PS3 Production 'In Full Swing' 69
1up is reporting on comments from Phil Harrison, saying that the PS3 is in full production mode. There are apparently already 10,000 devkits out there, and something like 100 games in the pipe already for the console. From the article: "Sounds pretty much like the usual rah-rah, go-team kind of stuff you'd expect to hear before a major system launch, but mentions of third-party support become far more interesting when you learn that many folks, both within Sony and without, are apparently 'scared of the wrath of Phil Harrison,' according to a Guardian source. Are third-party developers as excited and supportive as Harrison would have us believe, or are they just scared of receiving a Sony-flavored beat down?"
And Tommorow's Story (Score:4, Funny)
Bizarre! (Score:5, Informative)
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,
Re:Bizarre! (Score:5, Insightful)
How can you generate hits to 1up.com if you link directly to the story at The Guardian?
Re:Bizarre! (Score:2)
so... (Score:1)
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...said the Nintendo fanboy (Score:5, Insightful)
...said the Nintendo fanboy before the launch of the N64.
...said the Atari fanboy before the launch of the 5200.
We don't know how this generation is going to play out. We don't know how good the PS3 will do. We don't know how good the graphics are. We don't know how the Wii games will look, and most of us don't know how they'll play. We don't know how adults and non-gamers will respond to the Wii. We don't know if the PS3 is going to be worth it for them.
We know nothing, and history only tells us one thing: Unexpected things do happen.
Re:...said the Nintendo fanboy (Score:2)
Re:...said the Nintendo fanboy (Score:2)
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Re:...said the Nintendo fanboy (Score:1)
Actually history tells us two thing. Unexpected things happen, and the most expensive console almost never wins.
Sega Saturn3DO
NeoGeo
Intelevision (I had one, it was awesome. It still lost to Atari)
Re:...said the Nintendo fanboy (Score:2)
Re:...said the Nintendo fanboy (Score:3, Insightful)
Uhm... You working at Nintendo? ATI? IBM's chip business? Didn't think so. You can speculate all day long, but you don't know jack shit, just like everyone else. You don't know the Wii's specs.
The launch time was never the issue (Score:2)
No, indeed, they are making other mistakes.
Disclaimer: I plan on getting a PS3 on the release day.
The doom and gloom talk surround Sony is based on (by order of importance):
a) the arguably prohibitively high price of the PS3
b) the staggering loss it is nonetheless taking per unit sold
c) whether or not Blu
Re:The launch time was never the issue (Score:1)
My guess is that the PS3 will sell fine, just
Uh... whatever, Zonk (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Uh... whatever, Zonk (Score:2)
non-story (Score:2)
Considering that the console is due on the scene in only 4 months, I would hope that developers had all the tools they needed by now. This isn't realy much of a statement, and actually seems like a backhanded admission that things haven't been going well up to now.
"All the pieces of the puzzle are there..."
To dust off an old chestnut, do you want a cookie or something? Why is this worthy of Slashdot news?
Needed to (Score:1)
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Re:Amazing Console (Score:5, Funny)
My sources tell me that it's better than that, that there's a huge surprise in store for PS3 buyers.
Sit down - because you may find this one difficult to believe. But it's 100% true.
Every PS3 will come with a $2,000 coupon towards a brand new Sony plasma TV. And yes, if you use the coupon toward a TV costing less than $2,000 (and Sony markets three, right now, and that's going by MSRP, so you can find many more), the TV is free.
So for $600, you not only get the best console, but you get a high quality television as part of the bargain.
Oh, and one more thing.
Yes, the PS3 will come with Linux. But it will also come with Mac OS X. Sony's the first company since 1996 to license the Macintosh operating system. You can't get better than that.
Yahoo! Stocks Message boards [yahoo.com], a message from an insider spills the beans.
Re:Amazing Console (Score:2)
Recommend you avoid modding up contrived-sounding unsubstantiated rumours posted by an AC.
Love,
Null Nihils
Lack of sarcasm detected (Score:2)
Funny, maybe..
Re:Amazing Console (Score:2)
Please, Lord God, tell me it will!!!!!
-Eric
Re:Amazing Console (Score:2)
I remember, very clearly, when the PS2 tech demos (remember the rubber duck?) came out, about boasts of Toy Story graphics by Sony. I also remember the post by a Pixar employee refuting the claim.
Unfortunately, it's gotten so buried in the 'net by trolling fanboys playing he-said-she-said that it's impossible to find a link anymore. Closest I can come with a quick search is:
here [dvdfuture.com]
--Jeremy
Round One. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Zonk - Are You...Crying? (Score:1, Flamebait)
Zonk gone? (Score:1)
Re:Zonk gone? (Score:1)
They get paid for their ads, and they drive clicks/views to those pages, just like every other drivel site. Only thing is, sometimes there is actual news on here.
It is quite obvious. They post the stories, and don't even comment on them. Hell, I bet that they don't even read the comments!
Bring out the 'zonked" tag (Score:2)
Time to re-activate the 'zonked' tag.
Re:Bring out the 'zonked" tag (Score:2)
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This is taken from the guardian newspaper. [guardian.co.uk] I don't think it took much surfing to find a negative view about Sony's PS3. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is not just a slashdot slant (as with most things), there are a lot of people who don't like what has happened. The only one with a slant, it would seem, is you.
Re:Bring out the 'zonked" tag (Score:2)
I have no slant of my own, I think all three next-gen consoles have compelling features. I would just like to see straightforward reporting here instead of commentary that m
Re:Bring out the 'zonked" tag (Score:1)
This is compared against the "good news" of the other consoles? As a relatively disconnected gamer who is intentionally keeping away from the hype wars that the current generation of consoles is generating, haven't every one of them had bad news?
Xbox 360: Overheating. Rumors of catching fire? Tons of bug patches in the first few months? This does not lend me to say "Wow, very stable and something I'd want to buy for my child's room."
Wii/Rev
100 games in the pipe... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait.. tubes, not pipes.
Never mind.
Re:100 games in the pipe... (Score:2)
lol, was I the only one who got this?
http://www.cafepress.com/leftward.66531036 [cafepress.com]Curious how Sony solved their memory b/w problem (Score:2)