Sony Repartee

[treble]

It'd be nice if they had kept PS2 compatibility in, but a lot of the people who whined about them taking it out were the same people who whined about the system costing too much (which it did).

Besides, PS2s are cheap and small, easy to hide somewhere until you want to break it out and play something on that.

 

[BUTT]

I had the brilliant luck of having my launch-era 60GB PS3 (which I've only had for 8 months) get the YLOD just one day after Black Friday. Coulda got the holiday bundle for $200 but my piece of shit system had to wait an extra day to really fuck me over. Once I take the system apart and get my Uncharted 2 disc out of the Blu-Ray drive I'll probably sell the motherboard on eBay along with my handful of PS2 games, not that any of them are worth much.

 

[Smues]

Surprise surprise the Vita memory card will be a proprietary format and not something standard. Initial pricing ranges from $29.99 for a 4gb to $119.99 for a 32gb. Good thing is has all that built in memor....oh yeah. So if you want to buy any downloadable games you're going to have to pay an extra $30 at a minimum for the smallest card. Want to play your old PSP games? You can re-buy them either at full price or a slight discount if it's one of the games the discount program is available, then pay for the memory card. Enjoy!

 

[Smues]

That $500 3D Sony TV that looked so cool at E3 apparently is a total ripoff, so I'm glad I resisted the urge to buy it. It doesn't even come with a remote control!

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

No remote? BWAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Mattdotcom]

That $500 3D Sony TV that looked so cool at E3 apparently is a total ripoff, so I'm glad I resisted the urge to buy it. It doesn't even come with a remote control!

The Playstation 3D Display? I saw an ad for on the other night. Is it an actual TV or does it only play Playstation?

 

[Smues]

I guess it is not a TV since it doesn't have a tuner, which is why they call it a display, but it will work with none Playstation inputs. Although I've read that people have had problems with some none Playstation devices using HDMI cables and that Sony may be using some weird HDMI tech that isn't the norm. From the reviews I've read the picture quality is really good, the 3d is good, and the multiplayer with no split screen thing is good too. The main problems seems to be
a. It has an auto-off feature that likes to turn off way too quickly when no source is detected, and since
b. IT DOESN'T COME WITH A GOD DAMNED REMOTE you have to crawl up to the TV and turn it back on. Seriously, no remote? Yes it's not a 'TV', but not having to go over to the TV to change the volume/change inputs/turn the damn thing back on would be nice.
c. Glare. If you aren't sitting with a straight on view you're going to get glare, really badly. So the device was hyped for multiplayer gaming, but to do that effectively you're gonna have to sit in your bro's lap so you aren't just looking at your reflection.
d. Only comes with one set of glasses. The whole hype behind this thing is 'play multiplayer games without split screen' and you can't do that out of the box.
e. Price. $500 for a 23.5 inch screen with all the problems listed above. $570 if you want to buy it and get a second pair of glasses.

I was hyped for this after E3, thinking it'd be a good cheaper 3D TV, but I am so glad I didn't rush out and buy it at launch. I guess when they said it would be the ultimate dorm room display, what they meant was it's gonna good in a dorm room.

Edit: Oh and in addition to no remote, all the buttons are apparently on the back, so you have to reach behind it to change inputs or mess with display settings. WTF?

 

[Mattdotcom]

Oh, man, this is even better than when they were trying to market fucking high-class Playstation brand crystal stemware.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I assume they're all running the sale (since I've now seen this at 3 different Beat Buys), so if anyone hasn't picked up Killzone 3, and would like to have the Helghast edition, you can pick it up for $24.50.

 

[Smues]

Bestbuy and Amazon have marked the Playstation 3D display down to $399. At that price point it might be worth it or at least less of a ripoff. But man if I'd bought one at launch and two or three weeks later it drops $100 I'd be PISSED.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Well at least if you bought it at Best Buy they'd give you the $100 back, unless I imagined that policy.

