Comments on: PS3 Is Not A Toy

By: Anthony Bentivegna

Anthony Bentivegna — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:56:24 +0000

The PS3 has A high price because of all the amazing things it can do. The PS3 can play Blu-ray discs and a blu-ray player costs almost 1,000, which is a whole lot cheaper than the PS3. That alone should tell you why it’s so pricey.

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:29:31 +0000

And yet every PC or XBOX 360 game has maxed out the storage capacity of the DVD, which simply does not provide provide enough space for the textures and sound it takes to produce a real next gen game (which the 360 has yet to do). The roles are reversed this generation: if you want to play the the best version of multi platform games without crippled features or enjoy all the exclusives of the Playstation brand, you’ll have to have an HDTV and a PS3. period.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:45:22 +0000

You are arguing about the PS3s abilities. I only I want it to play video games/BR movies. All the other crap is useless to me.

CD Player- If everyone doesn’t own 3 by now than you shouldn’t be in this forum. I have something like 20 CD players.

DVD Player- Again I own 7 DVD players. Everyone again should have 2 or more.

PC functionality- My PC has way more functions than the PS3. I own 2 PCs right now. The vast majority has a PC for online functions.

Backwards Compatibilty – I have 2 PS2s in my house and I believe my PSone still works. The fact of the matter is that I haven’t played a PSone game in 6 years and I haven’t played a PS2 game in 2 years. It can be a nice feature for a very small population of gamers.

Consoles are supposed to be cheap. They are FOR GAMING first and foremost. The added functionality should be built with gaming in mind. Everything the 360 is for gaming. If some of these features fall into the other aspects for homes it is only a plus. Ipod compatibilty is great for games. Turning on your own songs in a racing game is clutch (EA can really put some crap music in their games). The fact that the 360 saves me a $100 Home Theatre Ipod setup kit is an added bonus. Sony really screwed up. Microsoft got what it needed in the 360 to perform gaming tasks. How can you say Sony needs all that crap?

The PS3 does not need Blu-Ray. You can shout it from the mountains but informed gamers should know better. When the Largest GTA game on PS2 was III than you know compression has gotten better. This has been the story of the last generation.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:04:13 +0000

Now I’m not a games developer but I’ve read elsewhere that the storage space that is available on BRD allows them to dedicate more memory to certain areas of a game that they basically couldn’t do on DVD. I’ll find it & provide the link when I get more time if you like but it will be on this blog somewhere.

I have a PSP & at the minute I only use it for the games but if I had a wireless router I would use it for checking my emails & other basic online stuff. However Sony did make a big mistake with the whole UMD fiasco which hasn’t helped the PSP at all but the PSP is not a failure not by a long stretch of the imagination.

By: 12,000lb Leg Press

12,000lb Leg Press — Tue, 30 May 2006 15:54:03 +0000

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