[bunor90]

£425 for a Playstation 3 sod that. I would be tempted by PES and Metal Gear Solid but I can't think of any other game exclusive to Sony that will make me want to buy the system especially at that price.
Blue-Ray players do cost about £700 but the consoles never produce a quality picture as good as a stand alone player and a HD dvd player costs £400.

[retired_itsthewitchinme]

Originally posted by Tony7:
£425 for a Playstation 3 sod that. I would be tempted by PES and Metal Gear Solid but I can't think of any other game exclusive to Sony that will make me want to buy the system especially at that price.
Blue-Ray players do cost about £700 but the consoles never produce a quality picture as good as a stand alone player and a HD dvd player costs £400.

PES is out on 360 before PS3 isn't it?

[retired_shannon]

Originally posted by Zvonimir Boban:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Tony7:
£425 for a Playstation 3 sod that. I would be tempted by PES and Metal Gear Solid but I can't think of any other game exclusive to Sony that will make me want to buy the system especially at that price.
Blue-Ray players do cost about £700 but the consoles never produce a quality picture as good as a stand alone player and a HD dvd player costs £400.

PES is out on 360 before PS3 isn't it? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep...

[retired_shannon]

Sony: Key PS3 launch titles hit in 2007

Exclusive: Sony's David Reeves admits key PS3 launch titles like Heavenly Sword will now appear in 2007

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO David Reeves has revealed several key PS3 launch titles including Heavenly Sword, Formula One and Motostorm, will miss the November 17 launch day on PS3 and now appear in 2007.

However, Reeves also revealed that the company plans to cast a wide net during the initial PS3 launch window, saying that "for the first time we are not going to go just for hardcore gamers".

Speaking exclusively to CVG at E3, Reeves explained that Sony is "going to have a portfolio of social gaming" for the launch window, Singstar and EyeToy an integral part of this battleplan. It's not clear whether Singstar on PS3 will be out on launch day, but it'll hit "certainly before Christmas", said Reeves, with "an EyeToy one [game] after Christmas". He added: "EyeToy is not playable at the moment, but it will come before March 2007."

Precisely which PS3 titles will actually be available on launch day remains a mystery however, although Reeves told us that Insomniac's Resistance: Fall of Man "will certainly be a launch title". Worryingly, he said that Heavenly Sword, one of the PS3 titles at E3 that actually impressed people, won't hit until "after Christmas", as will the new Formula One game plus off-road racer Motorstorm.

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kazuo Hirai has assured gamers that Sony expects as many as 15 games to launch with the PS3. So, er, going by the social gaming aspect, that's Resistance: Fall of Man and 14 versions of head-to-head Carol Vorderman's Sudoku then.

Anyway. Despite Sony's pledge to reach a broad audience with PS3 during its launch window, Reeves admitted that appealing direct to the hardcore games playing fraternity will quickly become vital for the company in the next-gen console war.

"Without being too arrogant about it, I don't think we worry too much about building up the hype in the first six months, but where the rubber hits the road is going to be when all those hardcore gamers have bought PS3", said Reeves. "They have also bought Xbox 360 and they have probably bought Nintendo Wii as well."

However, Reeves maintained that shifting PS3s in the early days won't be a problem, such is the strength of the PlayStation brand: "We have built up a certain brand equity over time since the launch of PlayStation in 1995 and PS2 in 2000 that the first five million are going to buy it, whatever it is, even it didn't have games."

[retired_shannon]

I don't know where my comment went...

Anyways...Sony clearly is implying their fan-base are sheep... :o

[retired_bec8643]

Tony says no to ps3 ? hell freezes over.

[retired_yesmoncar]

I'll be buying a 360 when PES comes out...

[retired_shannon]

Originally posted by Herman Bloom:
Depends what they mean by win I guess. If they just mean total units shifted, then it's not that big a claim really. They've got Japan sewn up, so even if the US and Europe is closer, they'll still shift tons more units overall.

In terms of overall quality of games etc, then it'll be interesting.

Famitsu-Survey about Next Generation-Consoles and -Games

24.05.06 - Famitsu asked its readers which games they look forward to the most after E3:

1. Zelda (Wii, Nintendo)
2. Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, Square Enix)
3. Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3, Konami)
4. Dragon Quest Swords: (Wii, Square Enix)
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo)
6. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)
7. Final Fantasy III (NDS, Square Enix)
8. Monster Hunter 3 (PS3, Capcom)
9. Biohazard-Series (Wii, Capcom)
10. Halo 3 (Xbox 360)

Which Hardware are you looking forward to the most right now??

Wii - 68,8 %
PS3 - 21,0 %
Xbox 360 - 7,2 %
NDS - 3,0 %

What do you think about the pricing of PlayStation3?

88,4 % - I think, the price is high.
10,9 % - The price is fitting.
0,7 % - The console is cheap.

What do think now Herman is it still sewn up? The target market the PS3 is aimed at (Famitsu readership being hardcore gamers) is turning it's back on the machine...and embracing a machine that barely has next-gen graphics...if at all...and is so far away from traditional game interface it could be seen as alienation from Nintendo yet again.

[retired_bec8643]

Talking out of your backside there parma, Playstation has always been aiming for casual gamers not the hardcore ones under the Sony brand at first and then the renowned playstation stuff.

(Hence them going to be pushing singstar and eyetoy so hard with ps3)

[retired_shannon]

Originally posted by merry_miller:
Talking out of your backside there parma, Playstation has always been aiming for casual gamers not the hardcore ones under the Sony brand at first and then the renowned playstation stuff.

(Hence them going to be pushing singstar and eyetoy so hard with ps3)

Read again...I said PS3 is aimed at... who said anything about Sony's previous consoles?

I know full well that their previous console were aimed at the mass-market and casuals...

PS3 is not priced at casuals...game's being developed are for hardcore gamers. Eye-Toy and Sing-star are novelties...and don't play a huge roll in what Sony wants to do with the PS3...if that was the case Sony would try to integrate it more into their console game line up but as it stands it for novelties gaming purposes only.

When you see the Eye-toy used with GT...GTA or FF or another game of significant standing...then maybe you might have a case that Eye-Toy is integral to Sony but as it stands...it's just another periphral like on any other console in the past 2 decades.