Start out by saying I love my PS3 (I'm biased because it's what I got for Christmas). Love it a lot.

The menu screen has the same format as the PSP does (they call it XMB or something style), which personally I like. When you turn it on, you choose the profile you wish to go under (which will in turn select the internal memory card I think). You then go to the main menu with Music, Photos, Game, Web, Settings, etc.

I got Resistance for the PS3 (and also Dark Kingdom which technically my brother got). Really fun and extremely nice graphically wise, despite our "standard" definition television. We're getting a HDTV today or tomorrow, which is where the PS3 really shines at. But even without it, it's nice. The gameplay is fun, makes you feel like you're there. You're fighting these aliens all the time and constantly have to figure out how to use your surroundings to protect yourself, or to help aid yourself by killing the aliens.


I figured out to swith games or turn off the PS3, you hold down the "PS" button, which is in the middle of the controller (which is wireless) for two seconds. You then get a menu to quit game, turn off the system, and other things, which is nice rather than having to restart the system and switch out the games.

The web browser is confusing for me. I went to Massassi's site and it brought me to the Parent Directory. So I'll figure out more stuff about it soon. I really have no idea what I'm doing in it.

Also another thing I don't like is deleting PS3 profiles. I'm certain there's an option for it somewhere, but I don't see it

Despite not knowing the Browser or changing profile/login names, I'm having a lot of fun with Resistance (which will be a crappy game when Fall hits because it's a launch title game -- which are always crappy).

You probably got the directory listing because you went to massassi.COM not massassi.NET

Doh, that was stupid of me. Ah well. At least typing is easy with the PS3 (word selection based on what your starting characters are on the right side)

In other news, the Wii owns, as it has more than one game.

Things I dislike about the PS3:

A. The web browser sucks. Period. It's the same one on the PSP, and they suck.
B. It's expensive as mad hell.
C. It's nowhere near as backwards compatible as they claimed it would.
D. Where's the games?
E. The HDTV ability of the PS3 is shown to be a bunch of hogwash. Only certain games are gonna be capable of it.
F. Did I mention it was expensive?

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]In other news, the Wii owns, as it has more than one game.[/QUOTE]
Meh, but what games are good? I love excite truck and zelda, both first-party titles. What other games are worth buying (that are out right now)??

Rayman. Hands down, insanely awesome game.

Also, coming out next month, Wario Ware.

And of course, Wii Sports, although included, deserves a mention.

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]

Also, coming out next month, Wario Ware.

.[/QUOTE]

So that's three games. Rayman, Zelda and Excite Truck. Of course, if you're going to count games that aren't out yet, then you can't really put down the PS3 for that.

If you like the PS3, that's good for you.

When I like something and if someone else doesn't, then I don't really give a f*** if (s)he doesn't like it. A good policy, I'd say.

Posting right now on the PS3. I love the browser actually. Have you even been on a PS3 Matty?

Two of them. One at a friend's house, one at a store. Hated it with a passion. It's like the PSP with a wireless controller and better graphics.

[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]So that's three games. Rayman, Zelda and Excite Truck. Of course, if you're going to count games that aren't out yet, then you can't really put down the PS3 for that.[/QUOTE]

Wii Sports, Rayman, Zelda, and Excite Truck. 4 games.

PS3: Resistance. 1 game.

Also, the PS3's upcoming games in the next few months are disappointingly few also.

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]In other news, the Wii owns, as it has more than one game.

Things I dislike about the PS3:

A. The web browser sucks. Period. It's the same one on the PSP, and they suck.
B. It's expensive as mad hell.
C. It's nowhere near as backwards compatible as they claimed it would.
D. Where's the games?
E. The HDTV ability of the PS3 is shown to be a bunch of hogwash. Only certain games are gonna be capable of it.
F. Did I mention it was expensive?[/QUOTE]

(on computer now)

A. The web browser is actually pretty neat for not having a keyboard. They have an word-complete menu on the side that shows all the most common words you'll use when typing based on the first few characters you put in. You just move over to the menu (right button/move analog stick right) and select the word, and start on a new one. Awesome browser. Besides, why would anyone use a video game console (Wii or PS3/PSP alike) for posting things anyways? Use it to check news and mail. Bookmarks are easily accessible too. As well as scrolling (using analog sticks to scroll which direction to view the page). Going back and forward is using your L2 and R2 buttons. The good thing about all of this? I can go check my mail if I'm in the middle of a game. All I do is press the middle PS button on the controller and go to the browser.

