When ever I connect my PSP to my PS3 to register it for the remote play thing, turn my ps3 off and my psp, but when I put my computer on my PS3 turns on as well. Does happen any one else or know why it happens? It doesn't happen after that, only when I register the psp with the ps3.

ok, so i returned my ps3 because it froze 3 times on the xmb in 5 minutes after turning it on. I got my new one now and when i tried updating motorstorm, it was going well, I made it to the 50% mark then my ps3 froze. How long does the motorstorm update generally take? My ps3 was downloading the update for about an hour and a half.
After it froze i did the force shutdown thing, and i try out the browser to see if it'll freeze on me like my last ps3 and it does. is freezing a common problem? so far, this new ps3 has only frozen while online. just so you know, my ps3 has plenty of room to breath.

Sounds like you're getting stuck with a bad batch or something. I've had my PS3 since day 1 and it's never acted up as much as the ones you've had. Come to think of it, it's never acted up at all.

I'd take it back to wherever you bought it, and if you can take the credit to another store and get a different one, do that.

Edit: Off-topic by a good bit, but while I was editing my signature I figured I should mention that both Soul Calibur IV and, more importantly, Metal Gaer Solid 4 are available for pre-order at GameStop. SC4's release date escapes me, but MGS4's is June 18th.

espressivo, try turning off the Information Board. I was also getting some lock-ups and going on the advice I found elsewhere, turning that off seems to have resolved my lock-up issues.

i've already done that, i also disabled media server. it's only happened twice so far with this new ps3, and i'm really hoping it doesnt happen again. I'd use a wired connection since it'll probably help speed up the download but my ps3 is waay too far from my router.

Has anybody encountered any jumpy framerates and audio skips with Ninja Gaiden Sigma? I am surprised that I am getting any of this...I'm under the suspicion that it might have something to do with the HD install.

You would be right. I had the same issues but deleting the HDD cache/install and just playing the game from the disc worked fine. I tried to reinstall a few times but it happened *every* time so yeah. The load times aren't that bad anyway, certainly not bad enough to warrant suffering those issues in lieu of them.

Oh shizzle, I have to go to gamestop one of these days. Any word on any bonus material you can get if there is any for those who pre-order it?

Not quite yet. They only put the game up a few days ago, so any pre-order stuff that might come is still being kept secret. So far there's only one SKU available for reservation as well, so no collector's editions just yet.

But I'll let you know.

Surely those are placeholder dates?

Gamestop has SCIV listed for June, but I thought that was slated for Spring '08.

Yes, they are.

Mm, I dunno. Our placeholder dates tend to be dated as something like 06/01. 06/18 is awfully specific, and it does fit the 2nd Quarter time frame. Not to mention that June would be a perfect time to release it; a month before NCAA Football 2009 and two months before Madden '09. June's also a pretty dry month for games, so that'd mean no competition (as if there'd be any regardless) to steal away sales.

It's also a Wednesday, a day that's not the most common release date in the world.

MGS's 1, 2, and 3 all have had late in the year release dates. (Sept/Oct for the first game, November for the second, and Nov/Dec for the third).

Japanese fiscal years also start in April, so Q2 2008 as stated here would push it into the July-September range. Which makes a tad bit more sense.

Even if it's a yankee fiscal year, June seems off, since Q2 ends in March.

If it's talking just a general "second quarter of the calendar year", that date seems like a placeholder as it's just a week and a half before the quarter ends.

So yeah, seems like a placeholder to me.

Pwned.

Wow, it's like you totally ignored the links that he provided as reference to the standard fiscal years used in each country.

Either way, it's not like anyone in their right mind would preorder games that are that far out, so who cares what date Pawnstop has in their computers?

I'm starting to wonder if we need a tag like [clickmeyoufuckingidiot] or something that makes all URLs contained within to be green, size 50 font with blink and bold.

It would, at the very least, help the ever so knowledgeable SouthJag here avoid a bit of embarrassment.

Jesus Christ, no wonder everyone hates GS employees.

Eh, at least make the link colors visible. I should probably change that in my Firefox, huh? Oh well.

@ The Dutchman: Even though your logic is correct based on fiscal dates by region I'm pretty sure that when game companies give QX numbers it's by calendar year, and as I think back on release date information for games in the past I'm fairly sure that's the case. Hell even you had to do research to find fiscal dates which your average joe isn't aware of. Quarters by calendar just makes sense.

To which I have already replied using other criteria that I believe show that it's somewhat fishy. Anyway you look at it, 6/18 seems a tad arbitrary.

I'll eat crow if I'm wrong, how's that, folks?

Get it on camera please.

And wtf I just noticed this: :dovel::dover:

It seems out of place among the other smilies.

I'll make you negroes a deal then, how's this? I promise I'll eat my OWN COOKING if I'm wrong.

It's far deadlier than any diseased crow meat. I can promise that.

I have a few questions about the ps3.
is it normal that it takes a little while to shut down? And I understand that the preinstalled software and whatnot should take quite a bit of space from the harddrive but to call it the 80gb version only to find that you have 64 or so gb free to do as you please with is bullcrap. I know this is normal for computers and the ps3 itself is close to a computer but come on ><!

Still nowhere near as bad as the 360's HDD which is "20" Gigs where in fact you only have access to 12 Gigs. (well worse in lost space the PS3 is, but when you only have 20 to begin with it makes it seem a lot worse)

At least in the end you can always upgrade to any larger cheap brand HDD you choose in the future, so it's not all bad.

And yes, it takes about 10 seconds or so after the light starts blinking to shutdown, so no worries.

It is pretty normal for data storage in general, nothing to do specifically with the PS3 being 'close to a computer'. My 1 GB iPod has about 880 MB of usable space. There is probably a disclaimer like '80 GB = 80 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less' somewhere.

Wait, wait.

"There's technically less included mandatory software on the Microsoft console, but it's worse for them because the hard drive is smaller!"

What about the 120 option, then? The percentage of space lost to the included content is lesser, then. If you want to do a proper, uhh....comparison of this, compare the 20 gig models of each. I'd be surprised if it wasn't frighteningly similar.

Stop turning your thread into such a big joke, guys. Please?

Edit: Also that whole binary versus decimal measurement thing has been done for bazillions of years at this point, that's not a surprising issue anymore to anyone, is it?