 

[Smues]

With the newest PS3 update, you can no longer copy games to your PSP. Unless you've downloaded them but not installed them yet, then you can. Otherwise you have to use your PSP to re-download them. WHAT. THE. FUCK. SONY? My prediction that by the end of it's life cycle they'll have removed so many features the PS3 will just be a PS2 with blu-ray seems to be coming true.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

I don't care for the health and safety warning every time I turn the PS3 on. What is this, a Nintendo product?

 

[Smues]

Does it warn you that having your account information stolen because of their shitty security could lead to identity theft which would cause stress which can cause health problems?

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

It says "please read manuals" or something, so I suppose you could interpret that as investigate their security flaws.

 

[Smues]

This PSP thing really angers me. I don't have room on my PSP to keep all the PS1 games I've BOUGHT on the PSN. So I keep them on my PS3 and transfer over the ones I want to play portably. Or I did, until now. I don't understand why Sony is being all CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT SMUES FOX on this.

 

[Thoth]

This PSP thing really angers me. I don't have room on my PSP to keep all the PS1 games I've BOUGHT on the PSN. So I keep them on my PS3 and transfer over the ones I want to play portably. Or I did, until now. I don't understand why Sony is being all CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT SMUES FOX on this.

I'm surprised this is only getting traction now, I noticed this a week ago and called Sony. It is very likely that this is related to a change that was made to accomodate the Vita, as there a number of Vita related options in my PS3 as of Firmware 4.00.

Their workaround is for you to use their MediaGo software, which admittedly is better than it used to be.

 

[Just Burny]

Fuck Sony. Their biggest problem is the second they feel they have their foot in the door again, they instantly try to screw the consumer over and get every penny off them.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Their online play is still free though.

 

[Vitamin X]

yeah I've gotta say I've owned a PS3 for the past couple months and I prefer it to the 360 by a mile. Everything seems to work better on it and I like how PSN works.

I'd never get a PSP, though.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

I don't like the PS3 Netflix interface, unless it changed recently (Xbox completely overhauled theirs and it has some resemblance to how the PS3 one looks, such as seeing a video thumbnail of something you select, but still functions better overall for me).

 

[Smues]

Bestbuy.com now has the Playstation 3D Display for $299.

LOL SONY

 

[Vitamin X]

I don't know why in the hell anyone would buy that when you can just get a 3DTV with 1080p, a higher refresh rate, multiple inputs and a much larger screen size than 24" for a couple hundred more.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Double B told me the 3D bubble burst two years ago. I thought we'd be over this by now, but now I'm worried I'll need to conform.

 

[Smues]

I will say that $299 is a very reasonable price point for that display, and if I hadn't gotten my 3D TV I'd probably get it. And I think a second set of glasses go for like $40 now which is also not god awfully terrible. It's the whole launching it at $499, which is ridiculous, and charging $80 for a second pair of glasses, which is also ridiculous, that made me point and laugh at Sony. (announcing at first that the display would come with (super popular game) and then later changing it to (not nearly as popular game) was a pretty dick move too)

 

[BUTT]

The idea of the PS3 TV reminds me of the legendary Samsung GX gaming TV:

Why anyone thought the ideal set for video games would have a mere 13" screen is beyond me. Sony's new set is similarly undersized, especially when it serves a purpose for which a bigger screen is better.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

You can really hear Mario get those coins with those speakers.

 

[Master Thrasher]

The idea of the PS3 TV reminds me of the legendary Samsung GX gaming TV:
Why anyone thought the ideal set for video games would have a mere 13" screen is beyond me. Sony's new set is similarly undersized, especially when it serves a purpose for which a bigger screen is better.

Thank you, I was thinking of this when the 3D monitor was mentioned. I wanted one those TV's when I was a child.

 

[Vitamin X]

Love how the speakers are like twice the size of the TV in that pic

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I had one of those when I was 16. Though the screen was small, the speakers produced some damn good sound.