no more renting games? stuff that then i wont buy any games and just go x box 360ish

 

 

 

It was a rumor I didn't know about.

 

 

 

*edits main post*

Wait time to play ps3 at e3 = 30 minutes

 

Wait time to play Wii at e3 = 4 hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At $500 - $600, only die-hard fans and rich people are gonna buy the PS3... I'm sticking with Xbox 360 and Wii. Why buy a PS3 when you can find most of their games on other, cheaper, consoles. I also have a hard time believing that the PS3 is gonna be worth the price that comes a long with it. Microsoft gave me some of the best online play out in the gaming world and Nintendo gave me some of the best games I've played in my entire life. Sony, well Sony has given me a PS2 that was broken on the day I took it out of the package and a bunch of games that are either boring or I can play on Microsoft/Nintendo consoles...

 

 

 

I say, "DIE SONY!!! DO ME A FAVOR AND GO BANKRUPT!!"

prehaps another nail in the coffin

 

 

 

http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/AOTB/post/615728/Sony_To_Screw_Us_All_.html

 

 

 

Sony has issued a new patent for the PS3 which would block the console from playing used, rented or borrowed videogames. Great. All the more reason to go out and fork over $600 of your hard earned American dollars.

 

 

 

 

 

\ goin down, goin down, goin down!!

prehaps another nail in the coffin

 

 

 

http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/AOTB/post/615728/Sony_To_Screw_Us_All_.html

 

 

 

Sony has issued a new patent for the PS3 which would block the console from playing used, rented or borrowed videogames. Great. All the more reason to go out and fork over $600 of your hard earned American dollars.

 

 

 

 

 

\ goin down, goin down, goin down!!

 

 

 

it was a hoax :wink:

http://sonyfanboy.ytmnd.com/

 

 

 

So much anger :anxious:

http://sonyfanboy.ytmnd.com/

 

 

 

So much anger :anxious:

 

 

 

lmao. =D> =D>

http://sonyfanboy.ytmnd.com/

 

 

 

So much anger :anxious:

 

Aww, I was just about to post that. Besides all the laughing on his expense, he's on the dot on his point. :P

I don't know about Sony and their ps3. The price is way too high for a "normal" gamer like me. I am a playstation fan but I think Nintendo has won me over with the Wii.. I hope my friend gets a ps3 so I can play Tekken 6 though. :wink:

 

 

 

Sony better do something to wow me before they lose my loyalty :P

Wiiiii-nage!

 

 

 

+1......wii will pwn Ps3 so they're screwed anyway...i cant wait till wii comes out :shock:

 

 

 

+2

 

 

 

The controller itself owns PS3 beyond anything...

The majority of games will still use the standard joystick for movement :roll:

 

Or are you too much of a Sony / Xbox sackrider to understand that?

 

 

 

 

 

And take a trip down to an arcade, a lot of successful systems there use similar functionality, although not quite to the extreme that Nintendo has made available.

 

 

 

...then surely there won't be much innovativity in the Wii...? If it will be a joystick like the other systems?

 

 

 

You're giving the same attitude as people did with the DS' touchscreen. "Oh noes, it's new, it's never gonna work out."

 

 

 

Guess what, DS is destroying PSP in sales.

 

 

 

Mainly bcoz Nintendo have controlled the hand-held market for years

lets look at things this way.

 

 

 

PS3 will have Final Fantasy Games. So it will be big in Japan.

 

Will surpass the 360 and that new nintendo **** (i put stars in)

 

And it will have better games.

 

Mainly bcoz Nintendo have controlled the hand-held market for years

 

 

 

Yeah and?

 

Mainly bcoz Nintendo have controlled the hand-held market for years

 

 

 

Yeah and?

 

 

 

Thats how the ds is beatin psp in sales @$$H()L3

 

Thats how the ds is beatin psp in sales @$$H()L3

 

 

 

I swear, I think I've been cursed recently and became a magnet for kids that have zero reading comprehension.

 

 

 

How exactly does Nintendo's major share of the handheld industry affect the DS and PSP war? If PSP was so great, it would've pulled away easy.

 

Mainly bcoz Nintendo have controlled the hand-held market for years

 

 

 

Yeah and?

 

 

 

Thats how the ds is beatin psp in sales @$$H()L3

 

 

 

Nintendo dominated the console market for years and then got destroyed out of no where. How does that have to do with anything?

 

 

 

lets look at things this way.

 

 

 

PS3 will have Final Fantasy Games. So it will be big in Japan.

 

Will surpass the 360 and that new nintendo **** (i put stars in)

 

And it will have better games.

 

 

 

I read somewhere that Playstation was losing the titles to Final Fantasy and Nintendo was getting them back. Anyone know anything about this or did I just hear a fake rumor?

Oh, let them be. They'll spend way too much cash on a console they'll regret buying. And we'll be the ones laughing. :)

I read somewhere that Playstation was losing the titles to Final Fantasy and Nintendo was getting them back. Anyone know anything about this or did I just hear a fake rumor?

 

Kinda. The main guy behind the successful FFs has left Square. Apparently, he doesn't like the route Sony are taking (along with us normal folk), so he jumped ship to work on new projects, most likely for the Wii :)

 

 

 

WTH is FFs censored?

 

Mainly bcoz Nintendo have controlled the hand-held market for years

 

 

 

Yeah and?

