Ive got a question for gamers everywhere.
WHO IS GOING TO PAY $600 DOLLARS FOR THE PS3?
THERE ISNT ANYTHING THAT GREAT ABOUT IT.
:yarr:
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Ive got a question for gamers everywhere.
WHO IS GOING TO PAY $600 DOLLARS FOR THE PS3?
THERE ISNT ANYTHING THAT GREAT ABOUT IT.
:yarr:
We all paid over $1200 for ours. Where have you been. It's the bees knees.
holy wow.
how could you pay $1200.00 dollars for any kind of game console.
- :smoov:
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I can't leave the grounds so I have to ebay everything I own. $1200 is the price I have to pay for that.
**** that. come January it'll be found more easily. and honestly? Not one game has kept my attention on that system - been playing it almost daily for the last week.
bleh. it's all about the games. and even the Wii's not keeping my attention.
Hell, even Microsoft's slipping with the XB360. Gears of War was the biggest release I've heard of lately, and they're the company with no excuse for why they shouldn't have any promising releases for the holiday season.
This generation banked too much on the "look what I can do," and not enough on the "this is what I should be doing to appease consumers."
^ I've been saying that this entire time.
XBOX360 needs a 100.00 price drop.
are you kidding me 1200!?!?!?! just so you can have something 3 months early, wow but ive never been a big video game fan.
I doubt that even with a price drop, it'd help that much. This whole generation just seems to mediocre at best, and not just performance-wise. The marketing didn't make any sense at all. Nintendo's just now ramping up its TV ads and they don't even have any consoles to sell. It's like they weren't sure whether or not they were even going to sell it until the last minute.
Aside from that, this generation doesn't have the wow factor every generation before it brought. With the SNES / Genesis we were getting incredible sound quality / improved color depths, with the Playstation / Saturn / N64, we were being introduced to 3D gaming, and with the 128-bit generation, we were given online gaming, mass internal storage, and the ability to watch movies (yes, Dreamcast too with the VCD player.).
This generation is more of a filler to hold gamers off until the next big revolution in gaming occurs, much like Sega's 32x / Sega CD was. Anyone with an ounce of wit realizes that the games being released for the 128-bit generation are sufficient. Developers are comfortable with the systems and actually releasing fairly good games.
Additionally, Blu-ray is still in its infancy, and there's not really a push towards the Blu-ray format as there was for DVD. As most know, the problem with Blu-ray is that it's a high definition format, and in addition to the player, you're going to need an HD television to get the most out of it, so a PS3 isn't the one stop shopping item the PS2 was.
I don't think there's really anything this generation can do to improve its standing. I was never completely thrilled with the Wiimote, XB360 was always a WTF and a disappointed head shake, and the PS3, a crash course in voracity.
I think I said almost exactly that in the form of a prediction upon the first next-gen specs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Genesis F5
You paid $1,200??? Wow. Prices are way down on Ebay now, seems they are only being marked up around $100, at least for the 20gb version.
I have a friend that bought 2 PS3 20gb consoles, planning to sell one and thinking he was going to get all rich. He first tried selling it on Ebay for over 1k, no dice. Then he offered to sell it to all of us for like $800 LOL. Now he's not going to make squat on Ebay because of Ebay's fees and he's trying to dump it on Craig's List to no avail. Can't say I feel sorry for him that his plan to rip people off hasn't succeeded.
I agree with Genesis, I haven't played the Wii, but it does seem as if the whole "next gen" is just mediocre. As far as I'm concerned, the 360 has maybe 3 games that have the "wow factor". Most others are just crap and look like quick ports from the regular Xbox.
What gets me the most is that so many "next gen" games actually have LESS features than their current gen counterparts. Take Madden 07 for example, (or any other EA sports game). For the Xbox and Xbox 360, it's pretty much the same game, except on the 360 there is no owner mode and no fantasy draft. Why??? It seems easy enough to put in, but they leave it out. Makes no sense to me. I find myself going back to my old Xbox and playing NFL 2k5.
Well, what may seem like something simply can actually (and quite astonishingly) cost a developer hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, especially for some of the big names in the industry (like EA). Right now the costs of development for developers is astronomical with licensing and development kits costs. The price hike in the cost of the actual game helps a little, but developers are still going to look for ways to curb costs, and cutting features is one of their favorites.
Game development today gets the same treatment that was once reserved for movie production.
I see what you are saying but in this case I don't buy it, if something as simple as a fantasy draft feature can be added to the current gen Xbox version, I don't see why it can't be added to the next gen, unless they are just being lazy (which very well may be the case for EA and it's NFL games since they own the NFL licence now and have virtually no competition). I would think they would be able to use the same code for several of the feature they left out.
dude... EA and lazy in the same sentence... that's their style.
EA is a very lazy group... they have to go out and buy innovation. They're the Microsoft of gaming. Every year, the same ol' crap, slap on a new label, and people buy it like mad.
I agree, they also always add in one completely useless feature every year which is promoted as "the next big thing" in the franchise, then it usually gets scrapped the next year, in favor of the next great useless feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
Ooh... Motorstorm is ranked less than an Electronic Arts game!?
Quote:
PlayStation 3
# Motorstorm (Sony): 8, 8, 8, 6 - (30/40)
# Sonic The Hedgehog (Sega): 8, 7, 7, 7 - (29/40)
# Need for Speed Carbon (EA): 9, 9, 8, 8 - (34/40)
I think they give it a suboptimal score because the online feature isn't in (will come with the NA and Europe version).
Fredi
Oh? Now I didn't know that... cool.
This Famitsu guys can't be taken serious anymore anyway. They gave Gundam, a game everyone is telling that it's by far the worst JP PS3 launch game a better score than Motorstorm, a game where everyone is saying that it's by far the best game out now in Japan. Somehow this mag completely lost it.
Some new Motorstorm vids and pics:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4_ipVcRJD-o
http://www.ps2on.com/cgi-bin/display...l=s&id_joc=357
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=27445
http://static.flickr.com/134/321248418_a9542ed095_b.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/142/321264897_99f07554a0_b.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/133/321294476_05feaaaea7_b.jpg
Fredi