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Official US/JP PLAYSTATION 3 Launch Thread
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
llTll said:
i also want to try and get one that'll work with my phone...might as well.
So I logged on to my Taiwan PS Store today and saw a promotional video of PS*Girl. I guess it's Sony's marketing thing over there. You can sign up to get a message from them daily. I'd say better than velocity girl! :lol
http://www.psgirls.com.tw/index.asp
http://www.psgirls.com.tw/index.asp
Christopher
Member
Questions guys:
1.) What on earth does "Remote Play" do? Is the function worth it in your opinon?
2.) Does anyone wanna share PSN games? Say if I download Q*Bert - and you flOw and we share instead of both paying? Even then I'd be willing to give out another 4 copies of flOw to someone.
1.) What on earth does "Remote Play" do? Is the function worth it in your opinon?
2.) Does anyone wanna share PSN games? Say if I download Q*Bert - and you flOw and we share instead of both paying? Even then I'd be willing to give out another 4 copies of flOw to someone.
distantmantra
Member
Has anyone seen a 20 GB model in stores recently? All I'm finding in the Seattle area are 60 GB models, I might have to step up and drop $600 instead of $500....
Zoe
Member
dose said:Is is possible to log in to the Japanese PS store on a US machine, and vice versa? If so, can you download free stuff from the non-native store (or indeed non-free stuff)?
Sorry, don't fancy reading thru 95 pages
Yup, I've been doing that since day one. I just wish I could get the Mainichi Issho cosplay packs
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Um, guess I'm quite late to the party, but I ended up buying one slightly before I thought I would in March. Traded some other gaming items toward a 60gb. So I'm having my own launch party in the midst of moving which means I'll have to take a few day break from messing with it.
Very impressive looking unit! From the case to the UI, you have to admit that the system screams quality. It's very sleek and so quiet. The content may not seem up to the price for some yet, but it's the first gaming console I've owned that seems like a very expensive piece of electronic equipment in more than price tag. I think it's the most impressive looking console in person.
I love the XMB. Clean and easy to use, it transfers well from the PSP to the PS. The keyboard stinks, but the ease of use for usb items makes that not much of an issue. Many interesting and cool options like making backups, adding an OS, etc. I look forward to future updates that add ease of use.
The system is big. And heavy. And blows out a lot of heat. But it runs silent! And has a fantastic startup sound! I like the Sixaxis! Not perfect for shooting games and the triggers are a little wack, but it's a nice controller.
Picked up Resistance with it, of course. Fun game so far. Haven't had time to join the "wedge" yet Fantastic for a launch title this far in. Of course the bc is great, I love the virtual memory cards. Looking forward to picking up VF, Motorstorm and MLB:TS in the near future.
Content in the PSX store is quite good. Some really worthwhile games already in there. Gripshift has made an awesome transition to PS! Glad that there's more than a few decent demos here, I hope that trend grows.
So only a couple days in, I have the glow that makes everything great, but I'm very pleased. It's an incredible system. It's too damn expensive to take off I think, but the more people that actually experience it rather than just see all the bad news are really going to like it.
Very impressive looking unit! From the case to the UI, you have to admit that the system screams quality. It's very sleek and so quiet. The content may not seem up to the price for some yet, but it's the first gaming console I've owned that seems like a very expensive piece of electronic equipment in more than price tag. I think it's the most impressive looking console in person.
I love the XMB. Clean and easy to use, it transfers well from the PSP to the PS. The keyboard stinks, but the ease of use for usb items makes that not much of an issue. Many interesting and cool options like making backups, adding an OS, etc. I look forward to future updates that add ease of use.
The system is big. And heavy. And blows out a lot of heat. But it runs silent! And has a fantastic startup sound! I like the Sixaxis! Not perfect for shooting games and the triggers are a little wack, but it's a nice controller.
Picked up Resistance with it, of course. Fun game so far. Haven't had time to join the "wedge" yet
Fantastic for a launch title this far in. Of course the bc is great, I love the virtual memory cards. Looking forward to picking up VF, Motorstorm and MLB:TS in the near future.Content in the PSX store is quite good. Some really worthwhile games already in there. Gripshift has made an awesome transition to PS! Glad that there's more than a few decent demos here, I hope that trend grows.
