Man admits making up PS3 fire story
http://www.theinquirer.n...ault.aspx?article=36210

Hollywood__ or plague201????

Still the story proves how DESPERATE the Sony haters are becoming, they can't find any real hardware issues, so have to invent them. LOL... Pretty Sad...

Shut the **** up all you haters. You know you want a PS3. The only reason you're complaining is because you're too poor to buy a PS3, and you're too lazy to get a job to get the money to buy it because mommy won't buy it for you.

...so I take your mommy did buy you one.

lol

Ohh I'm laughing so hard. Has any of Sony's formats ever made it to the mainstream?

CD's and Floppy disks?

Although I don't see anything in this article about Sony formats? Seems another Sony hater just popped up. More than likely one of the other 4, using a different logon...

I suppose they have a gripe, as the original Xbox got owned badly by the PS2, and the Xbox360 is about to be owned at either end of the market by the PS3 and WII.

I don't hate Sony! For the record I dispise them.
This company has done so much bad, why would anyone consider their products, any of them!

What to clarify "so much bad"?

I bet every bad point, I can name 2 that Microsot have done....

Sorry, I just disagree. I mean, Sony had their time, just like Nintendo and Atari. This time probably belong to MS, or back to Nintendo. The WII is really revolutionary.

There is nothing new in PS3, just a faster processor and better video card. And of course, follow the foot step of MS by include HDD and have ability to go online. MS is leading the online subscription by miles. Good luck catching it up.

This is such a bad idea anyway. In order to play some old game on your PSP, you have to get a PS3 to do it. What kind of moron come up with such (marketing?) idea?

Ok.

01. Rootkit
02. Exploding Batteries
03. Forcing you to get a PS3 for PS1 downloads
04. $200 More the 360, $350 more than the Wii for basically the same thing that the 360 will do. They think just because it has the word "Sony" on it, people will buy it. I know two people here that will buy it just for that reason. :)
05. They're products normally cost more for the same (or even less) than what the compatition has (not just in the videogame industry, but all of Sony products). For example TV's, Receivers, CD players, everything.
06. Hi-FD (hi-foppy disk)
07. MiniDisc
08. Hi-MD (hi-mini disc)
09. UMD-Movies
10. SACD's

Ok, there's 10. It looks like I need 20 from you.

11. Memory Stick
12. ATRAC
13. Rootkit (just because it should count twice)
14. Losing to VHS

CD huh? I thought that was a joint venture with Philips...

15. Losing to HD-DVD

:-D

Windows Me
Xbox
Catching Fire Xbox Mains leads
Xbox360
HD-DVD Bolt On
Noisy Consoles
Anti-Trust
Internet Exploder
Red Ring Of Death
HD-DVD flop
DRM
OS Insecurity (XP pre-SP2 anyone?)
Closed Standards
Microsoft's version of "Java"
WGA
Code Red

http://www.microsuck.com/content/whatsbad.shtml

Activation
OGA
Windows Live Onecare
Windows Media Player
Zune

It was..

(Reposted under Mark's)

Since Mark included Xbox and Xbox 360 I'll also include these:

16. PSone
17. PS2
18. PS3
19. DRM (Sony's not much better)
20. Closed Standards (Just like Sony?)
21. Forcing Blue-Ray

It looks like you need 21 more (if you also include crashoverride's.

Windows Media Player? Is SonicStage any better? WMP actually isn't really that bad of a player. Although I don't use it much.

"Closed Standards (Just like Sony?)"

Errm, PS3 uses plenty of open standards, many more than Microsoft. Remember Kerbos that they took and closed source....

"17. PS2"

You mean the best selling console of all time, with 110 million sales, and the biggest game library by a long margin? You really are now clutching at straws...

Mark and Dave should be getting home from their corporate jobs any second. Let the exclamation points begin.

*is that better?*

Yes maybe they are home by now... not everyone can be as fortunate as Mr. Hollywood. Sitting at home all day living in the hope that someone makes an offer on whatever piece of junk he's trying to sell online. :

"The best part is, I don't even need the money. I have my own business and work from home. Did you ever notice that a lot of my posts are during normal working hours when most people are at work? I wonder what you do for a living? It's either Best Buy A/V dept. or you work at Sony Style."

Envy is a sin :-D

I'm an engineer so I cant complain about my 8-5 job.

Greed is a sin :-D

"You don't have to talk about PS3, all of them are already spoken for. I have my pre-sale on eBay, some joker is going to pay around 1700-2000 for this Blu-Ray boat anchor." - Hollywood_

Greed on whose part? The seller or the purchaser?

