Ps3 Price Drop

[Roto13]

Drop it another 100 and we're talking.

Exactly.

Pretty much.

[Slicksword45]

ok, the Ps3 price drop is officaly in effect.

Also, as to when Joal got banned, I have no clue.

[CimminyCricket]

Joel got banned about a month ago.

[Northcrest]

Nice I'm just going to get a 60gig it's more cheaper.

[Hambone]

Okay, PS3 for Christmas. Hmm, then again, I really do need to wait for all the "bugs to be cleared."

*cough*PlayStation 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia*cough*

I'd say it's pretty safe to buy a PS3. Honestly, it's the best built system I've ever seen and I really haven't even heard of any problems so far. It seems that Sony certainly learned their lessons from providing shoddy first-gen hardware in the past.

Yay Birthday!

[Garnie]

i wanna ps3 but im poor

[Slicksword45]

I looked it up and the 80 gig verson will come with 2 controlers. The rumbaling kind. neat XD

[grim07]

Nope. $300 bucks, and I would get it. Im not paying more then 300 dollars for ANY video game system. Its just ridiculouse that people would spend 600 dollars on a video game system....

[darkchrono]

What I think is worse than the system costing 600 bucks is that each game costs about $60 plus tax.

[Germ Hamee]

Gah. Now I have to hurry up and buy the 60GB version before it's discontinued, because I do NOT want anything to do with the lame backwards compatability options the 80GB offers.

[Deborah]

I work in retail sadly and at my store it went down $100...which made a few people convince themselves into buying it now. But it is still way too expense for me to be buying one anytime soon. Geeze how mad I would be if I bought one a month ago and this all happened.. haha.. hopefully it'll go down a but more until I can actually think about buying one.

[Slothy]

What I think is worse than the system costing 600 bucks is that each game costs about $60 plus tax.

$60 is nothing. Some of us remember the early days of the N64, where you could pay as much as twice that.

[JKTrix]

And now for the bad news.
80GB PS3 has limited backwards compatibility - Joystiq

As a note, the controller included with the 80GB PS3 will not vibrate. (The red light on the controller means nothing. It's a 'lighting trick')

The main point, and this is why I bought my PS3 when I did: the 'limited backwards compatibility'. It appears that the new batch of PS3s will have switched to the Software Emulation for backwards compatibility instead of having the PS2 brains inside of it. This makes it cheaper to produce (making the price drop hurt less for Sony), but it seems to exclude quite a bit of legacy PS games.
Take a look at PAL PS3's backwards compat site, search for some of the more popular games. For 2 examples, PS2's MGS3 'works with noticeable issues', while PS1's Final Fantasy 7 isn't even listed.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe doesn't seem too pressed on updating the emulator either.

...rather than concentrate on PS2 backwards compatibility, in the future, company resources will be increasingly focused on developing new games and entertainment features exclusively for PS3...

Whether or not SCEA will take the same stance remains to be seen.

If backwards compatibility is important to you, beware of this new PS3.

[Timerk]

All that it would take is a firmware update for Sony to bring the old
PS3s back in line with the new ones.

[JKTrix]

You mean to put the new PS3s in line with the old ones. It's the new PS3s that are gonna be gimped, with less games working than the old ones.

That's *if* they update it. Sony Europe doesn't have it on their priorities to fix games that don't work. It will have to be done on a case-by-case basis, so it's understandable that Sony isn't willing to spend a lot of time/money making old games work.

It's the same deal with the 360.