Author Topic: Sony getting hit Hard lately (Read 868844 times)

KDR_11k · « **Reply #975 on:** November 19, 2006, 06:35:10 PM »

Storm drains? What's that, a large structure meant to dissipate the power of strong winds?

ThePerm · « **Reply #976 on:** November 19, 2006, 06:40:24 PM »

no but that sounds cool! No when it rains, there are these little grates that leak the flooded water into the sewers

KDR_11k · « **Reply #977 on:** November 19, 2006, 08:48:04 PM »

Ah, okay, I thought you were talking about the PS3 connection problems and thus couldn't make sense of the word.

Yes, those are pretty much what I'm talking about except "sewers" means a 10-30 cm pipe 'round here.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #978 on:** November 20, 2006, 03:42:37 AM »

Some one as sacrificed their 20GB PS3 and made something more useful out of it

The Real PS3 Grill

It looks functional, but I wouldn't use it. It would be kinda funny to have one sitting on our kichen counter though, especially when friends come over.
Too bad you can't turn it on from the Sixaxis or control the temperature from the controller either.

Ceric · « **Reply #979 on:** November 20, 2006, 05:40:09 PM »

The PS3 has so much wasted space on its motherboard.

JonLeung · « **Reply #980 on:** November 21, 2006, 04:17:29 AM »

Any stories yet about people dissatisfied with their PS3s, or having broken ones already, or exchanging them for Wiis or all of the above or anything like that?

Just because Sony managed to get (some of) their product out the door doesn't mean it's the end of their woes. It may actually just be the beginning.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #981 on:** November 21, 2006, 04:27:36 AM »

The PS3 grill is pretty funny.

Surprisingly, I've heard nothing about bricked PS3s. In fact, I have heard that the initial system updates bricked a few Wiis. Sony's the new Nintendo, has the world gone mad?

No, not really. I'm sure stories of PS3 problems will come up but it may take a while for things to start breaking on a large scale.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #982 on:** November 21, 2006, 04:41:52 AM »

As far as I know, this is the first time Nintendo's put out a system capable of firmware updates. It's not exactly unusual for there to be some rough spots. Even under the best conditions, I am loath to update the firmware on my PC's motherboard.

With Sony, I'd be more concerned about moving parts failing. That's traditionally been their weakness from my perspective.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #983 on:** November 21, 2006, 04:59:45 AM »

Oh, I agree, Wii's failures so far seem to be within reason - and the company will replace a broken Wii in 3 days, without even asking you to ship yours back for up to 24 days! 8-12 days if you want your personal Wii repaired and returned - still better than either of the others.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #984 on:** November 21, 2006, 05:53:20 AM »

The story about bricked wiis, according to G4, was that the ones that asked for a Start up disc wew units that were supposed to be used as in-store kiosk and weren't supposed to be sold at retail.

as far as unsatisfied "customers" CNN, Time & NYTimes all seem to think it was over hyped and under delivered for the price as a game machine. I haven't seen the NYT article but I hear it had some harsh things to say.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #985 on:** November 21, 2006, 05:58:29 AM »

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as far as unsatisfied "customers" CNN, Time & NYTimes all seem to think it was over hyped and under delivered for the price as a game machine. I haven't seen the NYT article but I hear it had some harsh things to say.

Weren't these the same people that dissed the Wii a while back? If they did, of course they will think the system was over hyped.

Although, I am worried about this. I mean, we all agreed that the Wii needed maximum exposure in the media in order for it to succeed. If these media outlets say that the Wii is not worth it, won't it hurt overall sales?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #986 on:** November 21, 2006, 06:03:53 AM »

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as far as unsatisfied "customers" CNN, Time & NYTimes all seem to think it was over hyped and under delivered for the price as a game machine. I haven't seen the NYT article but I hear it had some harsh things to say.

Weren't these the same people that dissed the Wii a while back? If they did, of course they will think the system was over hyped.

Although, I am worried about this. I mean, we all agreed that the Wii needed maximum exposure in the media in order for it to succeed. If these media outlets say that the Wii is not worth it, won't it hurt overall sales?

To clarify, that unsatisfied customer thing was in reference to the PS3 not the Wii.

There is NO, and i repeat NO media hate from any of those sources regarding the Wii*, as far as I've seen or heard.

*excluding a small but forgivable dislike of the graphical capabilities.(all forgotten about after picking up the controller and actually having fun playing the games)

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #987 on:** November 21, 2006, 06:10:11 AM »

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as far as unsatisfied "customers" CNN, Time & NYTimes all seem to think it was over hyped and under delivered for the price as a game machine. I haven't seen the NYT article but I hear it had some harsh things to say.

Weren't these the same people that dissed the Wii a while back? If they did, of course they will think the system was over hyped.

Although, I am worried about this. I mean, we all agreed that the Wii needed maximum exposure in the media in order for it to succeed. If these media outlets say that the Wii is not worth it, won't it hurt overall sales?
To clarify, that unsatisfied customer thing was in reference to the PS3 not the Wii.

There is NO, and i repeat NO media hate from any of those sources regarding the Wii*, as far as I've seen or heard.

*excluding a small but forgivable dislike of the graphical capabilities.(all forgotten about after picking up the controller and actually having fun playing the games)

OH! My bad then, I got confused with all the Wii talk and all. Boy is my face red...

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #988 on:** November 21, 2006, 10:43:07 AM »

The Wii doesn't have firmware upgrades, it has software upgrades.

