The sad thing is, celebs probably only buy it because they see it as a status symbol and don't actually play it. And so, by purchasing a $600 room decoration, they are helping to convince sad little people who watch E! all day and read Us Weekly that the PS3 is something worth seeking out, when in reality, it is a $600 room decoration.

Yeah, PS2 beat the GCN and XBox to the market. Another reason it sold well was that Sony had built up a fanbase as well as its marketshare with PSX while Nintendo lost a lot of ground with the N64. At the time, Microsoft was the new to the market, and very few peopley cared if what they had to offer was any good or not. They were big bad Microsoft, and they were looking for an easy buck. Microsoft would eventually win over games, but at the launch of the original XBox, no one was really paying any attention to them.

The problem with the PS3 is more than just the price. If the PS3 had been the first nextgen console to the market, they could have gotten away with having the highest price tag. But they weren't, they were the last. Then when the system wasn't selling as well as they would have liked, SCEA's president claimed that you couldn't find them anywhere (which wasn't true) and then tried to pretend that limited store inventories were due to high sales when they were actually due to production problems, the same production problems that had prevented the PS3 launch from happening months earlier.

As a piece of hardware, the PS3 is state of the art. As a console, the PS3 is garbage. The extra money that you pay for the system doesn't give you anything significant. Oh man, the PS3 has slightly better graphics than the 360, so I can see a few extra beads of sweat on Peyton Manning's forehead when I'm playing Madden. Big fucking deal. But to Sony, that's a major selling point. Hell, I surprised it's not their tagline

PS3: Our Sports Games Look Slightly More Real Than The Other Guys

The fact is, graphics have progressed to the point where it doesn't really matter whose are technically better. Can programmers make a game that looks better than Doom 3? Probably. Will the average gamer really fucking care? No. Aside from better graphics, PS3 will never have much to offer that its competitors won't. And by the time they do, it'll be too late. 360 had a year headstart and the Wii is building up it's game library much faster than the PS3. When the PS3 finally has a game or two worth owning, who'll care? When PS3 finally drops some bomb releases, everyone will be sitting at home playing their 360s and Wiis. No one's gonna drop $600 on a system just so they can play one lousy game. If they do, they're retarded.

I know I'm being a little harsh, but every generation of consoles has a whipping boy. Nintendo and Microsoft had they turns, now it's Sony's.

But see, two of those games (RE5, DMC4) are already confirmed for the 360 as well. I wouldn't be surprised to see FF13 or MGS4 on the 360 as well, and we'll definitely see some sort of MGS on the Wii, though not necessarily MGS4. And with Nintendo/Square-Enix relations being as good as they are, I don't think it's implausible that Kingdom Hearts 3 might show up on the Wii.

And the PS3 is already doing better than most people want to admit. Is it living up to Sony's hype? No. But it's not the epic failure that some of us like to bill it as. That won't stop me from billing it as an epic failure though... I took a lot of shit from PSX owners for years back when I had an N64, and karma's a bitch.

Dunno much about most of those games, but God of War 3 will obviously be amazing and LBP looks pretty damn cool.

Here's the announcement on DMC4. It'll also be on the PC: http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/news/html/e070320.html

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

I am very, very surprised you would think that. Viewtiful Joe was supposed to be a Gamecube exclusive series, but then it won game of the year (depsite only being on the Gamecube) so Capcom basically had to release it on the other two consoles to make money. I don't see why they wouldn't continue to do things like that. You know...things that make them money.

Viewtiful Joe was never on XBox. Also, your statemet that they *had* to release to it on other consoles to make money because it won Game of the Year doesn't make sense. Maybe you didn't mean to write it the way you did, but it's an awkward statement. Capcom CHOSE to release VJ on the PS2, because they knew they could make extra money that way, but the game easily turned a profit without the PS2 release. VJ was NOT a high budget game and the development costs were pretty low.

And if you want to talk about games that were supposed to be exclusive, how about Resident Evil 4? When Nintendo inked a deal with Capcom to make the main Resident Evil series exclusive to the Gamecube, Sony fans smirked. Resident Evil was played out, they said. Who cares, they said, it's not as good as Silent Hill anyway. When Resident Evil Zero came out, they yawned and said so what, it's the same damn game as the other 4. Then Resident Evil 4 came out and it was the best thing ever. Capcom, having finally renewed interest in the series, ended their agreement with Nintendo and release RE4 on the PS2 to drum up some extra money.