http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?fs=1&id=3241

I rest my case.

Level 5 ROCKS your face.

Are you spending the $300 or $700 butt reamining price?

Holy crap, that game can have my children...

...but I'm still going to wait for the PS3 to get cheaper.

-b0b
(...has bills to pay, after all.)

holy crap that was pretty hot, and im not a big fan of those FF style games...

prolly cause ive never played one.

BLASPHEMY!

Get thee hence to the electronics retailer of your choice and purchaseth the Final Fantasy game of your choosing!

-b0b
(...out, out, out!)

I would love a PS3 if I didn't have a budget.  The top of the line xbox 360 could be $300 pretty soon.  At half the price of a PS3....  its a tough decision.

Also, I want to play Assassin's Creed which is a multi-platform title.

I really think Sony is shooting itself in the foot with it's high end line.  Yes, it's 20 gigs (or 40 gigs more) but I really don't understand how Sony even hopes to compete with X-3.  What they should do is sell the new one for like $150 - $200 and just completely overwhelm the X-Box.  I really don't see a threat coming from the Wii because it's got a gay controller and it makes me feel like I'm Japanese playing stupid games like "wash the window" or "poke the bubbles".  I think Nintendo needs to get a grip on reality and realize that only the Japs like that Takahashe crap games with pixle shading and cartoonish fruity games.  I really see X-Box winning this round in games...and I'm a fan of the Sony brand.

What we really need is another company that is just console and I think that'd make Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo compete that much harder and would drive the price down a bit.  Because if you look at the 360, the PS2, and the Cube...when they started selling people were buying them from $1,000 - $500 because the big three did the smart thing for themselves and produced less game consoles than there was a demand for.  Thus driving up the price.  This is a reason why I'm staying away from consoles until I land a job and have an exhorbrant amount of money.

I just hope that the console system doesn't go the way comics did.

X

I'm not really sure where you are coming from.  All reviews of Sony's "Low budget" system are coming out positive so far.  The dumb downed version is compareable to the "uber" version of the 360.  The high priced version completely blows the 360 out of the water.

Plus Sonys line up in Japan and America is completly superior to the Xbox 360's current lineup.

I'd put my money on the PS3 any day of the week as to who will win this match up.

If they aren't careful, they'll fall into the "NeoGeo" trap.  Yeah, they'll have the neatest, l33test box on the market, but the average consumer is going to look past it because it costs so freakin' much.

I have a feeling the pricetag will drop significantly before the machine actually hits retail.

-b0b
(...could be wrong.)

Does the xbox 360 still use DVD's for their games?  I'm not sure if the blue-ray is needed yet for the PS3 games because the capacity of the games can't be more than 9gb(if dual layer DVDs are used).  My parents just purchased a 40 inch widescreen LCD HDTV which I would love to hook an HD console up to.

The main games I want to play are Project Gotham Racing 3 and 4(coming soon, xbox only),  Assassin's Creed(multi-platform), White Knite(PS3), FF(PS3) and that's about it so far.  The PS3 bottom end system is looking good to me.  It still supports HDMI.  Did you guys know that a quality 6 foot HDMI cable is $100? 6 FEET!!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?DEPA=0&type=&Description=HDMI+Cable&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

...or $6.  Your pick.  Were you looking at Monster brand cables or something?

-b0b
(...thought White Knight was the name of an white supremacist organization?)

http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/specs.html

Even the baseline version of the PS3 will have blu-ray, I didn't think it would.  The only difference between the two models is the hard drive size, a USB flash memory stick, and wireless internet.  The cheaper one looks good enough to me.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2000140495+1249615676&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=495&Description=cables
those are the only real HDMI cables that newegg carries none of which are 6 dollars.

...or not.

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/12-189-135-02.jpg

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/82-196-021-01.JPG

The only difference between these two cables is $60.00.

-b0b
(...is teh w1nnar!)

Uhhh, the $70 one is 16.4 ft where the $10 cable is only 3.3 ft.   Hence the difference of the prices, and the cheap one is a HDMI to HDMI A/V.  Theoretically, there is only a $20 difference between them because 16.4ft is 5 times as long as 3.3ft, 5*$10 is $50.  And in case you were rusty on your math 70 - 50 = 20.

Stick
(I rest my case)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812123144

6 feet HDMI male to male = $7.99

16 feet HDMI male to male = $69.99

having 16 feet of cable = worthless

get the bloody short one and put the ps3 by the tv.

