UK PS3 Pre-orders

[Lenny]

Certaintly well produced... and only a little anti-Sony.

[WickedChaos]

I'm super pumped for the PS3. I live in Canada so it's already come out here, but this last month I've been saving up money. I already have 450$ in my pocket, which my brother is going to contribute 150$ so his friends can play it when they come over and I'm not there. I'll be seeling my PS2 at the EB here for the 100$ deal, and then my games and other stuff for another 100$ to my buddy. Which will afford me a ps3.


To the person who said Blu-Ray wasn't taking advantage of games this gen... I can see where you're coming from, but then why would all the developers praise it? There's a reason all 360 games have been one 1 disk - developers hate to put out multi-disk content. The 360's DVD9 has games already at around 7 gigs. Now take into consideration that the original Tekken Tag for the PS2 launch was only 512mb, as opposed to the newly released Tekken 5 for PS2 which clocks in at 5gigs. That's over a 5x increase. I do think Blu-Ray will be needed for games, how soon I can't say. All I know is Hideo Kojima has been asking for the 50gigabyte Blu-Ray disks, which leads me to believe the 25gigger isn't cutting it. So... despite the fact that the game could run on the Xbox... it can't fit.



I have an Xbox360 (well, my brother does) and I'll be getting a PS3 soon. I love all consoles equally and this is just my opinion as I see it. The only console I probably won't be getting this gen is the Wii, which I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's fun at first, but once you've played HiDef games on the 360 and PS3 with thousands of textures on the screen... it can be hard going back to the graphics of the original Xbox, especially when I have to pay 250$ to do so. It's like paying for the original Gamecube but getting a new control method.

[Lucien21]

Soooooo

Only a few hours to go.

Is anyone actually getting one of these?

I saw someone from Sony Europe already making excuses about it not selling out tomorrow. something along the lines of "If supply is greater than demand it proves that it's a successful launch" ?? LOL

In related news Devil May Cry 4 is now coming out on 360 and PC. How many more exclusives can Sony lose?

[Lenny]

No Lucien, no-one is getting one... which is why I've been raving about it for so long.

Can I ask, why so against Sony?

You might like this site:

UK:RESISTANCE. Not making a difference since 1996

[Lucien21]

I'm not against Sony.

The PS and PS2 were fantastic machines.

[Lenny]

OK then, let me re-word it.

What have you got against the PS3?

[Lucien21]

If it was £100 cheaper......nothing.

[Lucien21]

Free £2,500 46" TV with your PS3.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony rewards patient gamers

Jammy gits.

[Lenny]

Damn... I wish I'd gone down, now.

[Winters_Sorrow]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

Free £2,500 46" TV with your PS3.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony rewards patient gamers

Jammy gits.

An excellent publicity ploy by Sony which was, quite frankly, sorely in need of some "good news" press releases.

[Rane Longfox]

46" HDTV! For free!

Wow.


The cynic in my says they really must be desperate

[Jason_Taverner]

so who bought one

[Lenny]

I did.

It's alright, I 'spose.....

Oh who am I kidding? It's amazing!!! The console itself is beautiful! The wireless controller is superb! The new triggers are great. The games... man alive!

Motorstorm is every bit as good as it's been made out to be! The Sixaxis control is extremely good, especially with the bikes and smaller vehicles.

And as for Resistance... it blows my mind! A launch game? A game that the devs say they had to rush a bit? And it's this good?!

I'll post a full review when I can tear myself away. Even now I'm playing Motorstorm whilst I type!

Too many exclamation marks.

[Lucien21]

I caved. *shame*

After having bought the PS and PS2 at launch I couldn't resist. Didn't have to pre-order or anything.

Even though I do think it is overpriced and that Sony have seriously stuffed up this round of the console war it will probably win in the end and have a great depth of games than the 360 (Particulary from Japan).

Console ---- Weighs about a ton (or so it feels) Easy to set up and the PSP style menu is familiar. Six axis is extremely light and easy to use. Also it doesn't sound like a helicopter taking off when playing games(unlike the 360)

Games ----- Motorstorm- Superb. Fantastic opening movie and the music rocks. Superb graphics and sloshing about in the mud is great fun in single or multiplayer.

Resistance -- Not so superb. Can't say i'm bowled over with this. Havn't got that far yet (Just got Bulleye), but seems fairly bog standad rail shooter so far. No a patch on Gears of War. Nice enough graphics.

[Lenny]

Yay! Welcome to the dark side!

When it gets to the Christmas, then it should really take off. Especially with MGS4 probably being just around the corner from then.

Resistance gets a lot better. The Bullseye is the second level in York? Right? Just wait until you hit the later cities. And some of the weapons! Whoah!

I've had two friends over today, and we took it in turns doing Resistance levels. Great fun.

Methinks we'll have to start up a PSN ID thread, just so we can all get together and blow each others brains out, or race each other into the ground.