So only a couple days in, I have the glow that makes everything great, but I'm very pleased. It's an incredible system. It's too damn expensive to take off I think, but the more people that actually experience it rather than just see all the bad news are really going to like it.
blindrocket
Member
Could someone tell me if this is normal or not please?
I have the 60GB unit and wanted to transfer some videos to it (.mpg format) so I put them on a 128MB USB memory stick. The PS3 wouldnt recognize them, said there werent any titles on the stick. It DID recognize the memory stick though and I CAN download to the stick just fine from the PS3, but what is already on there cant be seen.
I also assumed I could hook my digital camera up to the PS3 via the USB cable and transfer pictures that way, but no dice. Its recognized as an external memory device in other Operating Systems so I thought the same would be here. Unfortunately I have a Fuji camera that uses those XD memory cards, the one card not supported by the PS3 memory card reader.
I have the 60GB unit and wanted to transfer some videos to it (.mpg format) so I put them on a 128MB USB memory stick. The PS3 wouldnt recognize them, said there werent any titles on the stick. It DID recognize the memory stick though and I CAN download to the stick just fine from the PS3, but what is already on there cant be seen.
I also assumed I could hook my digital camera up to the PS3 via the USB cable and transfer pictures that way, but no dice. Its recognized as an external memory device in other Operating Systems so I thought the same would be here. Unfortunately I have a Fuji camera that uses those XD memory cards, the one card not supported by the PS3 memory card reader.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Musashi Wins! said:Um, guess I'm quite late to the party, but I ended up buying one slightly before I thought I would in March. Traded some other gaming items toward a 60gb. So I'm having my own launch party in the midst of moving which means I'll have to take a few day break from messing with it.
Very impressive looking unit! From the case to the UI, you have to admit that the system screams quality. It's very sleek and so quiet. The content may not seem up to the price for some yet, but it's the first gaming console I've owned that seems like a very expensive piece of electronic equipment in more than price tag. I think it's the most impressive looking console in person.
I love the XMB. Clean and easy to use, it transfers well from the PSP to the PS. The keyboard stinks, but the ease of use for usb items makes that not much of an issue. Many interesting and cool options like making backups, adding an OS, etc. I look forward to future updates that add ease of use.
The system is big. And heavy. And blows out a lot of heat. But it runs silent! And has a fantastic startup sound! I like the Sixaxis! Not perfect for shooting games and the triggers are a little wack, but it's a nice controller.
Picked up Resistance with it, of course. Fun game so far. Haven't had time to join the "wedge" yet
Content in the PSX store is quite good. Some really worthwhile games already in there. Gripshift has made an awesome transition to PS! Glad that there's more than a few decent demos here, I hope that trend grows.
So only a couple days in, I have the glow that makes everything great, but I'm very pleased. It's an incredible system. It's too damn expensive to take off I think, but the more people that actually experience it rather than just see all the bad news are really going to like it.
Pretty much sums up a lot of what I experienced. Send me a friends request. PSN: Denogginizer. If you want to play Resistance with us, pm Kaching to get in the clan. Welcome aboard!
blindrocket
Member
I kinda thought that too but Ive downloaded vids off of the net with the PS3 with just a .mpg extension (not .mp4) and they play fine.Varshes said:
cank stoochie
Banned
u mean long live blurayJB1981 said:
Forsete said:Quick question. PS3 automatically searches for the cover art for music, correct? What if it does not find any? Is it possible to add the cover art manually via PC software, and would PS3 recognize this?
Recommend me some nice "cover adding" software for Winblows please.
you can add your own, you just triangle the album andselect the cover from your pictures section of your ps3 hdd (it wont find them in an external memory stick or thumb drive,they need to beo n the ps3 hdd)
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
JB1981 said:
Have you had any freezing issues? I did and I am not sure what was causing it. I watched The Departed and I had a bunch of freezes. I read on AVS that disabling the internet will fix this. I also cleaned the disc of a few fingerprints. Seems to have fixed it, but freezing during playback still seems to be occurring with some PS3's.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Bebpo said:
Wireless or wired?
