It is exciting this is finally out, but what I am curious about is why it took so long? Clearly this was not a rocket-science situation, both platforms should have had Netflix ages before it was released. So, what happened? Was it to get Microsoft to pay for the exclusivity of forcing PS3 owners to put a disc in the drive? (Wow, that was worth the price, Ballmer - putting discs in drives is almost as exhausting as shaking a fruit juice bottle.) Does Netflix just not have coders available? Or maybe Sony is paying for this program somehow?
Sorry, just my usual Friday afternoon round of confusion. #netflixps3
@irfan: Oh, open season is great - I would love a version of Netflix streaming for my Amiga 3000. 4096 colors is cutting edge technology and I so miss the Guru Meditation errors.
Uh oh, I am showing my age again. I'll shut up now. #netflixps3
@OddManOut: I'm pretty sure most of the kanji were selected for their shape rather than meaning. Other than the one on the right (which, as you pointed out, means "round", and is in place of the Circle button) , they look like their PlayStation counterparts (Triangle, Square, X) #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfreaky...
I've seen discarded tranny corpses smeared with clown makeup more appealing than this.
I can't corroborate that, of course--even if I wasn't too exhausted to dig up the barrels, the sulfuric acid's done its job by now. #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfreaky...
@fluidexistence: I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that you actually saw a discarded tranny corpse with clown makeup smeared on it, or the fact that you saw them on more than one occasion (or a pile of them at once) and saw appeal in them.
@Kaiser-Machead: Many of the greats were unheralded in their own time, so it's at least a small comfort there.
I admit, I didn't come across this easily--the first one was a huge misunderstanding (long story--it involved a night of 151, Windex, hotornot, a box of crayons and a blowtorch), but after that, it became a hobby of sorts. There's just something about a pile of pancaked corpse parts that screams "Christmas!" louder than a thousand thousand wreaths, carolers and elves ever could.
Incidentally, don't try it with carolers, they tend to travel in packs. Makes for a hell of a challenge. #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfreaky...
so the last console i bought was a Sega so sorry for the dumb question but why would I need a 250gb HD in my PS3? When games are on disk? To back up my levels wtf? #sony
@TonyWonder: It is for purchasing games from the Playstation Network. Often times games are released on disc and available for download simultaneously, so bigger hard drives could be useful. There is an ongoing discussion whether it is a "good deal" when you can upgrade the hard drive yourself for less money, but I stay out of those discussions since that is really only reasonable for geeks. #sony
@Monty: Honestly if you can swap memory units from a camera or a PSP you should be able to do it for the PS3 as well. No geekiness really, it's not like changing the CPU of a PC or anything. #sony
@TonyWonder: Like FP_solmo said all the games recuiere some quind of instalation and all the damos take space, you can save photos music and videos to your PS3 that is why #sony
@mpar: Not all of them do (Uncharted and Uncharted 2 don't, for exampel) but most of the good ones do. Between MGS4, GTA4 and RE5 you're down over 10 GB already. #sony
@FP_slomo788: Apparently the folks I work with are a little less technologically adept. Changing an SD card can be difficult for some folks, but changing a hard drive, even in a PS3, is at least slightly more challenging. #sony
cool thanks for the info lads...but what if I just want to toss in a god damn disk and play MLB The Show or Fifa? Will the standard or low HD work just as fine (and cheaper)? I will NEVEr put photos or movies on my PS3 #sony
I really don't see any point in buying the ps3 anymore. The majority of the games for the ps3 are also there for my xbox. I've seen some of the "unique" games for the ps3. Resistance, and despite countless people saying it "rocks", it seemed like a typical fps. Uncharted and infamous were meh.
@Intelext: Only compelling reason is for watching blu-ray movies. If you do not need or want that and already have a 360, then it is not worth purchasing since they are essentially the same console. (Well, ignoring the hardware issues on the Xbox, and ignoring the BR playing and slightly higher price on the PS3.) #sony
@Intelext: If your argument is that most games are multiplatform shouldn't you wonder why one would buy a 360 as well? A PS3 has Blu ray and no fees for online by the way.
