[gtboys34]

[quote:60f19]San Francisco (CA) - Late Thursday, during a Playstation 3 event in San Francisco, Sony unveiled details about several features for the PS3 previously kept under-wraps, including online services and available accessories, in addition to the official launch line-up.

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With the 17 November launch for the PS3 less than four weeks away, Sony has finally come forward with official plans for the online aspect of the console. Dubbed the "Playstation Network," it will allow users to download supplemental in-game content for specific titles, purchase and listen to music, and of course compete against and talk with other PS3 owners.

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Tapping into the online network will be free to all users, Sony however intends to generate revenues from the service in digital transactions: In addition to purchasing music tracks from the PlayStation Network, users will also be able to connect to the online Playstation store and purchase games and accessories directly from their box. Moreover, following the success of Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo's announced virtual console, Sony will offer game downloads through the Playstation Network that will cost $15 each and be downloaded directly to the PS3 hard drive, says Sony.

These downloads, like the Xbox Live Arcade, appear to be mainly focused on casual games, like Lemmings 2 and Go! Sudoku. GameSpot reports that original Playstation games will also be available for purchase. The price is notable higher than that of similar games on Xbox Live Arcade. XBL Arcade titles are priced around $5 - $10, which is also approximately what Wii virtual console titles will cost in Japan.

The online service is a huge jump from what the PS2 offered. Instead of a universal, community-driven experience, online functionality for the PS2 was limited to individual games. The Playstation Network is much more of a nod to the pioneering Xbox Live service, an immersive online network for Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles that has been accessed by 60% of Xbox 360 owners, according to Microsoft.

The Wii, which launches in the US on 19 November, will also have online connectivity supported by Nintendo, marking the company's first home console with a strong focus on online functionality, and thus the first time for three competing consoles to each have dedicated online services.

The Wii will also have a community-driven online platform, with a robust messaging system promised by Nintendo, as well as the "friend code" system that was introduced on the DS, which only allows users to communicate with users they have added to their friends list. Through an online connection, users will be able to purchase and download games from Nintendo's entire 15+ year console game history, from the NES to the Nintendo 64.

In addition to the new online details, Sony also announced the first batch of PS3 accessories. There are no real surprises here, but for the first time, official prices have been revealed. A PS3-specific high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) cable, which allows up to full 1080p resolution on HDTVs, will sell for $50. An HDMI cable is packaged with the premium $600 PS3 units, but it will not be included in the basic, $500 PS3 package.

Also to be available at launch is the PS3 Memory Card Adapter, to retail for $15, which will allow gamers to access game saves from PlayStation and PS2 memory cards. PS3 game saves will be stored on the console hard drive. Sony says the PS3 will be backwards compatible with every officially licensed PlayStation and PS2 game, which is well over 1000 titles. Some reports suggest that the PS3 console has the entire PS2 chipset built into it.

Official Sony brand PS3 Sixaxis controllers will sell for $50, making it twice the price of the current PS2 controllers. Finally, Sony also introduced the official PS3 Blu-ray remote control, which will retail for $30. Sony says it will also be able to control imported and downloaded media files on the PS3 hard drive.

The Sixaxis controller, which received criticism as stealing the key feature from the Wii controller, will have motion sensitive controls, but Sony has been quiet about the specifics. At the San Francisco event yesterday, several games were confirmed to include the controller tilting functionality.

Madden NFL 07, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, Blazing Angels, and multiple games from 2K Sports will all incorporate motion sensing in some way. It's unknown how crucial this feature will be to these games, which may affect the third-party controller market. For examle, Logitech's ChillStream PS3 controller, which was announced earlier this month, does not have the tilting functionality in it.

Also, Sony announced the official "launch" line-up, the list of games that will be available from the 17 November release of the PS3 through the end of the year. Sony's first-party studios will bring out Resistance: Fall of Man, NBA 07, and Genji: Days of the Blade during the console's first month. Third-party titles include Call of Duty 3, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, F.E.A.R., Madden NFL 07, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom. Sony did not announce pricing of PS3 games.

Finally, as an incentive to the lucky few who will get their hands on one of the launch consoles, which Sony announced was cut to 400,000 in the US last month, initial shipments of the PS3 will include the Blu-ray disc movie Talladega Nights, as Sony tries to get consumers to become interested in the next-generation format in which they have a high personal stake.[/quote:60f19]

[Bucknub]

Im still itching to buy me a 360

[gtboys34]

Originally Posted by Bucknub

Im still itching to buy me a 360

same here!

my bro is thinking about camping out to get a ps3. He promised me that (/sigh) if he doesn't receive one that somebody gon get the shit robbed out of em.

