who would have paid crazy ... [read more]

Nathan's right

This whole generation of consoles has been Sony copying Microsoft & Nintendo. They copied Wii with their own cheap and useless motion sensor controller. They copied Microsoft with having two SKUs (Premium & Core), copied the new Elite 360 by coming out with their own uselss 80GB HD version, copied XBOX Live with a crappy free service that is still a ripoff, copied the 360's multi-core idea with the overrated CELL processer, copied the hard drive idea, etc. I could go on, but I'm ... [read more]