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does anyone have any recent info on the PS3 launch date & price?

sao123

sao123

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any recent PS3 news, like launch date or price?
any idea when eb and gamestop will begin taking preorders even?
 
xcrap
I can see your well informed:disgust:
Price is expected to be around that off the xbox360 and sony said launch in spring. However the spring launch may or may not include america if happening at all.
 
Originally posted by: suse920
xcrap
I can see your well informed:disgust:
Price is expected to be around that off the xbox360 and sony said launch in spring. However the spring launch may or may not include america if happening at all.
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what about the worldwide launch they were talking about?
 
i hope you're not one of those people who believes the PS3 can actually do 1 teraflop

as one member pointed out, it takes a cluster of ~160 opterons to do that, so there's no way in hell that the PS3 CPU is anywhere close to that power
 
Originally posted by: suse920
xcrap
I can see your well informed:disgust:
Price is expected to be around that off the xbox360 and sony said launch in spring. However the spring launch may or may not include america if happening at all.
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I do everything in my power to not support the evil empire. So I will never buy an xbox whether its the first one or the xbox 3037. However, im not some sony fanboi who believes anything about there obvious performance overstatements. Personally I think things were just fine when I had my NES, and then this sega company had to come along and just ruin everything.

However, I am planning to get a PS3, because I have tons of PS2 games, and i heard it was going to be 98% backwards compatible with PS1 & 2 games (So it doesnt make sence for me to buy a 360, because I dotn have any xbox games). Based on how cool the madden 360 does look, Im pretty sure the PS3 version is going to look quite comparable, and I should be happy with the PS3.
 
Originally posted by: sao123
any recent PS3 news, like launch date or price?
any idea when eb and gamestop will begin taking preorders even?
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haha ATI Developers Dissed the PS3 Hardcore yesterday in an interview saying there was no way that the PS3 was gonna live up to the hype with a off the shelf version of the 7800GTX chipset in it..

PS3 is not impressing me so far.. no version of XBOXLIVE even planned for sony.. no integration with Windows or media center PCs.. just another console if you ask me..
the things that make the 360 stand out isnt the power so much.. but LIVE and the other features that it does offer other than being just a game console.

I might still get one.. but i am using the 360 more for its media center / PC features than a game machine anyway.
 
Originally posted by: CVSiN
Originally posted by: sao123
any recent PS3 news, like launch date or price?
any idea when eb and gamestop will begin taking preorders even?
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haha ATI Developers Dissed the PS3 Hardcore yesterday in an interview saying there was no way that the PS3 was gonna live up to the hype with a off the shelf version of the 7800GTX chipset in it..

PS3 is not impressing me so far.. no version of XBOXLIVE even planned for sony.. no integration with Windows or media center PCs.. just another console if you ask me..
the things that make the 360 stand out isnt the power so much.. but LIVE and the other features that it does offer other than being just a game console.

I might still get one.. but i am using the 360 more for its media center / PC features than a game machine anyway.
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I have never used xbox live, so im not sure what your talking about...
but I like the PS2 online service which is just left up to the game manufacturers.
IE... I can play madden or socom online for free for a whole year, without having to subscribe to some extra service.
In addition, I like that the PS2 has a console feel, I already have a superpower computer, and im not looking for another similar device. I dont need my PS3 to have media center or PC features...I just want it to play games and movies.
 
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: CVSiN
Originally posted by: sao123
any recent PS3 news, like launch date or price?
any idea when eb and gamestop will begin taking preorders even?
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haha ATI Developers Dissed the PS3 Hardcore yesterday in an interview saying there was no way that the PS3 was gonna live up to the hype with a off the shelf version of the 7800GTX chipset in it..

PS3 is not impressing me so far.. no version of XBOXLIVE even planned for sony.. no integration with Windows or media center PCs.. just another console if you ask me..
the things that make the 360 stand out isnt the power so much.. but LIVE and the other features that it does offer other than being just a game console.

I might still get one.. but i am using the 360 more for its media center / PC features than a game machine anyway.
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I have never used xbox live, so im not sure what your talking about...
but I like the PS2 online service which is just left up to the game manufacturers.
IE... I can play madden or socom online for free for a whole year, without having to subscribe to some extra service.
In addition, I like that the PS2 has a console feel, I already have a superpower computer, and im not looking for another similar device. I dont need my PS3 to have media center or PC features...I just want it to play games and movies.
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Xbox live takes your connection out of the picture for hosting. all matchmaking and servers are super high speed and hosted by MS.
it also stat tracks all players in single player mode and ladders for multi that are 100% up to date at all times..

for example.. every time you finish even a single player race in PGR3 it will upload and compare your top times with everyone else in the entire world.
it will also let you watch races that are taking place around the world as its broadcast on PGRTV which is built in live..

Another Example.. built into the new Dead or Alive 4.
are tournament rooms where 10 people will all be able to participate in world wide ranked matches over live.
the peopel waiting in the rooms will be able to watch the matches in progress and winners and losers have thier stats tracked worldwide.

Also.. Live tracks ALL games and reputations of all gamers logged in..
IE.. you want to see what games and how good I am at them you can pull my gamertag up and see my accomplishments in each game.
it also tracks players reputation and if users had a bad rep you can have XBL automatically avoid them or make them prefered players..

you can also use live as a tool to talk to your freinds anywhere in the world through the direct voicechat or voice message system.

live is way more than just a mutiplayer mode liek SOE offers in its junk games...

and for the record i was a big PS2 fan and never subscribed to Live till i got my 360.


all Xbox games now are live enabled.. in otherwords half the game features are locked down unless you have live turned on..

