If you have pre-ordered in error this should be a good enough reason to cancel, seeing as you're now getting something worse than was originally advertised. Isn't this sort of thing against the law?
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"Ha!"
"We'll not only make them pay 150% of what everyone else is paying, but we'll give them a crapper product too."
I love how that article tries to sugar coat that fact completely.
phew!
Rather than concentrate on PS2 backwards compatibility... company resources will be increasingly focused on developing new games... for PS3
so basically they won't be updating the ps2 emulator to play Go-Go Train-Train II'?
i'm sick of the next gen. my fave 360 game is street fighter ffs.
*breaks out the megadrive*
Yes, rendering most of a PS2 cult gamer's collection useless is a really enticing way to sell the PS3 to its fanboys, these being the only people daft enough to pay such a high price tag. Sony's marketers must be following the same line of thinking as the development team on Sonic The Hedgehog.
I'll just finish you poem for you.
*More expensive
*Late
*Has the 360's launch line up
*No killer apps
*BC is shit
*No rumble
*SIXAXIS is horrid
*Blu-ray slower than 360's DVD at loading
So PS3 owners = fuckwits then?
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"[The PS3 will have] almost perfect backwards compatibility. There will be some exceptions, but we believe those will be even less than we saw from PSOne to PS2.
"Backwards compatibility, as you know from PlayStation One and PlayStation 2, is a core value of what we believe we should offer. And access to the library of content people have created, bought for themselves, and accumulated over the years is necessary to create a format. PlayStation is a format meaning that it transcends many devices -- PSOne, PS2, and now PS3.
"If the developer wrote the game according to our technical requirements checklist, we will have what we believe will be almost perfect backwards compatibility. There will be some exceptions, there always are, but we believe those will be very few and far between. Even less so than we saw from PSOne to PS2."
Phil Harrison on Microsoft's difficulties with Xbox 360 backward compatibility
"I don't believe that was backwards compatibility."
*snigger*
Sony PS3 SIXAXIS Controller: £35
Sony PS2: £50
F*****g hilarious!
And, apparently, there's a third-party PS2 controller commercially available that gives all the features of the SIXAXIS controller WITH rumble features for around £15. This is of course after Sony stated firstly that the SIXAXIS controller technology couldn’t work with a rumble device and secondly that it would make the controller too expensive.
*clap* *clap*
"Ha!"
The question is: Did Reuters actually interview somebody to get this quote or was it "attributed" to this person by Sony themselves?
Not that Sony would ever do such a thing, of course... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4741259.stm
Up to now, I've actually still wanted a PS3, and thought all this Sony bashing was a bit over-the-top, but now they can completely fuck right off. I'm not even buying one of their tellies any more.
What's a good telly brand apart from Sony? Not LG, cos I'm not poor.
Fuck you Sony. Making us pay more and now we get less. Ill stick to my 360 and Wii thanks.
Yeah, go with Samsung. I love my Samsung LCD, it's really high quality.
Maybe a brand new company that will do anything for money?
Or another 'viral' shell firm of the sort the tobacco and oil firms love so much?
xczxq = Alex Kwiatkowski's alias.
The only Western console I've ever loved is the Xbox. Before that, Japanese consoles were always far superior to the embarassing Western efforts we got offered.
Sony do their own thing. They don't seem Japanese, Western, or even Alien. I think they are fuelled by arrogance and ego.
Have they been a negative force for the industry? YES!
A few nice games over the years for their machines doesn't mean anything. The games would have probably appeared for other consoles anyway.
Nintendo and Sega must wonder every day how Sony managed to brainwash the world into liking the predominantly boring lifeless games Sony stand for.
It amazes me, but at least Sony's evil powers seem to be fading.
Zorg seems quite besotted with the PS3. You guys are getting way better launch titles; F1 is massive.
Any backwards compatability issues have been dealt with quite swiflt here in NA and in Japan and I see no reason to doubt why Sony won't be on the ball for the European PS3 either.
Right around your launch the PS3 will be getting 1080p/24 support, eliminating judder found on all other HD players outside the Elite Pioneer and the XA2, which is problematic anyway.
Blu-ray loads in 10 seconds for movies. Three times faster than any other HD player on the market.
Massive list of Blu-ray only exclusives, PS3/2/1 games, DVD, SACD, HDMI 1.3, 1080p/24, DTS-MA decoding hopefully in the near future, Linux support; yeah this thing sure is a ripoff.
Panasonic vieras, those Sharp aquos are alright, the best tv in the sharp that makes me go "wow" everyday, is a pioneer, fucking amazing quality on their tv's. Avoid sony like the plague anyway, they still make things out of wood. Also all Samsung have going for em is they basically stick other peoples screens in a black surround, other than that, they are reet shit.