Because for the seller, I'd say its a smart move.

I work in a shoe store at the mall.

I kept mine, which may or may not have been a wise choice. I don't get to use it very much and now I'm afraid to turn it on.

plague,

I could have sold one for close to $3000.00 at one point. I couldn't do it, the fact that someone out there would pay that kind of money for a PS3 just makes me insane.

eBay has never had more deadbeat bidders and people with fake auctions. A lot of people are getting broken PS3's right out of the box because people are switching them. It's a mess.

The horror stories are all over the place. People sending money orders for thousands of dollars and getting nothing. At least with PayPal, you may get your money back in a year or two.

Like Al Bundy? Fitting undersized shoes to fat women...

Seems like a shoeseller seems a reputable person to take AV/Console advice from... LOL.

I guess sarcasm is unknown to you, I'm not surprised though.

If I did have a PS3 to sell I don't think I could do it. Letting some poor idiot pay $3000 for a pile like the PS3 just seems cruel and unusual.

So......

I need a $600+ PS3 to download PS1 titles that I already bought in 1999 to my $200 PSP and I cant transfer them more than 5 times or else they get locked?!?!?!?

THIS IS WHY YOU ARE GETTING OWNED BY MS & NINTENDO, Sony.

I'm sure they have a whole room of people pacing the floors trying to figure out how to squeeze more money out of the PS3 because of the huge loss they took with each console sale.

I only have one game that I've barely played, no BD movies, and I won't even open the Ricky Bobby movie that came with it.

I probably should box it pack up and sell it as I'm afraid to turn it back on after I have seen the hundreds of videos showing different failures like the death beep, slot load failure, overheating, etc...

The good news is M$ is cranking out 360's at record numbers due to the high demand.

Sony knows you will need a Memory Stick in your PSP to use this useless new service and I think the 2GB is still costs more than a Wii.

"In addition, the download service will also eventually carry titles that can be played on the PS3, the company said."

Soon....Only Not Yet.....as usual.

A Note for Mark and Dave: Amazon sales rank of the Microsoft Xbox 360 w/20GB hard drive is at #8

How do you explain this?

Dont forget Gears of War in a solid #3 spot. With Resistance: Fall of Man at #399 :'(

Hey plague,

Thanks for pointing that out. If you notice any more examples of Sony and Blu_Ray getting killed, post it.

I know Dave will go nuts.

"A Note for Mark and Dave: Amazon sales rank of the Microsoft Xbox 360 w/20GB hard drive is at #8"

Not that I think it would be higher than 8, but wouldn't lack of product have something to do with it? I'm all for putting down the PS3, but I try to do it fairly. If 360 and PS3 had all the needed stock, then this would be more telling.

I've convinced 3 friends to go buy a 360 just on Gears of War. Awesome game, nothing on the PS3 competes with it.

And if some fanboy says REsistance competes, slit your wrists now becuase you've obviously not played Gears.

"after I have seen the hundreds of videos showing different failures like the death beep, slot load failure, overheating, etc."

LOL, PS3 has the lowest failure rate of the latest generation consoles... Can you show us these "hundreds" of links? I suspect you can show me 2 or 3....

Typical rabid Xbox owner post...

Not a good comparison, there are only a few PS3 out there in use. Wait there will be plenty of problems after the holidays. I will Laugh AGAIN at you Mark. Mr know everything about nothing.

There are a similar amount of WII's out there, and much larger failure rates than PS3.

I am talking percentages, so the Xbox360 15% failure rate is independant of numbers shipped. I doubt ANY consumer launch product has the 15% failure rates that XB360 had..

Most of the PS3's are still on eBay... they have to come out of the box to fail.

15%

Source please

Run away Mark.

ok, so if you don't want a PS3 but want this service you're.....well you're boned and the fanboys wonder why people bash Sony.

Hmmm... sounds familiar, wonder where Sony got the idea to do something like that?

*laughing*... This has to be the stupidest announcement that Sony has made so far in the failed experiment that is called the PS3.

So, can someone explain to me why the PSP has WiFi on it then? Multiplayer capabilities only? I mean, come on! Why the hell would I want to buy a PS3 just so that I can download games to my PSP? I should be able to download the same games from EITHER my PS3 or my PSP.

~dnc

I agree. If I owned a PS3, I'd be a little ticked off.

