the new "$399" ps3, i just bought it.. first console ever!

I am/was a PC gamer only...but I cant afford to keep upgrading my PC every year!! i have a dual core pentium ,2 gigs of ram, but only agp support.. so whats next? get new Mobo w/ pciE and new cpu, memory, etc. = $3,000 (good quality)

or

Ps3, now my games have great fps..i dont need to o/c my video card i dont have to turn settings low...

finally, in the long run i'll get more bang for my buck w/ a console... trading used games, renting games, etc. try that w/ a PC

fyi.. the new 399 ps3 does NOT have media card readers built in and is NOT backwards compatible. I chose ps3 over 360 for many reasons!! only downside no rumble pad!! wtf nobody told me about that! good news, 3 more months and it will be back! :-) free online!! fuk xbox

"free online!! fuk xbox"

Except that more people are on Xbox Live than the free PSN. I should mention too that the 360 has more games over the PS3 though too. So far most of the multiplatform games look the same (or sometimes even better) on the 360 version. Gamespot has some game comparasions if you want to have a look.

I just don't see the point in spending more money on the PS3 when you can get more games, basically the same graphics and better online with the Xbox 360.

Spoken like a true fanboy. You do not need to spend 3 grand for a good gaming rig. Consoles have yet to match the depth of PC games.

Live is ten times better than anything $ony has to offer. I have all three systems and Live beats the other two wvwn added together.

Actually the games tend to look more washed out on the PS3. Assassin's Creed is a good recent example. You can find the comparison over at gametrailers.com

Can't afford both? Get a real job. $4.00 a month going to put you in the poor house for XBOX Live?

The PS3 crowd is a strange, cheap gang of mutants.

I've has free PSN for over a year and have a total of 15 minutes online. Not even close to Live, but you wouldn't know that because you've never tried it.

Another (supposed) PS3 owner trying to feel better about his purchase. It's contagious around here. Dave is still upset about his $599 mistake but at least he "travels the world on business" even though he works in a factory.

The PS3 crowd seems to be a bunch of RPG playing wierdos whose only social contact is people slightly more retarded than they are.

Sony caught falsifying their numbers, again.

Earlier this week, we reported on an Associated Press story, which seemed to indicate that the PlayStation 3 was finally on a nice sales pace after the introduction of the $399 model. GameDaily BIZ and other media outlets were led to believe that Sony CEO Howard Stringer's 100,000 sold figure for the week ending November 11 was specific to the PS3. Apparently it was not.

Bloomberg.com found out from Sony Computer Entertainment corporate spokesperson Kimberly Otzman that the 100,000 actually was inclusive of all PlayStation consoles, which we would assume means PS2 and PSP as well – not so impressive.

We've followed up with Otzman for further clarification and to inquire about an actual PS3 specific sales total. In a release regarding the PS3's birthday earlier today, Sony did note that "since the availability of the new 40GB and 80GB PS3 models, sales have increased by 192% at the top 10 retailers in North America."

'Trust' Sony?

No.

Not in a million years.

192% over past sales so nothing X 192 equals nothing.

No, they mean they 'shipped' 100,000.

So that's what "Sony's own data..." means.

What is the amount of the price drop? It will be interesting to see that even if they show a 192% increase, how close will those numbers come to the Nintendo and XBox360 regular sales.

Wait until either of those consoles(if) go on sale over the holiday season.

Actually after a short small spike of increased sales the PS3 numbers have flattened off again.

......and at all times the Wii & the XBox 360 have trounced the PS3 in sales since it's launch.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/..._Xbox_360_Down_NPD.html

Sony died a long time ago when they started using s*** hardware in their products and charging more for them. The PS3 does not do anything amazing, its not revolutionary and my computer kicks its a** anyway.

PS3s will sell when a modchip or DVD/BLURAY firmware hack comes out. Pirating always increases sales of hardware. It always has. Game developers aren't being hurt because they get paid in advance before the games come out. Most game development companies are funded by government slush funds to produce games that help program the useful idiots that will be then be encouraged to join the military to go fight the next manufactured terrorist nation.