I have freezing issues when playing DVD's that aren't pristine or are slightly scratched. The system just locks and won't bypass the problem scene. Sometimes, if I restart, I can fast-forward past the problem area. Also, this has been most prevalent on DVD+R and DVD+RW discs.DenogginizerOS said:
I had a copy of a film on my PC that must have been dumped with an error in the reading. Even playing it on my PC off my HDD, there was some noise in the MPEG2 video stream on playback. Putting the movie on a +RW or +R disc would cause the PS3 to lock up at this error point. Of course, my PC and other DVD player would plow right through.
I 've never had an issue with a Blu-ray disc. I think the DVD software player is just very picky and gets locked with any corrupted data, while most players just patch up whatever they can in the frame and keep on trucking; I think the PS3 player has poor error handling. I'm hoping the DVD player improvements that people are wishing for in March address this as well. Still, I'm not hopeful of a fix, but this is the only issue I've had with the PS3 to date.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
bigswords said:
None of the DVD's I played froze. Only the Blurays. However, I do think the fingerprints may have had more to do with it than anything.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Bebpo said:
I hear via the AVS that wireless may be causing some freezing but this is all unconfirmed.
blindrocket
Member
For the life of me I can't do this... perhaps I should RTFM. Durp. But seriously, I triangle the album and I swear I don't see anything for adding album art.B-Ri said:
blindrocket
Member
I got both of my issues worked out.
The reason I couldnt change the album cover was because I had them sorted by artist. They must be sorted by album to change the cover.
And I got it to read my memory stick too. When I simply select the stick, it didnt show any title that I already had on there, but it would show titles that I downloaded directly to it via the PS3. However if I triangled the memory stick and selected show all or whatever it is, then I could see every folder on the stick and the supported files.
Sweet! Now I just have to try a Blu-ray movie to give the final test and give the thumbs up that I have a rock solid system with everything working.
And here are my initial impressions I posted on another forum, Ill do a copy/paste.
And it has really wowed me as far as hardware and design goes. I dont have many complaints and from what I have read a lot of those will be addressed with the next firmware update (such as multitasking). This console looks so good lying on my desk; I really love the design of it. When the fans are going full blast, its not silent, but it is fairly low noise and I dont notice it at all while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music. Even the little things are really pleasing to me, like the eject and power buttons, they arent really buttons at all but more like sensors. Very Star Trek like! Also, just having two wires coming from the thing is really, really nice to me. It has a simple power cord (no brick either) and one simple HDMI cable going to my HDTV. Thats it! The Wi-Fi works great and I think the slot drive is nice (no tray).
I havent watched a Blu-ray title yet (I plan to soon) but I have watched some DVDs and the movie playback software is really easy to use via the controller. I dig it!
All of the PS2 games Ive put into it work fine, some really good working BC, however most titles look pretty horrible on my LCD HDTV. They simply werent meant to be played at that high of a resolution. If I took the time to hook the PS3 up to a CRT Im sure theyd look as good as they did on my PStwo though.
My entire forum posting this weekend was done via the built-in internet browser, which works surprisingly well. I like its features and speed and only noticed a couple websites that didnt load well with it. For example, my wife likes msn.com so she had me go there for her and that loaded like total crap. But for most everything else I use; google, wikipedia, youtube, forums, etc. it worked like a dream. I had some fun going to youtube, loading up some Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes, sitting back and enjoying them straight off of my HDTV.
As for games, I have just been playing the awesome demos from the Playstation Store for now as I wait for Oblivion. The Motorstorm demo is a real blast and the Resistance demo looks graphically sweet and surprised me at how fun it is. At first I thought that the graphics were amazing but the gameplay kind sucked (in Resistance) but really it was just me getting used to playing a FPS with a controller again (Im more of a mouse/keyboard guy) but after awhile I was fraggin just as well with the SIXAXIS. Very cool. Ive also been playing the Gran Turismo HD game you can download from the Playstation Store. WOW now those are some nice car models. It really makes me want the true next-gen Gran Turismo. I will need the Logitech racing wheel for that bad boy though.
The reason I couldnt change the album cover was because I had them sorted by artist. They must be sorted by album to change the cover.
And I got it to read my memory stick too. When I simply select the stick, it didnt show any title that I already had on there, but it would show titles that I downloaded directly to it via the PS3. However if I triangled the memory stick and selected show all or whatever it is, then I could see every folder on the stick and the supported files.
Sweet! Now I just have to try a Blu-ray movie to give the final test and give the thumbs up that I have a rock solid system with everything working.
