Ps3 Gets Rave Reviews...will This Effect M$ In Anyway?

[fattony69]

The picture below is one of the 2 games I played on the PS3 and I found out that it is a good system, but there are things that I didn't like...now I didn't want to talk about my biased M$ fanboy opinions so I won't, but reviews don't lie...often, so you can read this and get some sort of an opinion, but don't be a biased M$ fanboy until you try it...Discuss Here...

Originally Posted by AP

Joseph Lee, a Marine based at Kaneohe Marine Base, Hawaii, plays a video game on Sony's new, ...

HONOLULU - Crammed in the corner of a hotel's banquet hall, they stood and stared silently, mesmerized by what they were seeing. They were watching a soldier gunning down a giant monster on one TV and Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade taking over an NBA game on the other screen. What they were really experiencing was the new Sony PlayStation 3.

The much-awaited video game console comes out Nov. 17 in the U.S., although getting one will be as challenging as finding parking at the mall after Thanksgiving.

Thousands of lucky gamers tested the PS3 over the weekend at the 2007 Sony Expo in Honolulu, two weeks before the debut.

Almost all were males _ from boys with braces and baggy jeans to gray-haired baby boomers. They crowded around two gaming booths with the sleek, lean, black machine behind a plastic case.

"The graphics are crazy, way better than the second one," said Doug Morrison, a 20-year-old University of Hawaii student. "It's more realistic. It's smoother. It doesn't have any glitches.

"I'm going to get one no matter what."

Forget Elmo, the third-generation PlayStation will top many wish lists to Santa this holiday season. And hopefully Santa saved because the PS3 isn't cheap.

The system starts at $500 for a 20 GB version. The price tag on the 60 GB model is $600.

People looking to cash in on the high demand and limited supply are already selling their pre-reserved PS3 consoles on eBay for well over $2,000. Rights to one PS3 recently sold for $3,250, plus $50 for shipping. It received 48 bids.

Some stores began taking pre-orders on Oct. 10. At some GameStop and EB Game locations, the orders were snapped up within minutes.

Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America, said about 400,000 units will be available in the U.S. in the initial launch and an additional 600,000 by the end of this year.

Sony hopes to have a total of 2 million consoles in the U.S. market by the end of company's fiscal year, which ends in March.

"Unfortunately, there are going to be some shortages," Hirai said in an interview. "I ask for everybody's patience. We are pedal to the metal in terms of trying to get as many units as possible into both the Japanese and American market."

Hirai said he doesn't even have a PS3 at home yet, even though his 12-year-old son has been begging for one.

"He talks a good game about PlayStation 3 when he's at school, but he hasn't touched one and he hasn't seen one," Hirai said. "That's only fair for everybody."

With his back turned to Sony's new $7,000 TV, Robert McDuffie and his buddies were glued to a much smaller screen, watching someone play the first-person shooting game "Resistance: Fall of Man."

The 25-year-old Army sergeant from Daytona Beach, Fla. said he didn't attend the expo to check out Sony's new line of high-definition TVs, tiny digital cameras or ultrathin laptops.

"I came for the PS3," he said, anxiously waiting for a moment with the machine.

After playing for a few minutes, McDuffie said he was impressed.

"I'm just trying to figure out how to get one," he said. "I didn't pre-order, so I'm going to have to stand in line overnight."

The PS3 is driven by a high-powered cell processor, making game play super smooth and graphics amazingly detailed. A gigabit ethernet for online gaming and a Blu-ray disc player comes standard on the console, as does a wireless controller.

The PS3 can play games and movies at "1080p," which is the highest definition resolution currently available.

But Sony has already experienced problems in developing the PS3. Sony reported a $366 million operating loss in its gaming division in the third quarter because of development charges. The launch in Europe was delayed until March 2007 because of mass production problems in the Blu-ray drive.

Tim Mah, 13, of Honolulu had one word for the new machine: "Wow."

Dyron Mack, a 35-year-old computer analyst, said he plans to buy a PS3 without consulting his wife or disclosing the cost.

"I'm not going to tell her. You just show up with it and let her be mad," he said. "You just say, 'I'm sorry. I lost the receipt.'"

[xX MoS ILL]

looks like its going to be awsome

but its just so much money and halo 3 doesnt come out for the PS3

[jonstan]

those graphics are pretty sweet
What game is it? I didnt feel like reading

[TH3DARKMARKET]

I gotta check out Resistance: Fall of Man on launch date.. thanks for sharing.

[II KiefeR II]

360 games graphics are just as good...plus halo 3 comes out soon
YAY!!!

[QUINN]

If it is an interview about PS3, of course they are not going to have any negative views about the system, that whole article was bias

[transmitable25]

what people don't realize is that those ps3 were more than likely hooked up to HDTVs. The ps3 is made solely for high defination gaming so that you aren't going to get the full potential of graphics if you are playing on a normal tv. the graphics are going to look just like those of the 360 because you can only go so far on a normal tv and both the xbox and ps3 have pushed it to the limit. Remember the games are in blueray, which are high defination discs, so it would be like trying to watch a high definition movie on a standard tv. the graphics aren't going to be amazing for the average gamer.

[SpyKi]

I think the console itself will be better tahn the 360 and it imo should have a few more 'must have' games. The only problem is the HUGE cost and the lack of consoles. Halo 3 will obviously be a very hard game for PS3 to deal with and even if it can't with one game it would be able to with the amount it may have. For some reason I can't think of many games that will be amazing on 360 but i'm sure there will be a lot. I don't really care which one is best because IMO ATM teh wii is better than both. I will get all three which is anoher reason i don't care about the 'BEST' because they will all be great.

[transmitable25]

Originally Posted by SpyKi

I don't really care which one is best because IMO ATM teh wii is better than both. I will get all three which is anoher reason i don't care about the 'BEST' because they will all be great.

I don't know how and why people think that. I have nothing against Nintendo but they are so far behind in the gaming world that I don't think they'll ever be able to catch up. I'm honestly the game cube couldn't even come close to the xbox or ps2 and I really feel thats how its going to be with the wii. I know the controllers are going to attract a lot of people at first but I see it getting really boring and old after awhile. To me playing video games is to relax and when I have to throw my arms around to play thats not very relaxing.

another big thing they did not do is making some type of high-def capability. To true high-def gamers, like myself, I am not going to buy a "next generation" gaming console that won't output in HD and look half as good as the 360 or ps3.

[QUINN]

the thing is M$ puts out much less games, but much better games, wile Sony puts out way more games with way less quality. I cant think of a single game for the PS3 that attracts me more then the 360 counterpart. And as far as exclusives go other then Halo 3 I am not interested in any of them except maybe banjo kazooie