[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

I certainly will not buy a PS3 at launch for the price of $600 especially with their track record on the PS1 and PS2. I had to buy 2 PS1s because the first one stopped reading CDs. I have my original PS2 but it stopped reading CDs also so I cannot play my old PS1 games on it. I also cannot play many of my early PS2 games on it. Also, I have to open the system up regulary to re-align the disc tray gears because it gets disc read errors on DVDs after a good bit of use. For 600 smackers I will not purchase a system that will undoubtedly fail in 2 years. Therefore, I will wait for Sony's 2nd or 3rd revision and hopefully the first price drop. From observing the gaming cummunity it seems a lot of gamers will not be buying a PS3 at launch. Just check out these statistics I found at gamefaqs. Though the poll was still unfinished when I found the stats.

The question was "Whether or not you want one, could you afford a PS3 on its launch date?".

Yes, $599 is nothing to me -11.64% 1685 votes
Probably, unless something else comes up- 21.62% 3129 votes
Maybe, if I were to save up all year -19.51% 2824 votes
Probably not, unless I get a windfall -16.89% 2445 votes
No way, I can't spend that much on games -30.33% 4390 votes
TOTAL VOTES 14473

I personally think Sony should shave off 100$ from the price. They would gather a much larger user base and sell more games because of it. Sure they would initially take a price hit but eventually they would reap the benifits of more users purchasing games, and even blu-ray movies. Just my 2 cents on the matter.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just wish Sony had quality control like Nintendo... I mean for Gods sake my NES still freaking works. I have never ever had a problem with a Nintendo system failing. They have the games, if they could just make the Playstation brand reliable.

oh, and yes the $600 is the system with a 60gb HD. But that still makes the core system 500$ and that, in my opinion is still too expensive for a game machine. If they dropped each $100 it would still be somewhere near the affordable price range. $400 for the core system and $500 for the 60gb HD version.

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I agree Technophile. I am not making the jump to HD in for at least 5 years which will make half of the PS3's cost a waste of money for me too. So cheap blu-ray player or not, so what? I don't need it because I will never be able to veiw it in HD. And about Storage space, I doubt real time graphics will need the storage space of more than 2 DVD's. Its when they start wasting space with HD prerendered cutscenes that they need a blu-ray disc. And with the power of the PS3, there is no need for prerendered scenes anymore so. In all honesty, I know high def textures will take more memory, but I highly doubt they will take THAT much.
Also, I even have an SACD player already so all of PS3's extra components are just a waste of my money. The blu-ray is the only thing I don't own and I can't even properly use it.

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

probably, and then like the PS2, which loses its cd reading function in a year, the PS3 will get disc read errors for DVD's. I am still not able to play my early PS2 games because of this lameness, and I forsee having the same problem with the $600 PS3. I miss you Gungriffon Blaze~! (my first PS2 game)

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Slayer, the reason Oblivion does not run well on your computer is mainly your 9800 PRO. That graphics card it waaaay outdated for that game. It's two generations behind what the game was developed for. Newer games also fare better with at least an athlon 64 or maybe a dual core processor. But I bet yor biggest bottleneck is with your gfx card.

If I ran Oblivion on my Nvidia7800GT it would probably run at a 720P equivilent resolution and look and run at least near if not better than the console counterparts.

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oh jesus!! isn't 1920x1200 a bit overkill on a computer monitor?!?!?!?!?! I run 1440x900 which is close to 720p. I did not mean 1080p!!!!!

you can certainly run it on 1440x900 with grass on my rig and it will run fine.

That is on a 19" widescreen LCD. Don't know what monitor you run on Acer

If you think about what the PS3 runs the game on, multi-core processor and a 7800 based gfx card you can figure that 9800 pro would be pretty obsolete on a computer running this game, wow, I didn't even think a 9800 pro would run BF2. Never thought anyone would attempt it with Oblivion.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

no, I mean 1440 is close to 720 p although it is a higher res, it is a comparable widescreen res. Acer was running it in 1080p

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