Got My PS3... its great!

[Vault Boy]

Why the hell cant I play games while it downloads demo's and stuff from the Playstation store?

Resistance: Fall Of Man seems like a great game so far and Fight Night is one of my favs anyway so I'm content for the time being, I just wonder how long it is now until some good games start showing up!

[goji]

Think the 360 does the same thing, but thats if your playing on Live.

Wait a few more months, then Sony will have some waters coming out of the floodgates.

[Gavin001]

Yeah not being able to have the download in the background is a bit crappy but they promised to change that in the next update, but god knows when that will come! You should check out RFOM online its very fun to play :) i was thinking of getting Fight Night aswell but never got around to it! Some Demos you should check out is MotorStorm, Full Auto, GT HD, Genji( i dont like it, but u might :p )

[FreqFace]

Think the 360 does the same thing, but thats if your playing on Live.

Wait a few more months, then Sony will have some waters coming out of the floodgates.

Yeah, if you connect to Live on any game, it will pause your download, but that's a intended feature, since it dedicates all your bandwidth to Live. When you finish playing Live, the download continues. You can do everything else while it downloads, however.

I'm sure Sony will add this feature, I mean, it'd be silly not to.

[Vault Boy]

Yeah I'm already downloading half of em lol!

Only trouble is, you cant even use the rest of the menu while the download is happenin! On the 360 you can. And you can even play games offline, but to start with 360 had the same problem, they will fix it in an update I have faith...

And yehh, gonna try resistance online later! Shud be fun! Fight Night is a blast! GO GET IT!

[dnast]

Yeah, I hated when it was like that with the 360. I was surprised to see that the PS3 and Wii have the same issue. Hopefully they'll have it worked out soon - or at least by the time the price drops low enough for me to consider getting one. :p

[Corris Veteran]

I'm pretty sure they mentioned that the background downloading was in the next big update, which is sometime in march in time for the Euro release I think...possibly...

[Pc_Madness]

Yeah, if you connect to Live on any game

Yeah, but all games connect to Live, which makes downloading while doing SP impossible. :(

[Bhav]

Yup, background downloading is coming very, very soon.

[Chadwick]

Yeah, but all games connect to Live, which makes downloading while doing SP impossible. :(

thats why when your downloading demos play your old demos, madden 07 demo is great for this, you can play two games or so, and they are fast and entertaining because you only get 1 minute quarters, but by the time your done your download is too..

[crazzyyfool]

:D Cant wait to get mine, its on pre-order. I'm buying the console only, not bundled with games. Any you guys recommend?

[FreqFace]

Yeah, but all games connect to Live, which makes downloading while doing SP impossible. :(

Erm... it only pauses the download if you start online multi-player. That's what I meant anyway.

[bibutteryboy]

I just wonder how long it is now until some good games start showing up!

so you bought a ps3 and you don't have any games you really like? Nice way to spend your money

[FreqFace]

so you bought a ps3 and you don't have any games you really like? Nice way to spend your money

This I why I can't understand why people are getting their PS3's now. At least wait a revision or two to be sure there's no problems with the launch models (and this isn't a stab at PS3, probably every console ever made has had at least one or two problems with the initial models), especially considering there isn't many games at the moment.

[TDQuiksilver]

Resistance: Fall Of Man, MotorStorm and a few sports titles ought to keep you busy at first.

[Gavin001]

:D Cant wait to get mine, its on pre-order. I'm buying the console only, not bundled with games. Any you guys recommend?

RFOM and Motorstorm will start you off well :)

I cant wait for the Euro launch at last i'll be able to buy Ps3 games in the UK instead of importing :D woo no long waits! I lookin forword to gettin my hands on loads of the new games on the way heavenly sword is one of them, Rainbow Six, GRAW 2, Oblivion, Def Jam, LAIR etc..

[Bhav]

This I why I can't understand why people are getting their PS3's now. At least wait a revision or two to be sure there's no problems with the launch models (and this isn't a stab at PS3, probably every console ever made has had at least one or two problems with the initial models), especially considering there isn't many games at the moment.

Although there haven't been any major issues in North America and Japan so far :) Furthermore, any issues that have been reported are nothing like the Xbox 360 disaster.

[M1ke]

Great..? I do believe mine sits there untouched for weeks now.... Yeah... the games for it are rather not there... They need to actually make good games for the realse not the crap they did.

What a waste of $800+

[Bhav]

So why did you buy it? Surely you should have researched what titles would be available, and if none of them appealed to you then you shouldn't have bought the PS3 at all. I think it's silly to buy it and then complain that you bought it, knowing the situation with launch titles.

[M1ke]

I'll let it sit there until MSG4 or whatever it is comes out.

[mycoolkim]

Wait for Tekken 6 dude, it will own!~

[Huleboeren]

Yeah, if you connect to Live on any game, it will pause your download, but that's a intended feature, since it dedicates all your bandwidth to Live. When you finish playing Live, the download continues. You can do everything else while it downloads, however.

I'm sure Sony will add this feature, I mean, it'd be silly not to.

Not all games support background downloading (Singleplayer) - SaintsRow for one

[MadFerIt]

Not all games support background downloading (Singleplayer) - SaintsRow for one

Some games have a bit of a bug. For some reason or another despite being in single-player, they tell the 360 there's going to be live multi-player (which the 360 will then pause any downloads to maintain optimal bandwidth). It's not really a factor of which games support it or not, it's just some games contain that bug.

[Xero]

The PS3 Firmware update in March (27th I think) will allow multitasking, and let you download while playing a game, with every firmware update the PS3 gets that much better. I just wish there were more game demos to download. Ah well, ina years time the PS3 will be very different than it is now.

[+StevoFC MVC]

I don't understand why people are in such a huge rush for the ps3. I mean honestly.

There is a guy i work with who around christmas was trying to decide which he wanted to get, the 360 or the ps3. Well he finally decided on the ps3 because he has a ps2 and still enjoys those games. Well, his gf went every damn day for probably a month to look for a ps3 and finally got one before christmas and gave it to him...you know what he uses it for? to watch blu-ray movies. He actually came in the one day and was like I got COD3, that game is sweet, but there are absolutely no other games out that i want. I looked at him and flat out said "why the hell was it such a big deal that you got the ps3 when you did?"

He just looked at me and didn't know what to say.

People with enough money have to be buying the system with completely blind fanboyism. The fact that he walked into work and flat out said there are no good games for it just totally floored me. The only reason this is selling is because it has the word "Playstation" in the name. He even said all he does is play his ps2 still. He doesn't even attempt to use the ps3 to play them.

For whoever bought the system, good for you. I hope you enjoy it. But honestly what rock has so many people been under to think that the ps3 was/is worth getting right now or even a few months ago?

This is not meant to be a flame of any sort. I used to be one of those people with a ps2 who totally hated the xbox without even playing it. I just don't know how people can spend so much money on something that is proven to have very few games even worth owning right now.