It Begins: The Press Love the Playstation 3; Despise the Xbox 360

This article is too good to pass up. Perhaps we should invite Jane Wells and her son to be guest editors on Sony Defense Force; they speak nothing but the truth –the power of the Playstation, the awesomeness of Blu-Ray, and the magnificence of Metal Gear Solid 4 compels Xbots to trade in their loud, noisy, ugly, horribly built, RROD’ing Xbox 360′s in for the superior Playstation 3. As last month’s NPD pointed out, gamers everywhere are waking up.

The Ultimate Proof Sony Is Winning

Posted By:Jane Wells
Topics:Video Games | Movies & Film Studios
Sectors:Travel and Leisure
Companies:Sony Corporation

Forget the analysts. Forget the NPD sales figures. Forget the CEO’s. I live with the ultimate expert on the video game industry—my 16-year-old son.

He not only plays video games, he watches every show about them on G4, he participates in chat rooms about them on the internet, he competes in a variety of games on a variety of platforms. He always tells me the latest trend three months before I read about it in the media.

But he’s never been a PlayStation fan. Sure, he had a PS1, but as soon as the Xbox came out, it was game over. He loved the Xbox graphics, and once he was old enough to play “Halo,” he loved the games. He graduated to the Xbox 360, Xbox Live, “Gears of War,” etc. He even hung in there during the overheating Xbox “red ring of death” phase. Other than a two-year detour/obsession playing “World of Warcraft” on his computer, he has always been an Xbox fanboy. Sony just didn’t have great games.

Last week he recorded all of G4’s E3 coverage so he could watch it after work (he’s got a summer job to save money to buy gas and videogames, in that order). He was very excited after Microsoft had its news conference. “You can stream Netflix movies onto the Xbox 360!” he exclaimed.

Then he watched the Sony press conference, and the world as we know it changed. After hearing about “Metal Gear Solid 4”, as well as other PlayStation exclusives in the pipeline and the awesomeness of Blu-ray, he promptly packed up his Xbox 360 and all his games and went down to Game Stop to trade them in. He bought a PS3 and “Metal Gear Solid 4.” I had to be there to approve the purchase of the M-rated game since he’s not yet 17, and I was surprised at how rapturous the Game Stop employees were about Sony. They then sold him a USED copy of “Metal Gear Solid 4.” “How can the game already be used?” my son asked. “Because some people get frustrated if they don’t have ‘cheats’,” he was told. But the cashier assured him that the game “was just as good as new.” My son asked, “How can that be?” “Because PlayStation players are ninjas!” was the response.

I’m happy to say my son didn’t accept this answer. Perhaps that’s because he’s now spending his own hard-earned money to purchase these games. He said, “Seriously, how does that work?” And the Game Stop fanboys explained that Sony now has a special coating on Blu-ray game discs which makes them virtually scratch-proof. We shall see.

One thing we do know. We may not be able to stream Netflix movies onto the console (yet) but now we can start ordering them on Blu-ray.

As we left the store, I said to him, “I never thought I’d see you with a PlayStation.” “Neither did I,” he replied.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25782540

246 Responses to “It Begins: The Press Love the Playstation 3; Despise the Xbox 360”

  1. Ninsonysoft Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 am

    A used copy, eh?

    I liked these two parts.

    “and I was surprised at how rapturous the Game Stop employees were about Sony.”

    “And the Game Stop fanboys”

    The only person screaming about how awesome the PS3 is and Blu-ray was the 16-year old kid. Of course, the whole article fails because of this:

    “I live with the ultimate expert on the video game industry—my 16-year-old son.”

  2. So… It Begins yet again?

    I feel like I’m trapped in the Twilight Zone where you can’t advance the plot forward and your stuck in an infinite loops of beginning.

  3. An elderly friend of the family made the move to high-def and blu-ray rececntly, and he got a PS3 in lieu of a standalone blu-ray player.

    So it’s at LEAST true that people are buying the console for the blu-ray functionality.

  4. ROFLCOPTER Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 am

    I feel really bad for this kid, y’know. He’s experience the greatness of X-Box Live, so he’ll be more than dissapointed to see that the Playstation Network completely fails.

    Sorry to see anouther 360 fan turn to the dark side.

    You’ll just come crawling back on your hands and knees when the NEW Xbox comes out and you have to buy it because it is so superior to the PS4.

    Or he could just come crawling back on his hands and knees because the POS3 just fails so pathetically, It should be officially branded the “Piece of Shit” 3. That name would suit it perfectly.

  5. ROFLCOPTER Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 3:22 am

    Oh, and the author of the blog post said that is “tongue-in-cheek”, meaning that it wasn’t serious.

    Sources: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25802145

  6. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 am

    Of course the blog post is also called, Funny Business with Jane Wells.

  7. So the opinion of a pubescent boy who believes in the retail industries false economy of “trade-ins” knows who is going to succeed? Sony fans must consist of the bottom 10%

  8. nextgenuser Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 am

    Xboxers, learn something about this:

    Xboxers just plays 360 because it has CHEATS online. Without them, any consoleis USELESS.

    We, the superior people (PS3 users)like to play ligit games, without cheats, and enjoying every moment with our 1080p resolution and high power.

    Obviously there’s a big difference about both consoles, but, looks like the Kids nowadays wants to plan his future, and invest their time with cool things.

    I mean, 360 is for those people that hasno friends, no work, no future etc… That means 360 is for useless people, like a bunch of garbage, whilePS3 is for cool and legit people. I’m glad that 360 exist, because humanity needs some space to throw trash, we cant live with trash around, so we throw everything on 360, so we can live without stupid people around, infecting our child and devasting their future.

    Kids example:

    Xboxer at clas: HAY GUYZ I JUST PWNZ A GUY IN THE INTERNETZ WITH MY UNLIMITED AMUNNITION ON HALO 2.5 HAHA WHAT A SUCKER! HEY! LET’S PLAY MARIO KART ds WITH CHEATS, IT’S SO COOL! BY THE WAY, DID YOU BRING MY AIDS? AIDS!

    PS3 User: Good morning! Yesterday online-play was really fun! Remember that party with 20 vs 20 on Resistance? Awesome! Want to play again after some Study? I’ll bring some girls and friends!

    I’m glad that Kids grows so fast and with a superior intelligence, 2008 is the PS3 year, and 2009, and 2010…

    I just have WON, so, please, dont even try to reply my truth, dont even try it, because it will hurt you. Xboxers aren’t ready to reply me using intelligence.

    Win.

  9. HeyGuysTheWii Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 am

    Learn to grammar

  10. HeyGuysTheWii Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 am

    And spelling for that matter

  11. HeyGuysTheWii Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 am

    Maybe a Wii user would like to reply. Here’s the deal, nextgenuser, while you highlight Sony’s fanbase’s intelligence, you fail to notice the multitude of grammatical and spelling errors in your post. Congrats, you have been introduced to irony.

    Also, you can cheat online on the PS3 too. They just have that complaint system set up to deter this. Unfortunately, it will only ban your name, so change your name and you’re golden.

    Fail

  12. Forgive me if I’m wrong here NextGenUser, but I seem to be getting the impression that I’m apparently very thick for buying an XBox 360, and also that I am cheating on Halo 2.5? For starters, I’m not thick. If you can think of a good way for me to prove that to you, go right ahead.

    Secondly, as far as I’m aware I’m not cheating on Halo 2.5, both because I’m simply not cheating, and because as far as I’m aware, I don’t own Halo 2.5 Maybe if it existed I would, but as such a game is entirely fictional I strongly doubt it’s possible for me to be cheating on it.

    However, I do recall being accused of cheating on the GRID demo I downloaded a while back, thanks to my 1m 40s laps on the San Fransisco track. The only real reason I can see for you accusing all 360′ers of cheating is simply because you played against one a while back and they kicked your sorry arse. Thus you came to the conclusion that nobody could possibly defeat you and your l337-PS3-skillz, and therefore were cheating. They weren’t cheating, you were just failing because you were attempting to lean out from cover by tilting the controller. Doesn’t work on the 360 mate…

    Before I get labelled a 360 fanboy though, I’d just like to say this: Motorstorm is a good bit of fun, and Resistance is a decent game (very fun multiplayer when you get some mates round). However, all else fails gloriously when compared to the mighty PC. Of which I am a fanboy.

  13. Random frag Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 am

    FUNNY AS HELL thnx sdf
    o nextgen
    LEARN TO FUCKIN SPELL

  14. xbox360FTW Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 6:50 am

    Wow, another useless story by SDF! Not surprised!

    Nextgenuser, you just basically showed not only how ignorant you are but most of the $ony fanboy fembots here! You like to point out 360 weaknesses, but what about the POS3? Well, let’s see… a majority of people have one for a cheaper blu-ray player, the online pales in comaprison to XBL (and everyone knows it), the games library has been lack-luster (even after almost 2 years) and the only title anyone talks about is LBP (including myself). Also, it is well known that the optical drive in the POS3 have had many issues (with POS3 being sent back for repair). Don’t believe me, check on ebay and call Sony Support. Why do I know this?

    Well, I’ll tell you. I have had a POS3 since it launched (actually, on my third POS3, 60 gig non-gimped version that can play PS2 games) and I have three games for it: Uncharted and Ratchet and Clank played the most, MGS4 about 2 hours, got bored with it.

    http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm152/proteus69z/P1020714.jpg

    And the Wii with Wii Fit and guns.

    Out of the three:

    360 – 80% of the gameplay
    Wii – 15%
    POS3 – 5% (however, this is my movie player)

    I have had three 360s and three POS3s since launch. POS3 has no games, the 360 has all of them.

    Am I a 360 fanboy? Hell Yes! Why, because I have all three and I know which one is the best – 360. It has the best games and the best online.

  15. xbox360FTW: I have both a 360 and a wii. I like the wii more as a console, but the 360 has more games, hence I play the 360 more. I just wish there were more games to buy for the wii (mostly VC atm)

    But the wiimote is just the best thing in videogaming today. We really need the same amount of good games as the 360 and I wouldn’t touch my xbox anymore.