 

 

 

Thats how the ds is beatin psp in sales @$$H()L3

 

 

 

Nintendo dominated the console market for years and then got destroyed out of no where. How does that have to do with anything?

 

 

 

lets look at things this way.

 

 

 

PS3 will have Final Fantasy Games. So it will be big in Japan.

 

Will surpass the 360 and that new nintendo **** (i put stars in)

 

And it will have better games.

 

 

 

I read somewhere that Playstation was losing the titles to Final Fantasy and Nintendo was getting them back. Anyone know anything about this or did I just hear a fake rumor?

 

 

 

Exactly ghost :).

 

 

 

As far as them losing the FF title, nintendo used to have it but lost it to sony. Damn it would be nice to see nintendo get it back (and i'd kind of enjoy the PS3 lose another one of it's title's, considering that GTA and Final Fantasy were probaly the two biggest sellers for the console.

 

 

 

 

 

btw, the DS is simply beating PSP because it's better. Playstation has leigons of fanboy's who love sony so obviously it isn't the fact that nintendo has just been 'more known'.

 

 

 

 

 

@ Bubsa : sweet...

Link

 

 

 

 

 

In plain English, this means the PS3 Cell processor is so big and complicated, they're having a hard time making enough to satisfy the demand. An IBM Semiconductor VP says they're "lucky to get 10 or 20 percent" out of a chip like the Cell. The other 80-90 percent aren't fit to be used in PS3s, meaning they either get used in another application or thrown away if they can't be.

 

 

 

What this means to you is that the PS3 is probably going to be available in very limited quantities, at least until they can get the yields up. Also, Sony's going to be bleeding money on these chips, since they need to make so many (5 to 1 ratio?) to get one good enough to use in a PS3. Better get your pre-orders in now. ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ Jason Chen

 

 

 

8-)

WTH is FFs censored?

 

know of any acronyms using the same 3 letters :P

 

 

 

For .... sake

 

 

 

not hard to fill in the blank. Much like why 'what the .... (same word as above) is censored.

WTH is FFs censored?

 

know of any acronyms using the same 3 letters :P

 

 

 

For .... sake

 

 

 

not hard to fill in the blank. Much like why 'what the .... (same word as above) is censored.

 

 

 

Haha, oh man of course :P

More bad news for the PS3

 

 

 

:boohoo:

 

 

 

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=3295

 

 

IBM Says It's Lucky to Get 10% to 20% Yields on Cell Processor

 

 

Cell processor reliability details may surprise you

 

 

 

As Sony's PlayStation 3 console nears its official release, more focus has turned to the technical wizardry that lays inside the actual machine. The Cell processor, developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, has gained a great deal of attention over the last year. In an interview with Electronic News however, IBM vice president of Semiconductor and Technology Services Tom Reeves says that his company is lucky if it can get 10% to 20% yields on the Cell processor.

 

 

 

The Cell processor is so complex that IBM even accepts chips that have only four out of the eight cores working. Not all cores end up functional says Reeves. In regards to why the yields are so low, Reeves says "[defects becomes a bigger problem the bigger the chip is. With chips that are one-by-one and silicon germanium, we can get yields of 95 percent. With a chip like the Cell processor, youÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢re lucky to get 10 or 20 percent. If you put logic redundancy on it, you can double that." According to Reeves, Sony will be using Cell processors whether they have all cores functional or not. Reeves says that the PlayStation 3 requires at least seven of the eight cores operational.

 

 

 

According to Reeves, IBM is still debating whether or not to discard the processors that have only six or less cores operational. Because of the design, the processors are still operational and can be used for various applications. IBM says that it will reserve the top chips for applications such as medical imaging and defense applications.

 

 

 

With Reeves' statements, it appears as though Sony will be producing PlayStation 3 consoles with different Cell processors -- some with all eight cores operational and some with just seven. Reeves however does not believe that Sony will offer different pricing for the machines and only time will tell if there will be performance differences. Reeves says however that users will not see any differences in speed. "The PlayStation 3 only uses seven of [the eight cores]. You'd have a spare."

 

 

 

In the interview, Reeves also talks about failure rate as there is a possibility that one of the cores in the Cell will "blow" at any given time. Reeves says that usually, testing during fabrication stages will detect whether a core or more will be problematic. Using electrical "fuses", IBM can "blow" out a core during wafer testing. When asked what would happen if a 7-core PlayStation 3 ends up losing another core during operation, Reeves stated that the user would simply send the unit back for replacement. Unfortunately, this only applies if the console is still under warranty -- if it isn't, the console is dead.

 

 

 

Over the last several months, speculation over the PlayStation 3's official retail costs have caused many gamers to sit up and take notice. Some analysts believe that Sony's new toy will cost too much to compete but Sony has said that the entry price will not affect the PlayStation 3's adoption. Considering the extremely low yields on the Cell processor in conjunction with extensive testing time to make sure final PlayStation 3 consoles ship with reliable processors, the high introductory pricing of the PlayStation 3 begins to show its true reasons. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) president Ken Kutaragi previously said that if the PlayStation 3 was priced at $599, it would actually be "too cheap."

 

 

 

http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=32978

Oh man...

 

 

 

So sony is using technology that isn't even fully working yet? LOL, this is going to be one hell of an interesting launch thats for sure.

I'm against Sony, but The Inquirer is a spurious source:

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquirer

 

 

 

Check out the fourth paragraph in the 'writing style' section. This seems like just the sort of story that they'd 'embroider'.