And here are my initial impressions I posted on another forum, Ill do a copy/paste.
And it has really wowed me as far as hardware and design goes. I dont have many complaints and from what I have read a lot of those will be addressed with the next firmware update (such as multitasking). This console looks so good lying on my desk; I really love the design of it. When the fans are going full blast, its not silent, but it is fairly low noise and I dont notice it at all while playing games, watching movies, or listening to music. Even the little things are really pleasing to me, like the eject and power buttons, they arent really buttons at all but more like sensors. Very Star Trek like! Also, just having two wires coming from the thing is really, really nice to me. It has a simple power cord (no brick either) and one simple HDMI cable going to my HDTV. Thats it! The Wi-Fi works great and I think the slot drive is nice (no tray).
I havent watched a Blu-ray title yet (I plan to soon) but I have watched some DVDs and the movie playback software is really easy to use via the controller. I dig it!
All of the PS2 games Ive put into it work fine, some really good working BC, however most titles look pretty horrible on my LCD HDTV. They simply werent meant to be played at that high of a resolution. If I took the time to hook the PS3 up to a CRT Im sure theyd look as good as they did on my PStwo though.
My entire forum posting this weekend was done via the built-in internet browser, which works surprisingly well. I like its features and speed and only noticed a couple websites that didnt load well with it. For example, my wife likes msn.com so she had me go there for her and that loaded like total crap. But for most everything else I use; google, wikipedia, youtube, forums, etc. it worked like a dream. I had some fun going to youtube, loading up some Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes, sitting back and enjoying them straight off of my HDTV.
As for games, I have just been playing the awesome demos from the Playstation Store for now as I wait for Oblivion. The Motorstorm demo is a real blast and the Resistance demo looks graphically sweet and surprised me at how fun it is. At first I thought that the graphics were amazing but the gameplay kind sucked (in Resistance) but really it was just me getting used to playing a FPS with a controller again (Im more of a mouse/keyboard guy) but after awhile I was fraggin just as well with the SIXAXIS. Very cool. Ive also been playing the Gran Turismo HD game you can download from the Playstation Store. WOW now those are some nice car models. It really makes me want the true next-gen Gran Turismo. I will need the Logitech racing wheel for that bad boy though.
I wish you could make playlists for the PS3. For instance, say I have 20 albums on the PS3 and I want a "mellow mix" or some such nonsense. Well, if I have numerous tracks across those 20 albums I want to mix and match for this mix there's no way to do it and have them play it since it only plays whatever is in the "folder" dependent on how you have things sorted. Sort by album, it plays through individual albums, sort by artist it plays individual artist "folders." I can't find any way to associate otherwise disperate tracks together into playlists of any kind.
blindrocket
Member
It should be easy enough to fix in a firmware update. Hopefully they realize it and make those changes. Though personally I usually listen to one artist and one album at a time anyway, it would be nice to listen to 80s music for example, or even just put it on random.
Z_Y
Member
DarkJediKnight said:
So...uhhh...what is the latest word on this mess? I bought my first BR disc yesterday (other than Ricky Bobby) and I have to admit it looks like ass compared to my 360 HD-DVD player displaying at 720p. And it is also a pain to have to change my resolution settings back and forth when I decide to play a game or watch a movie.
I'm in no mood to go out and buy a 1080p TV right now. Somebody please tell me that this is going to be fixed soon. Please?
blindrocket
Member
Obviously I havent read too much into this but are you saying that even though I have a 720p HDTV running HDCP with HDMI Blu-ray will only play in 1080i?
blindrocket said:
Right now the PS3 only supports 1080i as the HD output for Blu-Ray, otherwise if you don't have the PS3 set to output 1080i as a supported resolution is defaults to outputting 480p i believe.
So to properly play Blu-Ray you have to have 1080i set as a resolution and let your display scale it down to 720p. The scaler in my projector is fine though, so I don't really mind at all, I can't even tell the difference in the XMB between 720p and 1080i, so I just leave 1080i enabled all the time.
blindrocket
Member
I see, thanks for the explanation. I havent tried a BD title yet but had planned on getting some soon and reading what had been said kind of worried me about how it would look. For me on my 26 Sharp Aquos a setting of 1080i does look sharper in the XMB (though its too much resolution for the internet browser).