Gamespot: PS3 is not worth buying

I agree with "Reconsider the price" because I still think it's way too expensive to reel in plenty of casuals but then again, I'm sure it's not going to stay $600 forever and Sony will drop the price enough in time for games like GT5 to dominate the casual scene.

Their others points in that list are a bit "meh". They're overrating the "Improve developer support" since Sony has secured great exclusives this gen. Their only major mess up imo is GTAIV losing timed exclusivity but I understand the reasons behind Rockstar going multiplat (larger userbase for 360 at the time of release).

Seems like a fair list to be honest but somehow I doubt they'll come up with a list for Wii or 360, both of which also have many flaws.

Also extremely interesting that this comes after the announcement of Home.
the-very-best

[QUOTE="the-very-best"]I agree with "Reconsider the price" because I still think it's way too expensive to reel in plenty of casuals but then again, I'm sure it's not going to stay $600 forever and Sony will drop the price enough in time for games like GT5 to dominate the casual scene.

Their others points in that list are a bit "meh". They're overrating the "Improve developer support" since Sony has secured great exclusives this gen. Their only major mess up imo is GTAIV losing timed exclusivity but I understand the reasons behind Rockstar going multiplat (larger userbase for 360 at the time of release).

Seems like a fair list to be honest but somehow I doubt they'll come up with a list for Wii or 360, both of which also have many flaws.

Also extremely interesting that this comes after the announcement of Home.
KeyWii

Exactly, one of them even managed to complain about Home. So it's quite obvious this is just damage control after a great GDC for Sony.KeyWii

Obviously, this is Sony's response to Microsoft's incredibly popular achievements system. Here's the thing though: Apart from being good bragging fodder, points, achievements, and the PS3's trophies serve no purpose. To make matters worse--and at the risk of sounding like an egotist here--I'm probably not going to care much about your trophy case, just as I suspect you won't give a sweet Christmas about mine. Instead, we're all simply concerned about our own collections.

They haven't even tried Home and yet they're already bashing it.

Animeninja7

[QUOTE="KeyWii"]Exactly, one of them even managed to complain about Home. So it's quite obvious this is just damage control after a great GDC for Sony.dimar19

[QUOTE="Animeninja7"]

Obviously, this is Sony's response to Microsoft's incredibly popular achievements system. Here's the thing though: Apart from being good bragging fodder, points, achievements, and the PS3's trophies serve no purpose. To make matters worse--and at the risk of sounding like an egotist here--I'm probably not going to care much about your trophy case, just as I suspect you won't give a sweet Christmas about mine. Instead, we're all simply concerned about our own collections.

They haven't even tried Home and yet they're already bashing it.

KeyWii

PS3 has a great lineup for 2007. Wii is much worse off, yet why don't we see gamespot dogging on the Nintendo Wii?KeyWii

[QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="Animeninja7"]

Obviously, this is Sony's response to Microsoft's incredibly popular achievements system. Here's the thing though: Apart from being good bragging fodder, points, achievements, and the PS3's trophies serve no purpose. To make matters worse--and at the risk of sounding like an egotist here--I'm probably not going to care much about your trophy case, just as I suspect you won't give a sweet Christmas about mine. Instead, we're all simply concerned about our own collections.

They haven't even tried Home and yet they're already bashing it.

neonvzla

[QUOTE="the-very-best"]I agree with "Reconsider the price" because I still think it's way too expensive to reel in plenty of casuals but then again, I'm sure it's not going to stay $600 forever and Sony will drop the price enough in time for games like GT5 to dominate the casual scene.

Their others points in that list are a bit "meh". They're overrating the "Improve developer support" since Sony has secured great exclusives this gen. Their only major mess up imo is GTAIV losing timed exclusivity but I understand the reasons behind Rockstar going multiplat (larger userbase for 360 at the time of release).

Seems like a fair list to be honest but somehow I doubt they'll come up with a list for Wii or 360, both of which also have many flaws.

Also extremely interesting that this comes after the announcement of Home.
shungokustasu

[QUOTE="neonvzla"][QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="Animeninja7"]

Obviously, this is Sony's response to Microsoft's incredibly popular achievements system. Here's the thing though: Apart from being good bragging fodder, points, achievements, and the PS3's trophies serve no purpose. To make matters worse--and at the risk of sounding like an egotist here--I'm probably not going to care much about your trophy case, just as I suspect you won't give a sweet Christmas about mine. Instead, we're all simply concerned about our own collections.

