Well the day has finally arrived for all the Sony fans and Playstation 3 hopefuls. The Playstation 3 has launched in North America. Of course the vast, vast majority of the units available worldwide are being made available in the United States since that is the biggest launch area for Sony at this point. But regardless, Sony pulled off some pretty nice events in several U.S. cities earlier today to coincide with the launch of the long awaited next-gen monster.
There was an interesting event in San Fransisco earlier today, where many Sony fans waited in long, long lines for a chance at a PS3 unit. At the PlayStation store there at the Metreon shopping complex, Sony probably caused a near riot, especially when fans found out what was really going on. Check this out. At about 8:15 PM Pacific time last night, a police car drove up to the large gathering of PS3 hopefuls, got out and told the DJ there to stop playing his really loud and annoying music (one can only assume it was a Kevin Federline track) and then the magic started. Two more police vehicles came roaring down the street there along with three black SUVs. Then a dozen or so security officers got out and created a "perimeter" around the cars, and then a large silver semi started to pull in. Out of the back of this semi came Sony Computer Entertainment America Executive Vice President Jack Tretton. He then lifted a couple of the amazing PS3 boxes into the air, the crowd went nuts and then workers quickly put the rest of the 700+ boxes onto carts to wheel into the store. The only problem? All the boxes were empty. The entire event - all these fevered fans, rabid, and camped out for 48+ hours or more, just witnessed a planned event for the press.
But it was all good, because shortly thereafter at midnight the Playstation 3 finally went on sale. Chris Toniblo has the honor of (probably) being the first person on the west coast to buy a Playstation 3 unit. Sony also held a pretty sweet event in New York City. As in San Fransisco, the NYC event had been going on for days already with many fans camped out at the SonyStyle store in Manhattan. Angel Paredes has the honor of being the first person on the east coast to get a Playstation 3, and indeed the first person in the U.S. to get one period. But he was given a free Playstation 3. That's right, Sony Computer Entertainment America President Kaz Hirai and CEO Howard Stringer were there to give Mr. Paredes a free Playstation 3, in fact the first 3 people in line got a free unit. One other person who found a "golden ticket" also got a free unit. Everyone else had to shell out the big bucks of course.
So here we are, it is now 1:30 PM Eastern time here in the U.S. and I'm sure that pretty much every Playstation 3 unit that was around, is probably now sold. Of course a large percentage of those units will be on Ebay tonight, but eh, whatever. About 12 hours or so after launch now, one can only wonder how the rest of the country is going, any other riots to hear about? Any other shootings?
Sony sure knows how to launch a console though.
There was an interesting event in San Fransisco earlier today, where many Sony fans waited in long, long lines for a chance at a PS3 unit. At the PlayStation store there at the Metreon shopping complex, Sony probably caused a near riot, especially when fans found out what was really going on. Check this out. At about 8:15 PM Pacific time last night, a police car drove up to the large gathering of PS3 hopefuls, got out and told the DJ there to stop playing his really loud and annoying music (one can only assume it was a Kevin Federline track) and then the magic started. Two more police vehicles came roaring down the street there along with three black SUVs. Then a dozen or so security officers got out and created a "perimeter" around the cars, and then a large silver semi started to pull in. Out of the back of this semi came Sony Computer Entertainment America Executive Vice President Jack Tretton. He then lifted a couple of the amazing PS3 boxes into the air, the crowd went nuts and then workers quickly put the rest of the 700+ boxes onto carts to wheel into the store. The only problem? All the boxes were empty. The entire event - all these fevered fans, rabid, and camped out for 48+ hours or more, just witnessed a planned event for the press.
But it was all good, because shortly thereafter at midnight the Playstation 3 finally went on sale. Chris Toniblo has the honor of (probably) being the first person on the west coast to buy a Playstation 3 unit. Sony also held a pretty sweet event in New York City. As in San Fransisco, the NYC event had been going on for days already with many fans camped out at the SonyStyle store in Manhattan. Angel Paredes has the honor of being the first person on the east coast to get a Playstation 3, and indeed the first person in the U.S. to get one period. But he was given a free Playstation 3. That's right, Sony Computer Entertainment America President Kaz Hirai and CEO Howard Stringer were there to give Mr. Paredes a free Playstation 3, in fact the first 3 people in line got a free unit. One other person who found a "golden ticket" also got a free unit. Everyone else had to shell out the big bucks of course.