Software houses being funded by governments to train soldiers ? Where ? In Iran, North Korea, China, maybe ?

I think he was taking a stab at 'America's Army'. Which is an American game :p

Wow! You should loosen your tinfoil cap, it makes you sound crazy...watch out for the lasers I hear they burn...

I have to agree with you about the pirating increasing hardware sales. I know I'd jump on it once the PS3 is hacked. Supposedly the ISO loader is still being worked on. Right now the lack of games is keeping me from buying a PS3, but free games would make me buy it too.

This is pretty silly. If it was an increase in XBox360 sales everyone would be claiming that it was clear that Microsoft owned the market against the competition, like it happened with all the marketing hype surrounding the release of Halo3 and how many more XBox360 it allowed Microsoft to sell.. such a boost that it practically vanished already.
It seems that the majority of magazines,news,websites,statistical research groups are against Sony and pro-Microsoft... what a professional attitude.

Sony's record explains the anti Sony stance. Look at failed formats and root kits as a good example. But you are blind and can not see the truth.

@SGD: This is now and it's Blu-Ray and PS3 we are talking about, no CD Audio DRM rootkits or UMD. The MiniDisc has been a success in Asia mainly and it's still in use, it has been in use for many years way before MP3 capable hardware arrived on the market at cheap prices.
Blu-Ray is the best available optical format and everyone should hope that the recently announced 4-layer 200GB extension will be used and get available quickly because it's absolutely needed as well--and obviously it will if and only if the format won't fail.
What is for sure is that people don't need optical discs with less available space like HD-DVD. (both have the same amount of DRM wanted by Hollywood anyway).

"This is now and it's Blu-Ray and PS3 we are talking about, no CD Audio DRM rootkits or UMD."

- No this is a Sony product and Sony's past track record is 100% relevant.

" The MiniDisc has been a success in Asia mainly and it's still in use, it has been in use for many years way before MP3 capable hardware arrived on the market at cheap prices."

- The mini disc is a "success"!?

LMAO

More like just in your own head.

"Blu-Ray is the best available optical format"

- Yeah......if you like over-priced and under-spec'd kit with the least amount of available and exclusive movie content.

" everyone should hope that the recently announced 4-layer 200GB extension will be used and get available quickly"

- You're deranged if you think the movie or TV business is going to jump at 100gb or even 200gb discs and if the movie and TV businesses don't go for it that means no chance of anyone else cos the economies of scale won't be bringing prices down.

You're also insane if you imagine anyone has compatible hardware for it.

But personally I'd love to see it.
Go ahead Blu-ray, confuse and pis*-off your existing market by instantly making everything obsolete.

It's just more vaporware (just like profile 1.1 and profile 2.0 is right now......and even if the necessary BD players do eventually hit the market there's precious little sign of any profile 1.1 and profile 2.0 software for them).

" because it's absolutely needed as well"

- More day-dreams from your own head......and Blu-ray.com.

For some weird reason the PS3-owning kiddies all swoon over these imaginary sizes of disc storage and 'think' that they (and not forgetting the incredibly expensive burners they will need) are essential to anybody.

It's just laughably ridiculous given the far lower prices and reliability of HDDs right now.

"What is for sure is that people don't need optical discs with less available space like HD-DVD."

- Following the final approval of the 51gb TL disc this week it's actually Blu-ray that has the smaller size now.

"(both have the same amount of DRM wanted by Hollywood anyway)."

- Liar.

HD DVD does share ACCS (now broken again) but it does not carry BD+ or the watermarking hardware that Blu-ray has.

You've had this pointed out to you several times now.......so why do you keep lying about it, huh?

What a total A hole you are do you not know that past behavior is predictive of future behavior. That is pretty common knowledge but I guess a bit much for you to understand.

Wasn't beta the best back in the day too?

The sae DRM I think not. Maybe now since the uncrackable Java + has been cracked. You always resort to your space crap that is in reality not even being used anyway.

