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PS3s Online Services to Compete With XBox 360
wh0pper writes "Dubbed WA!PS3 Online, Sony plans to combat the Xbox 360's download service with their own service for the Playstation 3. Though this is only going to happen in Asian markets at first, this adds even more fuel to the fiery debate over whether the Playstation 3 will have a hard drive included with the system. The Playstation 3 will be able to download games to the console for gamers to play and Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features."
WA!-T-F is with the name?
Anyone for an eight way match of Rootkit Wars on the PS3? Let me know and I will let my DRM PS3 get permission from your DRM PS3, only after Sony gives us both permission to play in the first place. Game on!
I think I speak for a very large portion of the gamer base if I say :"Put up or shut up."
So far Sony has been able to provide people with.. promises. Nothing concrete and no I don't consider a few screenshots or videos here or there as believeable material as most of them have already been revealed to be pre-rendered material.
There's way too much hyping on both sides, yet only one party has so far been able to even deliver a reasonably working box to consumers.
What's the most widely acclaimed feature of the Xbox 360 so far? Xbox Live Arcade and Marketplace (downloading demos).
There is no question that any next gen system needs to have some type of local mass storage. The only question is how big it needs to be. The 360's 20GB HD is already looking way too small.
Oh and Fight Night Round 3 kicks ass.
...Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features.
/will/ put together a good service; they have the know-how over in the Sony Online Entertainment division. But did that even really need to be quoted in the article? It's pretty much a given that Company A is going to say, when hyping their product, that it will be better than Company B's.
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'cause no company, anywhere, has ever made claims like this as a matter of course. I mean, I'm sure Sony actually
I mean, can you imagine Nintendo, for instance, coming out and going, "Yes! The Revolution is cool...! But the Xbox 360 is a better product." Even if it were true (and of course, the jury is still out on the competition to the 360), of course they wouldn't say it.
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So they're going from insanely high price per megabyte of storage to just ridiculously highly priced storage. I thought the PS3 was supposed to have a reader for other memory card formats as well. Wonder if they're going to only the memory stick option will support other media like that.
more of the same on Twitter.
Sony: "Nuh uh! Your system is poop! Mine's gonna be awesomerer than your's! My system is gonna have, uh.. um..A ROUTER.. and uh, dual shock 3.. maybe I can squeeze in a harddrive.. nah, no harddrive. well, maybe.. And it's gonna play the Blu Rays! And, and, and it's gonna go online too! Only faster than your system! With prettier colors! And more funner games than what you've got! And I'm gonna call PS Web! It's gonna rock. So, nya!"
Microsoft: "Wow, that sounds pretty cool." Here's mine *shows an Xbox360 Premium*
Sony: "DOODY HEAD!!!"
somethin like that
meanwhile, Nintendo is playing quietly in the sandbox by itself making controllers in the sand and revolutionizing the way the other kids are playing on the playground they've been using for years.
Actually, if like me you pronounce it "Wops online" it sounds like an Internet-enabled reunion of my Italian-American family.
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The pceuliar thing is, I read your post just fine wthiout even ntoicing the miastke uintl you poientd it out.
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Not exactly. I picked up a 1GB MS Pro Duo on sale for $45. You can pick up 2GB for around $100 shipped if you look. If the PS3 doesn't come with a HD, and I don't think it will to keep costs down so the $499, $45 for 1GB of storage space isn't a bad idea. Compared to $40 for 8MB of space on the PS2, it's a pretty significant price reduction.
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focusing on just making a great product. I think Xbox is winning this by keeping all the focus on them (free advertising/publicity).
I think what Sony needs to do is make a solid product and actually make sure they have a better game line up. One of the main reasons I switched from Gamecube to Xbox was because I was attracted by titles that I couldn't get on Gamecube. All that to say that I don't think that throwing a lot of hardware and technology is the way to go. Instead, software features and game titles are the great equalizer IMO. At the end of the day, I just want to play some great games and have them look and sound good.
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PS3s Online Services to Compete With XBox360
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Great idea, one 50 dollar game per every 125 dollar proprietary memory card. Oh the savings.
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Mostly, my Xbox is a media player. Secondly, it is an emulator, and I have full collections of genesis/megadrive and snes games on it (everything from US and UK, plus some translatations of Japanese roms.) Thirdly, it is an Xbox, and plays Xbox games. I have spent vastly more time playing SNES games than Genesis games, and vastly more time playing Genesis games than Xbox games.
In particular, the Xbox is a better player of most games (those which are supported, which is the vast majority) than the original consoles. For one, you can save state, which means even in games that have no save function, you can save, and you can pause anywhere even in games with no pause function whatsoever. You can also bind a button to speedup so you can "fast-forward" through long and boring cutscenes, or make walking across the map way the hell faster. And, finally, it has antialiasing, so old and low-res games look pretty decent.
Also, the revolution will have normal controller capabilities as well. I believe they've even announced support for the gamecube controller.
Put more confrontationally, who the fuck are you to tell people what to do with their game consoles? Fuck off immediately.
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Sigh... If only. Modding would be so much more fun.
Sony is scared shitless that the people holding out for a PS3 will stop waiting and buy a 360.
There are good reasons to think the PS3 will be a 2007 release in a giant box at $1000 (the PS3 is a Blu-ray player and more, how's it going to be half the size and half the price of a Blu-ray player alone?) so Sony keeps making sure little blurbs about how awesome they are and that the PS3 is just around the corner. Of course the fact that no one has seen one, and that they aren't even showing demos, but only pre-rendered cut scenes is getting hard to ignore.
You should do your homework too you know... That wasn't a MS dig, that was a full blown snipe at the "Emotion Engine" BS Sony touted prior to the PS2.
"To give an idea of the graphical prowess of their new system, Sony claims it is capable of rendering the movie "Toy Story" in real time."
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I don't know, looking on Amazon the price for compact flash is still between 50% and 90% the price of memory stick. I bought a Sony camera a couple years back because the prices looked "close" to me. I've had to take endless ridicule from CF users as I hunted for bargains on memory stick that brought the price anywhere near that of cheap compact flash card.
more of the same on Twitter.
Dont get me wrong, I like the xbox, I got media center setup and waiting on one though.
But these half-ass releases make me mad, on both sides, can't they step up the production? what good is advertising things when you cant even suppy them?
I Still cant belive I cant walk in to Best Buy yet and buy one of these things.
I keep calling around and everyone says they had some, but they were gone as soon as they came in!
Havent found a online site yet that is selling them that is not a total rip off.