    I don’t have a ps2.5, I don’t see what kind of added value it’d give me.

  16. That article is about her SON!
    Yeah, way to fail once again SDF.
    Your article is based off of the opinion of a FUCKING SIXTEEN YEAR OLD!
    YOU ARE A BUNCH OF POLOCK CHINKY NIGGER CHINAMEN!

  17. nextgenuser, Also you are a spick and I had your dad last night!

  18. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Well, Gamespot gave more favorable reviews towards the 360 games and less favorable reviews towards the PS3 games. One example is this: The Orange Box on the 360 got a higher score than the PS3 version. I wouldn’t say that they are biased though. MGS4 got a perfect score from Gamespot. This article is false on every level. I don’t know any press companies that are biased towards the 360 or PS3 (with the exception of the magazines run by MS or Sony). Gamespot is definitely not biased IMO. They gave plenty of good reviews towards a lot of games made by Sony (i.e. God of War). They are even doing more previews and hands-ons with KZ 2 and LBP.

  19. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am

    Nice set up 360ftw, you should hit me with a friend request, my gamertag is Cavity Searcher

  20. So the “ultimate proof the 360 is winning” is some kid scraping up a used copy of the Hideo Kojima movie out of some bin?

    Sad. Do try a little harder than this please.

  21. xbox360FTW Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 am

    On MGS4, it was a disappointment to me. WAY too much cutscene/CGI crap. Guess this is why they need Flu-ray! I hope that when it comes over to the 360, they cut the CGI crap out and I think it would be a better game (less interuptions)! Use the engine for minimal cutscenes. Halo did this to perfection!

    Leave it to $ony fantards to leap on the Jane Wells story, from someone who knows nothing about video games, basing the outcome on her son’s stupidity. Couldn’t they afford both? Duh. And for MGS4, what a dumbass thing to do. MGS4 is very niche. I don’t think the story was all that great either.

    Uncharted, to me, is still the best game on POS3, at this point. THAT IS SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    There is so much more on 360. Hell, Avatars and Primetime will be out before $ony ends the Aplha/Beta for Home! THAT IS REALLY SAD! And what’s funny, it will be better!

    As a POS3 owner, I basically bought a blue-ray movie player for $600 (now on my third because of the crappy build quality of the optical drive). The online is no where near XBL, sorry. Having used both for over a year, XBL is still the hands down winner. Sony was never good at the UI. PSN shows it.

  22. @Nextgenuser

    “Want to play again after some Study?”

    I’m guessing that what you are studying would be your homework from your adult literacy classes at the YMCA?

  23. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am

    This is really amazing. SDF, you kick so much ass it is unbelievable.

  24. nextgenuser Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    The only prescription is: I win.

  25. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Here’s a transcript from a hidden microphone planted in Nextgenusers house:

    Nextgenusers Mom: How was school today honey?

    Nextgenuser: We, the superior people (PS3 users)like to play ligit games, without cheats, and enjoying every moment with our 1080p resolution and high power.

    Mom: Uh?!?!? I asked how was school today, not about videogames

    Nextgenuser: I’ll bring some girls and friends!

    Mom: Sorry dear, but I don’t know any of your friends and I have never seen you bring home a girl. We got the PS3 for you so that maybe you can have some social interaction and instead you lock yourself in your room and and play games all day.

    Nextgenuser: Xboxers aren’t ready to reply me using intelligence.

    Mom: Okay whatever you say, but your english teacher called today and said you aren’t passing at all and suggested in getting you a tudor.

    Nextgenuser: The only prescription is: I win.

    Mom: THATS IT! No more videogames untill you pass your english class and start making sense. If you don’t, then its off to the special ed classes. You got me mister!!

    Nextgenuser: Specile Ed clasess, FTW

  26. Hold up, what ur saying is that because some completely random woman’s (who about 0.001% of the worlds population knows of) son bought a PS3 (which no doubt he’s retrade back in within 3 weeks once MGS4 is completed) that the ‘Press’ LOVE the PS3?

    Do you realise that your Threads get stupider by the day? Or do u really believe the bullshit u post SDF?

  27. Also, if PS3 users are supposidly ‘intelligent’ then why the fuck did u buy a over priced PS3 when there is ALOT better on the market? That sure shows ur intelligence there doesnt it.

  28. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    @slimster

    would I be the exception since i’m buing a ps3?

  29. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    oh crap, a typo.

    would I be the exception since I’m buying a ps3?

  30. Random frag Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    @infrared
    that was fuckin funny as hell man how did u come up with something like that and yea u r an exception

  31. @Random Frag and Slimster

    If possible could you two please write you with a “y” and “o”? Unless that is you want to try and prove Nextenuser right about Xbox fans being simpletons. And one thing that Nextgenuser should never be is right.

  32. sonydefenseforceisgay Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    So an artical about one boy is proof that a glorifed Blu-Ray DVD oplayer is winning. Hah thats a riot. What next an atrical about a dog peeing on a PS3 meaning that it must be great since dogs only pee of things they want. You guys at Soonydefenseforce are really grasping at straws now.

  33. Random frag Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    @erik
    Good point he should never be right.

  34. HeyGuysTheWii Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    PS3: The console of choice for women and children everywhere. Thanks for this illuminating article, SDF

  35. This site is becoming less and less funny with each post… Seriously, dudes. This story is just bland.

  36. @HeyGuys – Not even close. The DS and the Wii have that on lock. Example is that huge “girly” campaign they had with those celebrity girls playing the DS. WiiFit is aimed at middle-aged women. With further proof in their E3 conference. That lady was so lame…it wasn’t even pics of her snowboarding…

    I had already read this article on the PS Blog and thought it was kinda lame. Thumbs down SDF.

    Come harder next time.

  37. LPH_Nukka_Plz Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 6:59 am

    @ Nextgenfucktard

    You really are a fucking looser aren’t you? Honestly who types that up? I need you to go to the doctor and get sterilized, God forbid you reproduce a retard with the same ‘lack of intelligence’ as you. Although it is doubtful that a girl would even want to have sex with you. There is always the chance that you become so angry that you are a fucking looser that you’ll probably rape a girl just so you could brag that you had sex and have an offspring. I pray to god that your family dies.

  38. @Stickemup

    SDF is definetly loosing it’s edge, you know what I’m saying? And while it was funny at first to see people take them for real it’s getting really annoying. ESPECIALLY 360 fans. Why? I can’t stand being associated with such morons. Gah…

  39. My all-time favorite was the MGS4 review. I laughed so hard.

  40. @Stickemup

    Oh yeah… 10*10/10… That was pure trolling genius. Sadly now we are left with the same toothless “it begins” overandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandoverandover again…

  41. nextgenuser Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Ha! I guess I have won again.

  42. No you’re just a spick.

  43. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    @nextgen

    Assuming you’re talking about ‘Halo 3′ (since there is no game entitled ‘Halo 2.5′), there’s a little option in the custom game pre-game lobby to turn on unlimited ammo.

    LERN2FACT.

    Also, where the hell is Paul?

  44. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Dont you mean Prick?

  45. Pay no mind to seven2s. He is just upset because his sister is cheating on him with his cousin.

  46. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Who here thinks nextgenuser is a bit touched in the head? All who agree say “I”.

  47. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    >Xboxers just plays 360 because it has CHEATS online. Without them, any consoleis USELESS.

    In-game cheats are up to the developers to add in, or not to include.

    The PS3 is easier to mod anyway, so I’d say it’s quite the opposite; the PSN is an easier system to cheat on,

    And if your statement was, indeed correct (which it is not), then the PS3 is useless.

    Checkmate, bitch.

    >We, the superior people (PS3 users)like to play ligit games, without cheats, and enjoying every moment with our 1080p resolution and high power.

    I can sorta imagine you going up to someone and saying “LOLOL MY PS3 HAS 1MHz MORE POWER THAN YOUR PC I WIN LOLOLMAO”.

    Sad, really.

    >PS3 User: Good morning! Yesterday online-play was really fun! Remember that party with 20 vs 20 on Resistance? Awesome! Want to play again after some Study? I’ll bring some girls and friends!

    So you’re portraying PS3 users as hardcore nerds, basically.

    >I mean, 360 is for those people that hasno friends, no work, no future etc… That means 360 is for useless people, like a bunch of garbage, whilePS3 is for cool and legit people. I’m glad that 360 exist, because humanity needs some space to throw trash, we cant live with trash around, so we throw everything on 360, so we can live without stupid people around, infecting our child and devasting their future.

    I didn’t understand that paragraph in the slightest due to a complete lack of grammatical integrity. Please rephrase and try posting it again.

    Seriously. Get Firefox or something. Or type your post into Word before you post it. Use Opera. Use Safari. Use the GNU Aspell libraries. Use an old-school hard back dictionary if you have to! Just check your goddamn spelling and grammar before posting!

    >I just have WON, so, please, dont even try to reply my truth, don’t even try it, because it will hurt you. Xboxers aren’t ready to reply me using intelligence.

    Actually, it’s quite the opposite. I suggest that you use some intelligence and grab something to check your spelling and grammar.

    Idiot.

  48. And to SDF thinking that Sony had a stellar showing I present something that pretty much sums up E3 (for all sides)

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/16/

    Stellar indeed.

  49. Sony had by far the best E3.

    They showed off new products.

    Microsoft didn’t reveal anything.

    Also, Sony had a better show floor presence with KZ2, LBP, and R2; not to mention all of the PSN titles as well like Flower, Fat princess, etc.

  50. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    @hans

    if anything neither MS or Sony showed anything that was “OMG megaton” announcments. The only big moment was the FF13 coming to 360 and thats about it. Otherwise it was “already seen it, now gimme”.
    I do admit the PSN does have more enticing games than XBLA on the show floor, but really “new” products did they show?

  51. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Hans, if you ever bought Flower, I would laugh so damn hard.

  52. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Also, nextgenuser is probably in the age range of 8-10 who went on a website where someone said “i win” a lot, and thought it would make him a total e-thug to say it over and over again. I guess inbreeding makes you very suggestible.