[eeves]

wii>all*

[gtboys34]

Originally Posted by yves

wii>all*

hell, after seeing that you'll be able to download all the games dating back to the nes-64 days, i may just have to go out and invest in one myself. But the 360 would be the first of all 3 though

1)360ee
2)wii-wii
3)ps3eee

[Bucknub]

the 360 is just more internet multiplayer friendly, I had PS2 online and there just wasnt alot of people playing the games I was playing, kinda sucked. 360 has way more online games and gamers.

[geRV]

I really dunno how well sony will be able to do online, microsofts had well over a decade of experience developing programs and games for online play so they have more of a clue whats neded to make it work. Same for nintendo theyre pretty new to online though the original nes in japan did have a modem that could get it "online".

1 thing that annoys me about 360 online is the fact that you never know where the game is being hosted untill you see the guys gamer profile. Id have preferred a system lke on the pc where you could see people hosting and what their ping was to you, smae as any pc online game when you want to select a server to go into.

[CoMaToSe]

Originally Posted by gtboys34

same here!

my bro is thinking about camping out to get a ps3. He promised me that (/sigh) if he doesn't receive one that somebody gon get the shit robbed out of em.

rofl

I cant wait to get a new 360 dance:

[gtboys34]

Originally Posted by geRV

I really dunno how well sony will be able to do online, microsofts had well over a decade of experience developing programs and games for online play so they have more of a clue whats neded to make it work. Same for nintendo theyre pretty new to online though the original nes in japan did have a modem that could get it "online".

1 thing that annoys me about 360 online is the fact that you never know where the game is being hosted untill you see the guys gamer profile. Id have preferred a system lke on the pc where you could see people hosting and what their ping was to you, smae as any pc online game when you want to select a server to go into.

im not sure about the 360 but on the xbox it had like a little bar ranging between red, yellow and green to determine your likely connection rate with the person. Good enough for me but i would like to see the ping in numeric form though

[Madmartagen]

i didnt think i would want any of these systems, but i find myself looking at teh Wii alot more...

[elstatec]

ps3 online is going to suck, much like the psp's and ps2's.

Even if you have to pay for xbox live, it is a very good run service.

You can tell that if sony wont make money from it, they wont care much about it.

[[DAS REICH] Blitz]

anyone else excited by the fact you have to buy online accessories for games? Thus, the future of gaming will be buying the basic games from stores, and then buying the "new additional features" online for additonal fees (EA Sports is doing it for 360, and undoubtly will do it for PS3).

[elstatec]

yea they done it with the 360 version of fifa 2007.

on the ps2 and xbox gamecube etc version you get every team, like 4 leagues of the england, italian first and second, german first and second, swedish, italian both leagues etc. But on the 360 version you only get 1 english league, 1 italian, 1 spanish 1 german 1 french and i believe one dutch. Now you can blatently see they will charge the other leagues as downloads.

fucking ea.



plus anyway wii is going to be the best for the downloadable games, i mean back catologue of snes, nes, n64, mega drive etc etc for the win.

[geRV]

The wii dloadable content should be interesting, though saying that even with the classic controller id say some n64 games might be a bit weird to play, seeing as the classic pad doesn't have those 4 yellow c buttons.


Might grab a wii on launch day with red steel, this new control systems got me realy interested in it, be a change from anything we've used for gaming to date.

[Miscguy]

Originally Posted by elstatec

yea they done it with the 360 version of fifa 2007.

on the ps2 and xbox gamecube etc version you get every team, like 4 leagues of the england, italian first and second, german first and second, swedish, italian both leagues etc. But on the 360 version you only get 1 english league, 1 italian, 1 spanish 1 german 1 french and i believe one dutch. Now you can blatently see they will charge the other leagues as downloads.

fucking ea.

THEN DONT FUCKING BUY IT. I mean jesus titty fucking christ its not hard to figure out. If you dislike a company and its actions dont pay them to fuck you over. Buy a competitors soccer game, sure it may not have all the peoples names since EA bought the rights to the leauge; but id rather have fake names with full features rather than paying for features that should be included.

I didnt buy 2142 because its a damn mod with some handy dandy "spyware". But the vast majority probably did, letting EA know that they can do what they want to bend you over as long as the game is mildly entertaining.

The PS3 is along those same lines. People who buy this rediculasly priced thing are simply telling sony they will pay no matter the price. Oh the controller has to be sent to sony to replace it when the li ion battery dies, because the user cant buy a replacement, oh and there going to charge you for it. You people need to take a serious look at buisness practices and the fact that we are setting a precident as the consumers that is making for a bleak future.