Live is only 5 bucks a month or 50 for the entire year not like thats alot of money for hosted servers and no lag.

as for the media center stuff..
360 is a media center extender.. which means you put this machine in your living room attached to wireless LAN and youre HD TV and HT and it will stream content from your either Media Center XP or Service pack 2 PC...
media center allows the 360 to Stream MOVIES, MUSIC, PICTURES, as well as watch shows from media centers built in TIVO function..

now... you said you have a nice powerful PC set up.. how cool is it to be able to do antyhing on that PC on your main TV and Home theatre Setup all without leaving your couch.

thats the real power of the 360.. its an entertainment box not just a game system.. and Sony has alot of work to do to match it...
just throwing HD capabilties and Blueray into a box isnt gonna do it.
 
i bought my 45" Aquos LCD for these 😀
but nothing to take advantage of 1080p yet, except my computer
 
Originally posted by: cougar78
I still think I'll get the PS3 but I'm still very pissed about no standard harddrive in it.
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agreed. i still say the mod community contributes to the success of a console
 
Just a sidenote.....but since the PS3 uses Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray uses AACS as one of its DRM schemes, don't expect to see the PS3 until they work out the kinks in AACS. They still haven't finalized this DRM scheme and that is one of the things that is holding up HD-DVD as well.

I'm still betting on a Japanese release for late spring/early summer and a N. America release for late fall/early winter.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Just a sidenote.....but since the PS3 uses Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray uses AACS as one of its DRM schemes, don't expect to see the PS3 until they work out the kinks in AACS. They still haven't finalized this DRM scheme and that is one of the things that is holding up HD-DVD as well.

I'm still betting on a Japanese release for late spring/early summer and a N. America release for late fall/early winter.
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Damn.. so it will be mid 2007 before I'll actually be able to get my hands on one at the MSRP..
Oh well.. it will be well worth it
 
I find it difficult to believe that sony would allow microsoft a whole year to achieve market stronghold before they release a product.
The only way they would catch up then, is if they release a completely dominating console at a competing or better price, which from what ive seen, is pretty much only equal to or slightly better.

Now perhaps if they can avoid some of the downfalls of the 360 so far, it would help.
*initial prodcut shortages
*product recalls/hardware problems in the first few months
*cost factor
 
Originally posted by: sao123
I find it difficult to believe that sony would allow microsoft a whole year to achieve market stronghold before they release a product.
The only way they would catch up then, is if they release a completely dominating console at a competing or better price, which from what ive seen, is pretty much only equal to or slightly better.

Now perhaps if they can avoid some of the downfalls of the 360 so far, it would help.
*initial prodcut shortages
*product recalls/hardware problems in the first few months
*cost factor
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well Sony has already said that the PS3 will cost more than the 360... so pricing is a non issue...

Shortages... any big time console is always on shortage around launch and PS3 will be no differnt.. non issue want one reserve early.. or CAMP OUT!

hardware problems with electronics.. always gonna be there no matter what the product..
PS2 had same problems PSP same problems... sony is not gonna change this no matter how good thier box is..
another non issue.. 40 of my freinds and I got them on day 1.. none of us have had any overheating or gliutches or other hardware issues...
mine has yet to crash even once... M$ said less than 3% of all boxes shipped out have issues and over the 100s of people ive spoken to on XBL none have had any issues...

PSPs and thier dead pixels was way more serious than this is..
 
actually madden for the 360 looked kinda...disappointing.

i am probably going to get the ps3 because i have lots of ps1 and ps2 games, and absolutely no xbox games. plus, the current 360 games dont really appeal to me, and hell, even some of their games are on PC!
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: suse920
xcrap
I can see your well informed:disgust:
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there still arnt any games that are MUST HAVES for it
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I dunno....PGR3, COD2 are at the top of my list. They may not be MUST HAVES for some but they are awesome on my list. I was actually down on COD2 at first because I was tired of WWII shooters. But after renting it and giving it a try it is just extremely fun and challenging. The only thing I'm down about on it is it looked like Activision barely even tried with the online component. It is fun but limiting it to only 8 players plus the lag and lobby issues is inexcusable.

DOA4 is coming out today/tomorrow and all the reviewers/previewers seem to be raving about it as an online fighter. That should at least help in Japan.

Having Oblivion and DOA4 at launch would have definitely helped though.

That said...only the Xbox, Dreamcast and N64 have had MUST HAVES at launch. There wasn't a MUST HAVE game for the PS2 until nearly a year later.
 
Originally posted by: secretanchitman
actually madden for the 360 looked kinda...disappointing.

i am probably going to get the ps3 because i have lots of ps1 and ps2 games, and absolutely no xbox games. plus, the current 360 games dont really appeal to me, and hell, even some of their games are on PC!
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and they will continue to have PC ports becasue... *drumroll* the 360 is a PC in disguise... duh...

and the must have titles are not shipping till march... but PGR3 and COD2 are pretty freaking good.. and while COD is a current gen PC game to run it at what the 360 runs it at you better have a serious PC...

my A64 3200 2gigs of ram and 6800 ultra cant do it..
 
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