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NY Times Review of PS3
An anonymous reader noted that the NY Times has done a fairly negative review of the PS3. It would seem that there have been a fair number of these; it's pretty evident at this point that Sony's launch of the PS3 was not exactly well planned out; issues are still rolling in but the real test will be how it does over the holidays and into the next year.
This review is just a horrible piece of journalism. It reads like it was written 2 weeks ago.
His first specific criticism is that there's no cable to hook up a PS3 to an HD TV. This is simply incorrect. Sony includes a cable that works fine. It doesn't do HD, but it does hook up and let you use the system. This kind of untruth is to be expected from the NY Times, which is more about an agenda than about accurately describing the factual situation.
The only thing he says about the games is that Resistence: FoM is fun and Blast Factor is "frantic".
There's a lot of "I like the Xbox360 better" in this review. Ok, great. Good luck with that. But this is supposed to be a PS3 review, not a console buying guide that compares the different features. Buy a 360 if you want one. I hear they're great. But "the PS3 is not an XBOX360" is not a valid criticism.
There are some things the reviewer found annoying. These are valid points. But it's the first weekend of the PS3. Did everything go perfectly on the first weekend for the XBOX360? Does everything ever go perfectly? This part of the review was not balanced, but it was useful and therefore adequate.
There's a paragraph about televisions and walkmans. Does that tell you if the PS3 is fun?
On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is an extremely useful review and 1 is a completely false misleading and poorly written bird-cage liner, I'd give this review a 3.5. That's pretty good for the NY Times.
Nice strawman there, Batman! If you read the link you posted, Kutaragi actually said "for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else." which is a whole lot different than "get another job".
Please take the money MS is giving you and take your shill elsewhere.
I'm not a fanboy of EITHER the xbox or the PS3, but it's pretty obvious that the guy writing this article has M$ so far up his ass he can taste Bill Gates. All I heard was "Blah blah blah, it's not the Xbox360" and "Blah blah blah doesn't work as perfectly as xbox right out of the box". Well, does ANYONE remember that when the 360 first came out several of it's power supplies overheated and became FIRE HAZARDS and some of the games flat out DIDN'T WORK. I will be getting a PS3 eventually, but so far I haven't heard of any horror stories of any PS3 malfunctions, just some akward functionality which can easily be fixed by a patch or two (which I'm sure microsoft has done as well). None of the game systems are going to be perfect at launch and all the fanboys on either side will be the first to throw a stone at the opposing team. Let time and gameplay decide the victor fellas. Don't be Hata's.
Secrest, GAY!