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People Swapping PS3s for Wiis?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardware-horse-trading dept.

An anonymous reader writes "To add to Sony's problems with the PS3 launch, it now appears that some Playstation 3 owners are trying to trade their PS3s for Wiis. The author writes: 'There's also speculation that people want the Wii because the PS3s best game is Resistance: Fall of Man. This, of course, forget that there are plenty of cool PS3 games on the way, and the PS3 has its own motion sensing technology, which, while not as good as the Wii, is still pretty cool and opens up Sony to emulate some of the Wii's successes.'"

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  1. Still want one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I still want one! See? http://marachan.comicgenesis.com/d/20061207.html

    SING!

    1. Re:Still want one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Is that another Sony run website or is that real?
      I couldn't imagine anyone (who is not [in]directly paid by Sony) being all that interested in the PS3
      Maybe I'm wrong though ...

  2. morons... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bunch of morons trading nothing for nothing.

  3. Re:I'd trade in too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So in other words you've only ever slept with fat, homely girls. Thanks for your advice.

  4. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong. by dangitman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because the everyday "street" definition of motion (as opposed to the actual definition), is synonymous with linear motion.

    Excuse me, but WTF? If you are sitting on tyhe deck of a rocking boat, wouldn't the average person conclude that they are moving? If you were tied to a wagon wheel and spun around, I don't think the average person off the street would conclude that they were stationary.

    When you're rotating the controler, in "everyday" vocabulary, its not moving.

    That's pretty dang stupid.

    While you are correct in your statement, all you're doing is arguing sementics.

    No, I'm not. Motion means motion - there's no room for semantic wriggle-room there.

    Big freagin deal. Just correct them and be on your way. No need to cry wolf.

    That's exactly what I intended to do. But for some reason, others decided to argue with the facts. I had no idea I would even get a reply. I believe the "crying wolf" was on the part of the original poster - who deliberately used inaccurate terminology to stir up slashdot anti-Sony sentiment. Now, there's nothing wrong with anti-Sony sentiment, but there is something wrong with using misinformation and trying to appeal to popularity. It's so easy to be anti-Sony and stick to facts, why the need for FUD appeals?

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  5. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong. by dangitman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, we seem to have stumbled onto some kind of bizarro world, where "motion" doesn't mean "motion." For example, where a reply to one of my posts says that the "street" definition of motion doesn't include rotation. As if the average person in the street doesn't consider their car's wheels to be in motion because they are simply rotating at high speed. Or where an obnoxious AI is modded insightful, while a simple correction is modded as a troll.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  6. Pretty obvious. by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You were "foed" because you consider normal to queue in the cold to reserve a gaming console.

    No disrispect, but I asume the guy that foed you only befriends functional adults that can wait to buy something when it is available via the normal channels and that consider such unnecessary artificial shortages an insult to costumres.

    But I am guessing here only.

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