(...wonders why there is a debate on this)

~BRiney

So I played the Wii today, did that boxing thing, and Zelda. I gotta say, its a pretty sweet system. You actually get a good workout. The controller was suprisingly responsive, and all in all it was alot of good fun. I can see this system getting some good use at parties. You guys should try it out if you get a chance!

Yes and if I wanted to associate with people I would go LARPing or play D&D.  If I wanted exercise I'd go out and do DDR or really box...or wash windows or pop bubbles...but no...I want to play games where I'm a soldier or a wizard or a killer.  I don't want to do these crappy games (with exception of Zelda...cause this time it's not toony adventures for 4 y/o).  But I'm sick of ranting about all these stupid systems (or expensive).  I think people should buy computers and that be that.

X
(Just speaking from anger)

Mere and I plan on buying a Wii in January if they're readily available.  We're both big fans of the Zelda franchise, and it just looks like a fun, cheap system.  If there are a few decent games for it, it'll be money well spent.

-b0b
(...will wait on the PS3 until they're reasonably priced.)

Patrick I do agree with you but they are marketing it to a totally different crowd  to do things that PC's cannot. The PS3 and Xbox and all that jazz annoy me because they are all just trying to outdo each other with graphical eye candy. But I admire nintendo for trying something different, even if not everyone wants to get it.  

Im still sticking to my Pc for sure, I just hate not being able to play zelda.

Im still playing Zelda 64, hehe.

If the price for an xbox goes down before x-mas, I will prolly buy one.  My professor said he picked up a ps3 and said it's not as good as the xbox.  Maybe its just the blue ray that makes the ps3 so x-pen-siv.

A $300 xbox deluxe or whatever the good one is called would be a decent buy.

XBox is teh ghey.

-b0b
(...nods sagely.)

Xbox 360 isn't that bad really.  Aside from its horrendous lack of RPG style games.

My uncle has a 360, and Eric and I played gears of war, it was pretty nice looking. And by that I mean Eric used that chainsaw on my neck about a dozen times. I think I got him once with a shotgun. Ill stick to real controllers, like a mouse and keyboard.

I agree on the lack of RPG's. only stuff I have seen is sports and shooters. Maybe oblivion is on the 360, but we've all played that one.

I'm quite fond of the original Nintendo and Super Nintendo.



Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. = best. games. ever.





Cait
     (....is totally humming the super mario bros music)

Actually, I hear there will be a 3 disk RPG for the 360, I think its called Blue Dragon.

Someone told me that the grenade stab thing is pretty sweet in Gears of War.

Blue Dragon is being produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, one of the originators of Final Fantasy.  It's looking more like Dragon Quest than Final Fantasy though, with somewhat over-the-top artwork.

-b0b
(...thinks it'll be nifty, but won't buy an 360 for it.)

Well it looks like the Wii is beating PS3 to the tune of 2 to 1.



Quote:

Wii trounces PlayStation 3 in US sales in November Fri Dec 8, 4:51 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Wii outsold rival PlayStation 3 by more than double in the United States in November as the freshly launched video game consoles vied with Xbox 360 for devotees, figures showed. ADVERTISEMENT Nintendo sold 476,140 of its Wii consoles in the United States in November while Sony managed to sell 196,580 of its new PlayStations, according to industry tracking group NPD. During the month, Microsoft sold 511,300 of its Xbox 360 consoles, which it brought to market a year ago. Wii and PlayStation 3 were released for sale in the United States in mid-November. Manufacturing problems curtailed the number of PlayStation 3 systems available for the US and Japan launches and prompted Sony to postpone the consoles' Europe debut next year. Wii consoles were snatched-up quickly after their debut in Europe on Friday as the innovative system featuring motion-responsive controllers gained status as the must-have video game.

BTW...Nintendo had to release a "how not to break your TV with our controllers" (http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/) because it seems a lot of people are throwing their remotes at the TV.  Maybe they got mad when they learned they bought the window cleaner game with pop the bubbles double feature?

X

X

http://greenboyroy.googlepages.com/wii-strap.jpg
http://greenboyroy.googlepages.com/wii-strap2.jpg

Posted by the boys at Penny Arcade.

http://wiihaveaproblem.com/

Probably one of the funniest things I've seen about the Wii so far :)

Smash My PS3

http://www.planetboredom.net/video.php?id=2944

-b0b
(...laughed.)