Golden Axe is being brought back for PS3.

Holy shit, would you pay $80 for it though?

Uh, not the original Segaesque graphic version. With emulators, who in the right mind would buy older video games for new systems?

Oh, I'm just saying, since the PS3 is rumoured to carry $80 price tags on games because of the blu-ray discs.

From GameSpot.com

Why? Before you know it...gaming will only be for the wealthy...or kids with trust funds. This is absolutely ridiculous... :rolleyes:

Actually, before you know, Sony is going to be out of business. They are going to take a huge loss on the PS3, even if it sells well.

Look at it this way - for the price of the PS3, you could get an X-Box 360 AND the Nintendo Wii. That's nuts.

Sony are the ones that are trying to drive the prices up in this market, and I think (at least in my gamer-minded opinion since the old Atari/Nintendo wars) that Sony is going to alienate many casual gamers with those prices. I mean, c'mon - $600 for the system, another $50 for an extra controller, and $80 for each game? The market won't allow it.

Sony is in trouble...financially, and prospect-wise. They've taken a huge hit with the loss of the rumble lawsuit, and now are acting so arrogant they don't even realize the gaming public is uniting against them. Even most parents, I think, would balk at buying their kids a $600+ video game system for Christmas.

Go Nintendo! There system is going to be under $250, and games will sell for under $50. And, they have the new, innovative controller.

I still want a PS3, in the worst way...but I won't buy it until the prices go down. The problem is that the franchises I want (SOCOM, F1, Gran Turismo, etc.) are PS3 exclusive. Darn.

Anyone else think that Sony could go the way of the Dreamcast?

Strange.

Two years ago everybody was screaming Nintendo would end up like Sega.

Now the first voices appear that Sony might not be omni-potent and fail.

How things can change with a fresh mind...

Well, that's because Nintendo a.) didn't have strong 3rd party support and b.) sold the least amount of consoles despite repeat price drops.

Sony is already in financial trouble. If they take a huge loss on the PS3 (which they are expected to) and don't sell enough units to recoup, they could be in some serious hot water.

From IGN.com

Well...despite the fact that the PS3 is gonna cost an arm, a leg, and a few other body parts...this is still GREAT news...that is...if Sony and Immersion can come to terms with each other...

Sony won't come to terms because they screwed Immersion in the first place, and had to pay them when they lost the lawsuit.

Holy shit, I love how they say that vibration would interfere with the motion sensing capabilities of the controller, yet the Wiimote has vibration AND motion sensing far greater than the tilt sensors in the PS3 controller. :rolleyes:

Price Drop for Japanese PS3

From IGN.com

I'm gonna be pissed if Sony decided not to apply the price drop to the American PS3 as well.

I also read that PS3 games will most likely be in the $50-60 price range. Here's a link to that story.

Sony has already announced that this is a Japanese exclusive, and that the North American price points ("magic points," which basically means the most they can squeeze out of buyers before they refuse to buy it) are remaining the same, there will be no price drop in North America.

Sony desperately needs support in Japan, where it is likely going to fall behind the Wii and even the 360 because of its high price point.

I have always played on the playstation platforms. It is terrible how sony is trying to create a false demand for their PS3. I am seeing people pay as much as $2000 for a PS3 on ebay. These people need to get a life. No one should need one that badly. By February everyone will be able to get as many as they want at the retail price.

Sony is in deep (considerably deep) financial shit already (which is why their stock is shaky). If the PS3 doesn't sell like hotcakes - and with its current retail price, it won't be flying off the shelves (after the launch, of course) like the Wii and the X-Box 360 in 2007 - Sony is going to either have to cut its losses (erm...add to its losses?) and drop the PS3 down to a more affordable range or...risk complete ruin. They'll make a shitload on software. Why not offer the PS3 without the blu-ray and people will hop on that shit. I don't care if it comes with a free Talledega Nights DVD...who gives fuck? Make it cheaper so the average person doesn't have to sell an organ to get this thing. They're only making 400,000 units which means demand will be artificially inflated, but hell, that number is coming by the skin of their teeth, because they can't make them this cheap with the blu-ray and have had numerous delays already (Spring 2006 release, anyone else remember that old chestnut?).

For my holiday purchase, its going to be Wii - the nice price, and Twilight Princess sealed the deal. Sony will have to wait until their console loses its ridiculous pricetag before I even consider dropping my cold hard cash on that black and chrome behemoth.

Sony has taken a big financial hit developing the PS3, and they will continue taking a hit for the next year or so.

But Sony can still claim one thing that the other companies can't. They've got the largest market share in the videogame industry. Their market share is so substantial...they could end up coming in 3rd during this console war...and still be number 1.

That being said...Sony REALLY needs to pull out all the stops over the next 5-6 years if they even wanna stay in business. If PS3 fails (which it won't, but if), they're looking to go the way of Sega.

Speaking of PS3...I went to my local Wal-Mart at about 6 p.m last night...just to check out the insanity. There was a line stretched completely around the building. Wal-Mart wouldn't actually let them start lining up INSIDE the store until 9:30.

Hundreds of people...and my Wal-Mart only received 6 PS3s.

Check out these prices on ebaY !

After seeing how SONY has manipulated and handled the distribution of PS3, I hope that they do lose millions of dollars on this whole deal. They deserve to.

