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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. To be fair by Shados · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To be fair, it does happen the other way around plenty, and with 360s, too. I've seen a lot of people return their Wiis when they learnt that online play wouldn't be Nintendo's main focus.

    Not enough people, unfortunately, since I got Zelda for christmas, and I have no Wii to play it on >. I had several chances at a PS3, but not at a Wii, grrrrrrr...

  2. Other way around by Tourney3p0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll gladly trade my lightly used Wii for a new or lightly used PS3. Any takers?

  3. My Humble Opinion by NetJunkie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Friend loaned me his PS3. Meh. If Resistance is THE game to own for it right now, save your money. GoW is 10x the game. The new GT HD "concept" demo is pretty good, but as for graphics I think PGR3 looked every bit as good a year ago. Physics in the game? That's a different story. Sony's network implementation leaves a LOT to be desired. I'll happily keep paying my $50/year Live membership over Sony's free offering. I couldn't even use my normal nickname since Junkie is a banned word on their service.

    I love consoles and I'm sure I'll end up with one...but it'll be at least 6 months. Luckily I just moved to a 1080p DLP set from my older HD RPTV that didn't do 720p. If I had my old set everything I've played except for GT HD would have been shown in 480p.

  4. That's what I did by Eukaryote · · Score: 3, Interesting
    That's literally what I did. I went to Target a day early (the 16th) looking for Wiis at their opening. They didn't have them, but they had a bunch of PS3's, so I bought one.

    I ended up trading it today with a friend who got a Wii. I gave him a PS3, he gave me the Wii + 350. Best trade ever.

  5. Personal Experience by Chibi+Merrow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sunday morning (Christmas Eve) about 10AM we met my Dad at Best Buy because he wanted to buy the family a DVR. After wandering around for over an hour (and buying a DVD-R instead, d'oh) we passed a table in the front of the store where a manager type was standing over some boxes. He looked at us and said "Anyone want a PS3?"

    I realized he had four PS3s on the table. I said "No, thanks." and kept walking. Chuckling to my fiance about it.

    I remembered that a friend of the family was looking for one, so I started a long chain of calls to get in contact with them. Her son arrived a little over an hour later to pick one up.

    To see four PS3s sitting on the table.

    In the front of the store.

    With a guy asking everyone who passed if they wanted one.

    On Christmas Eve.

    This does not bode well.

    --
    Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
    Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them