It's an American thing. They have been brainwashed into thinking, buying Xbox, creates American jobs. WHat a bunch of naieve idiots.

Microsoft are 10x times worse...

No, really they aren't, and they have come a long way in the last few years to earn their respect back.

This is an opinion of someone that could care less about Microsoft.

Thanks.

Says the biggest Sony fanboy.

That is crap and everyone knows it.

Is that what the dancing horses tell you in your head?

"naieve" is spelled naive you dumb ass. Steve and Dave spell that word the same way ..... curious.

Why?
I am amazed anyone can possible say that with a straight face... I mean if anything you can argue they are as bad as each other. But microsoft worse? Why?

You should be hoping that new 4 layer DOESNT get used and gets thrown out the door. That's all you need more delays because they keep adding and adding new specs. More and more frustration.
As with 'absolutely needed' I take it thats sarcasm? hehe

Like normal you have no idea what you are talking about.

Must be the personality disorder kicking in again. You know multiple personalities.

Microsoft [is] 10x [no need to say times twice] worse...

There, fixed it for you.

Dave a.k.a twenty other people posted this, then edited it to remove the links. I cought it, then copied and pated it here for all to see.

Dave says:

"Whilst there is no way I am going to tell you who I work for, as it may get back to the person who told me about the Celestica Prague stats, I can prove I work in the electronics manufacturing industry..

http://img225.imageshack...p?image=dsc01308nh5.jpg

http://www.global-electronics.net/link/en/16407965

Whilst I'm sure you will find some lame way to discredit this, all I can say, is you have NO IDEA...

I find it hillarious. First you call me Dave, and I have no Blu-ray, nor HDTV, then perhaps I have a PS3 after all, but no HDTV, so I post a pic of my 42in plasma and PS3, then you call it a DLP, then you decide I am not Dave after all, then I am again, then I don't have a HD-A2..

What assumptions is the idiot Hollywood going to make this week?"

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BWAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Now that sh1t is funny. Would you like me to take a picture of a CEDIA badge and post it here? If I did, I would be just as much of a loser as you are. Did your older brother sneak you into a show let you take a picture of his badge or did you buy that on eBay and pretend to be important?

The biggest BS'ers are always trying to prove themselves because they know unimportant they really are.

BTW, I love the name calling on your little piece of paper there, very adult. We can now see you must be some CEO with these impessive pics you keep posting.

I have a question about your "system" picture from a few months ago. Was that Waterford crystal, Bokara tapestries, and an imported Italian Terrazzo floor I saw in the background? You must be loaded with money having that visitors badge and link to a website.

The fun continues - Dave Peterson, perhaps you should go sing happy birthday to the PS3 over at blu-ray.com with the other "special" people.

This just keeps gettting better. thanks for the laugh Dave.

I wonder what your boss thinks of having a complete liar as an employee, you sure show your true character here. We all know a POS when we see one, and you are the worst example. You have ruined all (supposed) credibility with your past usernames so I guess it's time to make a new one and pretend to be a new Sony / BD fanboy.

Wouldn't you know, your pathetic pic was taken with a Sony Cybershot ............ are you ever going to take your lips off Sony's ass?

Prague, secret video game conversations, espionage, you're a regular secret agent there Dave, would you like a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred to go with your Armani suit Mr. 007?

Just found this looks good for blo-ray competition.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/...ally_Gets_Approved.html

That's a pretty s***ty looking pass, is it even real?
I'd expect something a bit more complicated than that.

Nice find!

"Sony's own data showed a 192 percent increase in PS3 sales following the price cut."

Even though it's 'Sony's own data' they almost doubled thier sales (which it's probaly lower if a normal person counted, not Steve Gillespie). Considering how far behind Sony is, that's still not that much. It'll [probably] go back to normal in a few weeks.

OMG ..... If you go to blu-ray.com, you can see the retarded fanboys wishing the PS3 a happy birthday (I'm not kidding) and singing.

"Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday PS3....
Happy Birthday to you!!!!

And many more....."

and

"
let's go buy some presents for our ps3.