B. You're right, but it's worth it. I should say, it will be worth it once game devs use the PS3's full potential.

C. Actually I was playing San Andreas a while ago. Despite me not being able to play my saved game on the PS2 (because I need to buy a fracking Memory Card adapter to transfer my old PS2 data over -- bunch of BS if you ask me), it's still fun.

D. I got two games I'm very happy with already. Wii hasn't had any games either. And no, I don't count that crappy surgery game (Trauma Center). Wii Sports SUCKS by the way, I can officially say it because it does. I got bored of bowling and baseball 2 minutes into it. Oh wait, I beat it in two minutes anyways. Zelda is the only flagship game I see that makes the Wii useful. Both consoles are expected to use the full potential of both systems in the near future. I expect tons of games being released in the fall. Remember what the launch games were for N64 and PS2 were? Not many, and what was released was crap. Now look at all the cool games from the old gen.

E. You're right on the HD feature, but all games will look awesome with a HDTV anyways.

F. Yes.

For one actually playing both the Wii and the PS3, I like them both. But here's a disclaimer for this post: I'm not a fanboi of either of them. The reason for this post is counterbalance and actually tell the truth to what CoolMatty had to say (even though some of it's true: Price and HD feature)

The PS3's browser doesn't support like half the standards it should. It's actually worse than IE. That is my point. The Wii also has a far better GUI for browsing anyway (including word entry).



Still doesn't invalidate my statement that there are huge problems with backwards incompatibility. And no, I can get a PC for the same price and it'd be far more useful.



You can't "beat" Wii Sports, you obviously haven't played it with friends, and I think this is why you hate it. It's insanely awesome. And you neglected to mention Excite Truck nor Rayman, both excellent games.



Actually games will probably look bad on a large HDTV. Just letting you know :p

You'll be able to make out more detail on an HDTV, but that detail will be all pixely.

I actually would like to know how the PS3 browser is worse than IE (or the Wii)?

What are you talking about with backwards compatability?

When I said "Beat" I meant complete a single game of baseball, or bowling, etc.

Other than that, no argument here. Wii's not bad either. I just thought Wii Sport sucked. Maybe it's because I didn't create any Mii's (which is probably half the fun of it), or I simply got bored of it.

Get some friends, and make some Miis. Then Wii Sports will be awesome. Simple, but awesome.

There's one big issue with the PS3 right now. Because of it's expense, and the lack of sales, developers are reluctant to push out games for 2 main reasons.

A) It's a b***h to develop on it. I've read a couple reports that the technology is just impossible to get around, and Sony itself has said no developer will EVER unleash the full potential of the PS3.

B) Chicken or the egg. People don't want to buy PS3 until good games come out, developers aren't going to start developing until there are enough PS3s out to merit spending all that money to develop for it.

This leaves the PS3 in a kind of limbo until something good comes out for it. It's not a matter of which console is the "best". And because of the sales and momentum of the Xbox/Wii, theres a greater likelihood that developers will produce with for them.

The PS3 has just socked itself into a corner with the price, people aren't willing to throw $600 until they KNOW there's a few good games out, and right now, there just isn't. The PS3 will remain a slow roller until it gets that killer app, or will just remain a niche system forever.

That said, Resistance is alot of fun, that "shoot through walls" weapon is insanely awesome, especially the alt fire that puts up that shield for you to shoot through. It just isn't worth the $650 you have to put down to play it.

Is this the part where I say I like the XBox360 and then get flamed by Wii/PS3 fanboys?

White Knight Story should give the PS3 a needed boost. I hope. I'm definately getting a PS3 next year, so here's hoping that something good is out by then (WKS would be nice... >_> )

[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]White Knight Story should give the PS3 a needed boost. I hope. I'm definately getting a PS3 next year, so here's hoping that something good is out by then (WKS would be nice... >_> )[/QUOTE]

That game does look pretty cool, we'll see if it lives up to the hype.

Only by the former judging by the number of Wii threads.....the PS3 has good games in the future (Virtua Fighter 5, MGS 4, FFXIII, FFVXIII, and DMC 4), but right now it doesn't interest me. The Wii doesn't either, the games lack depth aside from Zelda.

I know it's the part where I point out that a good deal of the things pointed out about the Cross Media Bar in the first post are exactly the same, if not done better, on the 360 Dash.

And I think I read last week that Virtua Fighter 5 was either dropped for PS3, or was also being ported to the 360. One of those two.

I'll take my 360 and Gears of War, Oblivion, and Halo and be just fine thank you.

Someone speaks sense.

http://www.sega.com/corporate/corporate.php?item=pr_20061221a

The Xbox still has MGS4, though.

This is a horrible lie.

