PlayStation 3

[Shoco]

today i preordered my 60GB PS3 

[bazgnr]

So let me know what you think after you've played it a bith, then...very curious. 

[pilferk]

Walked into Walmart on Saturday morning.

I was browsing the video game section with my wife, looking to see if anything caught my eye (I STILL have X-mas gift cards to spend) and noticed they had 4 PS3s in the case: 2 20 gig, 2 60 gig.  I commented to my wife I was surprised they had them in stock.  A nearby associate overheard me and said "Yeah, and 15 more of them in the back room."

It sounds like either Sony is getting more units out there OR the units going out are just not selling very well.

[-Jack-]

My friend got one today and I feel very un-impressed. =/.

[bazgnr]

Walked into Walmart on Saturday morning.

I was browsing the video game section with my wife, looking to see if anything caught my eye (I STILL have X-mas gift cards to spend) and noticed they had 4 PS3s in the case: 2 20 gig, 2 60 gig.? I commented to my wife I was surprised they had them in stock.? A nearby associate overheard me and said "Yeah, and 15 more of them in the back room."

It sounds like either Sony is getting more units out there OR the units going out are just not selling very well.

Same here.  My Wal Mart had one sitting in the case yesterday...still there today.  Honestly, I'm surprised.  So is Sony, I bet.   

[Borat]

All us patient UK gamers will finally find out tonight at Midnight when Sony are releasing the Playstation 3 and how much it will cost, most insiders are expecting a March 23rd launch and a ?425 price tag for the 60gb SKU. Not long to wait now!

[cotis]

I'm looking to eventually buy one, hopefully after a possible price drop this summer?

Anyone here wanna give me a review on it? tell me how it is?

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

ps3 is teh suck i'm sorry

[Borat]

I'm looking to eventually buy one, hopefully after a possible price drop this summer?

Anyone here wanna give me a review on it? tell me how it is?

There will probably be no price drop until spring 2008 at the earliest.

[pilferk]

I'm looking to eventually buy one, hopefully after a possible price drop this summer?

Anyone here wanna give me a review on it? tell me how it is?

There will probably be no price drop until spring 2008 at the earliest.

Japanese retailers are already (where the prices aren't fixed) dropping prices on the 20GB unit.  They say they're doing it because of poor sales.

If you look at the US retail market data, you see the same trend.  After X-mas, demand hit the crapper.  Sony is going to have to make some tough choices:  Either drop the price to increase demand, and take a bigger hit on the hardware (which I'm not sure they can afford to do) or stumble along until they get some killer apps out to justify the very high, in comparision, price tag of their system (something I'm not sure they can afford to do, either).  In looking at the software lineup......it may be very late '07 or very early '08 before their heavy hitters START to see daylight.  That's a long time to not be raking in revenue.

All the surveys that I've seen list the #1 reason people are not buying a PS3 as price, followed by lack of quality software/games.

I'm sure their initial plan was to hold off on a price drop, but with a rumored Xbox360 2.0 (with HDMI and larger HDD...and a quieter freaking drive so it doesn't sound like a hovercraft taking off) at the same price point (399) and the surprise success of the Wii, and it's LOW price point....I'm not sure Sony can hold out that long....or, if they do, if it will destroy their chances of "winning" this gens hardware battle.

[Shoco]

excellent, 23rd is my birthday

[Neemo]

when is GTA 4 due? and GH3 will prolly be PS3 as well that should boost interest

[pilferk]

when is GTA 4 due? and GH3 will prolly be PS3 as well that should boost interest

GTA  4 will come out on the 360 AND the PS3 on the same day.  The developer has already confirmed that....as has Microsoft.

GH2 is headed to the 360 shortly (march/april) and the word is that GH3 will also see release on both platoforms at the same time, as will a GH:80's version (not the real title).

The PS3 is going to need exclusives to sell the hardware over a less expensive, but very comparable, 360.

[Neemo]

The PS3 is going to need exclusives to sell the hardware over a less expensive, but very comparable, 360.

i agree...wow PS is in trouble if they lost exclusive rights to those 2 franchises

[bazgnr]

The PS3 is going to need exclusives to sell the hardware over a less expensive, but very comparable, 360.

i agree...wow PS is in trouble if they lost exclusive rights to those 2 franchises

Not to mention that fact that the 360 has an exclusive on Gears of War, which is selling plenty of consoles on its own...

