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Sony, Nintendo Announce 'Fixes' For Their Consoles
Gamasutra reports that both Nintendo and Sony still have a few kinks to work out from their newly launched systems. It may seem funny to an onlooker, but the spectacular Wii strap blowouts are being taken very seriously by Nintendo. People are evidently 'even more excited' by playing the little white console than the company anticipated, and they're investigating the possibility that the straps aren't strong enough. Meanwhile, Sony has updated the PS3's firmware to 1.30 in an effort to take care of the much-complained-about resolution scaling issues. Ars Technica (and several other sites) are saying that the fix doesn't really do anything, despite Sony's reassurances. From that article: "The priority of resolutions has been changed, putting 1080i over 720p. So if you prefer 720p as a resolution, be sure to uncheck 1080i as a possible resolution on your television, or else games that support both resolutions will automatically display at 1080i. Of course, if you uncheck 1080i as a resolution, your Blu-ray movies will display at 480p. So you'll have to just manually switch the resolution yourself depending on what you're doing ... If you have a 720p set, not only has Sony not fixed the scaling issues, they've made the process of playing games and watching movies less user friendly. Sony really wants you to upgrade into a 1080p set, and they seem to want to punish you if you don't have one."
Well I'd say yeah. Nintendo is taking the strap problem serious which is pretty awesome. They know for the most part the strap isn't the problem, it's a problem with people letting go of the controllers completely, but I'm sure they'll figure out someway to make people happy. However I'm sure they can't go around giving free tvs away for idiots who let go of the controller (and seriously that's fair) but they should probably offer a free stronger strap. Of course those who couldn't hang on to their controller really shouldn't expect much more. I've yet to have an occasion where the controller flew out of my hand.
Then again on Sony's side, there's so many known problems with the console, this update feels like lipservice at best, and it's not even solving any problem that a normal person would have. What's worse this is a problem their console has and they arn't even acting like it's a real problem or taking it seriously. But the priority of video feeds? That's crucial, except what happens when my 1080i TV revert to 480p because I don't have 720p?
Oh that's right, it's Next gen and HD generation? That's when graphics and games are amazing... as long as you have the right tv, and the right connector, and the right game, and sony will be glad to sell you them all, for more money.
Microsoft has become a more caring company then sony, they are at least finally repairing Xbox 360 with drive problems for free. Sony, well I guess the good news is under 400,000 people will be effected by these problems.
I thought they had fixed the price...
or does price fixing mean something else nowadays?
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
I'm going to assume you mean launch PS2 and at that you either don't play it much, had it repaired, lying, dilusional, or by work, you mean the power turns on. You virtually never hear of anyone who has a launch PS2 that works still unless it's got half an inch of dust on it from lack of frequent use. Me? I've burned through 4 PS2s since launch, and I'm sure I'll burn through a few PS3s. Their hardware is complete crap and anyone who claims otherwise is full of it.