Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
I find it really funny that son's ps3 launch isnt going so well.
im sure sales will pick up eventually, but for the time being ha ha sony, you suck!
Posted by jcwhite_uk
Sony did a silly thing of supplying enough PS3's to keepup with demand. If they had played their cards right and ithheld stock , like Xbox did, then it would have appeared to be more of a success than it has turned out to be. I read somewhere (cant rememebr where) that the PS3 sold about the same amount of units in the first 24 hours that Xbox did.
Posted by Xugaa
He he... big floppy whale...
Omg I'm tired!
Posted by maggflodd
On 2007-03-26 00:37:08, Luke-the-magic-man wrote:
I find it really funny that son's ps3 launch isnt going so well.
im sure sales will pick up eventually, but for the time being ha ha sony, you suck!
Posted by Red_Rach
Yep, so far its flopped. Its not like people have been queuing madly for these things, the price is way too high for a start.
Posted by arien617
It's too easy to get hold of one, even my local Blockbuster has some in stock.
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Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
My friend has bought one the day after UK launch....
He has had a PS2 for years...He purchased a game on top of his PS3.... some driving through mud game... I can see him keep a brave face.... but i think i was not there... weeping like a baby he would be!
I myself have got a Wii.... not into games consoles really...
Posted by voda_jon
the wii is the future...
Everyone will eventually get bored of the same old shooting, driving or life sim games and look for somethin a little different which is what the wii gives yeh!
I know Sony r due to release a similiar type of controller but it all depends on whether ppl will pay 3 times as much for a console that the wii will do just not with the best graphics, but with the best (imho) support for the type of control...
I dont play consoles much anymore (always out an about takin pics for work) but the wii is a nice console to play a quick 15-20mins on an not get bored with!
Posted by Vein
I was shocked to see that we had 18 in store in Argos.. 6 were on reserve and 1 more had been delivered during the morning..!
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
My mate just texted me... having lots of trouble changing his audio and video from scart to HDMI on is HD TV.... after 3 hours... he has just got visual... no audio....
I can almost see the wet tears on my mobile screen as i am reading it....
@ Voda.... same mate was in Liverpool at the weekend... he has a couple of pics of the using the Wii on one of the big street screens you have there....
Did you see them in action?
Posted by voda_jon
yeh they have been goin round wit a portable one for the last few weeks but they finally got permission an it looked really bad... graphics wise...
I try to stay away from the city center as much as poss... too many scallies who think yeh a weirdo coz yeh carry a camera and 5 lenses round yeh neck whilst carryin a tripod lol...
J.
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
I wonder why they would think that LOL
Friend has 30 odd PS2 games.... none work on his PS3...
It is a beautiful looking machine... but.... he has spent over £500 for the console... a game... and HDMI leads and an adapter to get it to work as it should on his TV.... I am not even convinced he will see a difference between that and using his scart leads....
But it does have BLURAAAAAY
And Wii has nothing
Posted by p900 lover
Ya i was in Liverpool over thew weekend and i saw the big Wii thingy in town, it was in the evening and a guy with a laptop was trying to set it up lol.
I think the PS3 will come around but people need more valid reasons to spend near enough £500
Posted by peanut
Why a company is considered to have failed when it honestly stood up and said that they were delaying to ensure they had enough stock to meet demand is beyond me.
As an example, one can't get a Wii... still! How on earth can that be helping Nintendo? They certainly won't be selling any software until they ship hardware and everyone knows the return comes from the software and not the console.
I think well done Sony - you have brought consumer goods ownership back to the 'working adult'. I wandered into the shop at the weekend, nice and calm. Handed over my money nice and calm. Got home and unpacked my PS3 nice and calm.
All in all I had a much more enjoyable purchase experience instead of biting my nails and clenching my arse for 6 months then taking the day off - just in case - only to find I wasn't getting a unit.
We only hear this 'failure/success' outcry when it's consoles. If it were tins of beans or the latest model of TV we wouldn't hear about it.
It's a fantastic purchase buy the way
Posted by Miss UK
On 2007-03-27 00:08:21, Vein wrote:
I was shocked to see that we had 18 in store in Argos.. 6 were on reserve and 1 more had been delivered during the morning..!
