[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

Originally Posted by CloudNine

So the guy who is too busy to wait in line has time to drive by the line and shoot people with water when the temperature is below freezing? Green paint from your football party sink in too much?

I wonder, which one is actually the pathetic one: you or the one in line?

I was actually being facetious, but it would be funny. At least IMO. If there was a YT video of someone driving by campers with a super soaker then I think a lot of people would get a good laugh.

BTW driving and shooting people with water takes about 10 minutes and camping takes about 20 hours. So I don't see the whole time relation there.

I'm too old for that kinda stuff though. I won't be soaking anyone with water believe me. Just being facetious.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Wow, now this is getting a little out of hand:

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Sony Misses PS3 Shipping Targets
Japan gets even fewer units.
by Anoop Gantayat
October 30, 2006 - What's worse than 100,000 units at launch? How about 80,000? The Nikkei Keizai Shimbun morning edition reports today that due to component shortages, Sony will have only 80,000 units ready for the PS3's 11/11 Japanese launch. This cuts back by a fifth the initial launch target of 100,000.

The lack of digits in that number is even more staggering when you consider that the PS2 sold out of nearly a million units when it launched back in March of 2000.

Having lived through a few weeks of attempting to obtain a PS3 pre-order, we're not too surprised by the lowered shipping numbers. Allocations disappeared quickly at online retailers that were brave enough to start pre-order programs. The online arm of media retailer Tsutaya ran out of units in 6 minutes according to Nikkei (it felt more like 1 minute to us).

Major electronics chains like Yodobashi Camera won't be taking pre-orders, Nikkei reports, so there's only one option left: line up the day before launch. Although with fewer units to go around, we're considering getting in line starting from the week prior.

Heh, this could get out of hand in Tokyo. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing'll happen to the NA release.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/742/742510p1.html


Also Hori might be able to conjure up a rumbling controller:

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Hori Considering Rumble Controller
The Sixaxis controller could shake after all.
by Anoop Gantayat
October 27, 2006 - The latest issue of Famitsu PS2 has a short Q&A session with Hori, maker of some of the finest officially-licensed PlayStation 2 peripherals. The biggest bit from the interview concerns a piece of technology that's missing from Sony's new Sixaxis controller: rumble.

Asked if Hori was considering a peripheral to give PS3 players the gift of shake, the representative stated, "We have some ideas. However, we'd need cooperation from software makers."

Let's hope some third parties are willing to make their games compatible with a non-standard rumble accessory.

Hori has three PS3 related items due for release at the Japanese launch. A multi card reader/writer, compatible with Memory Stick, SD, Compact Flash and a variety of other cards, will retail for 2,604 yen. Hori will also release a set of SD cards in 256 MB (2,880 yen), 512 MB (3,980 yen) and 1 Gigabyte (6,780 yen) flavors.

None of these products are strictly for the PS3 -- in fact, they don't even contain the PS3 logo. But Hori is a big player in the peripheral business, so we expect true peripherals to appear in the not-so-distant future. And hopefully, some of them will bring rumble back to PlayStation gaming.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/742/742351p1.html

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

By all means, be a dick. Then maybe we'll get something like this again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpWPnCd0ro

"Get back to Hot Topic you bitch!"

AWSOME!

Seriously, line heckling is idiotic. How are you any better than the "no life losers in line" when you resort to messing with them for amusement? You have nothing else happening? That bored?


Anyway, with all the lines formed for the pre-orders, I wonder what the lines for the actual launch are gonna be like. Hectic times are definately coming up.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well the big difference is, it won't take that long to mess with campers. It would only take a little bit of a drive and most likely if I were to do something like that, it would be on the way from or to something. Like a movie. But like I said before, I'm not going to do it. Pranks aren't really my thing anymore.

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

What ever happened to the Best Buy PS3 kiosks? I'm guessing that was just a rumor since I haven't seen any PS3 kiosks anywhere in my area. Hopefully next week, we get to try out the ps3.
We got two weeks to go till launch!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It wasn't a rumor, it was likely just delayed. The kiosks just finished setting up in Japan, so I guess they should be up here soon. Of course that's pretty irrelavent now, since the system's less than a month away. And personally I'm surprised about that. Feels so close now.

Also, OPM gave Resistence a 9. Looks like this is the launch game to get.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I just remembered a minor detail about the XMB I noticed last time I played Resistance. I don't know if any other site's reported on this and I've no photos to show at the moment, so you'll have to take my word for it for now.

Not only does the XMB background color change depending on the selected month like on the PSP (I changed the date in order to get a nicer color for some of the later photos), but time of day also affects this. The later the system clock gets, the darker the XMB will look, with noon being the brightest.

When I booted up the PS3 around 8PM, I immediately wondered who had changed the date again because the background color was so different, till I realized it was meant to look like it's evening since it was late. As you change the time to midnight, the background color goes all nocturnal on you and the atmosphere is extremely gloomy.