So here we are, it is now 1:30 PM Eastern time here in the U.S. and I'm sure that pretty much every Playstation 3 unit that was around, is probably now sold. Of course a large percentage of those units will be on Ebay tonight, but eh, whatever. About 12 hours or so after launch now, one can only wonder how the rest of the country is going, any other riots to hear about? Any other shootings?
Sony sure knows how to launch a console though.
I would have to disagree with that and the rest of europe
Dude, think what you are saying...a 'nice launch event'? When people are getting robbed, shot at and driven to hospital with injuries??? You must have some issues with your marketing professor if you think that a launch of a product accompanied by such events is 'nice'.
Sony are a$$holes, and they proved it once again with this campaign because if you create a hype about a product like that, you should be damn sure that you satisfy the major demand for it - no, they make people BEG them to pay the extortionate price for it. Bastards.
I'm confused. I'm pretty sure they're still selling it at a loss. If you're going to complain, complain about the cost of games.
Well, it's either that or you could wait even longer when more are in stock. Your pick.
Just look at IGN web site to compare.
They say they even get "frame-rate drop" problems also... ??!!??
I think Sony just lied once more on the power of his machine.
It makes me remember of the launch of (Playstation 1 & 2)
They said bullsh** before lauch on those too.
They surely hope Squaresoft will save their back once more.
Edit: corrected some sentences that were hard to read
Edit: look lower in the comments for a list of game that have problem
Last edited by tx83 on 17 Nov 2006 - 19:46
Just look at IGN web site to compare.
They say they even get "frame-rate drop" problems also... ??!!??
I think Sony just lied once more on the power of his machine.
It makes me remember of the launch of (Playstation 1 & 2)
They said bullsh** before lauch on those too.
They surely hope Squaresoft will save their back once more.
Edit: corrected some sentences that were hard to read
I hear the PS3 is awesome, and you have a bee in your bonnet.
Just look at IGN web site to compare.
They say they even get "frame-rate drop" problems also... ??!!??
I think Sony just lied once more on the power of his machine.
It makes me remember of the launch of (Playstation 1 & 2)
They said bullsh** before lauch on those too.
Comparing graphics by screenshots is retarded. I can't tell you the countless screenshots I've seen that have made games look horribly nasty when they were actually quite beautiful in truth. Even more so if the screenshots are from a magazine.
Let the reviews flow...
i guessing 90% of the ps3s sold are going there
and that was proberly a Staged auction to hype every thing up.
PS3's on eBay
o_O Crazy!
Edit : To everyone blind, it is the PS3 that have more
Edit : To everyone blind, it is the PS3 that have more
Yeah whats up with the AA on this thing? it looks like crap when its a slow moving object where you can clearly see the edges of it (when no motion blur is applied)
Last edited by neufuse on 17 Nov 2006 - 18:54
Wow, really ignorant. You understand that the 360 software developer kit has been out for MUCH longer than the PS3's. Developers are not used to developing on the PS3 and as a result the 360 will look better first off.
This is evidenced by the fact that first-gen 360 games looked better than the first-gen PS3 games do (and they all ran much faster too).
For a potential $1000 profit, I'g gladly freeze my butt off for 12 hours.
Yeah, throwing empty boxes out to your fans, that's a great idea.
I'm surprised stores are making room for these on their shelves. There won't be many PS3's under Christmas trees this holiday season.
in all the comments you make in neowin.net is defending Microsoft. you always talk sh#t about mac, and now the ps3.
what a hater! just accept that the ps3 is better.
what's this crap about $25,000 buy it now on ebay? are they out of their sacks?
In a FPS you just can't forgive it.
In a FPS you just can't forgive it.
What game is having a problem with framerate drops?
Untold Legends : Dark Kingdom
Ridge Racer 7 (in multiplayer on the same screen)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Plus (not frame-rate problem but bad graphic quality):
Need for Speed Carbon (sub-par special-effects especially the blur)
NBA 07
Last edited by tx83 on 17 Nov 2006 - 19:39
Untold Legends : Dark Kingdom
Ridge Racer 7 (in multiplayer on the same screen)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Plus (not frame-rate problem but bad graphic quality):
Need for Speed Carbon (sub-par special-effects especially the blur)
NBA 07
Most of those reviews say the frame rate stutters on intense scenes like every game in existance has either it be PC or console. It's not like the entire games are borked frame rate wise. Also, I don't think anyone is going to care, those games blow to begin with.