Of topic..
Vein, can you tell me whats the best way to apply for a Job working with Argos continue this via PM if you like
BTW PS3 is still instock virtually everywhere by me aswell,
how long will it be before shops have them on display so people can make up there minds about them that way
Posted by Dicky Snapples
sony should of withheld stock like microsoft did with the 360.
instead they just flooded the market, leaving shedloads everywhere
Posted by scottt
They had a PS3 out in currys.digital today, hooked up to a 50" HD LCD, had F1 on it did'nt look as mind blowing as i thought it would tbh....
Posted by arien617
The black XBOX 360 is going to be an even tougher competitor with the PS3.
120gb HDD + built in HDMI!
Posted by >500
On 2007-03-27 16:41:02, scottt wrote:
They had a PS3 out in currys.digital today, hooked up to a 50" HD LCD, had F1 on it did'nt look as mind blowing as i thought it would tbh....
graphics tend to be better on smaller screens. tried our 360 on a 50" (or42") pioneer plasma... sure its big and can see easy, but graphics are better on my smaller lcd hd tv...
Posted by voda_jon
@arien...
what u gotta remember though is that the graphics on the PS3 now r comparable to the Xbox 360 now...
Give it a few months and once the developers have got to grips with the coding it will simply overtake the 360 in terms of better looking games etc...
So microsoft can re-release the 360 a number of times but the fact is it will fall behind in graphics terms pretty soon lol..
J.
Posted by arien617
I know what you're saying and I totally agree, larger capacity discs=better games but hopefully Microsoft might start making games on HD-DVD format to run in the add-on HD drive for the 360. Now that would be cool.
Posted by voda_jon
its been noted that the HD-DVD drives on the 360 WONT play HD-DVD games though so chances of that are non existant
Posted by londonlad123
Is the amount that bluray can store really an issues fo microsoft because they would then just use the hard drive for larger games. Would be a good reason to include a 120gb harddrive.
Posted by arien617
@voda_jon
Microsoft might release a HD-DVD drive capable of running games.
Fingers crossed for that.
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Posted by MikLSP
By the way......
Not so much a flop, more the best selling console ever! You are confusing good supply with poor demand!
take a look HERE
Posted by Xugaa
^
Yay!
Posted by londonlad123
that's 165,000 x £425 = £70,125,000 !!
Microsofts boat hire plan didn't work then, lol.
Posted by voda_jon
am sittin firmly on the fence with the whole 'who's selling more' chat lol...
I av a Wii with a couple of games for drunken sessions after the pub lol...
Will b buying a PS3 purely for the Blu Ray player and Final Fantasy 13 when it arrives next year lol... oh an GTA 4.... and Maybe Metal Gear Solid 4...
Oh bugger there is more goodness comin out on PS3 than 360 lol...
J.
Posted by peanut
On 2007-03-27 23:58:01, MikLSP wrote:
By the way......
Not so much a flop, more the best selling console ever! You are confusing good supply with poor demand!
take a look HERE
Exactly. Well put.
Posted by MikLSP
Having lived with the PS3 for a few days now I have decided to write a little review, take a look HERE
Posted by Kwiksta
On 2007-03-27 23:58:01, MikLSP wrote:
By the way......
Not so much a flop, more the best selling console ever! You are confusing good supply with poor demand!
take a look HERE
Well played
Kwiksta
Posted by fatreg
i just need £450
fatreg
Posted by methylated_spirit
At £425 in the Uk, for an inferior model to what everyone else gets, Sony should hang their heads in shame. Its not much better than the X-box 360, how can they justify the price?
Posted by fatreg
blu ray meths..
thats how..
fatreg
Posted by methylated_spirit
Yeah but its not worth it, is what i'm saying. You buy a games console to play games, not watch dvds or blu-rays or play music. mind you *zen moment* maybe this is the first step to the edge of the one-box-does-all frontier...