(blu ray movies!!!!!!!)"

and

"Happy Birthday!!!

I love you PS3!!!

Go Blu!!"

Exactly what the **** is wrong with you people over there????? I am embarassed for all of you retards.

Update: I just had to add this one.

"Happy Birthday PS3!

What do you want for your Birthday son?

Wha... What is that?

(PS3 collecting dust and forming the words and wrote)

"HD-DUD must die..."

Ok so what should I do?

"Buy as many Blu-Ray titles and burns all HD-DUDs inside the Clothe Dryer Machine then set the timer to 60 minutes"

Wow that's a good idea! Thanks Blu

"No, Thank you for supporting Blu!" (Dust disappeared and cleaned itself like New)

-The End-"

WTF is that s*** about?

One of the biggest jokes on the internet.

I couldn't make up something as retarded as that. And Joey / Dave / Steve is a charter member with 750+ posts.

Are they on drugs? That is REALLY sad lol. It sounds like an 8 year old wrote it ROFL!

Haha...

PlayStation 3
"Play B3hind"

And this is why people shouldn't eat paint chips, kids...

Yeah, that site is a big joke. I feel bad for anyone going there looking for valid blu-ray info.

"Still too early to judge effect of PS3's price cut"

- Not really.

They're selling some more (or the stripped down version) but the PS3 is still well and truly in 3rd (last) place.

Hi,

What will happen a year from now - 2008 fall when Microsoft will do a dramatical HW face lift to the XBOX 360 bringing the performance of the console close or even better than the PS3?
Microsoft console components are nearly all off the shelf components.
What will Sony do then?

John

Sony won't have to do anything. Sit back and laugh at 11 million dismayed Xbox360 owners, with an obsolete console...

The performance of the Xbox 360 for games is already better than the PS3... always has been. They just need to focus more on the reliability of it.

LOL. Keep on believing that.. I know it's hard to comprehend how games for a system that is barely a year old, are now outclassing the 360, but you might want to take a look at Ratchet And Clank, or Unchartered Drakes Fortune. Both games that simply can't be done on the 360.

Hell, even Lair for, aside from it's controller quirks, looks better than anything the 360 has to offer.

Unreal Tournement 3, is going to make Halo 3 look like yesterdays news. (I don't see Halo 3 mods anywhere). Don't expect a Halo 3 for 360 until late 2008 at least (as the devs havn't even started it), and then it will be crap, limited to just 1 DVD. LOL

Sorry Steve, you seem to forget, you are the only one who's broke here and worries about your failing PS3 going obsolete but tries to make it sound like everything else sucks.

You made the wrong choice, live with it.

Funny you brpught up Lair a game that looked very nice but was a terrible game. Who cares it the games great if it sucks. Ratchet and Clank was fun for a little while. Picked up Drakes we'll see about that one.

The game I really want comes out next week Mass Effect. Is that one coming out on the PS3? Didn't think so!

Your ignorance never stops amazing me.

ROFL is that the best you can do?! By the way I guess you didn't get the memo. UT3 is coming out on the 360 too!

Mass Effect, isn't that ANOTHER one of those FPS, the one the 360 already has endless examples off..

"Don't expect a Halo 3 for 360 until late 2008 at least"

Funny I thoght that it was released months ago. What a complete and total idiot you are. So just because there "might be no mods" how do you conclude that it will stink? Oh yeah I forgot you can see into the future. If they are working on it for the PC which they are the excellent tools that MS made makes porting very easy. I guess you won't comment on the fact that at least MS has great development tools. Jack ass!

Aren't there loads of pre orders, aren't the reiewers loving it? Aren't they are also saying that it has the best story maybe ever in a video game. I guess you will ignore that fact.

Mass Effect is not a FPS, its a RPG made by one the most well-respected developer around. Get your fact straight

"...isn't that ANOTHER one of those FPS..."

First of all, it's an RPG...you know, the single most over-populated genre on any Sony console.

