There are over 9 million PS3s actually in customer's hands at this point and around 3.7 million of them are in the U.S. You're telling me there are somewhere north of 3 million PCs and laptops with HD-DVD drives in the U.S.?
By the way... those sales figures that NPD tracks for hardware are standalone players only. They do not count the PS3 or the 360 add-on drive.
This gets modded up? Really? He adds $10 to the price and lies about the length of the game and he gets modded up as interesting? Heavenly Sword is a short game, yes. But it has no fluff at all and at an absolute minimum is still going to take six hours, with most people taking seven. It's not technically possible to beat the game in 4-5 hours. It's just not.
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction comes out next week. And a month from then, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune comes out. Those look like the first two great PS3 games.
Right... that's why the Playstation 3 is the most open mainstream console ever (any notebook SATA drive will work, most USB devices are plug 'n play, slots for pretty much every type of memory card, and it has built in options for formatting your hard drive and installing Linux, etc.) and even the fucking hard drive on the 360 is locked down to the point where you have to buy *their* models at $100 for 20gb and $180 for 120gb.
Except Nintendo made the storage mistake again with the Gamecube, passing on DVD to use their mini optical discs. They also designed it, visually and ergonomically, in such a way that it seemed they only wanted it to appeal to children. The controller seemed especially bad to me when I used it - it seemed aimed only at children.
Be fair here: Crackdown isn't that big and Oblivion pushed the absolute limit of what could be fit on a DVD. You notice how low-res the textures are in Oblivion? They didn't have room for anything better. There's your disc limitation right there.
It's the same with Mass Effect - Bioware came out and said they just barely managed to squeeze the game onto a single DVD and that they stretched their compression methods beyond what they even thought they could do to accomplish that.
The crazy troll may be pretty far off-base but more storage on a disc is a good thing.
Seriously, your question is a joke. If you're using a 13" CRT to play games you're not even being targeted as a consumer by ANY of the console manufacturers. They like people who actually own TVs.
I bought a Wii to play Zelda... and now I've sold it for the full retail price I paid for it. There's just no other compelling content - and unlike the situation with the PS3, there's also nothing on the horizon that's interesting. At least with the PS3 I'll have Motorstorm, Lair, Heavenly Sword, Mercenaries 2 and others to look forward to when I finish up Resistance.
And tomorrow I get to pickup Crackdown for the 360.
The "failure" of the last three doesn't really have anything to do with Sony.
Their memory stick is just another memory format.
SACD is superior to DVD-Audio and while SACD has failed... so has DVD-Audio. There's just not enough of a market for better than stereo music.
UMD is only for the PSP and it's still all over the place for games. The only reason it has failed as a movie format is because the movie studios ignored Sony and tried to price them at the same level (or sometimes even higher!) as DVDs.
None of these really constitute failure on Sony's part.
Manufacturers haven't reset the going rate for TVs at all! In fact, 32" widescreen LCD HDTVs are already reaching price delta's easily comparable to 32" CRT TVs from not too long ago. Manufacturers and the market have done an excellent job of very quickly bringing down the price of HDTVs. Their penetration will grow exponentially this year.
I think the Wyrmhero blade is even more powerful per hit, but hits even slower. While its' listed attack bonus is lower, Wyrmhero casts both Bravery and Faith on its' wielder.
I don't agree with that at all. Admittedly, I'm only in Archadia right now, but quickenings are still invaluable. Sure you'd be an artard to start the fight that way with your main party...
What I tend to do is start a boss fight with my backup party. I'll launch straight into a quickening chain, taking careful note of how much of a boss' life bar I deplete with the weaker backup party's attack. I'll instantly have everyone use charge, which at 0 mp almost always succeeeds, which will get them back around 50-70 MP to allow them to duke it out with the boss while still casting cure spells and removing status ailments. Eventually, they'll get slaughtered and I'll bring in the real party and start pouring on the punishment. I'll inflict every status ailment they're not immune to, keep esuna and dispell always handy and just pound the boss with hasted melee attacks from characters wearing shell and protect.
And very often, when it seems the boss is ready to mutilate my party faster than I can get my heal spells off, I'll have done enough damage to initiate a quickening chain and decimate a boss that otherwise would have wiped me out. And if that doesn't finish the boss? Everyone uses charge, two characters heal, and the one with the fewest total MP tries to use charge two more times without it failing, allowing me to jump into another quickening chain and hopefully finish off the boss.
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There are over 9 million PS3s actually in customer's hands at this point and around 3.7 million of them are in the U.S. You're telling me there are somewhere north of 3 million PCs and laptops with HD-DVD drives in the U.S.?
By the way... those sales figures that NPD tracks for hardware are standalone players only. They do not count the PS3 or the 360 add-on drive.
This gets modded up? Really? He adds $10 to the price and lies about the length of the game and he gets modded up as interesting? Heavenly Sword is a short game, yes. But it has no fluff at all and at an absolute minimum is still going to take six hours, with most people taking seven. It's not technically possible to beat the game in 4-5 hours. It's just not.
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction comes out next week. And a month from then, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune comes out. Those look like the first two great PS3 games.
