Man way to start this thread one week after I handed over 300 english pounds for an 80GB model. Just as I was thinking "you know, there's not much to it, prefer my 360...", "well I guess I can play the exclusives at least...", "it's black, and shiny..." - excuses to keep it were wearing thin after a couple of days. Now this. Kinda hope it does die, seems that SONY has been arrogant in every sense and needs to be taken down a few notches.
I'd have gone for HD-DVD over Blu-Ray, but we don't need two, and what I actually meant was that a new format is definitely not needed at this stage. HD VMD anyone?
a lot of customers i talk to at work are just fine with regular-ray. after seeing Transformers in Blu-ray, however, i try to watch every newer movie on Blu-ray. i just watched Resident Evil Degeneration and it looked VERY nice. even some older movies like Patton look amazing. i still think they're too expensive to buy though.
Me or my father have not got into Blu-Ray as much as we got into DVD when it first arrived and i have a massive collection DVD's and a sony dvp-cx850d which i don't want to get rid of just to get a better picture when right now i don't have a HD tv and DVD gives me a good picture anyway and i don't want the few extra feautres that you get at the moment I think Sony though that like the PS2's DVD drive and DVD playback that adding Blu-Ray drive sell more units becuase of this but unlike DVD blu-ray hasn't really taken of as quick and its taking time for more and more people to go blu-ray
Lol, gotta love regular-ray. My friend was complaining he couldn't find Dark Knight in full screen. About slapped him. Still haven't seen it although the blu ray version is sitting around on my....nevermind.
Sales in blue ray must be lousy were I live cause they have 2 tv setup side by side and are comparing the 2, Lol! What a bunch of idiots!:shrug:
So are the Xbox 360 ones. After all they are Japanese servers. Japanese are well known for keeping away from the western servers. The PS3 is only bought in Japan by those who can't let go of the brand. The 360 although doing bad in sales is what the hardcore gamer buys (the ports of shooters just goes to show that) while everyone else and their dog buys a Wii. Yakumo
If I can, depending on the game, I try to play with Japanese people. I had a few good japanese buds on my friends list for awhile, mostly from DOA. I'm actually playing my Wii for once...trying to finish the stars in Mario Galaxy and just got Sonic.
Bluray sure does look awesome, but for the extra price over DVDs is just not worth it. Especially since I no longer have a bigscreen TV since moving to Japan. Also, I can't remember any more but were DVDs this much more expensive than VHS when they came out? I seem to remember DVDs being $18, and VHS being $12-15.. Dark Knight (which seems to be THE bluray disk right now) is $24 compared to $15 for DVD. I havn't really compared prices in yen.
Well I'm not a fan of sony products the last sony product I really enjoyed was my playstation1 (SCPH-1000, and SCPH-5501 models). I own a 60GB PS3 that includes PS2 playback, and Nintendo Wii (WiiKey installed), and Xbox 360 x3 (USA, JPN, and a USA system with an Infectus installed). I also agree that the PS3 is dying I've had my system now for about a year and a half and still own the same 3 games I got with my system. Resistance, NFS Carbon, Madden 07. I've rented about 25 games for the system and none I'd be willing to buy. I'm going to say the PS3 has about 19 months left and then its dead. I'm going to guess July 17, 2010 (just a feeling but I'm sure I'm going to be wrong).
When DVDs came out in England, they were £20 each. That would be about $25 in those days. VHS was about £12 at the same time, or $15. So yes, they were THAT much more expensive.
dvd had clear benefits over VHS, the same cannot be said to the same extent when comparing DVD to HD video formats however, hence why I think that Bluray is not for everyone - only people who actually care.
If you're not a foolish shopper, Blurays can be had online for little more than their DVD counterparts and for the slim price top up are worth it.....paying over the odds for bluray then no way, but that's peoples fault as bad shoppers. I'm not a massive Sony console fan, and in a gaming respect there isn't much ive found on the system worth playing, but from what I have played i've largley enjoyed, and the PSN is a marvel. I use the Playstation 3 on a daily basis for numerous applications its become my main entertainment hub and in this regard, is an excellent peice of kit for the money - if the gaming side fails, you still have a worthy peice of hardware. It's true to say that these days I am more of an AV enthusiast than gaming if that adds any weight to my post.
PSN tends to get overlooked, compared to XBLA, and I'm not sure why. It's a decent service and the prices are great. Honestly, if I was to buy a PS3 it'd mostly be for PSN.
And Yakumo shows his anti sony bias yet again... Yes the PS3 is only bought by people who really like Sony and not by people say who might want to play more serious games, if you took one look at the top ten selling PS3 games in Japan you might learn something, no one in there right mind would serious buy a Wii if they wanted to play say a decent driving game... Everyone and his dog buys a wii, thats probably quite true, have a good look at the charts and you might find wii games that a dog could probably play. :110: Also count the number of Wii games that you could have bought on the Playstation 2... no good praising DDR now, it's not like it's been around for years mainly on the PS and PS2. Not sure what shops you been going to but the shops I went to before I left Japan still had bigger PS3 sections then Xbox, add PS2 and PSP and most shops did have bigger Sony sections then Nintendo. :nod: The XBox 360 is getting more the the hardcore games that would have been on the Playstation 2 although they are still selling badly, most not even getting 10,000 sales. When Edge did their feature on shooters, they covered three games Fantasy Zone, Thunderforce IV and Raiden IV, guess which one sold the least? The Playstation 3 was hampered by the removal of PS2 compatability although nice to see that if you can find a 60gb model it's only 20,000 to 40,000 yen more expensive then what it was new, although I did see a new 60gb machine going for 100,000. :crying: I still think the Wii will be replaced before the Playstation 3 will be.
Blu-ray "promotion" start a couple of months down here. Still, a cheap DVD player can be bough for 89 Reais. The cheapest Blu-Ray player costs 1.999 Reais. Not to mention DVDs are really cheap here. New releases cost 50 Reais and in a month or two go to 29 Reais. A Blu-ray release costs 149 Reais. So, no Blu-ray big sales anytime soon. As for Death of any consoles, all 3 sell well down here (even if they cost a lot of money). The non-piracy PS3 is actually saving a lot of game shops from being out of business...
PS3 is the worst selling console for Sony,even the PS2 sells better.If it gets worse they will pull the plug.The Wii will stay.
