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Where the PS3 Stands Now
Phil Harrison and 1up's Luke Smith had a chat about the current positioning of the PlayStation 3, and it makes for some interesting reading. A quietly confident Harrison discusses the future of game distribution online, their attitude towards competition in the console market, and clarifies a few things about the potential for PS3 price cuts. The previous discussion about price cuts was apparently a big misunderstanding. "PH: Well, do you know what [Takao Yuhara] said was, cost reduction, not price drop, and there's a big difference between cost reduction and price drop. So, that I believe is where the confusion came from. Obviously, we are investing our money in making PlayStation 3s cheaper to manufacture -- that's part of our business plan. 1UP: You're not going to pass the savings along? PH: When we can, when there are savings to pass along to the consumer, we would obviously choose to do that. That's the business model. 1UP: Wait? You guys are doing this to make money? Really? PH: That's videogame hardware 101."
You can get PS3s online in bundles, but they are nowhere to be found in the places I've been to in Los Angeles. One thing that has been really impressing me with Sony and the PS3 has been the frequency of the system updates. Everyone thought that it wasn't going to be until late March before updates started rolling out but Sony has been fixing things and adding features are pretty fast rate. The only real problem I had was the scaling issue on by new 1080p set with PS2 games - after that was fixed I am absolutely loving the system. Resistance is absolutely killer. I've never played an online game with so many people at once and have it be absolutely rock solid stable.
Virtua Fighter is nice but the big Sony game is going to be GoW 2. It puts to shame graphically almost the entire 360 library.
Wow, the Microsoft fanboys are going apeshit. Guess that is what happens when reality collides with guys who sit around reading nothing but Zonk FUD and teamxbox forums.
I think out of all of the good news about the PS3, the people going crazy over Resistance online are the real knife in the heart for the Xbox fanboys. Online was the one thing they always held onto in the past and right out the door at launch Sony blew any Xbox 360 online game out of the water.
Ouch!
Funny how Microsoft fanboy mods moderate down anything anti-XBox or pro-Sony while pro XBox 360 posts get modded +5 Insightful or Informative (even funny) even though they're just full of half-truths, illogical arguments, and other Microsoft FUD.
It's a sad day when Microsoft fanboys have infiltrated Slashdot...