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Sony Faces Heat From Game Publishers to Cut PS3 Price
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wackojackosnose
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UntoldDreams said:
It depends on when your PC is bought. Mine was bought in 2006 with a 512mb 7950GT graphics card (which wasn't great or very new then) but even that can still play modern console ports such as DMC4 and Burnout at a decent / moderate graphics settings. It's still comparable to the console iterations but it just depends on how much you're willing to compromise.
fortified_concept
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Karma said:
Some of you people really need to grow up.
Zoe said:
And if I weren't speaking about my situation, and mine alone, your point would properly contradict mine. Given that I was, it doesn't. And it's not like PC gaming is anywhere as expensive as it used to be.
If the consoles-turned-PC-lites works for you, that's great; all I did was express why it doesn't for me.
OldJadedGamer
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Gantz said:
Microsoft made the Toy Story comment, Sony made the 4D comment. Oh, and that the next generation of gaming only starts when they say it does.
Afrikan said:
Full Auto wasn't a real PS3 game though it was an upgraded port of the 360 version with a "2" slapped on the end.
JudgeN said:
One thing that MS lied about but should have made it into the final console is the liquid cooling for the CPU. That would have prevented a lot of this RROR headache.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3JZbbkt7o#t=2m18s
manueldelalas
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If the price of the PS3 was $130 in March 2007, I would've bought a PS3 instead of a DS.Cynar said:If the price was $300 in feb I would've bought a ps3 instead of a 360
not really, the DS is much better
Gully State
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Zoe said:
There was a poster on this forum that built a $399 Crysis PC a year ago so it's actually debateable that a HD console is cheaper gaming investment than a gaming PC.
timetokill
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Kittonwy said:It's not enough that they made the best-looking AND best-playing offroad arcade racer this generation?
When did this happen?
Commanche Raisin Toast
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Gully State said:
$400 for a PC "it runs" on doesn't = $400/$300 console that runs a game the way it was coded to run. running a game with tearing and slide show framerates in low resolutions don't equate to what the game was designed and envisioned to look/perform like. it's one of the main reasons that PC gaming is so frustrating (without the funds) and why it's still not so easy to compare them to consoles.
also, you'd spend that money on the console once (hopefully). controllers, the games, online, whatever, would be your continued spending after the hardware purchase. PC's that run their respective games (ie: the games coming out around the time you purchase/build your machine) require far more than $400 to run WELL and the way they were intended. then a year later the games coming out are making your machine sweat, you're seeing tearing and framerate problems, or you can't turn all the new bells and whistles on, and then the next year you're having to upgrade again.
im having a hard time understanding why few find it amazing that sony is actually selling PS3 at the current rate for the $400 they're still charging for it. not best doesn't = bad. they're doing well for the price. publishers want to sell more units, and that's fine, but if a lot of these new PS3 sales from a price drop are existing 360 owners, what are they going to complain about IF the PS3 versions of these games don't jump up in sales as high as they expected?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=237787Commanche Raisin Toast said:
he was running games at higher resolution than most console games and at comparable framerates. on high/max setting, to boot.
Gully State
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Commanche Raisin Toast said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=237787
Check out the benchmarks, they perform better than console. And as for costs, if you want to factor in upgrades, well software is $10 cheaper and goes on sale a lot faster on PC than on consoles and the money saved on software can be put into hardware. And with the similarity of PC and HD console gaming, the need for upgrades won't be as drastic as in years past. And let's not forget that not only do you get a machine that can run multiplatform games but you also don't have to spend extra money on another PC which is more of a necessity than a video game console.
LiquidMetal14
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No PS3? Oh damn. You're missing a lot.timetokill said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Feel better?DavidDayton said:
timetokill
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LiquidMetal14 said:
Trust me, I've played Motorstorm :lol It doesn't fit the description.
Luckily, I have easy access to a PS3 pretty much anytime, and I don't have to buy one
RurouniZel
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spwolf said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Now is the time friend. Succumb as the price might be right soon. Maybe not though :Otimetokill said:Trust me, I've played Motorstorm :lol It doesn't fit the description.
Luckily, I have easy access to a PS3 pretty much anytime, and I don't have to buy one
Segata Sanshiro
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Yeah GAF never gives the Wii shit for its graphics. Get on it, people!Spiegel said:
painful fart
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I think the Wii got crappy graphics.
Stumpokapow
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Spiegel said:
so, do you think companies should be "allowed" to say bullshit?
because your post reads that you do not think they should, which means you are in favour of all the criticism of sony.
Segata Sanshiro
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THANK YOU. Finally, someone had the guts to say it!painful fart said:
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Now the healing can begin, you know what to do.Segata Sanshiro said:
Segata Sanshiro
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LiquidMetal14 said:
Stumpokapow said:
Companies can do whatever they want but of course I'm in favour of all the criticism of Sony (and Nintendo and Microsoft and Apple, and...) when they are bullshitting us.
Segata Sanshiro said:
Giving shit for graphics and calling bullshit at what nintendo (Iwata) said are two entirely different matters.
viciouskillersquirrel
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What the hell happened in this thread?
MWS Natural
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timetokill said:
I have been thinking about this. I have worked at 3 different jobs during this gen and at each of them all of "the guys" had 360 with perhaps 1-2 PS3 owners (including myself). I would love to see the demographics of who is exactly buying the PS3 in the US since the 360 seems to be dominated the 18-30 male demographic so much.
Segata Sanshiro
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So you've never seen anyone mock the "you will say WOW" bit around here? I don't know what to say, then. Maybe you're just not reading the right threads? I think that particular phrase gets more shit around here than Peter Moore's "lucid dream" nonsense, though not quite so much as Kutaragi's "you will want to get a second job" nonsense.Spiegel said:
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