[GnFnR87]

The PS3 is going to need exclusives to sell the hardware over a less expensive, but very comparable, 360.

i agree...wow PS is in trouble if they lost exclusive rights to those 2 franchises

Not to mention that fact that the 360 has an exclusive on Gears of War, which is selling plenty of consoles on its own...

yeah but PS3 has plenty of awesome titles. they always have. my problem is that the 60 GB is so goddamn expensive. i'm waiting for it to drop, 600 bucks for a game system is a little too much.

[bazgnr]

An interesing article in which a Sony rep. cites the superiority of their machine, calling the Wii an "impusle buy." 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6165074.html?tag=latestnews;title;0

SCEA spokesman tells New York Times that Nintendo's new console doesn't belong in the same category as the PlayStation 3.

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Jan 31, 2007 3:04 pm PT
In the past, Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesman Dave Karraker has been fairly critical of his gaming rivals at Microsoft. In September, Karraker called Microsoft's decision to release an HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 that only plays movies "unfortunate," adding that the company's 1080p update for the system wasn't "full HD."

Two months later, he slammed Microsoft's decision to offer high-definition movies and TV shows for download over Xbox Live as "a disservice to their consumer base" because purchasers of the Xbox 360 Core system would need to buy a hard drive to store the large files.

Now, Karraker has turned his eye toward Nintendo's Wii, telling The New York Times that the system didn't belong in the same category as the PlayStation 3.

"Wii could be considered an impulse buy more than anything else," Karraker was quoted as saying.

The Sony spokesman also told the paper that Sony was selling out shipments of 100,000 PS3s in the US every week, although, "the frenzy we saw at the holidays has subsided a bit."

The article ran today under the headline, "Nintendo's Wii, Radiating Fun, Is Eclipsing Sony Machine." It discussed each machine's relative performance over the recent holiday sales season and noted that PS3 systems have been easier to find on store shelves than the Wii.

[-Jack-]

An interesing article in which a Sony rep. cites the superiority of their machine, calling the Wii an "impusle buy." 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6165074.html?tag=latestnews;title;0

SCEA spokesman tells New York Times that Nintendo's new console doesn't belong in the same category as the PlayStation 3.

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Jan 31, 2007 3:04 pm PT
In the past, Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesman Dave Karraker has been fairly critical of his gaming rivals at Microsoft. In September, Karraker called Microsoft's decision to release an HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 that only plays movies "unfortunate," adding that the company's 1080p update for the system wasn't "full HD."

Two months later, he slammed Microsoft's decision to offer high-definition movies and TV shows for download over Xbox Live as "a disservice to their consumer base" because purchasers of the Xbox 360 Core system would need to buy a hard drive to store the large files.

Now, Karraker has turned his eye toward Nintendo's Wii, telling The New York Times that the system didn't belong in the same category as the PlayStation 3.

"Wii could be considered an impulse buy more than anything else," Karraker was quoted as saying.

The Sony spokesman also told the paper that Sony was selling out shipments of 100,000 PS3s in the US every week, although, "the frenzy we saw at the holidays has subsided a bit."

The article ran today under the headline, "Nintendo's Wii, Radiating Fun, Is Eclipsing Sony Machine." It discussed each machine's relative performance over the recent holiday sales season and noted that PS3 systems have been easier to find on store shelves than the Wii.

 

No offense to Sony.. but wouldn't THEY want the PS3 to be an impulse buy too? Thats the most retarded shit. Like they would be complaining if it were the other way around.

And the fact that they consider 300$ (Wii and a game) an impulse buy...

They just come off as jealous in my honest opinion.

[bazgnr]

I agree with you.  That's why I get such a kick out of the paragraph that ends the whole article.  Kind of gives a different insight into Sony's comments...

[C0ma]

They have a point about Wii... Sales are being driven by the controller. But the graphics are awful compared to PS3 and 360... as soon as the controller hype wears down so will it's sales. It is destined to be Sony's red headed stepchild just as they were in the last two generations N64 v. PSOne and Gamecube v. PS2.

Nintendo should take a page from SEGA's book and drop hardware for Software development, the last console battle they won was the NES v. Sega Master System (which actually kicked ass but was poorly marketed)

Another thing that is never taken into consideration is that PS3 is also competing sales wise with the PS2 which still sells very well... as soon as the PS3 library catches up and the Blu Ray technology gets cheaper it will smoke the other "Next Gen" consoles.