Spend $600 for a console that is (for all purposes) equal to a 360 ($400 console). Get a crappy online service. And then when they do add something that could be cool, you end up needing to also own a PS3.

Thats ok, Sony Fanboys will still love Sony. If this was Microsoft, they'd be all over them. Microsoft is so far from the Monster so many make it out to be - Sony with the PS3 seems much worse.

"Spend $600 for a console that is (for all purposes) equal to a 360 ($400 console)."

suppose you could say they're both equal to the $250 Wii (for all purposes).
but they aren't at all equal.

you seem to be a MS fanboy that just wants to bash sony.

just wondering where you were going with this thought...
"If I owned a PS3, I'd be a little ticked off."
and then...
"when they do add something that could be cool, you end up needing to also own a PS3."
are you pretending to own one or not?
:-p

"when they do add something that could be cool, you end up needing to also own a PS3."

Think this was a type-o, he meant to say PSP.

ah,
i think you're right.

The PS3 and 360 are above and beyond the Wii. The Wii's benefit is that it offers a different style of gaming. And they are very similiar - I don't think we'll see one blowing away the other (aside from Xbox's online experience)

I like Microsoft as a company. I like Sony as I company. I loved my Xbox and I love my 360. I think Sony royally screwed up with the PS3. Does that make me an MS Fanboy?

Fact is, prior to my xbox, I owned the N64, Dreamcast and playstation. None of them wowed me. When Xbox came out, I decided it was time for an upgrade. I chose Xbox over PS2, simply because I wanted to see what Microsoft had to offer. I chose 360 over PS3, simply because Microsoft did WOW me with Xbox and 360 looked much more WOWING than PS3. Following things all along and see how things have turned out, I'm very happy with my purchase.

I have a Sony camcorder that I love. I have a Sony Receiver. I have 3 Sony Vaio desktops. I like Sony products. I just hate their lame attempt at a next gen console - ala.. PS3. Its for the most part a complete copy of the 360 plus a little Wii mixed in. Not to mention how much they hyped it up.

For anyone to think otherwise is just foolish. PS3 is a year late and a dollar short. It doesn't have anything that made it worth waiting for and worst, the stuff they could do to improve it ends up requiring a PSP. Stupid if you ask me.

Yes thanks, I did.

For the record - I do not own nor plan to own a PS3. If I did get one down the road it would probably just be for watching bluray.

When the PS4 is announced, I'll pay as much attention to it as I did the PS3 and consider buying it. But - Sony must realize that for some people, the online experience is more important than anything else.

I've postponed my purchase date to early 2008 when GT5 is released.

Why do I need to have a PS3 to download and enjoy PSP games. They should make it where you can hook the PSP to the PS3 or a PC to download the games.

agreed,
seems like a ploy to push ps3 sales.

Not PS3 sales, they want to sell PSP's and those overpriced Memory Sticks. The PS3 has no problem selling.

They need to curb the huge jump in sales of the 360 somehow. Sony is bleeding from every orifice with the lack of Blu-Ray sales, exploding batteries, and a 307 dollar loss on each PS3 that no one seems to want to actually play, they just sell them on eBay over and over.

The last time I looked, the game attach rate was 1.5 for each PS3 sold. And the Blu_Ray movie attach rate was something like .05

That's in the works, Jan 2007 apparently, you will be able to download games via PC, onto a memory stick.

I can't wait till the GP2X gets PSX game at a playable speed :D boo PSP

Sony is so desperate, they'll do anything to make a sale. Of course you will need one of their proprietary Memory Sticks to use this feature. Which is the whole point of this silly marketing scheme.

Maybe they can get people to download UMD movies in 480 by 272 resolution and let people watch them on their 65 inch big screens. It would be an improvement over Blu_Ray.

Mark and Dave should be popping in soon to go crazy over my post.

plague, you can chime in any time because you and I seem to be on the same wavelength and I value your expert opinion.

Also, I would like to thank the BetaNews team for getting a Sony post in every week. As soon as one Sony story goes off the main page, another one shows up. You guys rock.

I don't own a PSP, nor do I have any interest in it. Now if they had Tekken 3, I might find some interest in this new feature. But yeah, to download UMD movies would be a joke. I guess if that happens it will be to compete with Xbox live HD content, which ofcourse wouldnt compare based on the resolutions.

I first noticed that UMD was available like 4-5 months ago. I don't keep up with it, but it definitly looked like a retarded idea back then. My understanding is that its failing. But I guess I do have a question for Marky, and Marky Jr. Why would anyone bother buying a smaller res movie for the same price of a regular DVD? Watching movies on a 3" screen cant be enjoyable.

