Ps3

[Spaced Cowboy]

I'm not buying any more consols period.

My Xbox is collecting dust. I have three games for it that I bought that I have not even opened the plastic on the box.

[Jon Miller]

I had a lot of fun at times with my PS2. But I also have games for my PS2 (and PS1 and PC) that I haven't really touched.

The issue is that there were times that I bought lots of games, played a few a bit, and then mostly played MMOs.

JM

[flipside]

I'll let the price drop a bit and buy games that I've heard are good after they have been out for a year.
Boring, but I like to have a console as if I've had a bad day at work, playing on a p.c at home when I'm sulking and avoiding people reminds me of being back in the office.

[DrSpike]

No, I am an adult.

[Nugog]

Originally posted by DrSpike
No, I am an adult.

Really???????????

[vovan]

Nope. Probably wouldn't buy it even if I could afford it ATM...

From what I understand:

360 -
Wii -
PS3 -

In terms of console quality.

Part of this I heard from my roommate, who worked at EA this summer, and claims most developers liked working on the 360, but all of them absolutely hated the PS3, and given that the 360 is a viable competitor now (as opposed to back in the day when Xbox came into the game late, and PS2 pretty much carried on its previous momentum), this spells trouble. Of course, he is an extreme MS fanboy, so take that with a grain of salt.

However, his claim certainly does have truth to it. Consider, some game dev houses are dropping plans for PS3 releases (Gah, I know I read this somewhere, but can't for the life of me find a link, so you'll have to trust me on this one); Merrill-Lynch predicts 360 will win; game industry professionals seem to prefer the Wii, etc.

All signs seem to point to the general suckage of PS3...

Feel free to flame away.

[Asher]

Originally posted by vovan
Nope. Probably wouldn't buy it even if I could afford it ATM...

From what I understand:

360 -
Wii -
PS3 -

In terms of console quality.

Part of this I heard from my roommate, who worked at EA this summer, and claims most developers liked working on the 360, but all of them absolutely hated the PS3, and given that the 360 is a viable competitor now (as opposed to back in the day when Xbox came into the game late, and PS2 pretty much carried on its previous momentum), this spells trouble. Of course, he is an extreme MS fanboy, so take that with a grain of salt.

However, his claim certainly does have truth to it. Consider, some game dev houses are dropping plans for PS3 releases (Gah, I know I read this somewhere, but can't for the life of me find a link, so you'll have to trust me on this one); Merrill-Lynch predicts 360 will win; game industry professionals seem to prefer the Wii, etc.

All signs seem to point to the general suckage of PS3...

Feel free to flame away.

A coworker of mine worked at EA Canada in Vancouver for a couple years and mentioned that the Wii and Microsoft development tools absolutely shamed the Sony ones. Add in the complexity of the PS3 hardware and there were a lot of bitter developers.

Unless Sony gets a lot of marketshare, and fast, they're screwed out of their #1 spot.

[lord of the mark]

the articles about folks standing in line, and the violence, and the 10,000 bid on Ebay, made for an interesting conversation with QOTM. Depite my attempt to convince her that there are grown men whod shell out that much for a console, shes convinced it must be super indulgent parents.

Then she asks " do YOU want" a PS3? She was in a nice mood I guess. It was of course a silly question - $600 for a game machine, and wed need an extra TV as well. And then Id have to go buy full price games to take advantage of it, when Ive still got lots of nice cheap PC games to buy.

[Jon Miller]

Well, it depends on if you count a 25 (Almost 26) yearold bachelor as a grown man.

JM

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
the articles about folks standing in line, and the violence, and the 10,000 bid on Ebay, made for an interesting conversation with QOTM. Depite my attempt to convince her that there are grown men whod shell out that much for a console, shes convinced it must be super indulgent parents.

Then she asks " do YOU want" a PS3?

She was just worried that the reason you brought up the £10,000 story was that you had a current bid for £5,000 in on the next one to come up.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Well, it depends on if you count a 25 (Almost 26) yearold bachelor as a grown man.

JM

that did come up. actually

[Standup]

Still on my PSOne and even then I tend to play retro arcade classics..paperboy, defender, spyhunter etc.

So probably not ready for a PS3