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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on February 05, 2007, 07:05:18 am
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http://gaming.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1255002.php/Playstation_2_surpasses_Playstation_3_in_weekly_sales
Should we really be surprised by this?
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Testament to how badly Sony pwned the competition last gen.
Regardless, what still gets me is how Sony can still be taking a loss on every PS3 sold even with the massive price!? That's just poor design right there.
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Wait, so the Wii is winning, or is it just winning agienst PS2\3. It's not winning agienst Xbox360, right?
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Wait, so the Wii is winning, or is it just winning agienst PS2\3. It's not winning agienst Xbox360, right?
360 has been out longer. There's no real accurate way to compare the sales of the two.
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Regardless, what still gets me is how Sony can still be taking a loss on every PS3 sold even with the massive price!? That's just poor design right there.
Its all the fancy features they tossed in. Unless I'm mistaken it supports all sorts of memory card types, wireless stuff (Bluetooth as well I think?), Blu-ray madness, and all of the R&D and production costs for the really super fancy Cell processors. I think they went a little wild...PS3 and to a slightly lesser extent the X-Box 360 are meant to be all in one (or nearly there) home entertainment units. The Wii is just a game console with wireless and a unique and intuitive control system.
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(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f6/180px-Homer_dreamcar.gif)
Suddenly the parallels seem so fitting...
Who let Homer Simpson design the PS3?
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Too bad Nintendo games are about as much fun as Sean Penn the Birthday Party Clown.
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Yeah, those dang Zelda and Metroid games are as dull as watching paint dry! :rolleyes:
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Glad we agree.
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To each his own entertainment, I suppose. Though a ton of people seem to think that a Wii is more fun than a PS3...
I'd have a Wii if the ****ed retailers in my town would actually stock some for more than an hour at a time. They're still selling out that fast.
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this line of consoles is good news to pc gamers. maybe the suck factor will make them go back to their computers. then the games will follow.
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this line of consoles is good news to pc gamers. maybe the suck factor will make them go back to their computers. then the games will follow.
Now do you honestly think Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo would let that happen?
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Testament to how badly Sony pwned the competition last gen.
Regardless, what still gets me is how Sony can still be taking a loss on every PS3 sold even with the massive price!? That's just poor design right there.
every console is sold with loss... but when you buy a console game, 10 euro's go to the console maker (in this case, to sony), thats why console games are more expensive then pc games
I always wonder why people actually buy Console's.... They are hopelessly outclassed by pc's, and you can't play FS2 on it.
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Testament to how badly Sony pwned the competition last gen.
Regardless, what still gets me is how Sony can still be taking a loss on every PS3 sold even with the massive price!? That's just poor design right there.
every console is sold with loss... but when you buy a console game, 10 euro's go to the console maker (in this case, to sony), thats why console games are more expensive then pc games
I always wonder why people actually buy Console's.... They are hopelessly outclassed by pc's, and you can't play FS2 on it.
Because the games are equally as much fun (more so in certain cases; I've never seen anything to match Zelda on PC, for example), it's more accessible (sit on sofa, switch on, play), more sociable (perfect example - Mario Kart or Wii Sports), there's no costly upgrading path every 12 months, and the controllers are better for many, many things (especially footie games; and also with the benefit of having games designed to fit them). It's horses for courses, basically; certain genres work better on consoles than they can on PCs, and you'd have to be some strange & hopelessly blinkered idiot to honestly believe there was some clear cut platform superiority.
Incidentally, the Wii is being sold at profit. So was the Gamecube, before it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hwb5yGZZQ
...rather sums things up, I think.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hwb5yGZZQ
...rather sums things up, I think.
:lol: golden
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hwb5yGZZQ
...rather sums things up, I think.
:lol: golden
Must be, seems like the damn thing comes up once a month around here.
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Yeah, those dang Zelda and Metroid games are as dull as watching paint dry! :rolleyes:
Um, you didn't.
Yep he went there.
Zelda pwns, and Metriod Prime was so hard i gave up on. But Zelda? Dull? A ****in oxymoron if u ask me. Impossible.
*Busts out the flamethrower*
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Dude, I really think he was being sarcastic.
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:rolleyes: = sarcasm. Always.
:rolleyes:
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But in all seriousness, yes Zelda and Metroid are about as fun as running over a speed bump in a Chevy Cavalier going 45mph.
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But in all seriousness, yes Zelda and Metroid are about as fun as running over a speed bump in a Chevy Cavalier going 45mph.
Does that mean they are fun, or they aren't?
Because I can assure you the latest Zelda is ****ing ace, if it's the former.
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Another reason people buy/own consoles is because they (very usually) don't crash, fail, burn-out, freeze-up, stop working for no reason so that the owner has to crack it open and trouble shoot each component to find out whether it's the mobo or power supply or vid card that kicked, etc... like computers seemingly often do. Well, they didn't in the past anyway. I tried a PS3 at GameStop the other day and it locked up on me. And if you do get a faulty console by chance, it doesn't cost a fortune to replace, often times the console's company will replace it free of charge while you're under warrentry.
Granted, I'm still 100% for PC development and PC game development, but I can also understand why people would go for a console solely, or go for both like myself. :)
[edit]Just read the article. In the words of my grandfather, don't let anything over $100 be an impulse buy. Sleep on it if you have to. Also, if the Wii is an impulse buy like M&Ms, why can't anyone find them sitting by the checkstand at their local Fred Meyer.. or why can't anyone really find them anywhere for that matter? I'm pretty sure with the semi-short supply and people having to wait for another shipment to buy a Wii, there's plenty of time for reconsideration. Doesn't seem very impluse to me. Eat it, Mr. Dave Karraker of Sony. Y'all got pwned.
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Too bad Nintendo games are about as much fun as Sean Penn the Birthday Party Clown.
I LOL'ed when I read that.