  53. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Just ordered my brand new, shiny, black, six-axis packed in, 40 gig PS3 :)

  54. @InfaredChimera

    You have my condolences.

  55. Awesome Cold.

    keri – Keep that PS2 nice and clean.

  56. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    @erik

    I didn’t know I died?

  57. @stickemup

    Of course. The laser is already fragile enough even without dust. I’m hoping one day to make room beside it for the PS4. That is if Sony fails hard enough this generation that the PS4 will be awesome.

    It will be nice to play say… God of War 4. Though its a shame that Metal Gear Solid had to go out with the PS3. It is really a shame that I will never be able to complete the series.

    Oh well.

  58. @InfaredChimera

    Condolences may be given in more situations than just with deaths.

  59. “All my teachers have considered buying PS3s just for LittleBigPlanet, which, in their words, “will replace microsoft powerpoint for years to come.”"

    A direct quote from one forum.

    Sory Stick, this really turns me off the game. Games are fun. Presentations are NOT fun. Put them together?

  60. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    @erik

    I don’t need your pity. Since you have a innate hatred for a plastic box with circuit boards in it, you really need to pity yourself if anything.

  61. nextgenuser Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Cheats on Xbox 360 are illegal. I mean, there are some “options” in-game that people calls ‘em “cheats” but, I mean HACKING the game, like, teleporting yourself anywhere, make LAG moves etc etc. X360 is broken because that, losers.

    About “lololol my console has 1mhz moar etc etc” Loser. PS3′s RAM is 7 times faster, cant compare 333MHZ versus 2000+ MHZ, also, cant compare Cell.

    Now, about the example I made, is that Xboxers will work always on Mc Donalds or something like that, while PS3 users, due to their superor intelligence, will be just rich, without even working.

    Xboxers are like flies “lololol look at us we’re flies, we play SHIT and you dont, look, there’smore SHI than PS3, that means SHIT is better lollol also, we got exclusive SHIT! and we pay for it! fuck yeah seaking!” But, that’s it, you’re still a flie, eating SHIT.

    Win.

  62. @Goronian – I’m not sure if you are serious or not. That’s like someone saying they wont buy LBP because some people are gonna make bad levels.

    @keri – Sorry, but to your dismay the PS3 isn’t going to fail. Thanks once again for supporting Sony. I believe some of your proceeds are going towards the development of LBP and Killzone 2.

  63. @Stickemup

    No, seriously, I’m kinda repulsed by this idea. It’s not just that, it’s the sum of things.

  64. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    Nextgenchink, its time to annihilate you again in an argument. So, here we go!

    *****

    >Cheats on Xbox 360 are illegal.

    As they are on PSN, right? good.

    >I mean, there are some “options” in-game that people calls ‘em “cheats”

    Entirely up to the developers to remove or to leave in. If a title is cross-platform (like the majority of the PS3 games are), then it is likely that both of these games will have these “in-game options”.

    >but, I mean HACKING the game, like, teleporting yourself anywhere, make LAG moves etc etc. X360 is broken because that, losers.

    Fail; because you can do this on both systems, and likely easier with the PS3 because it is actually easier to mod its firmware. Don’t bullshit me about it isn’t, because it is.

    I owned a PS3 before selling it and getting a dedicated blu-ray player (a sexy samsung one), and I can assure you, it was just slightly more difficult than modding an original Xbox, which was amoungst one of the easiest things to do, ever.

    The 360 is a fair amount more difficult to mod.

    >About “lololol my console has 1mhz moar etc etc” Loser. PS3’s RAM is 7 times faster, cant compare 333MHZ versus 2000+ MHZ, also, cant compare Cell.

    Last time I checked, 333MHz is the speed that my TomTom satnav uses, and 2000MHz is the speed that (I think) my ancient (now binned), 4 year old PC ran at.

    Also, you mention that your PS3′s ram is 7 times faster. 7 times faster than what; you didn’t specify what you are comparing it to. For all I know, you could be comparing it to a 20 year old computer. And I’m fairly sure that any fairly recent system could be in excess of 7 times faster than that.

    So when you put it like that I suppose there is no competition.

    >Now, about the example I made, is that Xboxers will work always on Mc Donalds or something like that, while PS3 users, due to their superior intelligence, will be just rich, without even working.

    Intelligence doesn’t mean anything if you don’t job which takes advantage of this intelligence. The only way you could (theoretically) be rich without working would be if you had retired, inherited vast sums of money, or had just won the lottery, or perhaps just received an insurance payout (a la the Mrs. Darwin case in England).

    Strangely, I’m an ‘Xboxer’, and I’m self employed. I design websites for a living. I own my own house. I have a wonderful, beautiful girlfriend (something you will never have), and I make around £40,000 a year. And I work part time.

    >Xboxers are like flies “lololol look at us we’re flies, we play SHIT and you don’t, look, there’smore SHI than PS3, that means SHIT is better lollol also, we got exclusive SHIT! and we pay for it!

    Flies can’t talk.

    Also, I’ll take it that you’re using the word ‘shit’ as a synonym for ‘stuff’ (i.e. street connotation).

    And yes, we do pay for it. In a similar way that you may purchase a PS3 game. Since, you know, games aren’t free unless you pirate them.

    >fuck yeah seaking!”

    Lol. You can be funny even if you’re a shit troll/blinded fanboy.

    >But, that’s it, you’re still a flie, eating SHIT.

    Upon looking up the word ‘flie’ on dictionary.com, I was given the following message:

    “No results found for flie.”

    >Win.

    Incorrect. I believe you are looking for the antonym of ‘Win’, ‘Fail’. Please use correct terminology, next time.

  65. @InfaredChimera

    You still have my pity nonetheless.

    @Nextgenuser

    What the fuck is a flie?

    @Stickemup

    If the PS3 doesn’t fail then the PS4 will suck. And I will be further stuck with Microsoft and Nintendo products.

  66. @erik

    Not necesarrily… I mean, if PS3 doesn’t fail, but Sony will pull it’s head out of it’s ass for long enough, maybe they would see all the shortcomings and the bad reputation of the previous one and release a non-sucky console?

    And who knows? Maybe the next generation we’ll have some new player on the market?

  67. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 7:32 am

    The only interesting articles that SDF ever made were the reviews.

  68. I’d like to buy a ps3, but not new. I refuse to give sony +1 on their sales numbers. But a ps3 without warranty is pretty much fail too. Considered how the ps2′s started breaking after some time, I expect reports of rising failrates for the ps3 in the near future.

  69. xbox360FTW Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Here is $ony’s official stance on Home:

    “Hirai claims Home’s release date doesn’t really matter”

    Says a lot about this company! They don’t care what you want or when, you’ll get it when Sony damned well pleases! I hate Sony. Too many bad products with no support, too many promises of fixed software, firmware or hardware and they never delivered! Except for the POS3, I have not bought Sony crap for 10 years! I got the POS3 because of Bluray and the 360 add on because of HD-DVD (which I still think was the better format). Oh, did I mention I am on my third POS3?! So much for quality control on the optical drives (they suck ass)!

    Hans and nextgenloser, you bring nothing to this forum. The blogs on this site are crap.

    $ony is a very distant third this gen and many people think the same.

    All $ony cares about is Blu-ray and movie/game rentals on crap PSN. The games and gamers are last (Home delays prove that out).

  70. @Goronian – You judge games way too much before you even experience them. Just like how you’re so stuck on “thinking” you’re not going to enjoy Uncharted, when that game is awesome from beginning to end, and to respond to a comment from the last thread, of course the story isn’t freakin MGS4 or GoW, but that’s the point of it. The characters are what make the story shine. Drake is such a likeable character, and everyone else fits in perfectly. Plus like I’ve said before, the twist at the end is awesome, you have NO IDEA.

    And please don’t call the PS3 a “sucky” console, especially because you don’t even have a 360 to compare it to. At this point, you’re looking at the consoles from the outside in, and all your thoughts are just speculation. So stop it, you’re sounding way too biased. Stop hanging out with keri.

  71. Got Soul Calibur 4 today, and it’s an awesome game. Worth buying on both systems. :)

  72. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    My friend just bought a PS3, which means I probably will never end up purchasing one. I can just play the games that interested me on his console for free. WOO.

  73. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
  74. @Stickemup

    You seem to have it stuck in your head that no one could possibly hate Uncharted. That such a thing is unfeasible. You need to come to grips with the fact that there are many people who think that Uncharted and the PS3 are pure garbage.

    Understand?

  75. Uncharted is alright, but it’s not the best game ever, far from it. It’s a clear rip off of Gears crossed with Tomb Raider. Suppose as the PS3 hasnt got that many decent games then they are happy with what they do get i suppose.

  76. The article is pathetic.

    Why the hell you listen to some 16-years old fanboy?

  77. facepalm

  78. EscapeTheFate Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    These comments suck.

  79. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    @erik

    I personally can’t wait to play Uncharted possibly next weekend. I liked Tomb Raider and Gears and always enjoyed Naughty Dog games, so my theory is this; why the hell not. I’m aware of the problems with the gamem but that won’t detract me from playing it.

    Since we all know that your not a fan of the PS3 (thats actually quite alright in all regards, since its your OPINION), then I got to ask you this question

    What games on the 360 and Wii that got great “reviews” but just didn’t care much for; for example Gears of War for me (while a good game, it wasn’t all cracked up to be to me, I guess it just didn’t click, although I can’t wait for the sequal to it.).

  80. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    @stickemup

    I should have my console possibly by next friday, if not the following monday. I will be buying MGS4 and Resistance and just to make sure I will have a headset as well.

  81. Random frag Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    @InfraredChimera
    Hey guess what the Sox beat the tigers just thought i would let u know and i was thinkin about what u said about us winning the console war and you are right becuase as you were right there are many ways to win the war

  82. LPH_Nukka_Plz Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    It needs to be more aggressive in here, usually I have fun reading the comments of you guys calling Paul or somebody else a faggot lol. Yay Xbox!

  83. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    Yay Xbox, anyone who says otherwise are faggots!!

  84. “I have fun reading the comments of you guys calling Paul or somebody else a faggot lol.”

