[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

I wonder how news got around so fast. The only forum I've seen this info from is GAF, and I doubt that many people got the information by e-mail (I didn't even get an e-mail, and I signed up for the damn thing).

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Gamespot.

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Exactly. Also GameSpot should be reliable, seeing how they own EB and GameStop.

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Originally Posted by Slayer X

I didn't mean that they don't at all, I just meant in comparison. Sony works with Insomniac, Atlas, Capcom, Square, Nippon-Ichi Soft, Konami and Namco. Where Obviously everybody is trying to kiss Ubisofts ass right now because they make solid marketable products which is key to releases of new systems. But how many companies does Nintendo really work closely with?

Well Nintendo has set up Brownie Brown which has worked on Seiken Densetsu games. I'm sure there are plenty of times where Nintendo has helped out third parties. I don't know in what ways Sony helps out third parties but even if so Nintendo might not help as much as Sony considering they have their own games to worry about, but to so blatantly say they don't is a bit much.

Oh and as a future warning the next time I find you posting with Microsoft as M$ I will ban you from that thread.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

The hell is wrong with people. Damn.

I find it hilarious that people are asking grandma and grandpa to camp out for a PRE-ORDER that they might not be able to get on launch day anyway.

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Originally Posted by Slayer X

But how many companies does Nintendo really work closely with?

Quite a lot considering a huge chunk of Nintendo licensed titles over the past few years have been co-developed by third parties. Sega (AV) on F-Zero GX, Namco on Starfox Arse Fault, Capcom on the GBC Zelda's. Hell, the developer of Blinx is making Yoshi's Island 2. They're also publishing more and more games by small time third party developers themselves now. CiNG (Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk), Agenda (Clubhouse Games), so forth. But I'm going completely off-topic which is shit so the end.

Originally Posted by Miles

I find it hilarious that people are asking grandma and grandpa to camp out for a PRE-ORDER that they might not be able to get on launch day anyway.

Good thing there seems to be a Vitamin store nearby!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Btw, that's a horrible photoshop that was posted on NeoGAF. Just thought you should know.

How ya doing, buddy?

So... none of those pictures are real, eh? Hopefully they aren't, because I don't want to try to get there early only to find people have camped out.

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Originally Posted by Slayer X

Exactly. Also GameSpot should be reliable, seeing how they own EB and GameStop.

What? Says who? EB/GS is owned by Barnes and Nobles, but if it goes much further than that I wouldn't know. As far as I know, GameSpot's not affiliated with GameStop though.

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Shit, those were fake? Nevermind.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The ladies there were photoshopped onto a picture of a barren Gamestop storefront with no one there... Look at the edges of their heads. Doesn't match.

The photo of the people with folding chairs is real though.

Edit: Sleep time... I'll report back with the results of my quest later tomorrow, hah.

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Was it confirmed that the $500 model will also ship with HDMI inputs installed on it, or was that a Japan-only thing as well as the price drop?

Edit: Ah, nevermind. According to CNet, "...a $600 model with a 60GB hard drive and built-in wireless networking and a $500 version with a 20GB hard drive but no Wi-Fi--HDMI was originally absent from this model but was added in September."

I can live without the built-in WiFi, as I don't even have a wireless router at the moment. I'll pick one up whe it becomes necessary.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Got to my gamestop 3 hours before opening and there were like 13 people camping outside it to pre-order. I didn't really expect mine to get a line that big this early since I live in a pretty small town full of people who don't know much about gaming. I decided not to stick around since I know my gamestop probably won't get any more than 6. =\

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One of my roommates drove all around San Diego county this morning to reserve PS3s. I asked him to preorder one for me.

That, coupled with the one I'll be picking up from GameCrazy on launch = $$$

I was speaking idiomatically.

Metro Detroit area over here, All 6 EbGames and Gamestops are booked out on pre-orders by 1:25PM. Shit. There goes my money that I was going to get by putting it up on ebay. Should have skipped school to wait my ass in line.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wow, none left in my town, at either EB or GameStop. I called them during the break from my class around 11:00 AM and there was one left. That kind of shocked me. Eh, oh well. I'm gonna bank on there being some online pre-ordering happening sometime soon. 6 systems per store is an insanely low amount, despite the shortage.

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Yeah, they've run out of PS3 pre-orders around here. Oh well.

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Success Showed up at the mall EB at 8:40 or so. Met some rather nice people, and ended up as number 5 out of 12.

First person showed up at 7am, followed by the second at 8. Then after 8:30, people started trickling in. Apparently at the downtown Seattle EB, there were over 100 people lined up outside, with only 3 systems to preorder. I smell BS! But yeah, glad I chose the location I did.

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I just called the local EB: uuhh... we don't have any details on that. Can you call back in about an hour when the manager returns?

WTF...

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Originally Posted by Mucknuggle

I just called the local EB: uuhh... we don't have any details on that. Can you call back in about an hour when the manager returns?

WTF...

Same, I just called the Chinook EB Games, which is supposedly the "flagship" EB Games for Calgary, and the dude their at least knows that the US preorders are happening today, which he noted as a sign that Canadian can expect theirs soon. At least this guy I can take his word for. Actually the main reason for calling was seeing if my VP2 walkthrough guide preorder was available for pick up, turned out to be the same guy ^___^.

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So I call back twice and nobody is picking up the phone. They must be tired of "Are you accepting pre-orders for PS3s?"

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Well I called the three EBs in my area and all of them said the same thing. First at 10AM that their managers were at a meeting, and then I called again at 1:30PM and they all pretty much said the same thing once again, which was "There are currently no plans of doing PS3 pre-books and that it's more then likely going to be a first come first serve thing."

My friend who works at EB Ajax said the same thing too.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I just called again and encountered ANGST.

"So they told me to call back in an hour regarding..."
"WE AREN'T TAKING PRE-ORDERS. THAT'S ONLY FOR THE STATES."
"Uhh... ok."
click

They must be getting a bajillion calls. They've never been rude to me like that before.

How ya doing, buddy?

Never eh?? lol

Guess you wern't trying to get Guitar Hero when it first came out eh? It came out in the states fine... but like always Canada gets shafted and we didn't get it until a month later. Therefore whenever you tried to get an update from EB on the status of the game they would just say next week and hang up.

Yup, that's (generally) EB for ya.

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Wow. Your EB needs to get some new staff.

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