how did sales for PS2 hold in the first 6-8 months on the market? It'd be nice to see a side-by-side sales chart for each...

 

Sales suck because no new games are coming out. I'm tired of waiting damnit!

 

seriously, what games came/are coming out from christmas till march 5th,

lemme list them:

Gran Turismo HD Concept, Dec 24, 2006 (although i would hardly call this a game)
GripShift Jan 4, 2007 (downloadable game thru psn)

Sonic the Hedgehog Jan 30, 2007
College Hoops 2K7 Feb 12, 2007
Virtua Fighter 5 Feb 20, 2007
F1 Feb 27, 2007

and the last game that came out before then was
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII on Dec 12, 2006
Fight Night round 3 was on Dec 5th

so that'd be almost 3 months before any decent/good games come out for PS3

in march ps3 gets
mlb 2k7
nba street
f.e.a.r.
splinter cell
rainbow 6 vegas
virtua tennis 3

this is exactly why i dont care that my friend still has my PS3, all i got for it is resistance... and nothing else interests me, maybe fight night but thats it

 

install any 3.5" HDD into PS3...

http://ps3hddmod.blogsite.org/

 

^^^^^^ from http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/23/in...d-in-your-ps3/

 

IMO, Sony really dropped the ball with God of War II. That game should be on PS3, not PS2! The first one had a HUGE following (it's a best seller!) and would be a great game to build buzz around the PS3. Instead, consumers are still stuck with crappy games until FF or GT come out.

 

I agree, but GoW II was already in development before PS3 was launched and the creator stated that if they wanted to make GoW II for PS3, it would take an additional 2 years to understand and develop the visuals to be what he wanted it to be.

GoW III will be a great game visually, given how awesome I and II (dev shots) look on the PS2 right now.

 

It's about time!

http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=2043

This should help somewhat with the brand image.

 

open link for full article... sounds promising.

http://www.beyond3d.com/articles/ps3scaler/

 

^^^
I just saw this and think it's the right step forward.

Now, the developers will each have to release a patch for the game to suppor the "new" resolutions. Whether they do that, is still up to speculation.

 

i dunno whether to believe this or not, can anyone in canada confirm? but

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37266

article says that they are raising the price in canada to get better sales.. like that makes any sense

 

I trust the inquirer as far as I can throw their servers.

Yes, the prices are going up in Canada, but the reason is due to the weakened Canadian dollar. Whether this is the true reason for the price hike is up for debate.

 

Drop it by a few hundred bucks, get some more games out there and watch it sell like hotcakes!

 

Good suggestions, but the only one that is going to happen is "more games". Sony can't reduce the price of the PS3, because the hardware cost is quite up there.

Much like the PS2 and the Xbox 360 when they first came out, the cost to produce is very high. Not until they streamline their supply chain and production line, will you see a major price drop.

I hear that the 360 is actually turning a profit now, so that should give you an indication on when the PS3 should be cheaper to make. Whether that results in a price drop?

 

will this scale dvds?

 

I do believe so. The purpose of the "fix" was to help old PS2 games render correctly on HDTVs, so they don't look like ass.

I do believe, from the article at least, that it will scale DVDs correctly to your screen, though at 480p max I believe.

Soopa, any thoughts?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/te...rtner=homepage

 

Well, I'm going to the deep, dark, depths of heck now. I bought the demon-generator machine known as the PS3.









...for $100CDN...!

Gotta love Sony points for Mastercard.

 

But it doesn't transform.

 

Congrats! What games did you pick up for it? Please don't say Gundam.

 

No games yet. I'm waiting for the console to arrive...it just got shipped this morning.

I'm likely going to pick up Resistance and Gund...er, nevermind; otherwise, the rest of the release games don't really appeal to me. At the worst, I now have a Blu-Ray player.

 

be sure to tell us what you think of it.

what kinda TV are you hooking it up to? Is it 1080p?

 

My Samsung DLP only takes 1080i. I'll prolly play the PS3 at 720p...?


