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Final PS3 Launch List Shows 13 Games For America
Wowzer writes "Sony's PlayStation 3 is set to arrive this week on November 17th. With just 400,000 units available at launch in the USA, and an unknown number of game consoles arriving the rest of year. The total is expected to be below 1 million units in 2006, as a result many publishers have decided to delay their games so more time can be spent polishing them. From the article: 'Remember you'll have other ways to entertain yourself with the PS3 aside from it's multimedia capabilities. From day one you'll be able to download small games (plus their demos to give them a try first) and while Sony hasn't announced any specifics like price and release dates yet, count on Sony's PS3 download games like flOw & Blast Factor to be there.' From minor delays like Need for Speed: Carbon being delayed until November 20. To big launch lineup losses like MotorStorm which was delayed to March, 2007. The PS3 launch will now have 13 titles including Resistance: Fall of Man, Call of Duty 3, Genji: Days of the Blade and Ridge Racer 7."
Remember you'll have other ways to entertain yourself with the PS3 aside from it's multimedia capabilities.
$600 plus frostbite to do what my computer can already do. That's fantastic. Sign me up, sir.
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FTFA: * Call of Duty 3 * Genji 2: Days of the Blade * Madden NFL 2007 * Marvel Ultimate Alliance * Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire * NBA '07 * NBA 2k7 * NHL 2k7 * Resistance: Fall of Man * Ridge Racer 7 * Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 * Tony Hawk's Project 8 * Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
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Are NBA '07 and NBA 2k7 different games? I'm not much into sports games (which left me greatly underwhelmed with this list), but it looks like they've listed the same game twice.
I read the internet for the articles.
I'm still curious to see how this system holds out in the long run. The launch is going to most likely go well, as long as you don't look at the real numbers, in other words they'll sell every unit they've made just forget about the fact that they are a noticeable number of units short of the initial estimates/hype. Long term should be a lot more interesting, they're still a ways off from the next installments of system-seller franchises. Metal Gear Solid 4 is still about a year away, GTA4 is within a year, Final Fantasy XIII is very very far off (supposedly only 1% of it is complete? Although might not be a big deal, FF7 shipped 2-3 years after the PSX was out). I'm just wondering exactly what Sony is planning to fill in the gaps between these 3 high-profile franchises which pretty have pretty much kept the PSOne and PS2 running.
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Nope, Nothing to see here. Thanks for the 13 game posting btw, net nanny doesn't like the "games" tag at work. I can't believe people are going to pay $600 for resistance? You all look as foolish as those who bought a blu-ray player on launch day.
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I remember that I wasn't going to bother with an XBox 360, then as it got closer and closer to release and I kept seeing shots of PGR3, I just kept wanting one more and more, cursing myself for not pre-ordering. I finally tracked one down a couple of months after launch.
I'm getting none of that with the PS3. As it was, the official playstation magazine a couple of months ago went nuts over the big killer-app launch title, Oblivion, and now that's delayed.
I'm sure I'll buy one eventually, but I'm certainly not upset that I didn't try to get a launch box.
According to reviews, games like Tony Hawk 8 and Ridge Racer *should* have been delayed, because of framerate issues and bugs in general.
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You do realize they can only sell what exists, right? The summary is saying that there won't BE a million units to sell in the US.
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Thats quite the bold statement you made there.... ....except, ya know... not.
Isn't the Untold Legends series a PSP series, which is a clone of CHampions of Norrath for the PS2?
That's a bit underwhelming. It's too bad that there's 1-3 total new games on that list? I don't know about Gundam or Resistance, so that's why I ask if it's 1-3.
Hopefully the games come out faster than BR movies.
Wow, so you believe that Sony is going to sell more units than they can produce?
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For the Sony launch, Resistance: Fall of Man is the big title - Oblivion was kind of nice but not a deal breaker since it's not really new and people could also play it on PC's.
Resistance looks to have a great story, and also really good multiplayer support with 40 people at once and no slowdown. Plus I have experience with the other games that publisher has worked on and I know they do a great job with control layouts and weapons.
It's the title that is making me wish it wasn't so hard to get a PS3 anytime soon... I'm not keen on waiting in line.
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As a kicker, I bet all of these titles are NOT on BluRay media but dvd media.
