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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. Obligatory by Anubis_Ascended · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. Trade in PS3 for a Wii (and maybe a few Wiimotes/games)

    2. ???

    3. PROFIT!

  2. the real reason by Daltorak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The real reason why people are switching from PS3 to Wii:

    This commercial.

  3. No Next Gen by ShakaUVM · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I hadn't been planning on buying any of the next gen gaming consoles. I have my PC, WOW, some other games, and a long backlog on my PS2 that I don't have time to get to. Why waste money? Especially since I'd need a badass TV to display the PS3 in all it's glory? I can feed my PS2 through my PC to play FF12 on my LCD monitor, and it's all right, though much uglier than even Quake1 (which I've gotten back into, incidentally -- Quake1 with Bloom is awesome. And free: www.customtf.com).

    But then I was hanging out with my family for the holidays and was trying to figure out something for everyone to do (nobody wanted to play Settlers of Catan yet again) when I suddenly realized that a Wii would be the perfect thing (we're all a pretty techie family). I went out to all the stores in the area, and found it's totally sold out, more or less everywhere. Bummer. And once the holidays are over, my desire to own one will drop back down to nil, since I'm not going to play my Wii with myself.

  4. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong. by Derekloffin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't know why this was modded insightful when it is wrong. The Sixaxis does detect linear motion as well as tilt.

  5. Re:Why I've adopted my girlfriend's philosophy by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In any case, Blu-ray allows game developers to put more content on the PS3 version of their games. This initially might just be bonus features (such as the-making-of videos) but eventually will translate into more gameplay content (extra levels perhaps?)

    Bonus features like that already exist on modern DVD-based games, but most games out there still aren't filling up a single-layer DVD, let alone a dual-layer or a Blu-ray disk. Extra disk space is a total non-event.

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