Secondly, you don't get to make a snarky comment about FPS's when Resistance was the best game the PS3 had to cling to for a LONG time.

Ratchet and Clank may look pretty good, but according to gamesindustry.biz, it's not selling all that well:

"Ratchet and Clank Future only sold 74,500 units last month, compared to an estimate of 129,000..."

I admit, I'm looking forward to UT3, but face it...it's not a game that's going to sell consoles, in the same way that Halo 3 did.

BTW...you look like a complete idiot making comments about Halo 3 mods, seeing as how the game is still only available for the 360.

No, actually it's rather easy to comprehend.

It's taken a whole year for a handful of 'elite' developers to finally make something that is actually worth purchasing for a game console that is supposed to be so advanced.

If you want to look at the future of the PlayStation 3, look no further than the fate of the Sega Saturn.

Most people would get tired of being slapped around like this. :)

I know, it's so funny. I can't believe he keeps coming back for more. Please don't leave this site Steve! Your making Betanews a lot of money.

May I remind you of the Sh1t Xbox360 games in the first year...

Same here.
Will he ever learn...

Are you saying you do? You still don't have a 360, so how would you know if it was 'Sh!t' or not?

Gears of War is the perfect example of why you are utterly and completely wrong....again.

"Will he ever learn..."

I hope that was rhetorical lol. =p

I enjoyed dead rising too :x

"Don't expect a Halo 3 for 360 until late 2008 at least (as the devs havn't even started it)"

Well that just about proves your not on this planet :)

You are so sad Mr. Austin. If ps3 kiddies despise fps games so much, then why are they all begging for Bioshock (a 360 fps game) to be ported to the ps3? The ps3 will utterly fail because of people like you.

BTW...it's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (not Unchartered).

Don't forget about Unreal.

[Moved]

And the petition Dave made to try to keep Haze a PS3 exclusive (which won't happen).

Check out Ratatouille - looks fantastic on DVD and freaking amazing on BD.

As for the boring look of XMB - now you've got 'themes' to brighten it up. I didn't like it much at first, but it is very streamlined and quick once you get used to it.

I think the PS3 will do well, but it will be when the new 'slimmer' version comes out, as it eventually will in a year or so that all the PS2ers will be ready to step up...

The price of the PS3 is now reasonable, you should see a decent spike in sales. The problem is a lot of people bought 360's and Wii's because of the initial high price.

I know they were losing money and still are on every console, if they could have launched with a $399 20GB and $499 60GB, the PS3 would have easily been the winner.

Sony should have came up with a better version of XBOX Live with a great GUI. Intead they use the monochromatic Windows Media Center style interface, which sucks. People will pay for a great online service like Live, Mcrosoft genrate 400 million a year just in Live fees, I know I've spent a few hundred on XBOX Live arcade and downloaded TV shows. If each person spent only 50-75 dollars a year additional on Live products / downloads, that's a cool billion annually, enough to pay for all the faulty console repairs.

Sony dropped the ball in a lot of areas on the PS3. I would be releasing BD movies with PS3 mini games on them, just like the CD's with interactive PC programs.

p.s. This will be a Hollywood__ first, but Cars looks pretty damn good on BD and the game works well. The only problem is the black levels.

You are confused. Xbox live is not a great online service. It's laggy because it's a server-less peer-peer network (Microsoft don't have servers).

PSN is a server based network. Whilst it may currently trail in a few areas (in game messaging notably), when that is addressed, PSN will be truely superior is every way, not least because it's free and more fully featured.

"It's laggy because..."

BS. You don't even own an Xbox 360, as you already proven with the picture you posted of your 40" 720p TV; taking full advantage of the PS3's '1080p' compatibilty that you spent you college money on. Your just jelous because there's no one to play with on PSN.

Thanks for the free entertainment Dave. Keep going!

Are you saying the 360 XBox live is NOT a peer-peer network? Sorry ytou are plain wrong.

This is why XBox Live is laggy, no dedicated servers.

Ayone else find it funny how many idiots have been fooled into paying $80 a year for nothing more than a bit torrent style network, that costs Microsoft nothing to run? LOL!!!

