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windbane on 07 July 2007
Gballzack said:
So in other words Sony is having the distributor take the fall in loss of face instead of themselves...

Uh...ok...

If Sony didn't leak it on purpose, then Circuit City is to blame for putting their ad out before anyone else.  Apparently all retailers are going to drop the price but it seems like they are all trying to beat each other to sell HDTVs or whatever else people will buy by going in the store.

Not sure anyone is losing face here.  It's a good move that perhaps Sony wanted to wait to announce at E3.

Btw, trying to make Sony look bad doesn't change the fact that you were wrong about them dropping the price. 



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windbane on 07 July 2007
marc said:
My biggest gripe with the PS3 is the fact that the games I want wont be out till 2009... even a $100 price cut wont matter with the current library of games. Now if the 360 gets a $100 price drop that may raise an eyebrow or two... well maybe not until they iron out all the reliability issues. Id hate to go through what my friends went through with thier 360s. But ya the $100 price drop is nice but I think the biggest issue is lack of games. Sony's 1st party games just arent good imho.

Title
Plat
Company
Reviews
Avg.
Vote
Avg
Score
1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PS3 Bethesda Softworks 44 7.7 93.2%
2. Resistance: Fall of Man PS3 SCEA 70 7.9 87.4%
3. Ninja Gaiden Sigma PS3 Tecmo 15 8.7 87.4%
4. Virtua Fighter 5 PS3 Sega 44 7.9 87.2%
5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas PS3 Ubisoft 14 8.0 85.8%
6. NBA Street Homecourt PS3 EA Sports Big 25 6.7 84.4%
7. Fight Night Round 3 PS3 EA Sports 36 7.9 83.6%
8. MotorStorm PS3 SCEA 61 7.9 83.0%
9. The Darkness PS3 2K Games 16 7.7 82.5%
10. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 PS3 EA Sports 29 6.0 82.1%
11. NBA 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 21 7.4 81.6%
12. College Hoops 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 7 7.1 81.3%
13. Virtua Tennis 3 PS3 Sega 33 7.4 80.9%
14. Call of Duty 3 PS3 Activision 45 7.3 80.9%
15. The BIGS PS3 2K Sports 6 -- 80.3%
16. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent PS3 Ubisoft 15 8.2 79.7%
17. NHL 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 20 6.3 79.7%
18. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance PS3 Activision 37 7.3 79.3%
19. Ridge Racer 7 PS3 Namco Bandai Games 48 6.2 79.1%
20. Madden NFL 07 PS3 EA Sports 25 5.9 77.9%
21. Tony Hawk's Project 8 PS3 Activision 40 5.6 77.8%
22. Formula One Championship Edition PS3 SCEA 52 7.3 77.2%
23. MLB 07: The Show PS3 SCEA 22 7.7 77.0%

 

Far better than the Wii lineup so far, and now includes many of the best 360 games.  Of course, for me, I'm going to play Gears of War, Lost Planet, Bioshock, and a few others on the PC.

What games are coming out in 2009, though?  FF13 and MGS4 should be out by 2008, so I'm curious what games you mean.  GT5? 



naznatips on 07 July 2007
windbane said:
marc said:
My biggest gripe with the PS3 is the fact that the games I want wont be out till 2009... even a $100 price cut wont matter with the current library of games. Now if the 360 gets a $100 price drop that may raise an eyebrow or two... well maybe not until they iron out all the reliability issues. Id hate to go through what my friends went through with thier 360s. But ya the $100 price drop is nice but I think the biggest issue is lack of games. Sony's 1st party games just arent good imho.

Title
Plat
Company
Reviews
Avg.
Vote
Avg
Score
1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PS3 Bethesda Softworks 44 7.7 93.2%
2. Resistance: Fall of Man PS3 SCEA 70 7.9 87.4%
3. Ninja Gaiden Sigma PS3 Tecmo 15 8.7 87.4%
4. Virtua Fighter 5 PS3 Sega 44 7.9 87.2%
5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas PS3 Ubisoft 14 8.0 85.8%
6. NBA Street Homecourt PS3 EA Sports Big 25 6.7 84.4%
7. Fight Night Round 3 PS3 EA Sports 36 7.9 83.6%
8. MotorStorm PS3 SCEA 61 7.9 83.0%
9. The Darkness PS3 2K Games 16 7.7 82.5%
10. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 PS3 EA Sports 29 6.0 82.1%
11. NBA 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 21 7.4 81.6%
12. College Hoops 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 7 7.1 81.3%
13. Virtua Tennis 3 PS3 Sega 33 7.4 80.9%
14. Call of Duty 3 PS3 Activision 45 7.3 80.9%
15. The BIGS PS3 2K Sports 6 -- 80.3%
16. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent PS3 Ubisoft 15 8.2 79.7%
17. NHL 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 20 6.3 79.7%
18. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance PS3 Activision 37 7.3 79.3%
19. Ridge Racer 7 PS3 Namco Bandai Games 48 6.2 79.1%
20. Madden NFL 07 PS3 EA Sports 25 5.9 77.9%
21. Tony Hawk's Project 8 PS3 Activision 40 5.6 77.8%
22. Formula One Championship Edition PS3 SCEA 52 7.3 77.2%
23. MLB 07: The Show PS3 SCEA 22 7.7 77.0%

