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makingmusic476 on 28 September 2008

Shouldn't any ps3s on the market now come with a DS3?



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makingmusic476 on 28 September 2008
Nickelbackro said:
chasmatic12 said:
TheBigFatJ said:

Yes, Sony makes a nicer product than Microsoft, that's for sure.

Every point you made as a positive for Sony is a negative for MS: their machine is loud, runs hot, has cheap crappy controllers, a bad and unintuitive interface (to be fair, MS has never been good at writing intuitive software), etc.

Also, BD players are $199 now. That makes the PS3 an outrageously expensive player and it doesn't even come with a proper remote.

 

I disagree with that. Their controllers are pretty durable. More-so than the PS3 controllers, at least.

And they're improving their interface this November. To be fair, Microsoft is learning from their mistakes. The new Vista is intuitive. Office 2007 is also very intuitive, imo.

Office 2007 Intuitive.... wow, i just can't find words how much i disagree with that, all the great advaced features that made office what it is are now so hidden as to make it a pain to use. Office 03 for me. idk about Vista yet, I have very little experince with it.

 

 

Agreed.



chasmatic12 on 28 September 2008
Nickelbackro said:
chasmatic12 said:
f">TheBigFatJ said:

Yes, Sony makes a nicer product than Microsoft, that's for sure.

Every point you made as a positive for Sony is a negative for MS: their machine is loud, runs hot, has cheap crappy controllers, a bad and unintuitive interface (to be fair, MS has never been good at writing intuitive software), etc.

Also, BD players are $199 now. That makes the PS3 an outrageously expensive player and it doesn't even come with a proper remote.

 

I disagree with that. Their controllers are pretty durable. More-so than the PS3 controllers, at least.

And they're improving their interface this November. To be fair, Microsoft is learning from their mistakes. The new Vista is intuitive. Office 2007 is also very intuitive, imo.

Office 2007 Intuitive.... wow, i just can't find words how much i disagree with that, all the great advaced features that made office what it is are now so hidden as to make it a pain to use. Office 03 for me. idk about Vista yet, I have very little experince with it.

 

Really? I think it's so neatly organized. Mess around with it for a while and it becomes so easy. I love it.

 

Sorry for getting off topic. OT: Being a multi-console owner is a fantastic thing. And I agree. The Wii's interface is awesome. Everything is right there in front of you.

 



sharv33n on 28 September 2008

dam i just saw a card going for 100 some dollars



 

 

 

jkl2207 on 28 September 2008
bulletstopper636 said:
I am a dyed in the wool Nintendo fan. My wife and two kids all have DS lites. Both my kids have Nintendo Wiis (of which we love) and my son even has a subscription to Nintendo Power. I love Nintendo. This weekend I bought a PS3 so that I could have a Bluray player for my new widescreen. I have to say that I was surprised at some things. Number one thing is that it doesn't run hot. It's not noisy. It's not even all that heavy. The controllers are not cheap feeling. In fact, I don't even notice that it has no force feedback. One thing that the Wii has all over the PS3 is the interface. No matter how much I try, I just can't stop thinking about how nice it would be to just point and click on the menus. Overall my first 24 hours spent with my PS3 have been very pleasant.

 

 Hmmm, I recently packed my ps3 into a bag and the bag broke and dropped onto one of my controllers. The controller subsequently broke but PS3 is still fine.



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mibuokami on 28 September 2008

The PS3 is like 5kg lol, its damn heavy. I personally hate the Duelshock because its so much heavier than the SixAxis, I have 2 SixAxis and a Duelshock and the only time i've used the later is to get the special scene in MGS4.




cyclone87 on 28 September 2008

And now for the obligatory Uncharted recommendation. Seriously you need to play it, it's awesome.



makingmusic476 on 28 September 2008

^^ I completely forgot about that.

You MUST buy Uncharted!



TheBigFatJ on 28 September 2008
chasmatic12 said:
TheBigFatJ said:

Yes, Sony makes a nicer product than Microsoft, that's for sure.

Every point you made as a positive for Sony is a negative for MS: their machine is loud, runs hot, has cheap crappy controllers, a bad and unintuitive interface (to be fair, MS has never been good at writing intuitive software), etc.

Also, BD players are $199 now. That makes the PS3 an outrageously expensive player and it doesn't even come with a proper remote.

 

I disagree with that. Their controllers are pretty durable. More-so than the PS3 controllers, at least.

And they're improving their interface this November. To be fair, Microsoft is learning from their mistakes. The new Vista is intuitive. Office 2007 is also very intuitive, imo.

 

Durability is only one aspect of controllers.  The Xbox 360 controllers are imprecise and have very shitty D-pads.  The D-pads are almost unusable.

Vista is not intuitive.  User access controls?  Are you kidding me?  Why not just let regular people manually configure their firewalls, because you're confusing them nearly as much with UAC.

MS has had a long time to copy a lot of better competitors and they failed again.  They ignored doing something like UAC a long time ago and now they've gone and done it to the point of uselessness. 

When it comes to software, Microsoft makes it unintuitive, takes the short view, and seems to have a bit of a problem when they actually have to compete (ie: the whole search fiasco for them).



chasmatic12 on 28 September 2008
TheBigFatJ said:
chasmatic12 said:
TheBigFatJ said:

Yes, Sony makes a nicer product than Microsoft, that's for sure.

Every point you made as a positive for Sony is a negative for MS: their machine is loud, runs hot, has cheap crappy controllers, a bad and unintuitive interface (to be fair, MS has never been good at writing intuitive software), etc.

Also, BD players are $199 now. That makes the PS3 an outrageously expensive player and it doesn't even come with a proper remote.

 

I disagree with that. Their controllers are pretty durable. More-so than the PS3 controllers, at least.

And they're improving their interface this November. To be fair, Microsoft is learning from their mistakes. The new Vista is intuitive. Office 2007 is also very intuitive, imo.

 

Durability is only one aspect of controllers.  The Xbox 360 controllers are imprecise and have very shitty D-pads.  The D-pads are almost unusable.

Vista is not intuitive.  User access controls?  Are you kidding me?  Why not just let regular people manually configure their firewalls, because you're confusing them nearly as much with UAC.

MS has had a long time to copy a lot of better competitors and they failed again.  They ignored doing something like UAC a long time ago and now they've gone and done it to the point of uselessness. 

When it comes to software, Microsoft makes it unintuitive, takes the short view, and seems to have a bit of a problem when they actually have to compete (ie: the whole search fiasco for them).

You said "cheap crappy controllers," which references their durability. I responded to that. And yes, the D-Pad could be improved. But ya know what? I'd take the off-balanced dual analog over the PS3's balanced analogs any day.

Also, UACs are optional and don't have to be used. And intuitiveness is an opinion. I find OS X more intuitive (I love Leopard), but I can't deny Vista. It's gotten much better.