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=506222

1 year of xbox live is 49.99 not 80. Try being accurate in your own comments and doing some research yourself.

Sorry Deacon,

I have been using a wireless connection to Live since day one, no lag and I've been disconnected once at that was because my internet went out, not because of Live.

Go lie somewhere else, nobody takes a word you say seriously and the posting under different names is so old.

The PS3 sucks in many ways compared to the 360, even the most hardcore Sony fangirls admit that Live is better but "Sony has somethinghuge coming" but as usual it's "Soon .... Only Not Yet".

Where's the fabled 1.1 spec for the PS3 Joey? Didnt all you little boys at blu-ray.com say October 31st? Oh that's right, you were just posting what you wish you could believe, just like you do here.

Hmm that's funny I never have any lag at all. I guess you wouldn't know though considering you are commenting on something you have never used. Also as stated below it is not $80 a month. Try actually knowing something about what you are posting about and you might not look like a "complete" idiot.

Sorry, Xbox Live is peer to peer, no dedicated servers. Anyone fooled into thinking there are, and that their $80 a year is paying for servers, is being fooled. It's going into fatcat pockets. Those Microsoft execs are laughing at all the BetaPuppets right now...

Where I live, it's the equivellent of $80 a year for XBLGold. If you are stupid enough to make assumptions to where I live, that's your problem.

Another comment from the fanboy who worries about two things, his PS3 investment going to sh!t, and BD losing the format war.

You are probably the saddest person I have ever come across.

He's angry because MS makes over a billion a year on Live. You see, people have a choice whether to spend $50 or not. Just because you can't afford something, it makes you angry at everybody else has it so much better than you.

Just admit you are broke, angry, lonely and retarded. We all know it already, we just want to hear it from you.

I love it when he posts here. He is doing MS and HD-DVD a huge favor.

"PSN will be truely superior"

Soon ...... Only Not Yet.

LMAO!

You only like it because it's free. Cheap people crack me up with thier way of thinking. I have a PS3 with free PSN and I would rather pay for 360 Live any day. Everybody agrees with me and you know it.

It's a shame that the $1Billion that MS makes on Live, is totally dwarfed by hardware losses.

It was a $8 Billion last count. Oh dear...

You don't even have a 360 sp what would you know. Like I stated before works great for me and Sony only wishes that they had something as user friendly as live.

Hollywood they did say October 31st just not what year!

Sony is soon to pass that with their huge losses on the PS3 every quarter. Not to mention their lackluster attach rate that is pushing it farther into failure. The 360 has a higher attach rate of the PS3 and Wii combined. There is a reason for that. *wink* (If you didn't get it, the 360 actually has games people want to play!)

Nope, that's not what I'm saying. As long as it works (and it does) who cares how it's setup?

"Ayone else find it funny how many idiots have been fooled into paying $80 a year for nothing more than a bit torrent style network, that costs Microsoft nothing to run? LOL!!!"

Well more people have signed up for the '$80 a year' Xbox Live over Sony's free PSN. You'd have to be a fool paying $400+ for a PS3 for less games and no one to play with on PSN. LOL!!!

"Xbox Live is peer to peer, no dedicated servers."

So what? If it works great and it does, who cares?

Wrong. It works great, if you are lucky enough to be connected to other people with good connections.

When a few people with crap connections join, guess what, everyone suffers.

That's why XBL is laggy.

You don't even have a 360 so you have no idea what you are talking about as usual.

I think you will find, that it's ONLY Sony that consistanty make money every console generation.

Xbox division has never made a cent, and with the 1.1Billion put by to fix shoddy manufacturered consoles, they ain't no profit this generation either.

An interesting titbit. I had a very interesting conversion with a collegue who did some work at Celestica Prague, where they do Xbox360 repairs. Apparently, the DOA rate of 360, from China production is still around 40% of all consoles. Their repair workload is 50/50 spit between field failures, and QA failures during manufacturing. Volume wise, they are reworking over 220,000 Xbox 360's a week. And it's 90% rework on the GPU BGA.