Zach · « **Reply #989 on:** November 21, 2006, 06:23:56 PM »

Not to worry Pap, I thought the same thing when I first read BnM's post. It was kinda unclear before, so Im glad you asked.

ThePerm · « **Reply #990 on:** November 21, 2006, 07:22:12 PM »

fuck ney york times, there are advertisements for apartments for rent that are like 200,000 dollars a month. Its a magazine for damned yuppies who could afford to buy 800 Wii's a month

Requiem · « **Reply #991 on:** November 21, 2006, 07:38:28 PM »

Well isn't that a good thing?

ThePerm · « **Reply #992 on:** November 21, 2006, 08:19:41 PM »

but they wont!

Requiem · « **Reply #993 on:** November 22, 2006, 05:05:42 PM »

Unless it becomes a status symbol....

MaryJane · « **Reply #994 on:** November 23, 2006, 10:59:15 AM »

I read the IGN report on the PS3 review, and it was surprisingly less biased than I expected, they actually acknowledge the fact that the SIXAXIS can't hold a candle to the Wii-mote, but then they reverted by saying that the SIXAXIS was a kick-ass controller without the tilt control becuase the new R2 and L2 buttons are clickier, with more bounce back, and the analog sticks feature and I quote "Oh, and there seems to be slightly more resistance and better accuracy with the analog sticks too." There seems to be?? so basically he was hoping there would be and his overexcitement with the console is leading him to believe it's there, kind of like how we make excuses for the Wii-mote not controlling perfectly as we expected but at least, that is something that can be corrected with time and better understanding of the hardware(on the developer side of things) that's a pretty baseless point, then they have the balls to score the controller an 8 of 10 after complaining about it's lack of rumble (which btw is ridiculously stupid that it doesn't have rumble) anyway I sort of forgot my original intention for the message, but it wasn't the controller.

OH YEAH!!!

In the same review they said that some of the people who have PS3's (all 250,00 losers/winners, depending on who's eyes you look through, because you can't see california without Marlon Brando's eyes) have complained about first day system burnouts!!! FIRST DAY??? I believe the first batch of X360's lasted 3 days, 2 in some cases, but 1 day, 1 F'N day??? After paying $500, or more for a system then have it not work after the first day is pretty big BS in my eyes. Yeah that was just to point it out to whomever it was who asked about PS3 problems.

Oh (as Jackie Chan's father? uncle? mentor? in the cartoon would say) one more thing!! (actually 2) Did you know that the PS3 hardrive can be swapped out for any internal drive you can buy in a store? I gotta say that's an awesome feature, but as the review pointed out, that basically alienates all the (this time for sure) losers who got a 20 gig version by not giving them Wi-Fi something that both the DS and PSP have built in, strange they build something into every portable system they sell, and only into some consoles... very strange tactic. The other thing is that the IGN peeps say they can't get their Bluetooth devices to work with the system and that they're hoping it's fixable with a firmware update. Tsk Tsk Tsk Tsk!!!

OH CRAP ONE MORE THING!!! The PS3 scales down!!! IT SCALES DOWN!! WTF!! If you're T.V doesn't support 720p but it supports 1080i, (there are surprisingly a good number of such sets) instead of upscaling it's 720p game to 1080i it f'n DOWNscales it to 480p!! I guess copying the controller wasn't enough they had to copy the Wii's desired reslotion!! LoL That's all for now

Damn I use a lot of parenthesis. (whats up with that??) Wii FTW!!!!!

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #995 on:** November 23, 2006, 11:29:32 AM »

Hey, you're one of us now!

Congrats!

MaryJane · « **Reply #996 on:** November 23, 2006, 01:31:27 PM »

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Hey, you're one of us now!

Congrats!

Nani?

couchmonkey · « **Reply #997 on:** November 24, 2006, 02:30:57 AM »

I felt IGN was a little too easy on the controller and also on the launch. If I remember they gave the launch 6/10 which to me implies that it's at least average or maybe above average. I admit Sony has handled the hype and all quite well, but without hardware to sell, that's all pointless. Everyone seems to think consumers will be sh**ting all over themselves to get one 5 months from now when shortages are finally solved, but 360 showed us that isn't true. If people can't have it first, then in five months a lot of them will be thinking, "Oh, it's too late to be cool by owning a PS3," or, "Maybe I'll wait for Final Fantasy," or, "The price will drop by Christmas anyway."

I think the launch is more like a 4/10. It has the hype, it has one very good game, but with a small game lineup and terrible supply - less than any other launch I can recall - it's below average. Overall though, the article was pretty unbiased, coming from the Sony channel.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #998 on:** November 26, 2006, 07:45:23 AM »

MORE GOOD NEWS FOR SONY!!!! When will it end?

Apparently some hackers have managed to install Linux on the PS3 HDD(most likely a 200+GB HDD they installed themselves) enabling them to access the Blu-Ray drive and dump Madden '07(7.08GB) to a PC HDD.

What does this mean? Nothing yet, cause I'm not sure if they can play the game oss of the HDD w/o the disc, but it could mean:

Free games for gamers, and Developers don't have to worry about lagging game sales only being temporary due to lack of systems to play them on!!

I wonder if another firmware update will fix this problem?

Arbok · « **Reply #999 on:** November 26, 2006, 12:24:33 PM »

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...enabling them to access the Blu-Ray drive and dump Madden '07(7.08GB) to a PC HDD.

Anyone else not surprised that the game could have fit on a dual layer DVD?

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