Posted by Dogmann
Hi all,
Well whilst in Curry's this morning i was quite shocked that whilst talking with the manger apparently despite what was said the PS3 is not backwards compatible with PS1 & 2 games. They had loads in and had hardly sold any. Apparently even Blu-Ray Players aren't moving and the prices are dropping already. I no longer play games so it's of very little interest to me but apparently even Blu-Ray films are not really shifting either and the same can be said for HD-DVDs. Personally i think once the prices start to drop people will be more interested after all so many now have HD ready Flat screens they must want HD or Blue Ray films to watch. I was also told that one of the problems with Blu Ray is currently it doesn't support HD sound formats which seems kinda stupid to me.
Marc
Posted by Davo_169
ill get one in november when GTA4 comes out, should be cheaper then
Posted by voda_jon
sony have already said not to expect a price drop for at least 5 years lol... or was that from a tech site? i dont know but yeh i'm not expectin these to drop for a long long time lol.
Posted by MikLSP
@ meths
why do you say the UK one is inferior? I'm guessing bvecause of the backwards compatibility thing....
The difference is that the Japanese units have the Emotion Engine chip from the PS2 and so use PS2 hardware to play PS2 games. In the UK units the PS2 chip has been removed and backwards compatibility is done through software emulation.
However this doesn't mean it is inferior....
Firstly it already plays many PS2 games and the rest will be added by updates, similar to the 360.
Also the emulator s/w can be updated and improved and finally it means it is using the PS3 hardware rather than dated PS2 components, it may even be better to use the UK method
Posted by Trev1982
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/ho[....]gb-ps3-elite-coming-247994.php
WTF
Now i could be wrong but im sure i have read somewere that you can upgrade the hard drive your self please correct me if i wrong,
Posted by Xugaa
On 2007-03-28 21:02:43, methylated_spirit wrote:
Yeah but its not worth it, is what i'm saying. You buy a games console to play games, not watch dvds or blu-rays or play music. mind you *zen moment* maybe this is the first step to the edge of the one-box-does-all frontier...
No it IS worth it, you buy a more expensive phone for the camera. If you don't want the camera you buy the less expensive phone. Works the same here...
And Mik also baring in mind that Sony may already have I don't know, but will be releasing console updates over time that will gradually increase the amount of old PS1 and PS2 games that can be played.
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Posted by methylated_spirit
yeah but why didn't they just leave the emotion chip in it? Its in every other regions ps3, seems pointless to leave it out!
I heard Sony are talking about not letting you trade in games, to extort more money buy only having brand new ones on sale, is this true?
Posted by hutchygers
lol read in the paper that people bought one or two of these to try make a profit on ebay but turns out they lost some money as they sell for equal or in many cases under the RRP.
already there is price drops. aria(or something like that).co.uk has them for under £400.
i thought it played most ps2 games fine just with noticeable little glitches but nothing major. i'm sure they will update firmware etc. in the future and every game will work just fine. But when i buy a ps3 i doubt i will be playing ps2 titles anyway as all these graphics on the ps3 games are brilliant.
Posted by MikLSP
@ meths
they removed it because production is quicker and cheaper without it. Also by "every"other region you mean Japan and US....the UK, all of Europe, Australia and maybe even the new batches to be sold to Japan and US are made without it now.
Either way....whats the big deal? If people want to play PS2 games by a PS2. Buy a PS3...play PS3 games for the love of God!
You can see Sony's compatibilty guide for the Euro PS3 HERE
Posted by Vein
Xugaa wrote : No it IS worth it, you buy a more expensive phone for the camera. If you don't want the camera you buy the less expensive phone. Works the same here...
Not in the case of my 8800
But anyway... supply has met demand but in the case of new technology.. the PS3 is a very cheap blu-ray player so in some cases it's worth it..
Metal Gear Solid 4 is the one that attracts me.. I'll be getting it after I get the Elite and after it's dropped in price...
Posted by Xugaa
Lol, true but hopefully you get my point.
If you use Ebay you'll notice that they themselves are playing a part in not letting people exploit others with leaving them no choice but to pay ridiculous prices. Various rules about selling the PS3 alone have already been set up...
Also, the not allowed to trade in games and a few other similar rumours were nothing more than that, thankfully!