It's a neat little detail I guess, but I'd rather my midnight playings be accompanied by more cheery colors rather than my whole console basically screaming "IT'S LATE, GO TO BED ALREADY".

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

That's pretty darn cool. It's also probably something you can adjust anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'm likely just going to use custom wallpapers.

Do you know whether you can add saved music to loop during the menu (a menu theme, as it were)?

FELIPE NO

Not that I know of, though the firmware we had was pretty old in order to run the TGS code. I doubt it'll be that customisable, though. I do hope you will be able to put the music player to play in the background while you surf the web or look at photos. That's something I wish they'd get around to fixing on the PSP.


Oh and those videos I promised, I couldn't get around to hosting them at the blog, so I'm hosting them on GFF instead.

http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/PS3_beep.avi
http://staff.gamingforce.com/qwarky/PS3_bootup.avi

If you happen to spread these around, please link to my blog, even though (or especially because) the videos aren't watermarked (I lack the equipment for that). Acer raises up a good point. Don't be a dick and spread these around, they're a GFF exclusive till I get them up at the blog server.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Oh Qwarky, I'm totally gonna blame you if we suddenly run out of bandwidth or something stupid like that when those videos get hotlinked on some big newssite. >=|

Jam it back in, in the dark.

But think of the exposure! Bobo will be thrilled!

(or you're free to go to my folder and delete the files the second you spot them linked on some other forum. Don't touch my images, though >=U)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

Not only does the XMB background color change depending on the selected month like on the PSP (I changed the date in order to get a nicer color for some of the later photos),

you know that there's an option that you can choose what color you want the background to be >.> you have the choice to make it so the color change every month or choose the one you like >.> I too want the color to match some photo but really just change the theme not the date to match the background colors XD

How ya doing, buddy?

Nice Qwarky. Nice.

Who else is secretly hoping that there is a massive surplus of PS3's that gets shipped? Like, somehow, all the idiots with the eBay listings will get no bids for their stupid efforts, and we all win. I mean, I'm trying to conceptualize how there can be such a demand for $599 US DOLLARS...

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Inhert

you know that there's an option that you can choose what color you want the background to be >.> you have the choice to make it so the color change every month or choose the one you like >.> I too want the color to match some photo but really just change the theme not the date to match the background colors XD

I'm quite aware this is the option on the PSP, but the PS3 firmware didn't have that choice in yet.

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

I'm quite aware this is the option on the PSP, but the PS3 firmware didn't have that choice in yet.

The PSP didn't have that option either until firmware version 2.0.

How ya doing, buddy?

damn the day the ps3 will be launch I have a dentist appointment XD well it's only for an hour but still XD at least playing my ps3 will distract me from the "numb sensation" that I dislike so much >.<

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Well, here's what I really want to do.

I just made an .mp3 with Ken saying "$599 US Dollars" five times, followed by,"It's Ridge Racer.... RIIIIIDGE RACERRRR!"
This goes on for 31.12 minutes.

I want to blast this on a loud speaker right in front of Best Buy. It's a non-asshole prank, but extremely irritating at the same time.
In fact, here's the .mp3 I made via YSI.
https://www.yousendit.com/login.php?...9D7A2E5C2A057B

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

But think of the exposure! Bobo will be thrilled!

(or you're free to go to my folder and delete the files the second you spot them linked on some other forum. Don't touch my images, though >=U)

You kidding me? If those two files manage to bring down the forums b/c of bandwidth then maybe we'll actually get bobo's attention. Bandwidth whoring a go go, baby!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Pietak

Well, here's what I really want to do.

I just made an .mp3 with Ken saying "$599 US Dollars" five times, followed by,"It's Ridge Racer.... RIIIIIDGE RACERRRR!"
This goes on for 31.12 minutes.

I want to blast this on a loud speaker right in front of Best Buy. It's a non-asshole prank, but extremely irritating at the same time.
In fact, here's the .mp3 I made via YSI.
https://www.yousendit.com/login.php?...9D7A2E5C2A057B

That's...that's cute. Real fucking cute.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I was wondering why he would go through that.. I mean, why combine the Riidge Racer thing (which is a PSP-related comment) with the PS3 pricepoint.
I really wish I could see why you'd do such a thing.

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

Simply because he can't get enough of it and he wants to hear it over and over and over and over...... Also because he enjoys Ken's voice so much he wants to share the experiance with everyone else, lol.

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Because that was the whole point of the "Sony E3 in one minute" video.

I was speaking idiomatically.

God, because it's so beautiful... That's why... That's why...

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:Cars with the flashing cherry on top come to Pietaks' little party outside of Best Buy:

FELIPE NO

"What?!? WHAT?!?! I thought this was America! I thought this was 'MERICA!! Oh oh I see officer! So I'm disturbing the peace?! WHATEVER! WHATEVER!"

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