They haven't even tried Home and yet they're already bashing it.

Animeninja7

[QUOTE="dimar19"][QUOTE="KeyWii"]Exactly, one of them even managed to complain about Home. So it's quite obvious this is just damage control after a great GDC for Sony.KeyWii

They are right a PS3 right now isn't worth it. Only a few good games and most are multiplat and better on the 360. Online isn't fixed yet with firmware updates every two weeks. In the future it will be worth it most likely but now no so how is telling the truth bias? :|

[QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="the-very-best"]I agree with "Reconsider the price" because I still think it's way too expensive to reel in plenty of casuals but then again, I'm sure it's not going to stay $600 forever and Sony will drop the price enough in time for games like GT5 to dominate the casual scene.

Their others points in that list are a bit "meh". They're overrating the "Improve developer support" since Sony has secured great exclusives this gen. Their only major mess up imo is GTAIV losing timed exclusivity but I understand the reasons behind Rockstar going multiplat (larger userbase for 360 at the time of release).

Seems like a fair list to be honest but somehow I doubt they'll come up with a list for Wii or 360, both of which also have many flaws.

Also extremely interesting that this comes after the announcement of Home.
hellsing321

Obviosly it kill them to lett PS3 shine for one day, i wounder what will happen to them if the PS3 outsell 360 for Feb and March???heartatack maybe????

[QUOTE="Animeninja7"][QUOTE="neonvzla"][QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="Animeninja7"]

Obviously, this is Sony's response to Microsoft's incredibly popular achievements system. Here's the thing though: Apart from being good bragging fodder, points, achievements, and the PS3's trophies serve no purpose. To make matters worse--and at the risk of sounding like an egotist here--I'm probably not going to care much about your trophy case, just as I suspect you won't give a sweet Christmas about mine. Instead, we're all simply concerned about our own collections.

They haven't even tried Home and yet they're already bashing it.

neonvzla

i wounder what will happen to them if the PS3 outsell 360 for Feb and March?Bananna2

[QUOTE="hellsing321"][QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="the-very-best"]I agree with "Reconsider the price" because I still think it's way too expensive to reel in plenty of casuals but then again, I'm sure it's not going to stay $600 forever and Sony will drop the price enough in time for games like GT5 to dominate the casual scene.

Their others points in that list are a bit "meh". They're overrating the "Improve developer support" since Sony has secured great exclusives this gen. Their only major mess up imo is GTAIV losing timed exclusivity but I understand the reasons behind Rockstar going multiplat (larger userbase for 360 at the time of release).

Seems like a fair list to be honest but somehow I doubt they'll come up with a list for Wii or 360, both of which also have many flaws.

Also extremely interesting that this comes after the announcement of Home.
Bananna2

Obviosly it kill them to lett PS3 shine for one day, i wounder what will happen to them if the PS3 outsell 360 for Feb and March???heartatack maybe????

[QUOTE="hellsing321"][QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="the-very-best"]I agree with "Reconsider the price" because I still think it's way too expensive to reel in plenty of casuals but then again, I'm sure it's not going to stay $600 forever and Sony will drop the price enough in time for games like GT5 to dominate the casual scene.

Their others points in that list are a bit "meh". They're overrating the "Improve developer support" since Sony has secured great exclusives this gen. Their only major mess up imo is GTAIV losing timed exclusivity but I understand the reasons behind Rockstar going multiplat (larger userbase for 360 at the time of release).

Seems like a fair list to be honest but somehow I doubt they'll come up with a list for Wii or 360, both of which also have many flaws.

Also extremely interesting that this comes after the announcement of Home.
Bananna2

Obviosly it kill them to lett PS3 shine for one day, i wounder what will happen to them if the PS3 outsell 360 for Feb and March???heartatack maybe????

It didn't outsell the 360 in January in North America so why do you think it will in Feb or March? :|

Well they're right. I'll wait a year or so ebfore getting mineDrukter

[QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="dimar19"][QUOTE="KeyWii"]Exactly, one of them even managed to complain about Home. So it's quite obvious this is just damage control after a great GDC for Sony.solidsnakeEx3

[QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="dimar19"][QUOTE="KeyWii"]Exactly, one of them even managed to complain about Home. So it's quite obvious this is just damage control after a great GDC for Sony.solidsnakeEx3

People really doubt the Wii and PS3 because there havent been a ton of games announced for this year that are worth the hype, but then again thats all dependent on opinion, I see zero games on the 360 worth hyping at the moment that arent multiplat titles like UT3. I think E3 is really the time when we can start to judge console for this year since many more games will be announced with release dates.