    Hey now. Don’t talk that way about Sony Defense Force’s fat princess.

  85. Trivium300 Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    this was a very touching article. im glad they boy finally did somthing good with his life and sold that 360 for the ps3. smartest move he could ever make (the dumbest move he ever made was buying the 360 in the first place)

  86. @Trivium

    And how is flushing money down the loo on the most (unjustifiable) expensive system on the market a smart move? A PS3, with a game and some needed accessories would easily run a half a grand.

    But I have been thinking and I’ve decided to reevaluate my stand on the PS3. Previously I decided that I would never under any circumstances play a PS3. Well I’ve done some unpleasant things in my life. Such as a month I spent in a job as a telemarketer. That was sheer hell and a part of my life I would prefer to forget. Now at that job I got payed roughly $10 an hour. Now if I could get payed say… $12 an hour I just might play the PS3. I really can’t imagine it being too much worse than telemarketing.

  87. Whatever the outcome of this war, $ony has lost by default. They’ll never going to break ps2 records with the ps3 and microsoft and nintendo have swallowed a large chunk of their user base, installed base, fanboys and exclusives. There is no way $ony can recover before 2011 when the nextbox will inevitably come

  88. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    @marnick

    By sales numbers, yes the PS3 has lost by default in N.A, but yet we all gain as gamers. The market today can sustain 3 seperate and unique consoles that all offer different things to everyone.
    Look back 15-20 years ago, there was only 2 home consoles out vying for our dollar, then along came sony and ended up changing the game with the PS1. Fast forward to 2001 with the launch of the xbox (mind you that halo did sustain that console and is one of the main reasons it the brand is still here today) and then there was a 3 way battle going on for our dollar yet again.
    Now look at today; 3 consoles, 3 different experiences, and many reasons its good to be a gamer today.

  89. Random frag Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    my problem with sony is that they still havent killed off the ps2 like microsoft did with the xbox

  90. Random frag Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    fuckin moderation

  91. @Stickemup

    Okay, lety me refrase myself.

    Imagine YOUR boss having all the presentations in LBP? Once, twice… Now imagine schoolkids. You get my meaning?

    I WILL buy Uncharted when I’ll uy PS3, I’ve already said that, but, as of now, it’s not a “system-seller” for me.

    And by the way… Did you just call the story of God Of War… Good?

  92. @Infrared: Yea I like the 3way console war. At least it’s better than sega vs nintendo, a pure graphics war.
    This war is not about graphics, it’s about functionality. Which one offers hd movies, online gaming, motion sensing, the best downloads … This is the first generation in which every console has a operating system worthy of the name. I think that’s important.

    It’s a pity we can’t just pick whatever we want. Online from xbox with wii controls on a blu-ray disc? Then again, those are consoles, not pcs :)

    PS: I just got my htc p4350. It’s a damn good device.

  93. also, to cover my tracks: hd movies, online gaming, motion sensing, downloads. Not talking about the ps3 here. It doesn’t have online worthy of talking about, neither is the motion sensing worthy of the name and the downloads are crap compared to marketplace and shopping channel.

    It has hd movies, I give you that….. and mgs4

  94. nextgenuser Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 2:18 am

    Can 360 afford 256 players online like PS3 does? NO. 360 online system got OWNED, everyone laughs to the last-gen console.

    Win.

  95. @nextgenuser
    Can sombody kill this Troll?
    There’s trolling, and theres Trolling. He’s getting on my nerves.

  96. Nextgenuser is a complete retard who makes other retards like Paul & Hans look like genius’. But before they get big headed, your not actually genius’ your still retards.

    When are people going to realise that the Online part of gaming is purely owned by MS? Neither the Wii or PS3′s online capabilities come close to LIVE and probably wont ever will either.

    The Wii owns at doing things differently, and at the people who wouldnt normally play games, the PS3 owns at HD movies, and the 360 owns with Online Gaming, and Gaming in general. Simple as that, yet u all argue about it like gaylords still.

  97. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 5:57 am

    @nextgenloser

    Who says that the 360 can’t do 256 online MP?
    Also who even knows that this game (MAG) will even be good.

    I WIN, and you just LOSE (and in more ways than one).

  98. EscapeTheFate Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 6:37 am

    Every time nextgen is not on his computer, he loses. Every step, Every step, every word, a fail. Every experience, every breath, a simple example of the amount of fail that has amassed in this world.
    Yes, nextgen, you do win. The winner of failing (losing, sucking, etc.) Quit being such a fanboy nerd and people won’t be so hostile, normally I don’t attack people like this, but you’re like a super nerdy troll and super nerdy trolls are just asking for it. I mean, are you kidding me?

  99. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 7:47 am

    http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=493#comment-17394 (@lastgenchink)

    Actually, it can. Dev’s can choose to use Xbox Live as they wish. If they want to, they can use it only for tracking players and matching players, using their own servers for multiplayer (and Test Drive Unlimited springs to mind here, which had fucktons of people online during its glory days.)

    Also, fuck comment moderation.

  100. Hey look, thousands of players online at once:

    http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=67057

    That beats 256 right?

    Nextgenuser lost, now and forever.

  101. Ps3 can’t have 256 multiplayer, it just doesn’t have the memory. Same for the 360 btw, this generation just isn’t cut for such large games.

  102. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 9:04 am

    360 has Huxley, so any argument about MAG proving the superiority of the PS3 is so much bullshit.

    I just played MGS4 for the first time yesterday, and my main problem with the game was the length of the cutscenes. I would be fine with them, even if they were long, but they take forever to say nothing. They don’t need such long cutscenes to do the story. They could have easily cut out superfluous dialogue and made each cutscene half as long.

  103. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 10:01 am

    @Marnick

    They can if the Games companies provide dedicated servers, like FF11, Phantasy Star Online and TDU

  104. I think it’ll be handled diffrently. Something akin to never actually having all 256 players on-screen at the same time.

  105. @Goronian – I still don’t understand why it would bother you for someone to make a presentation with LBP, how does that affect your gameplay?

    And I don’t know if you know, but they are kidding…LBP is lots of things, but it’s not the next step in power point presentations.

    Please explain yourself, I really hope you’re kidding.

  106. @Stickemup

    Okay, maybe I was in a bad mood then… It does sound stupid, when I think of it now.

    I WANT. I really-really WANT to love LBP. It’s looks promising, a little even grounbreaking, innovative… But… But… I simply can’t. It just doesn’t pir me into such a blisfull glee, as, for example Fable 2… Gah…

  107. @Goronian

    Fable 2? Because the first wasn’t enough of a disappointment?

  108. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    @marnick

    :|

    Anything could have 256 people online. Sure, if the graphics sucked ass.

    Down to preference, really. I prefer smaller maps with more carnage, playing in smaller groups (I think 12 is a very good number for total players), because then I actually get a good idea of who is dominating and who everyone is.

    I don’t like the idea of 256 people anyway.

    @Goronian

    You mean you actually liked Fable 1?!

  109. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    I loved Fable 1, it had to be one of the best RPG’s of the time. Especially Lost Chapters

  110. charleytony Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    This story is total BS. Anybody who is console neutral would say that Microsoft had the better showing at E3 (as boring as this E3 was). Now Im supposed to believe that a kid who is a Xbox fanboy “saw what Sony showed at E3″ and pawned his xbox 360 for a PS3 ?
    Quite a story !
    He just found out what MGS4 was ? That family must live under a rock.

    At least that will make one less spoiled kid on xbox live… now he can scream all he wants on the console where almst no one has a headset.

    Parent buying a M rated game for her 16 year old ? Great parenting indeed ! Wait a minute did she really buy Halo 1 to her kid back in 2001 ? That kid was what ? 9 years old ? That mother should be sent to Guantanamo with the rest of her kind.

  111. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    @nextgenmexican

    I measured Fable 1 up against Knights of the Old Republic. Which is proabably why I didn’t find it too great.

    Then again, that’s a tough benchmark.

  112. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    @charleytony

    Lol, Halo 3 is set to mute everyone who isn’t a friend on my 360. That way I don’t have to endure total idiots playing god awful music down their mic during matches, or screaming down their mics stuff like ‘LOLOLOL I PWNED U WITH MAH N-ERGY SWROD LOLOL AIDS LOL YOUR MUM’ and other such things . I suggest you do it. It makes matches a lot more pleasureable.

    (I know nextgenchink is going to reply to this with ‘lol c that proves ps3 users r intelligennts lol’. I’d like to point out that those who have mics on psn are very similar. I had a PS3 before selling it for a ‘proper’ blu-ray player.)

    The story is written tounge in cheek anyway. Perhaps SDF didn’t recognise this, or they didn’t see the fact that it’s called ‘Funny Business’.

    Eeeeeeeeh.

  113. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    Oh yeah. Triple comment. I don’t care.

    Which browsing gametrailers I came across this (lulzy) comment by a Sonyfag:

    “yo are u retarded, i agree that farcry two has better graphics, but ps3 wud not be dead without blu ray. theres no other alternative to making good graphics? ps3 has a cell processor wich can make huge interactive worlds and stuff. and ps3 has more gigs than 360 (wich has only 20), the elite is the same price as the 80 gig, but 80 gig is turnin to $400. and plus, 360 needs much more accesories money for internet, pshh yea right save money. i dont hate 360, but i like ps3 much better.”

    I find it legendarily funny that someone can believe that a processor itself makes ‘huge interactive worlds and stuff’.

    Legendary.

  114. @ erik

    I like the Wii and 360 as much you do, but seriously, chill out… you make us all look bad.

  115. @sm0ke

    how in specifically should I chill out?

    Also as I have stated prior anything I say about the PS3 isn’t so much out of like for the Wii and 360 as much as out of hate for the PS3. I would gladly toss Wii or the 360 under the bus if it meant I could further berate/harm the PS3.

    I’d throw my Wii out a fifth story window if I knew it would land on a PS3.

    Ergo: Fuck the Wii and fuck the 360

  116. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    I too liked Fable, and while it wasn’t everything it was hyped up to be, I still found it quite enjoyable. Can’t wait for Fable 2 though.

