Archive for November, 2006

New York Times NOT Impressed with PS3

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

"Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company's new video game system just isn't that great." Yeah, that's the way the article STARTED. Woof. After30 hours of play with the PS3, NYT's Seth Schiesel points out without discretion, ALL of the things wrong with the PS3. "the world's most powerful game console," ...

Sony’s Playstation 3 is Not Worth the Hype

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Or so says Lev Grossman of Time magazine. I'll let you read the article, but he really hits the nail on the head about one thing. This is something that I have ALWAYS felt about Sony given their proprietary software/hardware and things like the "emotion engine" which did NOTHING to ...

Jack Tretton : Life in Reality STILL Optional

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I just can't say enough about the idiots that front as the controlling forces of Sony. "If you look at our competitors, one machine has zero backwards compatibility and one only has it with a third of their games." Just to clarify, Nintendo's Wii is 100% backwards compatible with ALL Gamecube games ...

PS3’s at Launch - 200k Machines Tops in the US.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

 Here we are mere DAYS away from the PS3 launch wherein the American public has been promised 400,000 "consoles" and Sony is telling us that there's not even half that. In fact: "We expect Sony to deliver 150 to 200k units to stores in the United States for the launch," ...

PS3 REQUIRES Patching immediately when unboxed

Friday, November 10th, 2006

 "the launch PS3 units don't actually have the proper firmware to access the new PlayStation Network hub. Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that purchasers of the launch hardware will need to run a system update in order to get the necessary firmware, System Software Version 1.10, in place." On top of ...