Says the guy with no Xbox.

"I think you will find, that it's ONLY Sony that consistanty make money every console generation."

Nope. The PS3 isn't. They're bleeding money from their ears for it.

I think you will find that Sony is losing a ridiculous amount of money on the PS3 and not getting NEAR enough game sales to make up for it. Considering that MS is only on their 2nd generation that is a pretty idiotic comparison anyway. Even with the repair costs the 360 is still well on its' way to profitability with its' FAR superior attach rate(incase you "missed" it above it is more than the Wii and PS3 combined *wink*).

"I had a very interesting conversion with a collegue"

LMAO! I'm sure you did Steve *wink*.

8 Billion? Really? You wouldn't happen to have a link or are you just making that up too like the $80 a year Live membership?

"I had a very interesting conversion with a collegue"

Coming from the same guy who claims to have boughgt an A2, then eBayed it. LMAO @ your ridiculous posts.

You have no freinds of importance. You are probably the most unimportant little nothing on the internet.

Damn.. you people, must get paid to defend your companies XD .. well i own a PS3 and i'm really happy with the PSN it loads fast, XMB user friendly, get to chat with many friends i play FIFA 2008 online and everything is smooth also i get it to play in an 1080i display [i can provide you with pictures xD]if i want to try Xbox and be happy about it, is just because i'm MATURE and don't like to bash on people that make an effort to entertain you in some way

my apologies for my english, my primary language is spanish :P

What a fool. Don't you know that both the PS1 and PS2 both lost lots of money early in their life, and developers complained they were tricky to develop for?

Sorry, but history IS repeating itself yet again, in 2 ways.

1/ Microsoft will dump on all the existing 360 owners by launching a new model prematurely.

2/PS3 will turnaround, infact it's already begun, it's outselling the 360 by a factor of 3x in Europe, it's now also outselling the Wii in Japan, US sales have doubled since the price cut, and there is a massive list of great PS3 exclusives that have just launched, and are due Q1/Q2 2008.

I find it hillarious. First you call me Dave, and I have no Blu-ray, nor HDTV, then perhaps I have a PS3 after all, but no HDTV, so I post a pic of my 42in plasma and PS3, then you call it a DLP, then you decide I am not Dave after all, then I am again, then I don't have a HD-A2..

What assumptions is the idiot Hollywood going to make this week?

"I had a very interesting conversion with a collegue"

how is your a-hole a colleague ?

note colleague, mr. english major

edit: and a conversion, or conversation, dumba**

Wow...this guy just gets sadder and sadder every day.

"Sorry, but history IS repeating itself yet again"

1/ nVidia is not stopping production of the GPU for the 360, they did for the 1st x-box, so MS kinda had no choice at that time.

2/PS3 will have a bump in sales but will not be able to get out of crater that is the #3 spot

fixed that for ya :)

Ah spin is such a wonderful tool. Ok my turn. The 360 came out first and it has a significantly larger selection of games. Looks like history isn't exactly repeating itself to me. In fact looks to be quite the opposite.

Wow, now thats a load of BS!

Exept this generation.

Your the one making assumptions.

Move out of the FIFA world and you'll find the mean people on the network.

Hello Dave. Are you pissed that your PS3 (with 720p TV) that you spent all your college money on is failing?

You can wake up now.

I don't get it. He was saying Xbox Live is $49.99 a year, which it is. Unless you want to buy Starter Kits every year.

Even at $80 a year, thats a whole $6.66 a month, you must be one broke a** MF. At $50 a year thats a whopping $4.16 a month.

Joey / Dave, you are so sad, we all embarrassed for you.

If that is true which I doubt MS is fixing the problems for free. Has Sony ever fessed up and fixed issues for free? Didn't think so.

Good one.

How can you comment on something you clearly know nothing about?

If people didn't think it was worth it they wouldn't pay for xbox live, there are other ways to play online other then xbox live.

