PS3

[Genma]

At the end of the day, you're still paying five hundred dollars for a video game console.

Still, I've had tons of friends that've jumped on the XBOX360 bandwagon, only to be met by the red rings of death more than once.This isn't a console war thread though, so I'll leave it at that.

PS3 is starting off a little slow, but watching the trailer for MGS4 really got me pumped. MGS2 was the first game I got on PS2 and, as much as people said it sucked, I really liked it. Other games I look forward to are, as to be expected, FF and RE5 (even though it's being released on XBOX360 as well).

... But I can't even afford a Wii right now. Oh well. xD

[Y]

Ah, this thread was made back in 05, when the PS3 looked like it wasn't going to blow a barrel full of dicks. Too bad about that, huh?

The list of interesting 360 games coming out vs interesting PS3 games that I compiled from E3 is just fucking pitiful, Microsoft has an absolute stranglehold on online console gaming with Live, and Sony's bullshit weasely "price cut" has dragged their name through the mud yet again. Sony, remember you established the Playstation with Final Fantasy 7 by getting Square to get it out the door QUICKLY. Having your system-selling games drop well over a year after the console's release is just bad news.

[SK]

I agree Y.

[el_boss]

Apparently $500 isn't enough for el_boss, however, who intends to drop another $200 for his rock band equipment!

A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do :/

Actually the PS3 costs almost $900 here in sweden. Electronics are fucking cheap in america. It sucks that almost no american stores (that I know of) ship to sweden.

[Aeon]

Dunno if you guys saw it or not but Kojima showed off a 15 min playable demo of MGS and it looks freaking sweet. I'm not a Metal Gear fan but even I'm interested in it now. And after seeing E3 and seeing the games that PS3 and 360 have coming out I'm happy I made the decision to get a PS3 .

[el_boss]

I have a question about the console. Is it region locked? I mean, can you play european games on a US ps3? I haven't been able to find any good source about this.

[RyougaZell]

PS3 isn't region free.
But... since the Blu-Ray region of America and Japan is the same... you can play japanese ps3 games on an american PS3.
Europe has its own region thus they cannot play japanese and american games.

[Idealistic]

I'm chipping in $150, my other bro $150, and my other bro $300. (Yeah, this one is done with school and is makin money so he pays the most. )

But yeah... PS3's future games look really nice.... This sounds like a lot of money, but shit I'm bringing home $200 a week on my part time job so I don't really care much. Plus I'm living with my parents so they provide food and shelter for me.

I just need to pay the school bills.

Oh, I'm not 30 living with my mom, I'm only 18.

[Carnage]

I don't think anyone really cares how old you are.....

[el_boss]

PS3 isn't region free.
But... since the Blu-Ray region of America and Japan is the same... you can play japanese ps3 games on an american PS3.
Europe has its own region thus they cannot play japanese and american games.

Yeah I thought that, but I remember it being a big deal that the ps3 was gonna be region free before it got released.Guess it was just speculation


@Id3aLiStiC: I nominate that for the weirdest post ever.

[RyougaZell]

It was never mentioned as region free.
It was reported wrongly due to japan and usa having the same blu-ray region.

[darkshadow]

Since when have dvd regions have ANYTHING to do with game regions? game regions go by PAL, NTSC and NTSC-J.
Ps3 is REGION FREE for games, the only region encoding in there is the Blu-ray dvd region, which happened to be the same for the US and JP, so you can play imported games on any ps3 console, but with movies you will run into trouble.
you might also run into trouble if you are gaming on an SDTV (PAL SD is 576i where as NTSC is 480i) , since composite/s-video frequencies are affected by ntsc or pal, you should have ZERO problems with HD gaming though

[animus]

Doesn't the PS3 or 360 require HD TV's anyways?

[darkshadow]

no.................

[el_boss]

Since when have dvd regions have ANYTHING to do with game regions? game regions go by PAL, NTSC and NTSC-J.
Ps3 is REGION FREE for games, the only region encoding in there is the Blu-ray dvd region, which happened to be the same for the US and JP, so you can play imported games on any ps3 console, but with movies you will run into trouble.
you might also run into trouble if you are gaming on an SDTV (PAL SD is 576i where as NTSC is 480i) , since composite/s-video frequencies are affected by ntsc or pal, you should have ZERO problems with HD gaming though

Good answer. Thanks

[LaZie]

I just recently bought a PS3, Call of Duty 4, and Guitar Hero 3.

PSN is Vi3tboiwiz
Add me

[Idealistic]

I think PS3 is going to have another price drop.

I heard that Sony won the rights to the blueray thing or some crap like that. Soooo they'll be mass producing the PS3 which means a price drop is likely.

[el_boss]

I think PS3 is going to have another price drop.

I heard that Sony won the rights to the blueray thing or some crap like that. Soooo they'll be mass producing the PS3 which means a price drop is likely.

Are you maybe referring to that bluray won the hd-format war?

[Idealistic]

Are you maybe referring to that bluray won the hd-format war?

Oh.. Maybe. Hah I forgot what my friend had said, but it was something along the lines of that.

[Sandldan]

A few days ago a new gaming store opened here that let's you trade in games, so after selling my old wow account and trading in a little over 20 games it wasnt so expensive anymore. Got 2 games with the purchase, uncharted and heavenly sword. Will most likely get an online game next.
Feels a bit lonely there so go ahead and add me "Sandldan"