Far better than the Wii lineup so far, and now includes many of the best 360 games. Of course, for me, I'm going to play Gears of War, Lost Planet, Bioshock, and a few others on the PC.

What games are coming out in 2009, though? FF13 and MGS4 should be out by 2008, so I'm curious what games you mean. GT5?


Thanks for your opinion, here is mine.  I personally don't want to play games I played a year ago (Oblivion), 3 years ago (Ninja Gaiden), average generic shooters (Resistance, Rainbow Six Vegas and this also falls under games I played a year ago), or a billion sports games (Fight Night, NBA, Tiger Woods, blah blah blah).  In fact, the only game that interests me at all is Motorstorm, and I lost interest in that when I found out there was no split screen (lol unsocial gamers).

Personally, I enjoy on the Wii:  Wii Sports (finally a change to the sports genre), Zelda: Twilight Princess, Resident Evil 4 (I played it 2 years ago, but I also didn't pay full price, lol Ninja Gaiden), and Super Paper Mario.  Obviously there aren't enough good Wii games out yet (4 that I care about), but from MY perspective, it's much better than the PS3 lineup.  Opinion is opinion, don't claim yours is fact.



Legend11 on 07 July 2007

Oops ignore this post :/



Gballzack on 08 July 2007
windbane said:
Gballzack said:
So in other words Sony is having the distributor take the fall in loss of face instead of themselves...

Uh...ok...

If Sony didn't leak it on purpose, then Circuit City is to blame for putting their ad out before anyone else.  Apparently all retailers are going to drop the price but it seems like they are all trying to beat each other to sell HDTVs or whatever else people will buy by going in the store.

Not sure anyone is losing face here.  It's a good move that perhaps Sony wanted to wait to announce at E3.

Btw, trying to make Sony look bad doesn't change the fact that you were wrong about them dropping the price. 


Just a point of thought as there is no means of confirming it one way or another. Either way Sony's playing coiy and there being an official price cut is somewhat supportive of my theory. However in them making the distributor look like the one giving the price cut it makes it look all the more like the distributor is trying to liquidate stock. Had Sony officially announced this themselves it could be argued there was something more to the decision. Either way its all speculation, but given Sony's PR track record I see no problem in my thoughts.



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Entroper on 08 July 2007

Kotaku has a report from both Best Buy and Target that the PS3 will be $499.99.  It's now Sunday, and both BBY.com and Amazon still have it for $599.99.



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DKII on 08 July 2007

It won't take effect until after the E3 conference when it's "officially" announced.



Borkachev on 08 July 2007

Just a point of thought as there is no means of confirming it one way or another. Either way Sony's playing coiy and there being an official price cut is somewhat supportive of my theory. However in them making the distributor look like the one giving the price cut it makes it look all the more like the distributor is trying to liquidate stock. Had Sony officially announced this themselves it could be argued there was something more to the decision. Either way its all speculation, but given Sony's PR track record I see no problem in my thoughts.

What's that got to do with losing face?

 

Kotaku has a report from both Best Buy and Target that the PS3 will be $499.99.  It's now Sunday, and both BBY.com and Amazon still have it for $599.99.

The drop is next Sunday, the 15th, not today. 



Gballzack on 08 July 2007
Borkachev said:

Just a point of thought as there is no means of confirming it one way or another. Either way Sony's playing coiy and there being an official price cut is somewhat supportive of my theory. However in them making the distributor look like the one giving the price cut it makes it look all the more like the distributor is trying to liquidate stock. Had Sony officially announced this themselves it could be argued there was something more to the decision. Either way its all speculation, but given Sony's PR track record I see no problem in my thoughts.

What's that got to do with losing face?


Losing face with the customers, if your actions cast doubt on your product, or your ability to manage it, that's considered a loss of face for the company, a loss of confidence in the product if you will.



souixan on 08 July 2007

Is there anybody else in here that can hear Yoda saying "Begun the price war has" in their head >.> cause I sure as hell can.