It's my opinion that Zwei was vastly superior to the still awesome original.
Right... that's why the Playstation 3 is the most open mainstream console ever (any notebook SATA drive will work, most USB devices are plug 'n play, slots for pretty much every type of memory card, and it has built in options for formatting your hard drive and installing Linux, etc.) and even the fucking hard drive on the 360 is locked down to the point where you have to buy *their* models at $100 for 20gb and $180 for 120gb.
You're missing Lair, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Folklore and a ton of others.
When they're legal, they're called consortiums.
Sony didn't settle their case... they lost it.
Sony uses an internal battery instead of a pair of AAs.
Valve has already said that on Steam you'll essentially be able to purchase the Black Box.
Except Nintendo made the storage mistake again with the Gamecube, passing on DVD to use their mini optical discs. They also designed it, visually and ergonomically, in such a way that it seemed they only wanted it to appeal to children. The controller seemed especially bad to me when I used it - it seemed aimed only at children.
Be fair here: Crackdown isn't that big and Oblivion pushed the absolute limit of what could be fit on a DVD. You notice how low-res the textures are in Oblivion? They didn't have room for anything better. There's your disc limitation right there.
It's the same with Mass Effect - Bioware came out and said they just barely managed to squeeze the game onto a single DVD and that they stretched their compression methods beyond what they even thought they could do to accomplish that.
The crazy troll may be pretty far off-base but more storage on a disc is a good thing.
Seriously, your question is a joke. If you're using a 13" CRT to play games you're not even being targeted as a consumer by ANY of the console manufacturers. They like people who actually own TVs.
I bought a Wii to play Zelda... and now I've sold it for the full retail price I paid for it. There's just no other compelling content - and unlike the situation with the PS3, there's also nothing on the horizon that's interesting. At least with the PS3 I'll have Motorstorm, Lair, Heavenly Sword, Mercenaries 2 and others to look forward to when I finish up Resistance.
And tomorrow I get to pickup Crackdown for the 360.
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The 20gb PS3 is not in any way half-assed. It's not the Xbox 360 Core System. What does the 20gb model lack?
Chrome trim.
WiFi.
Some hard drive space.
Memory card readers that have nothing to do with gaming.
So tell me, how is the $500 model half-assed?
I really enjoyed Crank... for what it is.
The "failure" of the last three doesn't really have anything to do with Sony.
Their memory stick is just another memory format.
SACD is superior to DVD-Audio and while SACD has failed... so has DVD-Audio. There's just not enough of a market for better than stereo music.
UMD is only for the PSP and it's still all over the place for games. The only reason it has failed as a movie format is because the movie studios ignored Sony and tried to price them at the same level (or sometimes even higher!) as DVDs.
None of these really constitute failure on Sony's part.
There is nothing inferior about the 20gb model. What does the 60gb model have over it?
-Memory card readers (pointless if all you want to do is save games and download stuff)
-Wireless ethernet
-More hard drive space
-Chrome trim
Is that really worth $100 to you? If I'm going to pay $600 for a PS3 I'd rather buy the 20gb model and a 120gb notebook hard drive to slip into it.
Unlike with the 360, the cheaper system is not in any way gimped. The 20gb PS3 is actually a much better deal, IMHO, than the 60gb model.
Manufacturers haven't reset the going rate for TVs at all! In fact, 32" widescreen LCD HDTVs are already reaching price delta's easily comparable to 32" CRT TVs from not too long ago. Manufacturers and the market have done an excellent job of very quickly bringing down the price of HDTVs. Their penetration will grow exponentially this year.
The PS3 has had a 12 month warranty from day one.
I think the Wyrmhero blade is even more powerful per hit, but hits even slower. While its' listed attack bonus is lower, Wyrmhero casts both Bravery and Faith on its' wielder.
Because console fanboys of any bent insist on bashing the competition at any time the opportunity is given. Fanboys should have "mute" buttons.
Any console with an optical drive. Is that better for you?
I don't agree with that at all. Admittedly, I'm only in Archadia right now, but quickenings are still invaluable. Sure you'd be an artard to start the fight that way with your main party...
What I tend to do is start a boss fight with my backup party. I'll launch straight into a quickening chain, taking careful note of how much of a boss' life bar I deplete with the weaker backup party's attack. I'll instantly have everyone use charge, which at 0 mp almost always succeeeds, which will get them back around 50-70 MP to allow them to duke it out with the boss while still casting cure spells and removing status ailments. Eventually, they'll get slaughtered and I'll bring in the real party and start pouring on the punishment. I'll inflict every status ailment they're not immune to, keep esuna and dispell always handy and just pound the boss with hasted melee attacks from characters wearing shell and protect.
And very often, when it seems the boss is ready to mutilate my party faster than I can get my heal spells off, I'll have done enough damage to initiate a quickening chain and decimate a boss that otherwise would have wiped me out. And if that doesn't finish the boss? Everyone uses charge, two characters heal, and the one with the fewest total MP tries to use charge two more times without it failing, allowing me to jump into another quickening chain and hopefully finish off the boss.