  117. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    @erik

    Why through your Wii out if you can use a brick for massive damage?

  118. @WhatTheFunk

    To make a point.

  119. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    @moderation
    Fuck you.

  120. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    @erik

    The only point you would make is being a idiot. So you would take two consoles, one worth around $350 and the other one worth $250, to destroy one console worth between $400-$500.
    So the only point you make is that, you would spend more money to destroy something thats $100-$200 cheaper than the money it costs for the implements to destroy it.
    I got something better for you that does get to the point; you wouldn’t piss on a PS3 to put out a fire.

    That makes sense, you don’t.
    From now on you should be called, “NextgenuserErik”

  121. “I got something better for you that does get to the point; you wouldn’t piss on a PS3 to put out a fire.”

    But that doesn’t really get to the heart of the point I’m trying to make. The point I’m making and you are incapable of understanding is that unlike Nextgenuser my disgust for system A does not cause me to hate system B. When nextgenuser makes a comment about the 360 it is based on some sort of rivalry. The closest thing I could compare it to is the fans of two rival football teams. Unlike Nextgenuser Its not a system A vs. System B thing. But rather system B screwed me over. More akin to when say… Metallica decided to sue some of their fans. And now who hates Metallica the most? Not fans of a rival band, but their own former fans.

    So again the NextgenuserErik doesn’t fit. As I can say: Fuck the PS3, Fuck the Wii. Can Nextgenuser bring himself to say fuck the PS3?

  122. Typo. I meant fuck the 360 fuck the Wii.

  123. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    @erik

    But System B hasen’t done anything to you at all, its not like it came in and fucked your ass without buying you dinner first. Since you don’t own system B, then how did it screw you over? You don’t own it, haven’t (by my observation from previous posts) played it, and you certainly didn’t pay for it. Since none of those things apply, you couldn’t be “screwed over” and have taken it WAY to personal. The always best way to tell a company you don’t like the product they put out, is vote with your dollar. While you can have opinion about a product by doing research, the always best way to have a informed opinion is to try the product before you buy it. While I know its hard (for you anyway) to go in with a positive attitude about the PS3, why not give it a go? Having played my friends PS3 for a evening a few weekends ago has giving me a good feeling for the system and how it works and I liked it more for what it can offer to me.

    Yes Metallica has sued some of there fans, but do I fucking care? Nope. I still listen to them because you know they can put out a half way decent product.

  124. “But System B hasen’t done anything to you at all, its not like it came in and fucked your ass without buying you dinner first. Since you don’t own system B, then how did it screw you over?”

    I supported Sony for years and they received a lot of my money over those years. And after supporting them so far do I get the successor to the PS2? No I get a bloated, over priced movie player

    “While I know its hard (for you anyway) to go in with a positive attitude about the PS3, why not give it a go?”

    You mean like: bend over, bite the pillow and take it?

    “Yes Metallica has sued some of there fans, but do I fucking care? Nope. I still listen to them because you know they can put out a half way decent product.”

    I don’t listen to them. Fuck those lawyer wannabes.

  125. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    @erik

    Noone ever gets what they want, so deal with it.

    “You mean like: bend over, bite the pillow and take it?”

    I didn’t say submit, i basically said, “give it a fair shake, if you don’t like it then so be it, but at least that you can have a good reason not like it”.

    “I don’t listen to them. Fuck those lawyer wannabes”

    Metallica (or should I say Lars, since he’s the unoffical PR person for the band) has done some shitty things, but watch Some Kind of Monster, it was a pretty interesting documentary for a band.
    BTW you really like to jump to conclusions don’t you, ya little cheeky monkey?

  126. Fair shake, submit. Same thing.

  127. Yes, I liked Fable. Why? Let’s see… Atmosphere, music, interesting rp-system and simple, yet addictive gameplay. Plus some good characters. Of course Moulinex promised more, but then again EVERYONE promises more and doesn’t deliver. See the game for what it is, not for what it promised to be.

  128. @ Goronian

    PS3 players do that all the time. Almost every game on the PS3 promised so much but delivered so little (ie. Lair, Haze, etc.)

  129. @Slimster

    I don’t own any console yet and planning to get a 360 first, but ultimately have all three… But I just WANT to love LBP. It just looks so promising. And I can’t bring myself to! Gah…

  130. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 5:07 am

    @erik

    Giving something a “fair shake”, means your looking at it completly neutral on the person, item, or idea.
    To “submit”, is just letting someone or something take control of you (ie getting married).

  131. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 7:09 am

    @Goronian

    LBP to me is simpily Gary’s Mod put on a console and a couple of features wacked on the top.

    Not to say that LBP isn’t good, but it really isn’t all as innovative as they it is.

  132. @InfaredChimera

    And just why should I give the PS3 a fair shake?

  133. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    @erik

    Then you would have a valid reasons why you don’t like the console as much as the PS2. Not only that anyone can say they don’t like a particular thing, and then to come out and say they never experienced the thing they don’t like.
    Who knows you might come out having a deeper appericaiation for it after your done playing it, or you could come out still with the same opinion as before.
    Either way at least you gave it a shot, and for that it will at least you made a effort and gave it a shot.

  134. @InfaredChimera

    That really doesn’t make any sense though. How would playing it change my opinion? I mean I don’t have to be set on fire to know that I wouldn’t like being set on fire. And also how would playing it change the fact that Sony is both overcharging their customers and shoving useless features down their throats?

  135. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Yes it does make sense. Would you marry a chick without banging her first? Most people whould say no (or like me who have kinda low morals).
    While playing a PS3 isn’t as extreme as being set on fire, what would it hurt to try it, thats all I’m trying to say?

    While I agree the price is quite steep and the blu-ray drive is still very debatable when it comes to games, but what are the other “useless” features does it have? Shit I’m buying a PS3 to do one thing, and thats to play games on it that the 360 or Wii won’t be getting (as well as features for some games that MS just won’t give in to, ie downloading custom content like for UT3).

  136. Useless features lets see

    Blu-Ray
    Cell
    Wi-fi (nintendo made this mistake also mind you)
    Six-axis
    HDMI output (Microsoft made this mistake later on mind you)

    And another reason I’m not going to give it a fair shake is the (albiet small) chance that I might like it. Then I’ll end up as just another Sony whore ready to be slapped in the face as they steal my money and shove useless crap down my throat.

    I’d never want to be like Hans, Paul, Nextgenuser, Stickemup or well, you.

  137. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Useless features lets see

    Blu-Ray- debatable form of gaming media, but did “win” the HD movie format “war”.

    Cell- archeticture making it hard for devs to develop for, but it is almost like the xenon processor found in the 360 and could be the next “thing” (thats if it catches on).

    Wi-fi- MS has a wi-fi adapter and it seems to be catching on as well (coffee shops, restaurants, and generally kinda nice not having a shit ton of wires all over the place)

    Six-axis- tacked on imo, but implemented right (like the wiimote) it could be used cleverly.

    HDMI output- SD or HD, SD is great and all, but when you buy a HD set (HDMI outs) its nice to know its there. I did hear there is a step up though coming down the pipeline.

    How is sony going to “steal” you money unless you buy there product. If you buy it then you got a right to bitch, but if you don’t then why even begin to bitch about it.

    BTW at least I can be fair and knowledgeable what I’m talking about, and not hold a personal vendetta against a company(s) that I’m in no way associated with. A whore would be more a hans or nextgenuser (paul from what i’m getting is just here to piss people off and make fun of a person like you) and stickemup is resonable and probably given a opportunity to own a 360, I would think he would (which more than can be said about you).

  138. And I’m sure there are likely many extra useless things I don’t even know about.

  139. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Erik, you would never be Nextgenuser, because you know how to type in complete sentences with correct grammar.

  140. @erik

    Erik, if you hate PS3 so much and fully aware that this is a flame-bait troll-site, why do you come here? Don’t you have anything better to do? You know, like the cool all-knowing person you are?

  141. @erik

    Erik, if you hate PS3 so much and fully aware that this is a flame-bait troll-site, why do you come here? Don’t you have anything better to do? You know, like the cool all-knowing person you are?

  142. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Let’s get one thing straight. Fanboys are stupid. We all know that. But you’ve got to admit that the gaming industry wouldn’t be as fun without those mindless and idiotic failures of human beings. All these arguements and hate are just music to the ears of neutral and casual gamers. Anyone agree with me? I’m sure the more reasonable users (i.e. Stickemup and Goronian) would.

  143. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    As for the PS3: buy it to play games. Don’t buy it to watch movies. That’s my opinion. It’s a gaming console. It should live up to its name. I own a 360 and I never use it to watch movies or listen to music. I leave that job to my DVD player. Same goes with the PS3. If you already have a Blu-ray disc player at your house then what is the point of buying a PS3 just to play Blu-ray movies?

  144. At one point, I’m ashamed to say, I was thinking about buying a PS3. But at that point the PS3 was one of the cheapest Blu-Ray players around. With the influx of afordable Blu-Ray players I no longer had a reason to even consider buying a PS3.

    But it would be a lark though. Having a PS3 but no games. Then when someone comes over and ask what games you have and just look at them blankly and tell them none.

  145. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    @geneitcallyDifferent

    I agree with you on the fanboys are stupid, but damn there pathetically ignorrant which makes me laugh my ass off.

  146. erik is literally insane. One of the worst fanboys on the internet.

    He doesn’t know the meaning of “worthless features”.

    He apparently hates ALL systems (360, wii, PS3), yet spends his time trolling this site…

    Hmmm…Are you butthurt because this site actually tells the truth and it makes you angry?

    Anyway, the fact is that the PS3 has beat the 360 in North America. The 360 is done with. It’s over. The PS3 is outselling the 360 despite costing 400-500 while the 360 costs 270-350. LTD aren’t relevent unless you’re looking at it in terms of comparative sales since launch; the 360, at the same point in its lifespan as the PS3, has been OUTSOLD by the PS3. The year’s head start is irrelevant because the PS3 will be on the market longer than the 360.