And to see the way that some have acted in trying to get a PS3, waiting on line for as much as five days, fighting and injuring others, etc., tells me that there are a lot of people who are really out of touch with reality .

The BEST quote that I heard was from a mother, who'd been on line for several days, saying : "Hurricane Katrina could come through here and I would NOT move from this line. My son NEEDS a PS3, HE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT ONE and it would crush him if has to be without one, so I'm staying right here!"

Give me a f**king break.



Don Cardi

Seriously, people are retarded. Think about it - in 6 months, they won't be able to move the PS3's off the shelf, just like the X-Box 360, and its previous incarnations before that. If you don't get it at launch and aren't out to make a huge profit on Ebay, then just wait, or find a local shop that will hold one for you.

For example, I'm going to try and get the Wii this weekend, I've been calling my stores (ranging from Toys 'R Us to Best Buy to Wal-Mart) to find out who is doing what, how many they'll have, etc. I really didn't want to have to "camp" with other people at midnight tonight to get this, and luckily, none of these stores are having a Midnight opening, which means I can be a normal human being tomorrow morning - get up around 7:00 AM, have a cup of coffee, drive over to the stores around 8:00 AM when they open, and pick up a Wii. It's that simple. And if they run out? Boohoo. I'll wait for the next shipment, when they'll have 3 million units instead of tomorrows 1 million.

A bigger problem with the PS3 is I'm hearing a ton of glitches and problems, which is EXACTLY why I didn't go for the launch version. Sony has a history with the Playstation of having substandard reliability, but launch gear is always prone to such problems. Now, even more so, because Sony rushed these 400,000 units out of the factory so that they didn't lose any ground to Nintendo after losing so much to Microsoft already.

I'll still buy a PS3, but I'll be damned if I'll wait days in the rain in a tent, unable to leave the line, so I can play a video game. Get real.

My sentiments exactly, JJ.

I saw on the news earlier that a guy got shot over a PS3. Some kind of argument broke out between two "campers"...and one of them ended up getting shot over it. It's f*cking ridiculous!

Like you, JJ...I'm seriously considering picking up the Wii tomorrow, if not in a few weeks. A much lower price, the best 1st party games of any console, and the ability to play classics with the Virtual Console. It's almost a sin not to get one!

Considering how a much stand alone Blu-Ray player sells for, the PS3 is a real bargain at its retail price.

I got my Wii...I waited five hours for it, and was #6 in line...

AND IT IS AMAZING!!!

Come on, give us your fucking impressions man!

I'll put them in the Wii thread - but you'll have to wait a bit. I have 3 papers due on Monday, one of which is a 20 pager on post-45 foreign policy historiography (quite exciting, no doubt) which means I've only had a few hours to try out the Wii. I'll be sure to have a full review up soon.

I finally got my PS3.....but not alowwed to play it until Aprl 15th, my brothers birthday. Vey overpriced but my mum picked it up from here work so we got a discount :D. It came with Motorstorm and we will be getting Marvel Ulitiamte Alliance, Def Jam: Icon and The Godfather: The Don's edition. It's for both my brother and I but he's getting it for his birthday. Looks pretty cool and it's taunting me!

So I finally caved and bought a PS3 (my legal dispute with Wal-Mart was finally settled, and I got my settlement.) I bought a 32" LCD HDTV for about $600 (720p), and I got the PS3 (along with Resistance: Fall of Man). Since I work at Target, I get an employee discount, so I saved quite a bit.

I gotta say, it's a VERRRRRRY nice piece of technology. You can turn the system on and off with the PS3 Sixaxis controller, the Blu-Ray technology is icing, and the games look great.

It is still seriously overpriced, but you do get a lot of bang for your buck.

Resistance is a pretty fucking sweet game. I've never been huge on FPS's (I was never really good at them), but its great fun. I'll probably pick up a couple more games tomorrow (or download some demos from the PlayStation Store.)

I still plan on getting the Wii, as well.

I would love to see a Max Payne 3 come out.Max Payne 1 is a classic but 2 was a let down.But MP3 on PS3 would be really cool IMO.

The only two things that disappointed me about Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PS2 version) were:

A) The graphics sucked. Now usually this doesn't bother me as long as the game is good. But when the graphics actually affect the gameplay (i.e. glitches and slow down when there's too much going on), then it bothers me.

B) It was too short.

Other than that, I enjoyed both games immensely. But the PS2 versions were the worst of the bunch (and those were the versions I played.)

Max Payne 3 on the PS3 would indeed be awesome. But I think the days of 3rd party exclusives are coming to an end. If it's 3rd party, odds are it'll be on as many systems as possible. Which is better for the consumer, I think.

I want a PS3 quite a bit, but until Sony decided to stop committing harakiri and drops the price down to something reasonable (say, $299 or $399), I refuse to plunk down cash when I'm having fun with my Wii. The PS3 desperately needs a price drop and some "must-have" games, and soon.

If Blu-ray wins the format war, which it's looking more and more like it will, then the PS3 would be a bargain at it's current price. Right now, the basic Blu-ray player still costs about $500.

If you only want the PS3 for gaming...then sure, it's most definitely overpriced for the average consumer. But as Just Lou stated, for the ones that purchased it for ALL it's bells and whistles, $600 is a bargain.