PS. I'm no expert, but I do try to make logical sense. It doesnt take a geneous to see something and realize its going to bomb. Unless ofcourse one is blind by assumptions that a company never fails (fanboys).

one - they half the price of dvds now
two - they are portable
three - still pointless
conclusion - yes and no ^^

Yes, but you could take a DVD and rip it to your ipod and watch it that way too. AND you can watch it on your TV too!

I think they were a total waste. If Sony was smart, they would have included a way to transfer DVD's to it with restrictions, this making playing your DVD's on the device legal for a certain time frame.

Consider - maybe Microsoft IS Working on a handheld. Just imagine with everything the 360 offers now, how much more they could offer in a handheld??

"you could take a DVD and rip it to your ipod"

it's still illegal to rip comercial dvd's.
so...no, you couldn't.(legally)

Whether its legal or not. Even if its not on xbox live or something. I know that ripping the movies to the ipod is simple. So as long as the PSP or any other hand held had the feature to do any video content, I think they'd sell a lot better.

meh,
i find it a pain in the a$$ to recode if i don't have to.(slow transfers, etc...)
i only pay $5-$10 per umd movie. figure they're worth that. i won't pay the $15-$20 they want for some.
the problem is with the movie studios. they want the same cut, no matter the quality or format.

I'm be willing to throw down max $10 for UMD, but yeah your right. Movie studios still want their base pay. So eitherway, PSP is losing with UMD. Too high, people wont buy: too low, and $ony wont make profit.

Still, pretty much all handhelds are reserved for kids. I mean, I cant play a PSP while im driving. So being an adult that feature is worthless. And if I have time to sit down and enjoy a PSP, I think I'd rather play a game than watch a movie on 3" screen when I could watch a movie on my 50" instead.

Any movie that is converted down to that crappy resolution should be no more than $2.99. Sony greed killed the UMD, just like everything else that comes out of that company lately.

You think people would know it's just a MiniDisc with a triangular case instead of square. They are still trying to push that stupid format to this day. They will come up with another way to extend the MD format. Next it will be the UMD slot built in to their laptops er, I mean "notebooks".

Legal or not, I'll still do it. I shouldn't have to buy a device just to enjoy a movie I already own on a plane.

My point is that Sony could have come up with a way to do this that would have not only made it legal, but simplified it.

"Maybe they can get people to download UMD movies in 480 by 272 resolution and let people watch them on their 65 inch big screens. It would be an improvement over Blu_Ray.
"

Perhaps this it the most idiotic comment from Hollywood ever, are all Xbox owners this stupid?

Do you really thin PS3 Blu-Ray is on-par with 480x272 resolution? It's actually BETTER than the Toshiba HD-A1 and Samsung BD1000.

If your thinking of basing ANY purchasing decision based on Hollywoods comments, DON'T do some proper research first, not the lame Sony haters you find here. You might just come to regret it otherwise..

They have, it's called PSP Media Manager, rips DVD's to MS.

There are also plenty of freeware alternatives.

"You think people would know it's just a MiniDisc with a triangular case instead of square."

You lack of technical knowledge REALLY astounds me..

One is a magneto-optical format, the other optical. They share NOTHING in common, aside from coming from Sony...

Please pack your computer up, back into the box, and go back to your job at the video rental store..

"go back to your job at the video rental store.."

thought it was a shoe store...

Wait I guess I'm confused or your jsut turning words around.

Wasn't That resolution was for the PSP not the PS3?

Me too :'(

Ok. I did some research. There are more movies out on HD-DVD, better movies and the movies are selling better.

Too bad Hollywood knows the facts and not just gives opinions, unlike some people. Yeah, supposedly by you Blue-Ray is supposed to be better, but then why aren't anybody buying the movies?

"They share NOTHING in common, aside from coming from Sony..."

UMD, MD... they both have MD in it ;)

People ARE buying the movies. When you have sites like thedvdwars, that have been posting false numbers for Blu-Ray for the last 3 months, then some guliable people actually think it's the truth...

Can you post something factual that says different? Do you have any proof that the numbers at thedvdwars are false? I'll bet that if the numbers start to lean in favor of Blu-ray you will change your tune. Honestly, your type of attitude makes it easy to look for the bad in Sony and their products.

I don't mean just you and Dave. I mean actual customers.