Can sony do one PS3 related thing without screwing up?

[Carl the Llama]

I only have one more thing to say on the PS3 issue, after this you guys can waste all of your hard earned gamer cash on this piece of crap.

Joel, have you even played a PS3? no, so how on earth can you call it a 'piece of crap' when you dont even know what it is capeable of? In my eyes you just a pathetic fan boy with arguements like these.

The PS3 launch is one of the worst launches I ever seen in a console. Ever! I've been around the block a few times, I've played and beaten thousands of video games in my lifetime, there is no way in hell the PS3 can last long unless the 3 has enough fanboys willing to waste their money on this.

Again all I hear (or read as the case may be is) OMG PS3 SUX! im a major Nintendo FAN BOI!!!!

1. The console itself costs WAY too much. 500-600 dollars is just not worth one console. For 600 you can buy a Wii and an XBox 360 (since the Premium set will drop to about 350 by the time the Wii and PS3 come out) and still play fun games like Dead Rising, Dead or Alive 4, Halo 3 (around early 2007), Enchanted Arms, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Phantasy Star Universe, Super Mario Galaxies, Sonic and the Secret Rings (origionally called Sonic Wildfire) Sonic the Hedgehog 360, and Condemned Criminal Origions.

Erm... the price is too much? correct me if im wrong, but didnt the 360 coue out at like $600? and dont say im wrong on this as I know that I am not (being the fact that I was the best sales advisor for Toys R Us at the time of the release). And believe me the 360 has a much smaller fanbase then the PS3 also you stupidly forget to take into account that the 360 sold on ebay for well over $1000 so if people are willing to 'throw away their money' on a 'pice of crap' like the 360 then the whole world (idiot fanboi's excluded) will be snapping up the PS3 like there is no tomorrow.

2. The PS3's hardware has so much high end technology that companies hardly wanna make games for it due to it being to hard to write them for it, notice how only a few Japanese developers are sticking with it? Konami, Square, Capcom (possibly just for Devil May Cry 4)

You again are foolishly mistaken, the developers are bound to snap it up as it will be one of the biggest gameing consoles on the planet, sony DOES have a huge fanbase and I personally think you are just trying to find chink's in the armor that just arent there.

3. Quite possibly the biggest thing of all. A lack of interesting launch titles. Sure early on people were pissing themselves over Metal Gear Solid 4.. oh but WAIT! It's not a launch title? OMGWTF I WILL STILL BUY ONE LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!1111ONEELEVENsmurfRE! All the cool games that will at least be somewhat fun for the 3 won't be out till at least mid-late 2007.

sure it might have a slow start but when the 3 different Final Fantasy's come out, you will see it rocket

Joel, iv got to ask you this, do you know how much a Blu-Ray driver costs? I doubt it, my uncle (who makes computers, has a Blu-Ray Burner on his compuet spent $945 on that alone... that would probbly be why it is so expencive, IMO I think pay£600-800 is hugely worth the price tag considering what is inside the computer.

BTW I cant link this information because i read it out of a magazine and as such i had to write it up by hand

$945 is the cost as a consumer, not for the manufacturer. (Although $945 is too expensive anyway. $700 is more like it)
The $200 to $300 is the estimated cost of how much it costs Sony to manufacture a Blu-ray drive; just the manufacturing costs, without all the consumer and resale markups and additions. I will say I have not verified if $200-$300 is actually accurate, I just know it certainly doesn't cost Sony $700 to make a BluRay drive.

erm not that i dissagree with you but 1. we are the consumer and 2. my uncle got his when they first came out and as such was willing to pay top dosh for.

Dead or alive does not qualify a AAA game.
I hate to break it to you, but it does. You gotta PLAY IT to realize it. Beleive it or not it's very fun, you just gotta like games to actually like it.

I played it, and I personally dont think it is up to much