Well I'm sold.
PR is easy anyway...
"The PS3 glass is half full, or maybe half empty, so Sony are just halving the size of the glass to save some production costs".
Sony, feel free to quote me.
Just take a scroll back through the last few months of viral ad attempts and company execs telling bare faced porkies. And _still_ people defend Sony?
Don't you understand? If you buy this system, you are sending the message that a company can fail to deliver on it's promises, lie about ever making the promises and then you'll STILL buy their product, safe in the knowledge that the true believers will rally to the cause.
It's worse than religion ffs.
unappreciated genius. Though hopefully not the kind that goes a bit mad and chops off his own ear as a misguided expression of love.
The urine is an excellent touch.
How can Americans miss the point of UK:R with such... arrogance.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Samsung MADE the screens for most of the LCD TVs (Including Sony). I can't be arsed to research my info enough to argue though.
Bill Laswell:
I thought Philips were pretty much the only company who made CRT panels for everyone else to use. Not Sharp.
They won't be on the ball because THEY DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING HARDWARE INSIDE, you cunt. For fuck's sake, at keast read the post before responding with your blinkered drivel.
Yep, you're utterly correct. Smeg is talking out of the proverbial. Samsung are among the pioneers of new LCD tech, and have a partnership with Sony regarding LCD patents, and co-own a factory in Korea that supplies every company and it's mum with LCD panels.
(which I'm sure will provide Sony with enough money to keep afloat when they realise what a mistake they made with the PS3, or something... More's the pity)
Obligatory Wikicrap link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-LCD
...So er, yeah. Buy a Samsung TV, the panels are the same as the Sony models, and the'll be making even less money!
I will also admit that i actually know shit about tv's really, but i'm a fucking fantastic armchair critic, and i know what looks good and what doesn't :P I mostly hang around the pc/laptop section, i can hold my own there =]
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"Sony explains:
"When we first offered the PS2, there were no semiconductor companies that were able to make chips for the machine, so we did it ourselves. But now, there are companies that specialise in chip production," Nakagawa said. "They are aggressively investing in cutting-edge technology. Our basic understanding is that we probably won't need to do everything by ourselves for next-generation chips."
Well, sort of. The first 90nm chips were made by IBM. Also, according to the hype behind the Cell, it was going to be used in every sort of electronics device from TV sets to supercomputers, so having a high-volume Cell production line would be a license to print money.
I guess that idea has been put to sleep for a while, if not forever."
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I presume this is just another thing that SOny hope we have all forgotten about.
Cunt.
50 quid for a ps2? Even though I never owned one and sort of vowed never to get one, for that money i can play wipeout fusion again. Cheaper than a ps3 anyway.
Should have listened to Charlie.
Cheers for the statue, looks like something from an old Sinclair screenshot.
10 seconds? Yes Baphomet. From a powered off position the PS3 will load a Blu-ray movie in 10 seconds.
Smeg - you've listed some good tellys. The Pioneer Elite's are amazing for high def, as are any Sharp Aquos. Sony's Bravia and SXRD sets are equally as impressive and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend one to anyone. The 46" and 52" Bravia or 60" and 70" SXRD are brilliant.
I'll be waiting a little longer before upgrading though as I want to wait until the newer Sony and Sharp LCD's are out that support 120 Hz refresh rate and 10 bit deep colour. SHould be sometime later this year.
I'm also waiting for the new Denon receivers to get DTS-MA decoding, as it doesn't look like it's forthcoming for the PS3 anytime soon.
Samsung should also have HDMI 1.3 compliant LCD's out later this year and no doubt they'll be phenominal as well. I don't think you're looking at a properly set up telly if you think the Bravia sets look like turd. They're full 1080p sets. Plug in a PS3 and play Ridge Racer 7 at full 1080p 60 frames per second and see how quickly your opinion changes.
nodesofyesod I'm sorry you feel that way, but obviosuly you just feel like a bit of a plonker for not knowing anything about HDTV sets. There are several manufacturers of LCD panels.
jawa - you can only play 40 people online at the same time with the PS3. Who do you battle? =D
Movies have loading times now? (Do I care?)
I also don't like the word cunt, you are what u eat tbh mate.
If you expect anything less than abuse, enjoyably petty arguments and other such uproarious bollocks then I think you have the wrong site, or as I put forward previously - you are a cunt.
Can't you just call me a cunt and be done with the arguing - I'd have been amused by that. 'Plonker' just makes everyone here fucking cringe.