    Oh, and the PS3 is the best blu-ray player on the market. I own a few PS3s strictly as Blu-Ray players and haven’t even bothered with standalone blu-ray players because they’re over priced and inferior to the PS3. PS3 is a much better deal and I don’t have to worry about another box cluttering up my entertainment cabinet.

  147. “Hmmm…Are you butthurt because this site actually tells the truth and it makes you angry?”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    This site tell the truth? Are you fucking kidding me? One needs only look at the screenshot of Grand Theft Auto 4 where you quite obviously used the blur filter on the PS3 version of the game and tried to pass it off as the 360 version. Or the ridiculous lie that you know Hideo Kojima. Please, drop the act. EVERYONE knows that this site is a farce.

  148. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 6:29 am

    NOOOO! erik! Don’t tell them to drop the act! In need my daily influx of lulz here!

  149. xbox360FTW Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Here it is in a nutshell: the black monolith known as the POS3:

    http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm152/proteus69z/POS3_monolith.jpg

    See, it’s a big black box that does nothing, in a movie. At least it can play movies!

    And look, it shows the POS3 fanclub and the SDF monkeys!

    Sony sucks!

  150. xbox360FTW Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Oh, and there’s Hans, the opposable-thumbed leader!

    He still can’t talk or type well!

  151. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Well, Hans, you COULD admit that this is a satirical website. There would be absolutely no repercussions, because the rabid trolls that comprise a large percentage of this site’s membership would STILL come here and respond hilariously to your flamebait. It would prove that you are the best troll on the intertubes.

  152. PS3 forever!

  153. @Aizmov

    Dibs on the guy failing to type “Asimov”!

  154. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    @Hans

    Everything you say is BS and you accusing erik of being insane only shows that you are a total hypocrite. I think you’re the one who is insane here. Oh yeah, you say that erik is one of the worst fanboys on the internet? I’m gonna have to disagree on that. He is nothing compared to all the fanboyism I see on youtube. I’m sorry to say this Hans, but YOU are typically the worst fanboy I ever encountered in this virtual world we call the internet. In this world we call the internet, you are a freak of nature who is totally ignorant and has no common sense. Deal with it. It’s a given fact. I’m not even going to bother going over whatever you said in your previous comments because we all know that 100% of what you say are just pathetic lies with false statistics combined with childish hate. You can retaliate and accuse me of being an Xbox 360 fanboy. You can accuse me of being mentally challenged. You can go to your forum buddies and start crying. Do whatever you want. I could care less about what some fanboy does to me.

  155. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Oh yeah. Here is more footage of Gears of War 2 multiplayer. I’m just so excited for this game.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=cGvnRjQk0c4

    Oh yeah. Hans, feel free to criticize Gears of War 2. I will totally respect your “intelligent” and “fair” opinions on Gears of War 2 :) I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it.

  156. @GeneticallyDifferent

    Psst.. Hans is a troll…

  157. @InfaredChimera

    “Blu-Ray- debatable form of gaming media, but did “win” the HD movie format “war”.”

    When the fuck did we start discussing movie players? I thought we were talking about game systems here?

    “ell- archeticture making it hard for devs to develop for, but it is almost like the xenon processor found in the 360 and could be the next “thing” (thats if it catches on).”

    So they completely “Zomg the teknologez!” before actually thinking out the possible results of their decision. IE making it harder to develop for. Style over substance? Sounds like PS3 to me.

    “Six-axis- tacked on imo, but implemented right (like the wiimote) it could be used cleverly.”

    It was a last moment stab, and a very poor one, to try and copy a company they knew were going to rape them hardcore.

    “HDMI output- SD or HD, SD is great and all, but when you buy a HD set (HDMI outs) its nice to know its there. I did hear there is a step up though coming down the pipeline.”

    You can do HD without the HDMI bullshit. Does using the HDMI out give you one extra pixel? Yeah so what? Beyond that I’ve yet to see the big deal of HD over SD. And I even own an HD TV.

    “Wi-fi- MS has a wi-fi adapter and it seems to be catching on as well (coffee shops, restaurants, and generally kinda nice not having a shit ton of wires all over the place)”

    My 360, thankfully, doesn’t have wifi. I could buy the Wifi adapter if I so wished. Unlike Sony which forces you to pay for it.

    “How is sony going to “steal” you money unless you buy there product. If you buy it then you got a right to bitch, but if you don’t then why even begin to bitch about it.”

    By buying their crap, like Hideo Kojima’s barely interactive movie, they would be stealing my money.

    “BTW at least I can be fair and knowledgeable what I’m talking about, and not hold a personal vendetta against a company(s) that I’m in no way associated with.”

    Not associated with? I’ve supported their products for years. The PS1 and PS2. Well multiple PS2s really seeing as they are so prone to break. So don’t try to tell me I’m not in any way associated with it. The PS3 is a personal insult to anyone who both bought the PS1 and PS2 AND has a brain.

    “A whore would be more a hans or nextgenuser (paul from what i’m getting is just here to piss people off and make fun of a person like you) and stickemup is resonable and probably given a opportunity to own a 360, I would think he would (which more than can be said about you).”

    No sorry. I put you, Hans, Nexgenuser, Paul, and Stickemup all in the same boat.

  158. Random frag Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    11/7/08 it begins

  159. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    @hans

    While console sales do matter, your missing the bigger point; software sales. Look at the Wii, it continues to outsell the ps3 and 360 month after month, but not many people are buying games for it.

    Just remember hardware sales are great and all (and most people can only afford to purchase just one 360, wii, or ps3), but in the end what do most people remember the PS2 for? I will answer it for you, games.

  160. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    @stickemup

    Just bought MGS4, but sadly couldn’t get R1. Though how is MotorStorm, because Blockbuster has it used for $25 and almost got enough to get it.

  161. @InfrareedChimera,

    this isn’t true.

    Software sales on the Wii for 2008 have been better than the 360/PS3.

  162. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    @hans

    Yup your right on that. Almost all of the sales where contributed to the Wii for software sales.

  163. Right so my last comment is hanging in moderation land. So a brief point from it if this post works.

    @InfaredChimera

    I’m not associated with Sony eh? I’ve spent a lot of money with them since the PS1 and PS2. Especially when you consider just how many of those unreliable PS2s I’ve bought. During those years I did not own a Nintendo OR Microsoft system at all. And what do I get for my loyalty? The slap in the face that is the PS3.

  164. As you may or may not know, the new 360 dashboard has been leaked onto the net, which can be installed onto a 360 with a low FW or infectus chip. Not only is it a new OS for the 360 rather than a gay update like the PS3 has, but the best bit is with the new dashboard you can copy the FULL game onto the HDD, and as a result, the hackers have also figured out how to run a PS3 emu on it, with the games running 9% faster than the actual PS3.

    Here’s the quote:

    XBOX360 HDD Hack
    Copy and play games from XBOX360 HDD
    In the U.S. domestic guys, BlueB, work diligently because the announced installation disk MS in the release to send.
    This is done with the help of a 99% reproduced Leak realized console, which consist of nachempfundenen console components, the 360 allegedly on the same hair.
    The system is an OS, based on the structure is based Ping 17.
    Much more interesting is the fact that as a small side project “a functioning Ps3 emulator debated whose Funktionialität, due to a new 17 hacks Ping was realized.
    Currently running the release title MotorStorm and F1, in the demo version via DVD also on the 360th
    But, to surprise all with a 9% higher frame rate than on the house console.
    Whether this fact mere coincidence or a result of the faster data transmission of DVD, a technical advantage, will provide further testing.
    We will of course be off and you hear about the very latest results as soon as possible.
    If you ever have a functioning Ps3 emulator for the 360 appear this would be a deep, but also illegal strike, which Sony worse than ever, the lack of exclusivity would tear.
    Up to Date, there are only a handful of Ps3 games, a DVD on the DL and therefore would fit the planned drive installation, as a means to an end, is expected.
    Outstanding problem would also be the installation of the Ping OS on a 17 Org Xbox 360, due MSs security measures still completely in the stars, and BlueB new challenges.
    We are waiting eagerly to new information from overseas and hope for a safe release of MGS4 and Co.

  165. Hans, rather than be a cock an have the comment moderation on all the time, how about you do something decent and not only turn it off, but try installing the simpleist of things like a [quote][/quote] tab working.

  166. erik, why are you so bitter about the PS3?

    The fact is the PS3 is the best system Sony has ever made. It’s the most reliable, it’s more powerful, it has free online, standard hard drive, wifi, hdmi, etc.

  167. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Whoa hold on…did Hans admit that the Wii is doing better than PS3 and 360? Holy shit, that might alert the fanboys to the fact that this website is satire…

  168. @Hans

    I dislike it because it is a tech-bloated piece of style over substance garbage that couldn’t hold a candle to the PS2 on its best day.

    And I don’t want to play for standard wifi, hdmi, etc. But they force you to for that overpriced bloated piece of crap.

  169. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    @Hans

    Why are you so fixed up on the PS3′s hardware? Haven’t you figured it out already? It’s not the console’s hardware that makes it a winner. It’s the games that it has to offer combined with how fun they are. Most companies brag about how amazing and superior their console is just because of some advanced processor or GPU. It doesn’t work that way. A technically superior console usually never wins. Look what happened with the Sega Genesis. Sega thought that the console war was in their hands just because of blast processing. Blast processing failed for Sega and they lost to Nintendo that war. Now the PS3 has cell processing and blu-ray, but it is still behind in sales. Not saying that the PS3 is doing terrible. It’s not doing terrible, but not spectacularly. My point is that a technically superior console can never be automatically declared to be better than any other console on the market. If the console offers great games (possibly combined with great multiplayer) then it is definitely the better console.

  170. @erik

    ‘Bloated’? Sorry, I actually use those features. I use wifi. I use the hard drive extensively for downloadable PSN titles, movies, and music. I use the free online play. I use HDMI for my HDTV. I use Blu-Ray for my Blu-Ray movies.

    PS3 is the best value machine/console I’ve ever purchased and is way better than the Playstation 2. I thought the Xbox 1 was pretty progressive with its standard hard drive, but they took a huge step back when they introduced multiple SKUs with the 360 and charged for p2p.

