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tuoyo on 19 August 2008

You are kidding right? Eat crow! What??? Sony went from crushing its competition last gen to having to fight tooth and nail not to end up last this time and being crushed by Wii which most people gave no chance. I really have no idea what you are talking about. I think you need to eat crow just for what you wrote.



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Soleron on 19 August 2008

The PS3 Fanboy To Reality Dictionary has this entry for Rise:

"Level to slight fall over a non-holiday seven month period and failing to beat Xbox 360 consistently, while not even threatening the Wii's dominance."

 

 



epinefridis on 19 August 2008
KZ2 said:

In 2006, Sony released the PS3 under heavy scrutiny by the media and gamers alike. The list of PS3 bashing just piled up. Out of the gate, the bashing started: HDMI wasn't needed...Blu-Ray wasn't needed...high price...lack of games...no rumble...hard to develop for...HDMI not included...inferior hardware...online sucks...Space not needed. Sony fails at format wars. Sony lies. Sony is arrogant. No choice. Bad backward compatability. 1080P not needed.

From launch, the PS3 had many features that weren't applauded. Given the trend of negative Sony news, good things were thrown aside like: Linux, Internet browser, replaceable hard drive, open ended development (dude. what exactly is that??? You possibly mean user created content?), free online, reliable hardware, motion sensing controller, and future proof features like HDMI and Blu-Ray.

As of June 2007, Sony had fixed a lot of issues. The PS3 bashing had dwindled down to lack of killer games, Blu-Ray necessity, no rumble, high price, online sucks, no HDMI cable .

One year later, Sony has fixed just about everything that can be done. The biggest issue was price, which dropped. Now price is no longer an issue. Blu-Ray won the format war and has proved to be a necessity in gaming (Ha??? Did I miss something? Now Carmack is the Sony Evangelist I suppose... We'll see the difference when his games hit the market. And, as far as I remember, a full game is for download already. Burnout. Cowntdown has begun). Carmack demonstrated that compression leads to graphical loss. He further demonstrated that DVD9 is getting tight on space. Rumble is here along with killer games. In 2 months LittleBigPlanet will surface. Online no longer sucks. What's left is a lack of an included HDMI cable.

Sony has made further improvements to seal the deal. In game XMB is here. Trophies (really?)and custom soundtracks have been released. PSN has an online video store. HD audio has surfaced. PSP and PS3 have merged together.

Today the antiPS3 arguments are meh at best. Some scraps that have surfaced have now moved on to PS3 lack of RPGs, and?....meh (this ...meh thing, it is an argument, right? Good point, really convincing mate!). Only things I see now are people stealing PS3s(...). Maybe some blind hatred for the PS3 without anything to back it up. I agree that PS3 has a lack of RPGs but that issue is not nearly as bad as the price issue last year. Is there anything else left? I know there's something....there always is.

 

Dude, youre tryin hard to convince yourself, ain't ya?



psrock on 19 August 2008

There is no way to really eat crow when they still in third place.



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bdbdbd on 19 August 2008

@OP: Ehh... I didn't see anything there what would cause anyone to eat crow.
If we things in the proper context, as what the "doomsayers" have said, PS3 still isn't doing good and never will. But if we change the context to "in comparision to how it did earlier", PS3 is doing really good right now.

It was expected that sales will pick up once price comes down and there are playable games available, but only to the extent to compete 360, not to reclaim Sonys previous position in the market.



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Spankey on 19 August 2008
Soleron said:

The PS3 Fanboy To Reality Dictionary has this entry for Rise:

"Level to slight fall over a non-holiday seven month period and failing to beat Xbox 360 consistently, while not even threatening the Wii's dominance."


I prefer this graph: http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php

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mesoteto on 19 August 2008

500 still to expensive
lack of BC
no hdmi
lack of RPG's


those are my concerns



 

slimeattack on 19 August 2008
mesoteto said:
500 still to expensive
lack of BC
no hdmi
lack of RPG's


those are my concerns

The $499 PS3 has BC.

 



Darc Requiem on 19 August 2008
leo-j said:
Darc Requiem said: 

In order for crow to be doled out. The Wii would have "stop selling" like PS3 fanboys have been foolishly saying since it took off and PS3 would have to surpass it. Neither is the case and the PS3 has quite a ways to go to even catch the 360.

 

 Let me ask you something, were in his "rant" does it say anything about the wii?

 

It isn't and neither is the 360. Of course its difficult to be on the rise when you are still in third place. I mean honestly a good deal of his rant is about Sony "fixing" things that the PS3 should have had in the first place. Doomsayers were saying that the PS3 would be third, the PS3 won't catch the 360, the PS3 won't catch the Wii. The PS3 is still third, it still hasn't caught the 360, and it has virtually no chance in catching the Wii. I mean honestly I do need to eat crow on one thing, I assumed that the PS3 would eventually suprass the 360 in RPGS and Japanese style games overall. That was why I bought my PS2 and why I don't own a PS3.



amp316 on 19 August 2008

Yes. They will be in second eventually. Well maybe.



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