Firstly, developers are already tapping out the PS3's graphics hardware. The PS3 has graphics hardware that has been available on PC for well over a year now: it's nothing terribly impressive performance-wise, and it isn't even the least bit innovative on the features front.

Secondly, as an immediate consequence, the only part of the PS3 that hasn't been fully-utilized since the first dev kits were sent out is the Cell processor. The main reason for this is that game development is expensive and hard: companies are less likely to develop brand new in-house solutions to these problems. Very little middleware was available for the launch titles to use. I also have it on good authority that the OpenGL ES implementation is unusably slow, so essentially all PS3 developent is done the same way PS2 development is.


And this is another factoid that isn't so factual. This is probably never going to happen in this generation. Thanks to all of the cross-platform middleware there is basically no advantage to developing a game for any single platform. If a developer doesn't have the money to waste on a PS3 version, they probably don't have the money to waste on an Xbox 360 version either.

Wii development is cheap, and with its support for the classic controller there is absolutely zero incentive for a small developer to risk the money on one of the bigger systems.

In addition to that, major developers who can afford it are releasing them on multiple systems to make as much money as possible. When cross-platform isn't an option, traditionally-PC developers are going to gravitate toward Xbox 360. Generic anime JRPGs that won't get localized for North America are going to gravitate toward PS3, because DVDs aren't big enough to store 900 billion hours of poorly-dubbed FMVs. Actual games with actual gameplay aren't going to stick to a single system, unless the developer has been paid a very large amount of money by Sony or Microsoft to do so.

haha sony stole the gyroscopic idea from the wii controller, then they took the xbox button off the 360 controller and gave it practically every one of the functions it had on the 360... if that's not originality, i don't know what is. ALL HAIL THE PS3!

I'm not paying $600 for a console.

The entire point of the console versus the computer is stupid, cheap, and easy fun.

Video games have become too serious, and so have the people that play them. I can't believe they're turning this **** into a "sport" now.

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I've actually considered getting a PS3 or, even more so, an Xbox 360. The 360 has a lot of games I would probably like, but there is one problem. My favorite kind of game is FPS and I can not stand playing FPS games with little joysticks(I first learned this playing SOCOM and Medal of Honor for PS2). I must have the more controllable aiming of a mouse. Or, as it seems, a Wiimote. Hence my desire to ge a Wii over the Xbox or PS3. Online multiplayer is also something I love and I know Xbox has a good multiplayer community, which makes the gamble on the Wii's future online multiplayer even bigger.

Why do you say that? The Xbox and PS3 are standard systems, while the Wii is something kind of different. If I wanted a standard system, I'd definitely take the Xbox over the PS3, because it's cheaper, has more games, and will be sharing games with the PS3. If you're going for 2 systems, Wii and Xbox are the ones to get. The only thing you're missing out on is any new GTAs.

[QUOTE=Blood Asp]haha sony stole the gyroscopic idea from the wii controller, then they took the xbox button off the 360 controller and gave it practically every one of the functions it had on the 360... if that's not originality, i don't know what is. ALL HAIL THE PS3![/QUOTE]1.) It takes a long time to develop something like motion sensitivity. They didn't just throw it together.

2.) The Wii Remote uses much more advanced technology than the PS3 controller.

3.) The controllers for all three systems (360, PS3 and Wii) all have the same functionality in the middle: A home button with left and right buttons to either side. This kind of consistency is very good for the user.

[QUOTE=Chaz Ghostle]Why do you say that? The Xbox and PS3 are standard systems, while the Wii is something kind of different. If I wanted a standard system, I'd definitely take the Xbox over the PS3, because it's cheaper, has more games, and will be sharing games with the PS3. If you're going for 2 systems, Wii and Xbox are the ones to get. The only thing you're missing out on is any new GTAs.[/QUOTE]GTA4 is being released for the Xbox 360 next October.

Damnit, all these genuinely GOOD games keep going to the 360.

I might have to buy one afterall...

I still hate the controller.

Xbox is getting both the new MGS and GTA? Sign me up!

[QUOTE=Chaz Ghostle]Xbox is getting both the new MGS[/QUOTE]
Mind telling me where you got this from? If so, that's just plain out awesome.

This very thread:



First I heard of it, too, but it's so awesome, I don't want to question it.

Oh.

I think he probably meant PS3, even though that'd be awesome.

It hasn't been announced for 360, but Hideo Kojima has said that he's keeping his options open.

I mistyped, I meant to say the PS3 still has MG4.

Damn you!

http://youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=UrmEFeMHDO4

Not really related, but it's fun to watch.

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I'm cheap. And fun.