And to use Resistance as a supposed example of a unique PS3 title? Are you really that out of touch? Because if you're serious no wonder you don't "see any point in buying the PS3." #sony
@FP_slomo788: I don't see myself buying Blu ray anytime in the future, so i took that into consideration aswell. I don't really play online, so that takes care of that aswell.
Like it's implied, i don't own a ps3. Resistance is a brand unique to the ps franchise, and one of the games i've played. So i'm speaking from personal experiences.
@Intelext: Then you should have specified you were speaking for yourself. Your post made it seem like you didn't know why anyone would buy a PS3.
And Resistance is a great game, and it's indeed a new IP but it's not a unique PS3 game. And it's not even a showcase for the system anymore (it stopped as soon as Uncharted came out in 2007).
And there are tons of PS3 exclusives not available anywhere else, you clearly don't know. Do more research, use Metacritic. #sony
Clearly the larger hard drives are responding to the shift from game discs to downloads. Have we had a geek discussion yet on when stores like GameStop will go out of business due to this switch? It seems that this is going to dramatically shift the game purchase methodology in the next few years leaving only console sales at your favorite generic retail establishment. Then again, I may be merely watching my own game purchase trends and assuming the rest of the market is following suit. #sony
''If you really don't want the slim model, which makes sense given some of the features taken out to achieve that svelte new frame, this is actually a nice little deal''
Yet the only thing they took out of those 80GB and 160GB versions is the ''install other OS'' feature
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What's so slick about any of that? #netflixps3
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Five bucks says you don't own an xbox anyway, so getting rid of it is pretty simple huh? #netflixps3
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Sorry, just my usual Friday afternoon round of confusion. #netflixps3
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Uh oh, I am showing my age again. I'll shut up now. #netflixps3
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...in Zimbabwean dollars. #1000000ps3
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How much did you say it was?
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hope they don't rape me on shipping though #1000000ps3
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D-pad - Samurai
Top - 3
Right - Round, Yen
Left - Mouth
Bottom - Gentleman, Samurai
That's about the best I can do to translate those buttons. Maybe I'm missing something... #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfreaky...
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I can't corroborate that, of course--even if I wasn't too exhausted to dig up the barrels, the sulfuric acid's done its job by now. #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfreaky...
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I admit, I didn't come across this easily--the first one was a huge misunderstanding (long story--it involved a night of 151, Windex, hotornot, a box of crayons and a blowtorch), but after that, it became a hobby of sorts. There's just something about a pile of pancaked corpse parts that screams "Christmas!" louder than a thousand thousand wreaths, carolers and elves ever could.
Incidentally, don't try it with carolers, they tend to travel in packs. Makes for a hell of a challenge. #samuraiwarriorusbgamepadisfreaky...
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You won't fill it up in one day (well I hope for you) but eventually you will. Unless you break your console in the next 5 years. #sony
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You won't fill it up in one day (well I hope for you) but eventually you will. Unless you break your console in the next 5 years. #sony
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cool thanks for the info lads...but what if I just want to toss in a god damn disk and play MLB The Show or Fifa? Will the standard or low HD work just as fine (and cheaper)? I will NEVEr put photos or movies on my PS3 #sony
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And to use Resistance as a supposed example of a unique PS3 title? Are you really that out of touch? Because if you're serious no wonder you don't "see any point in buying the PS3." #sony
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Like it's implied, i don't own a ps3. Resistance is a brand unique to the ps franchise, and one of the games i've played. So i'm speaking from personal experiences.
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And Resistance is a great game, and it's indeed a new IP but it's not a unique PS3 game. And it's not even a showcase for the system anymore (it stopped as soon as Uncharted came out in 2007).
And there are tons of PS3 exclusives not available anywhere else, you clearly don't know. Do more research, use Metacritic. #sony
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Yet the only thing they took out of those 80GB and 160GB versions is the ''install other OS'' feature
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And they ADDED Bitstream support for HD Audio Formats on the SLIM. :)
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And I love it!