Even if Sony hopes Blue-Ray will become a big factor, there are 23 Sony Blue-Ray DVDs out and not alot of those titles are going to appeal to everyone (little man? Stealth? The list goes on,) games (and to a much lesser extent accessories) are going to play the big role in Sony's success with the PS3 (especially short term.)Numbers from EnterBrain show 88,400 consoles sold (100,000 is an shipment estimate, EnterBrain expects the missing 12,600 are simply ones that were unable to be produced, not unsold.) 62% were high end which falls below the expected 80/20 distribution of PS3 models which, as unlike Nintendo, Sony loses money on every PS3 machine, we can conclude is actually worse as the profit-negating feature of the PS3 is likely to lie with the Blue-ray drive (and possibly to some extend the Cell; it sure isn't helping) which was present in the same cost in the lower model. We can assume that the features left off from the low end machine do not present a significant enough cost to be off set by the $100 short of the low end model (atleast not to make up the loss elsewhere, if not even making up the $100 itself.) Worse yet, despite analysis that all would likly have sold anyways, the Japanese PS3 versions were actually cheaper than what the US will recieve, most probably creating all the larger hill for Sony to surmount in the quest for profit.
But the more important factor is the game sales. Top two games sales were Ridge Racer 7 and Gundum at 30,000 each. Togther, that's only 60,000 games sold! Not even 1 game per system sold (lousy ebayers?) Of course, we don't have difinitive numbers on what the other 3 games available at Japan's launch are (only that they didn't reach 30,000) but we can only guess they might have made up atleast 22,000 if that (Doubt Genji sold well; check out the reviews, critics delt massive damage to that Giant Crab turd of a game.) Still, even assuming a difference made up towards one game sold per system sold, it is not hard to believe that that ratio will not make up the difference of system production costs.
Though it sold out, we're still in for quite a rollercoaster ride as the Wii (a 'strong' competitor with a better quick returns setup) steps in and the production of both console start to kick in to high gear for the USA Mega-holidays Spend-O-Rifica period. Rumors and unverified reports put PS3 second salvos in the US stores ready by the 20th (launch +3 days) and Wii at about the same time (launch +1, though these are rumors) and we can only guess they're going to be out in their bests ready for Post-Turkey day Shopping Madness.
Considering numerous games on the PS3 list are non-exclusive and exclusives like Genji have often been review, criticied and praised by Japan-launch capable news orgs, US shoppers have a lot of choice and information on the games to choose. Even if the PS3 sells out in the US, the different environment games are presented in here in the US (PCs and Xbox 360s being bigger here for things like CoD 3) could greatly impact Sony's success (in terms of profit and market share.)
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Everything I've read shows that the new Tony Hawk game has some major slowdown issues on the PS3, while on the 360 it's pretty smooth but does sometimes take an odd dip in the frame rate here and there. All this hype how the PS3 was going to smash the 360 in performance seems to be false. The Motorstorm demos on the kiosks looks pretty bad as well. I'm wondering if this will end up being another PS2 compared to the Gamecube / Original XBox.
The system has hundreds of games for it already! Look at all these PS2/PS1 games it can play! Why, you have hundreds of (repeat/re-hashed/duplicate) games to play until we get some new/repeat/re-hashed games out for the PS3 system! Buy, Buy, Buy!!!! Trade in your older systems now and save (very little) on the new PS3 toaster oven! And how many of the 'new' 'next-gen' games will just use the PS2 emulation chip? Time will tell.....
The question is can you justify spending $500/$600 for 1 good game?
I don't have the other systems, so I'd be spending the money for the other games too.
How the fuck does that get modded interesting?
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After all, you'll buy it if there weren't any games.
When was Oblivion ever hyped as a "killer app" launch title for the PS3? I read pretty much at least a little big of every major gaming mag and website, and I don't remember seeing it hailed as a "killer app" for the PS3.
Resistance is definitely getting the most hype. Honestly, it didn't draw my interest at first(aka. just another shooter syndrome), but it looks like it's going to be really good, with a great story too.
That's not to say I'm disappointed I didn't preorder a PS3... I can wait. I'm still not sure which console I'm going to get first.
And PGR3? THAT sold you on the 360..? Not much of a "killer app"...
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If it's a success and has good software, it'll be sold out for a year before you can get one. :(
If it's a failure, you'll be able to get one, but the software you bought it for will never materialize.
I just want to play FFXIII...
Oh wait, by the time that game comes out they'll have a cheaper, more available console. Yay!
At least Assassin's Creed is coming out for 360.
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For what it is worth, a couple of notes from someone who actually owns a PS3...
The launch titles play infinitely better than what was available at the Japanese PS2 launch
Mine has been running 20 hours a day since I got it home, no over heating, no game skipping, no crashes.
It's a big beast (I nearly dropped it when I was handed it over the counter as the retail box weighs a ton), but runs pretty quiet compared to my original Xbox which I only use as a MythTV frontend.
No Linux yet as we are waiting on the installer, but the good news is long term it will be possible to install any distribution that supports PPC (out of the box it supports Fedora). Bad news is that as pretty well all hardware access is via the hypervisor/virtual devices, there is no access to the GPU - yet.