Resistance is the game pretty much everyone is going to be purchasing and the framerate is locked.
*Edit: Also I don't see the NBA '07 review about problems with the graphics, they even said this:
Resistance is the game pretty much everyone is going to be purchasing and the framerate is locked.
I don't remember any games from Nintendo on Gamecube that had frame-rate problems (even if the hardware was crappy) because developers knew how to handle it.
Maybe the hardware on PS3 is great, but developer really don't know how to use it correctly.
Edit : Now I am looking forward to buy another console.
Will it be the Wii for the controller, Zelda and Super Smash Bros (and maybe another killer Resident Evil) ?
Or will it be the Xbox 360, since a lot of game are appealing to me.
Let's decide on the day Wii launches (2 days to go)
Sure it did. For instance a game by Nintendo, Geist, had huge framerate problems.
Geist ?? I don't even remember seeing it at my Game Store.
Oh well, you got one (I give you that)
I have 4 of them out of 7 games reviewed in the launch game line-up.
Now find only 3 laggy GameCube game that were on the lauch line-up
and I will agree with you.
and I will agree with you.
None of the GameCube launch games had framerate. That doesn't mean there weren't other GameCube games in the consoles lifetime (as the example I pointed out) that didn't suffer framerate problems.
If other game developers can develop games for any console or even the PC without framerate problems then it isn't the consolePC's fault, it's just bad coding or it's going over the system limits. Considering the amount of time of development for launch games it is most likely the former.
That is exactly the point I wanted to show you.
1. The hardware is not good enough for the game that were released on it.
2. The hardware doesn't even give us the image quality we were expecting.
3. In conclusion, the hardware is crap.
Simple as 1-2-3
That is exactly the point I wanted to show you.
1. The hardware is not good enough for the game that were released on it.
2. The hardware doesn't even give us the image quality we were expecting.
3. In conclusion, the hardware is crap.
Simple as 1-2-3
No you completely have taken my words out of context. Launch games from third parties are normally are crap because of the development time they go through or should I say the lack of it along with the unfamiliarity of the hardware. The Xbox360 and the Wii both have crappy looking third party games that have problems, you can't deny that. By no means does that reflect that the hardware is complete crap.
1. The hardware is not good enough for the game that were released on it.
2. The hardware doesn't even give us the image quality we were expecting.
3. In conclusion, the hardware is crap.
Simple as 1-2-3
That does not logically follow. It actually makes more sense to say that the software that was released for the hardware is crap, because the programmers knew ahead of time what hardware they were going to have, and they chose to push the limits of the hardware, sometimes going over the limit (and thus, having frame drops and poor image quality).
You convinced me to wait a little. I will look at other games on the PS3 in the future before taking a decision about buying it or not.
By these words of wisdom, I close this argument.
To my knowledge not a single console hasnt had this issue at some point. It's a coding issue. The machine can be as powerful as you like but if the game aint coded right for it its not going to run optimally.
GameCube hardware most certainly wasn't crappy. Smack dab in between Xbox and PS2 performance-wise.
Published by Nintendo, but developed by N-Space
Ironic that the 'current' controller is a blast from the past.
Obviously you care enough about the PS3 launch to post here about it.
But he is surely LHAO reading it.
How so?
How so?
I'll pick up my PS3 sometime next summer or later. I'll like the PS3 better when it's cheaper and all the bugs and errors are worked out.
lol, so much for 600$...
Pretty excessive if you ask me
I'll be waiting until late next year before even concidering buying one
There will be more games to choose from then.
Good point. The people who are buying it for 2k+ on eBay are the stupid ones.
First off the assembly line hardware is never a good thing. If I were even interested in getting a PS3, I'd wait 2-6 months and see how people are liking it then.
Don't expect any decent game titles until next year this time.
There are plenty of PS3 games coming out shortly that are more than adequate, in fact they look quite good. Sure we won't see a Metal Gear Solid or Warhawk for a bit longer, but eh, no big deal really. Gears of War, and Zelda are both awesome games I'm sure, as is Resistence, in the end it comes down to personal preference, and brand loyalty. Which is a shame, because the rabpid fanboys are a major issue these days. Bashing people for liking Sony, bashing people for enjoying a Wii, bashing peopl for wanting a 360. Its a damn game console, not the end of the world, nor does it affect you personally. I just don't get the fanboyisms.
Maybe its because I'm a PC gamer (4 lyfe w00t w00t) and I know PC gaming is way way better than Console gaming.