Hey all,
Playstation 3 is seem good machine but it is too expenive even thought lots of people going to pre order and when they got PS 3 then they flog on ebay for Ã,£1,000 just to make profits.
I thinking of doing that and what about you? Are you getting PS 3?
:cheers:
I do not think that I am buying one in the next months.
I am really interested in the new graphic (cell) chips ... but I am not a
hardcore-gamer - so I won't spend the high starting price atm.
Will see - if the ps3 gets cheaper I may consider buying it !
When it gets cheaper, it is mine!
I just bought an Xbox 360 so I won't be getting it for a long time, money's tight around here now.
It's not out here 'til 23th March, but even then I can't see them leaping off the shelves at $1000 each. You can buy a fabulous PC or an average laptop for that kind of money.
I'll be waiting for the price to come down out of the stratosphere.
Jim
over 600 euros here for the bog standard one rediculous but lets be honest this aint no xbox 360 this is the next king of consoles we are talkin about there wont be anything better on the market til rockstar release the next GTA at which point you will be forced to upgrade to next gen if you havent done so
I'll probably get it for the media. It'll be cheaper than the machines individual manufacturers will put out.
Have a Yahappy day.
Well, I was going to get it with the job my dad set me up with, but that fell through and I am now going to be a uni student... cliche? Haha! Thought so!
Damn, I was looking forward to owning the greatest machine every conspired and built!
People say it's too expensive. Hey, is $1000 really too much to buy the next gen console, plus a Blu-Ray player (not out in many places before PS3's release, retails for $1500 anyway, unparralled space capacity - 25GB+, and XBox 360 doesn't have it in it? YAY!), it is intenet, can be Linux (there's your pc) and although Nintendo have ripped off Sony's master plan of motion detection controllers they say "They have the bright ideas and came up with it first"!!! bah! Everyone knows that back in 1995/6 Sony designed a motion detection camera to make you fly when you flapped your wings... on PS1...
Also, the unparralled games library! Gee, where's Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Tekken, and my personal favourite - War Hawk!!! PlayStation 3! Where else! lol
Not to mention other, PS3 Exclusive titles.
Just going to have to save my spare coins after I pay for accomodation and food... might be awhile - but I can't wait.
Have they now decided what the next format for decoding / players for High Density stuff is now?
Both Blu-Ray (Sony) and HD-DVD are going ahead. They both use MPEG-2 or H264 (MPEG-4) format video.
It's up to the consumer to vote with their feet to pick the winning format. LG have a dual-format player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD)
Jim
Probably won't be getting a PS3 unless it has some derivative of Yabasic on it.
Now that would be nice it would be a shame if they didnt support homebrew after net yaroze and yabasic its become somewhat of a tradition by now if little over a decade amounts to tradition that is
It would definately earn Sony kudos as far as I'm concerned...
I'm waiting for some of the cool games to come out. DMC4, Black 2, Ico 3, Ratchet 5: Not without protection (rumored title). should be cool!
QuoteIt would definately earn Sony kudos as far as I'm concerned...
It's already done. Sony have opened up an avenue for Linux (or any other OS) to be ported to PS3, and there is at least one distro supported.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_linux)
Jim
I could get USA Playstation 3 but It is region free?
for ps3 games. dvds and ps1/2 games aren't
Thanks for the info Jim. We might see some people browsing the board using their PS3's in the future then!
Quote from: Hotshot on February 14, 2007
I could get USA Playstation 3 but It is region free?
US electrical mains supply only 120 volts. If you live in the uk its 220 volts you would have to buy a convertor to step down to 120, cost about 30 pounds last I checked. also NTSC isnt compatible with PAL, march isnt to far off
HD and ntsc tvs should work fine with it though
QuoteUS electrical mains supply only 120 volts. If you live in the uk its 220 volts you would have to buy a convertor to step down to 120, cost about 30 pounds last I checked. also NTSC isnt compatible with PAL, march isnt to far off
I'd be very surprised indeed if it didn't have a PSU that could handle either - all the stuff I use daily has a range of 110-240V, including both my USA and Australian-bought PSPs, but I suppose it's possible they shaved 50c off the price.
You have to be careful with NTSC and PAL too, but again, lots of TVs support both, it's just not always in the manual or the spec sheet.
Jim
Its only a little more than a month away so I would suggest that you do what I have done, pre-order one and sit tight. I used to have a PS2 and was quite happy with the games for it, so I am hoping that the games for the PS3 will be just as great just better looking :)
That right. The Soild Snake 4 on PS 3 is very good but will be like PS 2 Sold snake 3 where most of it was Cut Sence as what I do know is that PS 3 can do real time and does that mean there will be more gameplay in Soild snake 4 than any other version of soild snake? Only time will tell ;)
The graphics in future on next next gen graphics(eg. PS 5 or XBOX1080) will be able handle matrix flim graphics O0
Amazing how the technology has changed in under 30 years we've gone from 16 colours and a small amount of sprites to total eye candy. also back on the 2600 I had a tendency to physically move the joystick around in tune with the direction I was pressin. movin the control pad had only a phsycological effect back then but now it actually does effect the control.
Slitting peoples throughts using the wii controller on the latest splinter cell. Gentlemen, we have reached the high point of human achievement.
I have heard that Factor 5 thinking about making 3D Turrican for playstaion 3 and if does then I hope it does come to XBOX 360 but I think Factor 5 and Sony have made deal not to release it on other console.
I am MEGA Turrican Fan, Turrican 2 on humble C64 was amazing but I couldnt believe how many Turrican Sprites was made for C64 and I mean how the earth did they made all the Sprites, Sound, Music in just 64K! Unbelievable!
Lower amount of colours and screen resolution meant that not nearly as much memory was needed to store graphics. Still really impresive though.
Talk of which reminds me of something, I had an electron with 32k and some games used some of the screen memory for the code so there'd be bands of randomly coloured pixels at the top and bottom of the screen. One football game did this with it supposed to be the spectators.
I remember hearing of rumours of a Turrican 3D, what I heard from a PC mag was that the people doing the 3D wanted heaps of money for doing the gfx, and Manfred Trenz ( main Turrican creator and Legend ) in the end decided it would be far better for him to do the 3D; so he pulled the project until he could learn how to do the 3D side of things.
Back to topic: I dont think I'll be buying a PS3, as I've got a Silver PS2 that I've not really used to any great extent and I've only a handful of games on it.