But, for sure, this is probably the first time I'm actually making use of my TV's higher end abilities since I don't have high-def cable (or cable even)...

 

You should consdier at least getting something to pull HD off the air. Definitely worth it. Mount a good antenna on your roof and you're set.

Does your TV have a built in Tuner? If it does, all you need is an antenna.

 

Well, I'm too cheap to subscribe to cable. And the only syndicate show I watch is LOST and I can get that off the bunny-ears I rigged (yes, yes...shaddap). So, why pay for cable TV if I really don't watch TV.

Put this way: playing with robots > watching TV.

 

fixed

 

HEY!

 

but you don't need cable TV to pull HD signals over the air.

as long as you own an HD tuner or have a TV that has one built in, all you need to do is plugin the antenna to the tuner and you can have HD for free (minus the cost of buying an HD tuner if you don't have one) and you don't have to pay cable then.

we have dish network at our house. But I also hooked up an antenna to that box and it now plays the HD channels off the air in addition to the channels it's programmed to show through cable. But the off-air channels are free.

 

he doesnt have cable TV!!!! cant you read!?!??!!?! @

 

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ah-soh!

No, my DLP does not have an HD-tuner. I'll hafta buy one...how much would it set me back by...? And you're kinda referring to the free-to-air stuff off of Pansat receivers, correct?

 

I give up.

(i thought you don't have to have cable to pull HD signals off the air) you can buy an HD tuner box just to simply pull HD signals off the air correct?

 

naw, not that pansat receivers.

basically if you get an HD Tuner, you hook up an antenna to it, and it will pull HD signals that are broadcast locally and your tuner box will decode it for ya.

some of the boxes can be expensive. i believe you can buy stand alone HD tuners (ones that don't work with cable companies) someone correct me if I'm wrong though.

this should give you an idea of what is out there:

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-xEHB6Pc...Avx*l5TjnxniDi


http://www.crutchfield.com/S-xEHB6Pc...93550&I=637H20


AND IT"S ONLY $99!!!!

You still need a good antenna and mount it on your roof. Indoor antennas work, but aren't very powerful and receptive. I've got a Terk indoor HD antenna and it does work, but it has a lot of interferance. I could be walking buy it and we'll lose HD signal!

There are websites out there that also list what channels broadcast in HD so you can type in the HD channel number or the box should have an auto-find feature were it just scans the incoming signals and pulls the channels it is recieivng a good signal from. that's what our dish box did for us.

 

I tried an indoor HDTV receiver and it didn't work. I think I'm too far away.

 

I can't remember for the life of me the website, but you basically type in yoru zip code and it informs you how far away from a tower you are and what channels you can get in HD in your area. I think it even went as far as informing you how well the signal would be for you based on your address or something like that like.

here's one useful site:

http://www.solidsignal.com/antennas/dmamarkets.asp

 

Sly, that box you linked me to is for the US.

I'm beyond miles away from it. And I still hafta subscribe after I get the tuner anyhoo...Unless somehow you're in this free-stuff zone in Cali...?

 

do they even have HDTV in Canada yet?

 

Harhar...yes, there is HDTV up here.






Jack@$$.

 

you don't need to subscribe to a cable service to pull free over the air HD signals.

my in-laws have cable, BUT their HD antenna signal goes directly into their TV's HD tuner box and NOT into their Dish cable box and they are getting HD signals free of charge.

the purpose of the HD box is to decode the HD signal and pipe it into your TV. some of the boxes are meant for cable subscribers. others can be used for either cable subscribers, over the air HD, or both, like the directTV box.

so basically I could buy that directtv box I showed you and use it only to catch the over the air HD signals and not have directv service. There is no subscription needed for these over the air HD signals.

it's all about getting an HD tuner.

As for canada, guess srika was right, you can't get HDTV.

 

It's just a bitch wiring up all those igloos.

 

Harhar again.

And no, my CL-S is not pulled by huskies, mkay...?