[PS3] PlayStation 3 Launch
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PostPosted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:08    Post subject: [PS3] PlayStation 3 Launch
PlayStation 3 sells out at launch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6135452.stm


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PostPosted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:10    Post subject:
game scores so far :

Resistance: Fall of Man PS3 91.0%
Tony Hawk's Project 8 PS3 82.0%
Genji: Days of the Blade PS3 62.0%
Marvel Ultimate Alliance PS3 92.5%


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PostPosted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:12    Post subject:
yay did those japs were in line since 5 a.m. as with ps2 Razz
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PostPosted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:14    Post subject:
I cant wait to see this! lol

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PostPosted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:37    Post subject:
I cannot understand why people want this machine at launch?! The Wii, ok.. but the PS3?
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PostPosted: Sat, 11th Nov 2006 23:45    Post subject:
Supino wrote:
I cannot understand why people want this machine at launch?! The Wii, ok.. but the PS3?

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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 12:26    Post subject:
100,000 units at launch was a bit poor.... Personally If I was lucky enough to get one I would have it on Ebay right away...


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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 12:30    Post subject:
Yea, i wonder how they want to ship 6 million units untill march.
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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 12:34    Post subject:
WOW.. The price seems good in Japan... £270 for the Full Package (but no doubt in the UK we will be charged twice that..). Plus You have to remember that the PS3 has a Blu Ray drive and Blu Ray Players alone cost £600+ which makes the PS3 quite a good buy if you were considering getting a Blu Ray Player!!!


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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 12:47    Post subject:
lol, im not surprised about them selling out.. . Smile been on of the most hyped consoles since the ps2 Smile


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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 13:20    Post subject:
Steve-O 2004 wrote:
WOW.. The price seems good in Japan... £270 for the Full Package (but no doubt in the UK we will be charged twice that..). Plus You have to remember that the PS3 has a Blu Ray drive and Blu Ray Players alone cost £600+ which makes the PS3 quite a good buy if you were considering getting a Blu Ray Player!!!


And it has HDMI 1.3 and BD-J with an Ethernet Port, if you are looking for a Blue Ray player the PS3 is sure an option compared to the Samsung BD-P1000 wich costs €1400. Now if only Blue ray movies would be coded in VC-1 or H.264 and not in MPEG-2. Why Sony didn't use a more modern codec from the start is beyond me.

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Check out this, crazy people with obviously too much money Wink

http://tinyurl.com/yd8usx
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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 14:16    Post subject:
I would watch out as their will be lots of scams on Ebay now with the PS3


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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 14:34    Post subject:
whoKnows wrote:

Check out this, crazy people with obviously too much money Wink

http://tinyurl.com/yd8usx

man what an idiot,well xzibit will get it for his new episode,just to say ze first ps3 in da car Razz
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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 16:48    Post subject:
UserFriendly7 wrote:
lol, im not surprised about them selling out.. . Smile been on of the most hyped consoles since the ps2 Smile


Well, they chose to have only 100.000 units at launch.. Easy way to be able so say "SOLD OUT AT LAUNCH!" afterwards..


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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 16:56    Post subject:
100,000 units is a piss take. Knowing Sony at launch 30% of those will be faulty in three months.


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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 17:25    Post subject:
Dont be stupid people. Of course the ps3 will sell awesome in Japan, now and later. Japan loves sony and the playstation brand. Same with Nintendo and their consoles.
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PostPosted: Sun, 12th Nov 2006 17:32    Post subject:
That is a stupid amount of units!


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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Nov 2006 12:37    Post subject:
A friend of mine who went to live in Japan about a year ago played a PS3 recently. Apparently there were 6 games launched with the console. SIX!?? He played ...

Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight
Ridge Racer 7
Resistance: Fall of Man
Genji: Days of the Blade

From what he says it sounds very much overhyped. Resistance is crap and RR7 isnt much better than the 360 version. He also played a demo of Devil May Cry 4 and says it has great visuals but it was boring ... oh dear Sony.


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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Nov 2006 13:10    Post subject:
...and FYI there is like 60% of all sold consoles still out there that noone uses because they try to sell it with profit.


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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Nov 2006 14:00    Post subject:
I thought this interview gave an excellent analysis of what will and could happen:

http://www.gametrailers.com/bonusround.php?ep=1&pt=1

One of the excellent points brought up is that for every game developed for both the PS3 and Xbox 360, it simply is not in the developers best interest to make the PS3 version look better. More cost, same return.

It also brings up the best point of all....

Buy the system with games that you are interested in!

Personally, I will be going with the Wii for my console satisfication, and the PC for my graphics lusting. I might pick up a PS3 in 2-3 years IF it comes down in price to under 300$, which in my mind is very, very unlikely.

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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Nov 2006 15:55    Post subject:
400k for the yanks is pathetic, they'll lose this chistmas to the wii and 360, simply because of the fact there's more units out there.

As for blueray, i couldn't give a toss, blueray isn't a selling point for me at all, and if i really cared about image quality and sound of my movies, i wouldn't choose a console over a dedicated player, ever.
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PostPosted: Thu, 16th Nov 2006 23:58    Post subject:
I saw people camping out at Walmart 2 DAYS before the launch......and we have some bad rainy weather here now....Hope those idiots get sick...Smile
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PostPosted: Fri, 17th Nov 2006 00:22    Post subject:
BlueEyedPika wrote:
I saw people camping out at Walmart 2 DAYS before the launch......and we have some bad rainy weather here now....Hope those idiots get sick...Smile


so they can stay home and play their ps3? Laughing


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PostPosted: Fri, 17th Nov 2006 00:52    Post subject:
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It's suddenly becoming very important what native resolution your HDTV runs at. Some sets run at 720p natively, others at 1080i or 1080p, and some older sets don't support 720p at all. That was never an issue with the 360; Microsoft's system could upscale the image to fit your 1080i set. On the PS3 however, if your television doesn't support 720p as a resolution, you're going to have problems with games like Resistance: Fall of Man that default to 720p. You see, the PS3 can't upscale the image. What does it do? The system actually downscales the picture into 480p. So if you have a television that only does 480p and 1080i, like many older sets, many PS3 games may as well be standard definition.


I loled.

I hear 400,000 may be a gross estimate...

I'm guessing the system won't pull ahead of the race for a long time. But eventually... perhaps.


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PostPosted: Fri, 17th Nov 2006 01:51    Post subject:
if that is true they just fuk themself right there lol
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 02:56    Post subject:
Didnt this happen last year with the Xbox 360 launch as well?

http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/746/746632p1.html


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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 04:08    Post subject:
I hear only 140k were shipped? Confirm?

Ebay is hilarious.


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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Nov 2006 05:20    Post subject:
i think overall the xbox 360 will do better all they have left to do is get the metal gear series on board and they are set they already got grand theft auto which was one of the main selling points of the playstation 3 other then blu-ray which isn't much of a selling point since blu-ray has not even beat hd-dvd yet.
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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Nov 2006 06:20    Post subject:
i think the same, killa

there are a few games left for exlusive on sony's hand. i love my x360. this blu-ray thing wont be good for pirates. damn, so expensive...
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PostPosted: Wed, 22nd Nov 2006 18:02    Post subject:
killa, uhhhh... So you think Sony will bring a first party game to MS? Erm. No.


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