Its obvious you post under more then one name, whether you are dave or not remains to be seen, but you do have many aliases in which you are a tool no matter who you call yourself.

Especially, when you misspell the same words under a different name is a dead giveaway, just so you know.

Maybe, the next name you create you can try to be less obvious.

FYI MS HAD to create a new model as Nvidia said they wouldn't continue to make the GPU for it, try again?

psst the reason why Nvidia won't be stopping production on the 360 is because ATI developed it, just fyi :)

Hi Dave,

I see you edited your post but not before I copied and pasted your pathetic lies and links. What happened Dave? Does that number on the bottom of the badge mean something, I bet it does.

Here is the link Dave posted to "prove" he's in the A/V indistry:

http://img225.imageshack...p?image=dsc01308nh5.jpg

Did the rightful owner of that badge get pissed at you or something?

I will PayPal $100 to anybody who can give me this guys personal information so I can talk to his employer and show them what a lying POS this guy is.

i knew i forgot something, damn brain :)

Try upgrading to broadband, worked like a treat for me and I lived in a backwards country back when I had a 360.

"PSN will be truely superior is every way"
You cant possibly be serious? can you?

Where does content come from? the moon?

I had a conversation with god the other day. Seems he is very pissed off at the world. He plans to flood it again :(
Hope you can swim!

"Volume wise, they are reworking over 220,000 Xbox 360's a week"

Rightio, and you cant smell the bulls*** with that statement? Are they using child labor to service all those?
Comon get serious stop bulls***ting and start using facts for your discussions...

Keep the BS coming Steve, its so much fun!

god, you must be on meth, crack or something.

Joey's wrong again, or making sh1t up to piss people off. XBOX Live uses all dedicated servers.

I didn't think it was the A/V industry, I thought is was manufacturing.

You're

That was one of the issues with EA if I recall correctly. They didn't have enough control because of that.

Is that the best you can do?

"I thought is was manufacturing"

What? We can play your game too.

If you want to talk about laggy, let's discuss The Darkness' online play (on PSN). If even one person is experiencing a slight bit of lag, the game becomes damn near unplayable.

The only people being laughed at right now, are you and the rest of your aliases/cronies.

The fees for Live pay for quite a few things: the servers one connects to when they first log in, and the servers that host the DLC (video and game related), just to name a few.

Every single online game suffers if there are people connecting with laggy connections. XBL is no exception to this rule.

Try again...

"Xbox division has never made a cent, and with the 1.1Billion put by to fix shoddy manufacturered consoles, they ain't no profit this generation either."

So, is it 1.1B or 8B like you've previously claimed?

"I had a very interesting conversion with a collegue who did some work at Celestica Prague, where they do Xbox360 repairs. Apparently, the DOA rate of 360, from China production is still around 40% of all consoles. Their repair workload is 50/50 spit between field failures, and QA failures during manufacturing. Volume wise, they are reworking over 220,000 Xbox 360's a week. And it's 90% rework on the GPU BGA."

I read a VERY similar story a few months ago, when the warranty extension was first announced: "According to claims sent by Xbox 360 owner Lee Sherman to the online arm of Xbox 360 Gamer Magazine, Microsoft's Havant repair center has begun sending some of its units to the Czech Republic repair center in Prague, while claiming to owners that the repairs are being carried out domestically. Sherman, whose console has been out for repair for some three weeks, allegedly tracked down the Prague center through directory enquiry service." The story goes on to claim over 2000 units per day have been shipped to the Prague repair facility.

Nothing in the story was ever substantiated by MS (or anyone official), though.

Even if it had been, that's a far cry from "220,000"...

Hey look, Benjamin came to defend his multiple personality parasitic twin.

(If you guys don't know what a parasitic twin is look it up)

This must be why he's works in a factory, all those extra limbs come in handy for putting all those chocolates in the right boxes.

Classic.

Oh well my bad!

Yea I thought that seemed a little strange when i read that yesterday lol.

Sadly I think that is one of the more intelligent posts from the Sony cheerleaders in a long time.

That is great keep it coming.