Listen to what Andrew Park said... this guy is nuts. "Even with the intriguing news announced at the Game Developers Conference, it's still hard to look at the PlayStation3 as much more than an extremely expensive novelty, especially considering Sony's spotty history with hardware problems for both the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2." WHAT!? This is the absolute most crazy thing a GameSpot editor has ever uttered from their mouths -- err - fingers. He has somehow made the X360's meltdown problems PS3's problem. And Sony has a history of shoddy hardware? Oh my god... this guy....KeyWii

I have heard that the PS3's at launch were all pretty bug free aside from some backwards compatibility with certain games that were fixed by Sony in an update and a couple of minor hardware problems, I havent heard of a system having as many problems at launch as the 360 did. I mean jesus melting CPU's and poor cooling, disc scratching and disc read errors or the drives crapping out and harddrives failing just to name a few issues that I have heard about.

The article does seem a little bit odd...

Not to go down the whole GS is biased track but why they decided on doing an article like this about the Ps3 is beyond me. An article on how to make the Wii or 360 worth buying would be equally easy but I don't suppose they'll be doing either of those?!

In fact that article wouldn't be too out of place right here in system wars lol...

[QUOTE="Animeninja7"]

Obviously, this is Sony's response to Microsoft's incredibly popular achievements system. Here's the thing though: Apart from being good bragging fodder, points, achievements, and the PS3's trophies serve no purpose. To make matters worse--and at the risk of sounding like an egotist here--I'm probably not going to care much about your trophy case, just as I suspect you won't give a sweet Christmas about mine. Instead, we're all simply concerned about our own collections.

They haven't even tried Home and yet they're already bashing it.

KeyWii

That is more or less what they were saying. Sony comes to the plate with something that may rival "achievements", and it is deemed a "useless feature". The trophies serve the same purpose as the "incredibly popular" achievements, so what what makes trophies any less useless than achievements?

I am sure that there will be PLENTY of PS3 owners that will love the trophy feature in Home every bit as much as Xbox Live users who use their achievements for bragging rights. As an owner of a PS3 and a 360, I do not care about achievements or trophies, myself, but still....what is the difference? What makes Sony's new system "useless" and Xbox Live's "achievements" worthy?

The bottom line, is that they will BOTH be useful for who in the hell ever wants to use them.

Why are people saying they're bias when lots of sites anaylsts are saying the same things? Maybe it's the truth.:roll:klabut

[QUOTE="KeyWii"]Listen to what Andrew Park said... this guy is nuts. "Even with the intriguing news announced at the Game Developers Conference, it's still hard to look at the PlayStation3 as much more than an extremely expensive novelty, especially considering Sony's spotty history with hardware problems for both the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2." WHAT!? This is the absolute most crazy thing a GameSpot editor has ever uttered from their mouths -- err - fingers. He has somehow made the X360's meltdown problems PS3's problem. And Sony has a history of shoddy hardware? Oh my god... this guy....DSgamer64

I have heard that the PS3's at launch were all pretty bug free aside from some backwards compatibility with certain games that were fixed by Sony in an update and a couple of minor hardware problems, I havent heard of a system having as many problems at launch as the 360 did. I mean jesus melting CPU's and poor cooling, disc scratching and disc read errors or the drives crapping out and harddrives failing just to name a few issues that I have heard about.

I sometimes ask myself. If so many people have so many different gripes with Gamespot then why do you guys stay?

I'm not saying you should leave but what really keeps you here? Surely system wars isn't that amusing. Okay I lied it is lol
Blackbond

[QUOTE="the-very-best"][QUOTE="KeyWii"]Listen to what Andrew Park said... this guy is nuts. "Even with the intriguing news announced at the Game Developers Conference, it's still hard to look at the PlayStation3 as much more than an extremely expensive novelty, especially considering Sony's spotty history with hardware problems for both the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2." WHAT!? This is the absolute most crazy thing a GameSpot editor has ever uttered from their mouths -- err - fingers. He has somehow made the X360's meltdown problems PS3's problem. And Sony has a history of shoddy hardware? Oh my god... this guy....KeyWii

I say there is a campaign against the 360 with it's relibility. Those are lies made by Sony fanboys to stop people from buying an 360. At most the defective rate is at 5% - 10% but not higher than that.