    @GeneticallyDifferent,

    And the PS3 has a great lineup of games. Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, Call of Duty 4, Assasin’s Creed, Devil May Cry 4, Grand Theft Auto 4, MotorStorm, Resistance, PixelJunk Monsters, Superstardust HD, PixelJunk Eden, etc.

    Not to mention the lineup of games coming in the next few months with Resistance 2, MotorStorm 2, Little Big Planet, Flower, Fat Princess, Killzone 2, and Resident Evil 5.

    Your comment about technical superiority equating to being the winner is an argument I never made. There are cases where the most advanced console won, and there are cases where it didn’t. In the end it’s not a huge issue in terms of sales overall, but as a hardcore gamer it is important to me.

  171. @Hans

    Yes yes you nave proven yourself time and time again to be a drooling techwhore. We get it. Now try to understand that not everyone is so easily impressed by that things. To those people who the, you know, games are important just might not want to pay an arm and a leg for features that they don’t want and will never use.

    Furthermore do you know what made the PS2 better than the PS3? Now hold onto your socks because you will never unsterstand this in a thousand years. The games are what made the PS2 good.

    What a concept huh? So many games in SD that blow nearly every HD game out of the water.

    Also, just how is forcing someone to pay for something they might not care about (hard drive) progressive?

    Sony is the one who took a step back. In focusing on so much hardware they forgot that the games make the system.

  172. @erik

    The games on the PS2 didn’t hit their stride until years into its lifecycle. Currently, if you compare the first year and a half of the PS3 versus the first year and a half with the PS2, the PS3 clearly wins on games.

    Do you even own a PS3? Have you played the PS3s lineup?

    You sound like a bitter poor that can’t afford a PS3 and has decided to trash all of its games.

  173. @Hans

    Do I own a PS3? That is a patently ridiculous question. Just why would I own a system I despise? Did you even think that over at all before asking?

    And saying that th PS3 has better games than the PS2. That is a pretty hilarious statement. The library of the PS3 is second only to th SNES.

    Also I can afford a PS3, but I don’t want a PS3. As stated in an earlier thread I wouldn’t accept a PS3 even for free. If I can afford a 360 and a Wii with a good dozen games between them then just why wouldn’t I be able to afford a PS3.

    So what you need to comprehend is that not everyone wants a PS3.

  174. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    @erik

    “I’m not associated with Sony eh? I’ve spent a lot of money with them since the PS1 and PS2. Especially when you consider just how many of those unreliable PS2s I’ve bought. During those years I did not own a Nintendo OR Microsoft system at all. And what do I get for my loyalty? The slap in the face that is the PS3.”

    I too invested a shit ton of money into the PS1 and PS2, but does that make me associated with them? No. Unless you personally invested money (a shareholder) they don’t “owe” you or me anything. Hey if you don’t want a PS3, thats fine thats your fucking right and what I say or anyone for that matter can’t change that, and who can fault you for taking a stand in what you believe in (I can’t fault you for that).

  175. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    @Hans

    The PS2 was only popular just because of all the amazing games it offered us. It was not as powerful as the Gamecube or the Xbox, but it still won.

    Those exclusive games you mentioned are not even highly anticipated (with the exception of LBP, Motorstorm, KZ2, and Resistance 2). Do you think that the whole world will buy a PS3 just to play a game like Flower, Fat Princess, and Superstardust? All the other games are 3rd party games. 3rd party games barely boost the sales of a console. I’m gonna have to disagree with you on how the PS3 wins on games. The entire library is nowhere near as large as the Xbox 360 library, but that doesn’t mean the games are horrible. Uncharted and MGS4 are examples of great games on the PS3. But why buy a console just to play 1 or 2 good games on it? That’s why I think it’s better waiting until the PS3 brings its big guns in. I agree that the PS3 was a bit slow on releasing their games, but it still has time to rise back up.

  176. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    @Hans

    Uhhh!?!?!?
    2001 was a great year (and didn’t let up) with the games for the PS2 and it didn’t take years for it to reach its “stride”.
    I recall buying THPS3, DMC, GTA3, FF10, MGS2, StarWars:Starfighter, Dave Mirra BMX2, Red Faction, ZOE, and quite a few others I missed.
    So to say the PS3 had a better 1 1/2 years is total fanboy BS, the PS2 definitly had a better first 18 months.

    BTW if someone doesn’t want a PS3, that doesn’t make them a “bitter poor”, it just means they don’t want to buy it or don’t see the need to buy it. Cya online sometime and be prepared to get your ass handed to ya.

  177. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Hans, you listed four titles that are multiplat.
    Also, PC has the most AAAE titles this year and this gen. PC continues to dominate consoles.

  178. @InfaredChimera

    And yet Sony owes its success to the customers and not the shareholders. But yeah, I’m not exactly thrilled with supporting a company only to have them slap you in the face.

    As I was at one time a huge Sony fan with the PS1 and PS2 I didn’t just randomly choose to no longer support them. No one would do that if there was no reason as you claim. Getting me to give up on a Sony system is not something that even having multiple PS2 systems could accomplish.

    So if you have all the answers why would a Sony fan stop buying a Sony system?

  179. Wow. I’m not even gonna try and read all those comments, they are waaaaaaaay too deep and long. Can I get a summary?

    Fat Princess might not be a system seller, but I can’t wait for it. It looks freakin’ awesome.

  180. That’s what I get for leaving my post!

  181. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    @erik

    Not sure if the console will stick around, games, price, controller, lack of features, too many features, online, and many other reasons I don’t know. I don’t think it just pretains to sony either the question you gave me, it can be just about anything really.

    P.S. I never claimed I had all the answers.

  182. @Stickemup

    I was missing you!

    And I finally found the answer to why I don’t like LBP! Style. It’s just so… So… Emo-indie-raver-modern’ish… And why all the Sackmen are so dirty? Gah…

    Sorry game, but I can’t love you, while your very look gives me headaches. And I can’t even make gay jokes, like I do with PS2 version of Sims2: Pets! Sackmen are gendreless! And fucking creepy…

  183. Random frag Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    well this has so far been an epic thread

  184. Where are all the great 360 games this holiday season?

    All I see from the 360 is Gears of War 2.

    Meanwhile, PS3 has Little Big Planet, Resistance 2, MotorStorm 2, and a bunch of third party titles.

    There also aren’t that many good 360 games if you get rid of the multiplatform titles. There’s Gears 1, maybe Halo 2.5D, and that’s about it.

  185. @Goronian – You’ll be the only one buddy. Cause the more I read LBP E3 impressions, the more I want it.

    Hehe, and it’s Sackboys, not Sackmen.

    @Cold – Did you get your PS3 yet, or did you just buy MGS4 to have it ready to play?

  186. @Stickemup

    Sigh… Maybe. Oh well, I’ll give it a chance next year, or so, when I’ll come around to buying PS3. Although the only other game right now that I REALLY want to play, not just simply want is Folklore.

    By the way, want to bring that out. I work in a warehouse of a huge Russian media-store chain and yesterday we’ve recieved a return of 120 or so console games. Among them – 1 for the 360, 1 for the Wii, 20-30 or so for the PS3 and 50/50 PS2/PSP. Honestly.
    Among the PS3 ones were Warhawk and MGS4 even. All in mint condition, so the only possible answer is no one was buying them.
    I know it’s not saying much, but that’s just weird… Even I felt this was bad.

    Point to note – most Russian gamers are PC-oriented, but console ones gravitate towards Nintendo/Sony. So much more questions arise because of that…

  187. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    @stickemup

    Just picked up MGS4 so that I have it ready to play, otherwise the console should becoming between today and friday.

  188. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:01 am

    @hans

    Fable 2, Banjo and Kazooie, Left 4 Dead, Gears 2, Project Origin (multi), Too Human (little before the shopping season), and thats all I can think of from the top of my head.

  189. Fable 2 isn’t a good game. The original one was pretty bad.

    Banjo could be good, could be bad. That’s up in the air really. They’re changing the series dramatically.

    Left 4 Dead is better on the PC.

    Too Human is one of the worst games I’ve ever played.

  190. @Cold – Cool man, can’t wait to hear what you think about MGS4.

    Let’s see if you feel the same way I felt about it.

    When you play the first two acts, you think you’re playing THE greatest game ever, but then it just turns into one of the best games ever. Wish every act would have been like the first two acts.

    Someone said something like “they could build a whole game around the gameplay used in acts 1 & 2″ and it’s so true.

  191. @Stickemup

    I don’t know, never been a fan of MGS myself, can’t really stand Kojima’s writing. Sigh… Any news of a new SMT game? I would buy a PS3 just for that…

  192. GeneticallyDifferent Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 8:11 am

    @Hans

    You’re wrong about Fable. Fable was a great RPG, but it was short. That’s the main problem with it. Fable 2 looks even better than Fable. It’s very ignorant of you to criticize Fable 2 just because of it’s predecessor. I don’t see anybody here saying that Killzone 2 sucks just because Killzone was a disappointment. On top of that, Fable 2 didn’t even come out yet. There are also no demos so you cannot criticize it. And you’re obviously going to say that Too Human is one of the worst games you played just because it’s on the 360. You don’t even own a 360.

    @Stickemup

    I actually wanna give MGS4 a try. Sadly, I never played any of the previous MGS games so the storytelling along with the inside jokes will literally make my head explode.

  193. When are the good PS3 games coming this holiday seas…..

    No scratch that.

    When are the good PS3 games coming?

    Also Hans how would you know what system Left 4 Dead is better on? Considering, you know, it hasn’t been released yet.

  194. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Okay Hans,
    Resistance 2 is generic FPS
    LBP is Garry’s mod with a different name…lol innovative my ass.
    MotorStorm 2 is AA.

    Too Human is similar to Diablo, and if you look at it from that perspective it is very good.
    Banjo is also very innovative, 40$ seems like it’s a must buy.
    Gears 2 is a powerhouse.
    Left4Dead is going to be a very good single-player experience, and if you buy it for PC you are still supporting Microsoft anyway…

  195. Random frag Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    @rider of the short bus
    left4dead is also 4 player co-op just to let you know

  196. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    @Random Frag

    Left 4 Dead is 8 player co-op, but 4 players play as Zombie bosses.