Despite the wishful thinking of Nintendo/Xbox fanboys, the games I own are ALL on BluRay.
It's a really nice bit of kit, for me being able to buy a Cell dev box for 300 quid is an absolute bargain, and a fraction of what I paid for my Arm and PPC box's - and then I get to be able to play Metal Gear 4 and FFXIII too?
If you can code, are interested in non-x86 processors, and can afford one, it's a no brainer - get one.
I find it interesting that of the 13 games up there, 6 are sports titles (I consider racing a sports genre, especially in terms of Ridge Racer) and 2 FPSes. So the launch list seems to target sports fans and action gamers...which is not where I'd expect to find the super-hardcore gamers or audio/videophiles who are going to be able or willing to front the costs. I don't see a game there that'll trip the Drooling Rich Fanboy alarms to the $600 range.
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Anyone know if it's going to be like Madden 07 for PS2/XBox in gameplay, or the version on the 360? For those of you who have played both will understand what I'm talking about.
I hope the NCAA that comes out will be like the PS2/XBox versions. I can't believe they chopped out individual defensive audibles in the 360 version! It's a great key to running a defense.
I'm hoping the 360 ports were quick (Like what's been talked about with the PS3 version of Tony Hawk). With all the delays of the PS3 you'd think EA Sports would have enough time to polish off Madden and NCAA to near perfection!
I picked up an Xbox 360 last night along with Gears of War and Dead Rising. Will pick up a few more games in the next week or so and then of course Halo 3 when it comes out. The main reason I decided to go with a 360 and not a PS3 right now had nothing to do with the price. I wanted a system that had some games available. The PS3 won't have a large number of good games for at least several months. I'll buy one probably next fall unless something really great comes along. Having just bought a 360 I think that will keep me entertained for quite a while.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
So the question posed is whether or not that 1 non-sucky, exclusive game is worth the $600+ you're going to need to shell out to play it opening weekend. Which does, IMHO, make for an interesting question.
Bullshit. Unless you expect the whole life of the console to be what's available at launch. It is absolutely retarded.
Especially when you are comparing it to the 360 launch...
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Or you could, you know, wait until after Christmas and not fight in line for it. That's what I plan on doing for the Wii.
Well, that was pretty much my plan - wait until you didn't have to be in line three days in advance, or preferably at all. I feel no need to have it this moment, though Resistance looks compelling to me...
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Just curious about what video card you have, because I also still run an XP 2500 (though not overclocked and only 1GB of RAM) and recently picked up an AGP X800 GTO. I've been leery about picking up the more demanding games such as Oblivion, only to find out they run poorly.
Ridge Racer 7 is also a PlayStation 3 exclusive and got a very good review from Famitsu (36/40). So if I were buying a PS3 at launch (I'm not), I would snap up Resistance and Ridge Racer.
The question is can you justify spending $500/$600 for 1 good game?
How stupid. If your PS3 were restricted to playing only (exclusive) launch titles, your statement would make sense. In actuality, you're paying $500/$600 for five years' worth of good games.
All are of one genre, 1st person shooters. Give me a Wii anyday, at least I will have more of a choice in genres of quality games.
Besides, what is the sound that people make on a roller coaster. I'll give everyone a hint, it isn't PS3 nor is it XBox 360.
No, that's still ridiculous. Think about it for just two seconds before spouting more bullshit.
So is that 1 exclusive game worth shelling out the $600+ entry fee OPENING WEEKEND?
Of course not. But that's retarded. You're not paying $600 for just the opening weekend. You're paying $600 for the console because you expect it to have the best lineup of games for the rest of it's lifespan. And unless the price drops drastically, you're only paying a little, IF ANY, extra to have it right away(eBay/scalper purchasers aside). If it's your only planned console purchase, it may well be worth the $50 or $100 premium to have sooner rather than later -- being *extremely* generous and assuming that the price will drop by that much within a few months when there are more available, which it almost certainly will not.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Heh... DOA. I played DOA..3 IIRC, and I've never had the urge to play any more DOA... ever. I'm just glad I played it before making the mistake of buying it first :)
I hadn't heard much about PGR3, but since you mentioned it as selling you on the 360, I checked out some vids. It does in fact look very nice. I'm not much of a racing fan myself, but now that I've actually looked at it, I understand.
I do like GT, but it is slightly too much simulation for me. Perhaps I'd enjoy PGR.
I'm not sold on the 360 yet, though. "Gears" is the only exclusive I have any interest in. Other than PGR3, what else has made the 360 worth it for you?
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden