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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. Re:Why I've adopted my girlfriend's philosophy by powerlord · · Score: 5, Informative
    there's no reason for a guy like me to buy a PS3 for at least a year and a half.


    At which point they should have the supply problems nixed, and there should be quite a number of games that you might be looking forward to playing on it.

    Kinda reminds me of when the PS2 launched.
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  2. Wrong, wrong, wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The PS3 doesn't have motion-sensing technology. It has gyros that can sense the controller's tilt. No MEMS accelerometers, and no position sensitivity.

    It's a cheap knockoff, and everybody knows it except idiot Sony fanboys.

  3. Re:I think my GFs parents were going to give us a by spire3661 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ever hear of a courtesy flush? Nothing wrong shitting and flushing at the same time.

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  4. Re:To be fair by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably because of the online comment. Of course people are stupid so this is still likely to happen but Nintendo did say they won't have online play ready until sometime in 2007. The original XBox didn't have online play from day one, either.

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  5. Link to the original by crossmr · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why not link to the original story which actually has hard data in it? Rather than some copy which mentions "cragslist" (whatever that is) and uses vague weasel words like "a number of people". 1 is a number, 100 is a number, 0 is a number.

    http://gigagamez.com/2006/12/22/ps3s-being-traded- for-wiis/

    And the link was even right in the write up, no searching required.

  6. Re:Why I've adopted my girlfriend's philosophy by Stormwatch · · Score: 2, Informative
    Also, the dreamcast was supposedly easier to develop for than the PS2, due to it's (optional, perhaps? I know sega rally 2 uses it) use of WinCE, and look what happened there.
    WinCE was optional. It was not even built-in. Very few games used it, mostly simple-looking ones and PC ports (Armada, Sega Swirl, Railroad Tycoon), because it didn't perform as well as using Sega's own stuff. Sega Rally 2 was a bit of a miracle, and even then it had some framerate issues. But even without that, the Dreamcast was regarded as much easier to code for than the PS2.
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