The Sony PS3 thread (apparently *still* obnoxious!)

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:29 am 0

People being fucking stupid isn't Sony's fault. 200,000 units of hardward is ridiculously small, sure, but all the crap people are pulling to get a system to sell on Ebay to gullible morons with more money than sense isn't their fault. Let's take a look at the games, seeing as it's a games machine-

Resistance: Fall of Man
Ridge Racer 7
Genji
NBA 07
NBA 2K7
NHL 2K7
Madden 07
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Untold Legends
Call of Duty 3
Tiger Woods 07
Gundam
Tony Hawk's Project 8

Coming between now and March-

Fight Night Round 3
Blazing Angels
Full Auto 2
Sonic the Hedgehog
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
College Hoops 2K7
Rainbow Six: Vegas
Eye of Judgement
The Godfather
Half Life 2
Singstar
F.E.A.R
Bladestorm
Fatal Inertia
NBA Street: Home Court

And that's it. Stuff like Heavenly Sword and Lair don't even come out until March at the earliest. Is there anything on the list above worth a $600 console, much less the $2000 people seem willing to dump on Ebay? I could play 90% of that (assuming I wanted to) on the 360 right now, or even the PS2. It's almost all utter generica.

People are doing this to themelves, and I'm pretty well out of patience with it. It's all Want, no Reason. Fuck it and fuck them for being so willfully stupid.

James

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:45 am 0

Another article on the drive-by shooting. With BB pellets, but still.

This is hilarious, awesome, or terrifying. Maybe all three.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:46 am 0

Do people queue for consoles like this in the UK?

I can just imagine they'd be getting abuse and jeering from pissheads and such, like when how the UK public was with David Blaine.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:48 am 0

Closest I've seen was the 7.30AM opening of Carmarthen GAYME to receive the first oxen360 last year, and that was just a half a dozen lads (m'self included) who'd all preordered anyway and was very amiable and just talking about what we were going to play all day and how we'd skived off work and not at all shooty

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daniel thomas · Post by **daniel thomas** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:08 am 0

Jamesac wrote:People being fucking stupid isn't Sony's fault. 200,000 units of hardward is ridiculously small, sure, but all the crap people are pulling to get a system to sell on Ebay to gullible morons with more money than sense isn't their fault. Let's take a look at the games, seeing as it's a games machine-

Resistance: Fall of Man
Ridge Racer 7
Genji
NBA 07
NBA 2K7
NHL 2K7
Madden 07
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Untold Legends
Call of Duty 3
Tiger Woods 07
Gundam
Tony Hawk's Project 8

Coming between now and March-

Fight Night Round 3
Blazing Angels
Full Auto 2
Sonic the Hedgehog
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
College Hoops 2K7
Rainbow Six: Vegas
Eye of Judgement
The Godfather
Half Life 2
Singstar
F.E.A.R
Bladestorm
Fatal Inertia
NBA Street: Home Court

And that's it. Stuff like Heavenly Sword and Lair don't even come out until March at the earliest. Is there anything on the list above worth a $600 console, much less the $2000 people seem willing to dump on Ebay? I could play 90% of that (assuming I wanted to) on the 360 right now, or even the PS2. It's almost all utter generica.

People are doing this to themelves, and I'm pretty well out of patience with it. It's all Want, no Reason. Fuck it and fuck them for being so willfully stupid.

James

Amen to that. Sooner or later, the kids have got to realize that they're just victims of a corporatist pyramid scheme. It's fuckin' mind control. Don't think, don't question, consume, consume, consume. Of all the times for Ken Kesey to leave us...

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:19 am 0

disciple wrote:Do people queue for consoles like this in the UK?

I queued for the Game midnight opening for San Andreas. But only because I was staggering home drunk from the pub at the time and it seemed like a laugh.

There'll be some PS3 queuing in stores that have stock but don't take pre-orders, but thats not many. There'll probably be some flagship midnight launch at the Virgin Megastore or Game on Oxford street as well.

illlogickill · Post by **illlogickill** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:45 am 0

Why pre-order? Just rob the place.

http://www.whiotv.com/news/10340455/detail.html#

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:09 pm 0

Flabio wrote:I queued for the Game midnight opening for San Andreas. But only because I was staggering home drunk from the pub at the time and it seemed like a laugh.

There'll be some PS3 queuing in stores that have stock but don't take pre-orders, but thats not many. There'll probably be some flagship midnight launch at the Virgin Megastore or Game on Oxford street as well.

At stores like Asda and Tesco who don't take pre-orders there was queuing for the 360. I'd expect the same to be true of the PS3 launch

Cheers

Bubba

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:13 pm 0

I'm actually surprised since launch day was yesterday in the US that I haven't seen any unboxing porn or general ps3 first impressions in my LJ friends list yet... only one I've seen so far was a chap who lives in Tokyo, few days ago..

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:14 pm 0

I wonder what the American attach rate will be. Hopefully higher than 1, or Sony will be pissed

Cheers

Bubba

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:31 pm 0

What's attach rate?

Games_sold :Consoles_sold ratio?

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:33 pm 0

disciple wrote:What's attach rate?

Games_sold :Consoles_sold ratio?

Games sold with Consoles

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:33 pm 0

Either games sold to consoles sold, or accessories sold to consoles sold.

Sony's attach rate for the PS3 launch in japan was *below* 1.

Cheers

Bubba

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:42 pm 0

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/7922 ... 360ls1.jpg

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:50 pm 0

Sorry dude, I pipped you to the post last night

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=17941&start=14535

YakYak

The Sony PS3 thread (apparently still obnoxious!)