[QUOTE="ToScA-"]

I don't see the problem.

In fact, I actually agree with them. As of right now, PS3 is not worth buying. The only games that interest me aren't released yet (besides VF5).

KeyWii

[QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="the-very-best"][QUOTE="KeyWii"]Listen to what Andrew Park said... this guy is nuts. "Even with the intriguing news announced at the Game Developers Conference, it's still hard to look at the PlayStation3 as much more than an extremely expensive novelty, especially considering Sony's spotty history with hardware problems for both the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2." WHAT!? This is the absolute most crazy thing a GameSpot editor has ever uttered from their mouths -- err - fingers. He has somehow made the X360's meltdown problems PS3's problem. And Sony has a history of shoddy hardware? Oh my god... this guy....PS3_3DO

I say there is a campaign against the 360 with it's relibility. Those are lies made by Sony fanboys to stop people from buying an 360. At most the defective rate is at 5% - 10% but not higher than that.

[QUOTE="PS3_3DO"]

[QUOTE="KeyWii"][QUOTE="the-very-best"][QUOTE="KeyWii"]Listen to what Andrew Park said... this guy is nuts. "Even with the intriguing news announced at the Game Developers Conference, it's still hard to look at the PlayStation3 as much more than an extremely expensive novelty, especially considering Sony's spotty history with hardware problems for both the original PlayStation and the PlayStation 2." WHAT!? This is the absolute most crazy thing a GameSpot editor has ever uttered from their mouths -- err - fingers. He has somehow made the X360's meltdown problems PS3's problem. And Sony has a history of shoddy hardware? Oh my god... this guy....KeyWii

I say there is a campaign against the 360 with it's relibility. Those are lies made by Sony fanboys to stop people from buying an 360. At most the defective rate is at 5% - 10% but not higher than that.

A lot less because nobody is going to play a PS3 for 12 hours straight. :lol:

*sigh* When will the cows learn that at this point in time, the Playstation 3 is a terrible console compared to the Xbox 360. Do you cows ever stop to think that maybe all these negative reviews are BECAUSE THE CONSOLE JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH?DustAmulet

*sigh* When will the cows learn that at this point in time, the Playstation 3 is a terrible console compared to the Xbox 360. Do you cows ever stop to think that maybe all these negative reviews are BECAUSE THE CONSOLE JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH?DustAmulet

"Sigh"....When will the ignorant PS3 bashing cease? After all, the system has only been out 4 months, and at least it does not break everytime you look at it the wrong way. By the way, I own a 360 AND a PS3 and both are great consoles for what they each respectively offer. The PS3 is only going to get better and better, and to deny it's potential with such a closed minded view point only shows blind ignorance.

[QUOTE="DustAmulet"]*sigh* When will the cows learn that at this point in time, the Playstation 3 is a terrible console compared to the Xbox 360. Do you cows ever stop to think that maybe all these negative reviews are BECAUSE THE CONSOLE JUST ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH?ironcreed

"Sigh"....When will the ignorant PS3 bashing cease? After all, the system has only been out 4 months, and at least it does not break everytime you look at it the wrong way. By the way, I own a 360 AND a PS3 and both are great consoles for what they each respectively offer. The PS3 is only going to get better and better, and to deny it's potential with such a closed minded view point only shows blind ignorance.

[QUOTE="KeyWii"]http://www.gamespot.com/features/6167180/index.html?tag=topslot;title;1&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslotsquallff8_fan

Yeah I take it from alot of the reviews they did on the ps3, that they are not really into the ps3. I mean come on with Virtual Fighter getting an 8.1 that was a reasonable score because it didnt have online, but motorstorm 7.9? And it had single player and online features, I mean yes there was no split screen but isnt online a more wanted feature for next gen games? That was a low blow score there, I mean these developers spend soo much hard work on these games and as a owner of motorstorm I am in love with this game and even my cousin comes over to play online because he owns a xbox 360 but is amazed at how motorstorm just sucks u into the game. I give motorstorm a 8.8 rating, and the only reason why I down graded it was because of the split screen feature and no rumble. Everything else on this game is solid. I cant wait until the next one.