  197. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Ugh thats what I meant. My brain meant multiplayer, my fingers typed single-player. I fail.

  198. @Goronian – You’re the most depressing gamer in the world, hehe.

    It’s crazy arguing who’s exclusives are better. Of course PS3 users are going to think Sony exclusives are better, and same goes for 360 owners.

    No one is going to convince anyone about anything.

    For every person that thinks RFOM2 is nothing special, there is another that thinks Halo 3 isn’t special either.

    All I know is that LBP is going to be huge :)

  199. Random frag Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    @nextgenmexican
    thank you i forgot about that do you know the release date for it
    @stickmeup
    your right becuase halo 3 wasn’t anything special

  200. I think that Halo 3 sucking might have something to do with the Halo series sucking. There are some good series on the 360. But Halo isn’t it. People choose some really idiotic flagships sometimes.

  201. Ahh, as if the site couldn’t make it any more apparent that it’s a bad joke. “Because Playstation users are ninjas.”

    A how long has it been since they started streaming Google adds? A month? When will they remove the laughable ‘ad free’ line?

  202. Random frag Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    @erik
    i dont think halo is horrible it’s just the third game sucked i mean when i first picked it up it was like i reached nirvana but then COD4 came out and showed me one thing why did i get so excited for halo 3

  203. WhatTheFunk Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    @Stickemup

    That’s fucking creepy. SackBOYS?!

    @Hans

    >Too Human is one of the worst games I’ve ever played.

    The controls are what arsed up. I hated the right-stick-attack bit, and I couldn’t get over it.

    @erik

    >I think that Halo 3 sucking might have something to do with the Halo series sucking. There are some good series on the 360. But Halo isn’t it. People choose some really idiotic flagships sometimes.

    Halo 3 was a good game. It wasn’t as good as Bungie promised, but it was still great.

    Matchmaking was its redeeming feature.

  204. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Too Human actually is pretty fun, judging from the demo. It’s an improvement on D2 if they can get the loot stuff right, and seems like it would be great with coop.

    Fable 2 looks like its shaping up to be an amazing game.

  205. Kiddish looking game on the Wii(Animal Planet) = OMGZ!!! LOOK AT THE KIDDZIR GAMEZZAZZ@!
    Kiddish looking game on the PS3 = That is giving me SUCH a clue.

  206. Hey SDFail! Time to post a new fake news story!

  207. Ninsonysoft Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    @Goronian

    Don’t judge LBP by its look. My brother is doing that with StarCraft ll, hating it because of its graphics. You should see some of the gameplay demos, it looks great.

    I know I’m going to buy LBP, RFOM2, maybe rent KZ2, Fable 2, rent Too Human, etc.

    After seeing gameplay videos of LittleBigPlanet, I can honestly say I am stoked. Games that let you have so much creativity, like Garry’s Mod, thrill me.

    I enjoyed Resistance 1, and Resistance 2 is looking to be able live up to its hype.

    I’m still reserving feelings on KillZone 2, I want to try it first.

    I enjoyed the first Fable a lot, and, once again, Fable 2 is looking to only improve on the first game.

    Too Human interests me from the praise people are giving it, and that I enjoy loot games.

    I’m proud to own all three systems to enjoy all their great games, and nothing Hans or erik says will change that.

  208. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    @hans

    “Fable 2 isn’t a good game. The original one was pretty bad”

    You must have been dropped on the head quite a bit haven’t you. Since you didn’t like the first one, how the hell could you even say that the second one sucks as well?

    I know, Killzone 2 isn’t a good game, since the original was pretty much crap. (do you even have a clue on how ridiculous you sound?)

  209. Hans’ KIND is too stupid the know better! But that still doesn’t give THOSE PEOPLE any excuse.

  210. The only reason Hans thinks Fable is crap is because it wasnt released on the PS2, had it been he’d be declaring it as an awesome game. Which it was, Fable 2 got some good potential too.

  211. xbox360FTW Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    SDF/Hans/Paul/nextgenloser all behave this way:

    If the game was on POS3, it’s awesome. If it’s on 360, it sucks. Period.

    They support a lousy company (IMO, too many bad dealings with them) no matter what. The drank the POS3 kool-aid and are rabid butt-boys, I mean fanboys that will spew anything they can to make themselves feel better about a bad purchase! $ony still lies to them to this day.

    Like some of you here, I do have all three systems:

    http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm152/proteus69z/P1020714.jpg

    And we know which systems has the games: 360

    The hardware is basically even. The software is not! The games and XBL are way ahead of PSN and XMB. The POS3 has a handful of games that are great, MGS4 is not one of them.

    I have three games for the POS3 (MGS4, Ratchet & Clank and Uncharted). Uncharted is the best out of all of them, MGS4 the worst. I will soon only have two, MGS4 is going to be traded.

    I have 35 for the 360, 12 for the Wii.

    I mainly watch movies on the POS3, that’s it. All my and my family’s game time is on the 360 (80%, 15% on the Wii, 5% on the POS3).

    The trolls who run the asylum here can say all they want and be assholes to the people here who are truly gamers. All I know is, the 360 has been the best console this gen and always will be.

    Hans, Paul and nextgenloser can yell all they want, they can go to hell, right from their parent’s basement!

    And SDF, like it or not, Gears of War2, Fable 2 along with the price cut will make this holiday season a very good one for 360 and put the POS3 far behind in the rear view mirror.

    IMO, all I see on the POS3 that I want is LBP. That’s bad for $ony!

  212. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    @Randomfrag

    Not sure of the Date, from what I heard the PC version is largely finished, but they want to make a good version for consoles too, not just a crappy PC port. One of the main reasons Half-life 2 took so long to reach consoles.

  213. Random frag Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    @nextgenmexican
    thnx im really lookin forward to that game ever since i heard about it but im really lookin for gears 2 but in the next couple of months there going to be sooo many good games coming out for both consoles

  214. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Yep, 2008 is a great year for gaming.

  215. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    @xbox360FTW

    “the price cut will make this holiday season a very good one for 360 and put the POS3 far behind in the rear view mirror.”

    You are aware its not really a price cut at all, more like a fire sale. Once all the 20gigs are gone, the 60gig will stay at $349 and not go down.

  216. rider of the short bus Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    On an alternate note, who here bought/rented SoulCalibur 4? I just got it and its pretty fun, although button mashing gets you further than I would like. Yoda and Apprentice are absolutely broken though.

  217. @ rider
    Got it the other day, and I’m loving it. Yoda’s partly broken because a lot of attacks go right over his head. Hopefully Vader is DLC on 360… I’ve heard he’s a little more balanced.

  218. Also, I’m still trying to figure this out… what exactly is beginning?

  219. @sm0ke

    I don’t know, PS3′s victory in the generation?
    Get used to it buddy, they spew it out a lot.

  220. nextgenmexican Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    @sm0ke

    The day these Nerdy Super-trolls get a life,job and a girlfriend.

  221. @nextgenmexican

    I don’t think they know what that means.

  222. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Going back to the article, what the hell does Peter Moore have anything to do with this article? Shit, the man runs the EA Sports division and they make multi-console games, so wouldn’t it be more fitting if he had tattoos of all three consoles? Or at least the picture for the article should have to do with something like, you know, MGS4 bundle or a pic of the PS3.

  223. Eh. Soul Caliber to me has always been one of those games I would have no qualms about pumping $10 of quarters into at the arcade, but the console versions have never drawn my interest in the least.

  224. Random frag Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    why does this thread suck so bad we need to comedic stylings of paul and hans

  225. InfraredChimera Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    @erik

    Its probably the one on one against the other person. I too would rather play it in a arcade, but I would settle for the home version (only if I knew my friends would be coming over on a regular basis, since they don’t I’m not going to bother with it.)

  226. @InfraredChimera

    I think SDF has officialy ran out of ideas.

  227. Internet is officially dead. Nearly no updates on my favourite hangout places overnight. Gah…

  228. it’s official:

    time for the “new post please” bump-a-thon

  229. Random frag Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am

    yes it is time for a new thread HANS SAVE US

  230. They should let Paul do articles too.

  231. InfraredChimera Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    @stickemup

    Just got my PS3 today, so whats your gamertag dude?

  232. nextgenmexican Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    No, Let Nextgenuser post an article. Now that would be worth the wait.

  233. EscapeTheFate Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am

    They could just do an article on the superiority of Rage on PS3.

  234. @InfaredChimera

    What movie are you going to watch first?

  235. InfraredChimera Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    @erik

    Already watched Casino Royale, since I’ve never seen it (and I call myself a 007 fan, I should be ashamed of myself.)

  236. Random frag Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    @Hans
    Get ur lackeys to do there job this is a really boring thread

  237. nextgenmexican Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm

    Maybe they could post about Getaway 3 being canned?

    SDF Facepalm

  238. Random frag Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    @nextgen
    was that one of the first game CG’s they showed for the ps3?

  239. InfraredChimera Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    @hans

    C’mon I need more BS news, PLEASE!

  240. I came here looking for a horribly skewed review of SCIV and I just find lots of shouting. Typical SDF.

  241. nextgenmexican Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 am

    @Random Frag

    Think so, looked like CG

  242. Random frag Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    @nextgenmexican
    yea that game did look pretty fun sux they canned it and they might also kill heavenly sword 2 the gold lancer online for gears is true YES

  243. rider of the short bus Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    SDF pretty much lost my respect. Come on, its been over a week…

  244. Maybe they’re prepairing something BIIIIIIG! Like THE FORUUUUUMS!

  245. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuCw5k-Lph0

    When I get LBP, I’ll name my Sackboy Hubert Cumberdale, and won’t sleep ever again.

  246. HEADLINE: Wii destroys everyone including the Sony “Family” of products. SDF buries collective head in sand.
    http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/08/17/npd-to-date-for-2008-wii-whitewashes-while-360-and-ps3-thrash-it-out/

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