The PS3 is Overpriced, lacking JRPGs and Platformers, and still WAITING

I've been told to ]JUST WAIT with the PS3 since it came out. I've been told that the PS3 will have good games in early 2007, in late 2007, in early 2008, around now, and now it's 2009 (and even 2010!?!?!? for Final Fantasy) will be the date when the PS3 is ready. Oh wait, supposedly the PS3 will also come down in price since... late 2007. The Xbox 360 is now about $100 cheaper and the PS2 is down to $129 ( a $20 drop) and even the Wii is at least easier to get a hold of now, and the PS3 is still at the same base price as before, except the crappy "Basic" model is no more and now you get all the features for the LOW LOW price of $500 bucks. WTF? The Wii and the base 360 are half that.

 You can get a decent gaming PC for $700, and that'll be a whole PC... and a reasonable graphics card upgrade and RAM upgrade ($150-200) every 2 years and a CPU upgrade at 3  years($75-100) will keep it nice and mid-range for around 4-6 years. So why  would anyone spend just $200 less for something that only plays games and watches movies, which you can already do with your DVD player?

About Blu-Ray: It sucks. DVD's look great on HD. They look wonderful. Unless you have some 65"+ screen that you sit right next to, it'll be fine. There's a million more movies in DVD format, they're cheaper, there's more other stuff, and you know that everyone else can watch your DVDs and that you can watch theirs.For some people, like with a big HD setup with high-end TVs that cost $1700+ and sound systems that are $200+, Blu-Ray might be a good idea iftheir cable doesn't have enough HD already. But for the average PS3 buyer, there is no way Blu-Ray is worth the $200 or more extra the PS3 costs, especially when the games are arguably better on other platforms, like PC and 360.

As for games... Where are the platformers? Where are the Casual games? Where is the 360 Arcade/WiiWare equivalents? PSN is wimpy, and the Platformers and other common genres, like Racing, third-person AA, horror, etc. And where's those cottage adventure games that are all the rage now? 

 Those are the traditional console strongholds, especially platforming, TPAction, horror, and fighting games. I don't see very many good ones on the PS3, which means you might as well buy a PC, which has plenty of the rest, like WRPGs, MMO, FPS, Grand Theft Auto, Action, etc.

And where are the JRPGS and turn-based strategies? Another console stronghold, usually found more on Nintendo and especially Sony systems, and less on the Xbox line, which tends towards action games.  But I don't see many good ones on the PS3. The PS2 and PS1 were king of JRPGS. I think the makers of Final Fantasy and other large series have too much ego. A series needs more than one game per system when a sytem's lifetime is like 5 year. That's why FF had 2 or more games on each of the past two systems, plus spinoffs. What happened? Now we still don't have Final FantastyPS3 and when we do it may well be the system's later period, when manufacturers are considering the PS4.

umm...Ratchet and valryia say hi?

There  are also SO MUCH FAIL! in this topic

The PS3 is actually pretty good and it's dominating the 360 this year. I'm actually njoying it more than I enojyed my 360. 2009 onwards is looking pretty pathetic for the system though. I might sell it and buy a PSPMarloStanfield

The PS3 is not overpriced. It's just more expensive compared to the cheapest 360 model.

JRPGS, we have Valkryia Chronicles and White Knight Chronicles on the way. Besides that the PS3 is indeed lacking in JRPGS.

Ratchet and Clank and LBP are considered good plaformers.

There is still a good range of games for PS3.

2008 was very hot for the Playstation and 2009 seems to be too. With God of War, Killzone, a Team ICO game supposedly in the works, there is a lot for PS3. Yes, the PS3 has always been telling us to "Wait" for the future, but the future is here and there is a lot to like with the PS3.

Infamous, GT5, Gow III, White Knight Chronicles, Killzone2 etc Look pathetic to you?AgentA-Mi6

I smell a 2007 topic.Ragnarok1051

The ONLY problem...And I mean...THE ONLY PROBLEM with PS3 is the price. I would have had one from launch if it werent so pricey. I wont be able to get one at all probably. Its just too much $$$FunkyHeadHunter

[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"]I smell a 2007 topic.MarloStanfield

[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"]I smell a 2007 topic.MarloStanfield

[QUOTE="AgentA-Mi6"]Infamous, GT5, Gow III, White Knight Chronicles, Killzone2 etc Look pathetic to you?MarloStanfield

It will, Sony want it as their big game of next year's holiday season. Absolutely no way it won't be coming out in 2009.

The 360 is lacking in JRPGs and platformers too though, unfortunately. Skittles_McGee

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]The 360 is lacking in JRPGs and platformers too though, unfortunately. MarloStanfield

The ps3 has two R & C games, Uncharted which has platforming elements in it, and LBP which is AAA how many AAA platformers does the 360 have?

 It also has about as many JRPGS that the 360 given about 1 or two titles, TOV is being ported, LR being ported, Eternal Sonata was recently ported, Disagea, folklore and has more on the horizon with games like WKC, and FF 13 versus. 

 And price is only a relative issue, Sony has the right to charge whatever they want and something is only "overpriced" for those who can't afford it.

Sony has delivered 2 AAA games and a AAAA exclusive game this year, as well as another AAAA and many other AAA games if your needing more then that then how are you satisfied with any console?

Sounds to me like your waiting for a miracle and if that's what your wanting then yes, the PS3 is not for you.

When sony said Play beyond they really werent joking :lol:Gh0st_Of_0nyx

There are good games, i've been playing them. For example, MGS4, LBP, Resistance 1&2, Motorstorm 1&2, GT5: Prologue, Uncharted (horribly underrated), COD4, Oblivion, DiRT, Burnout Paradise, GTA IV, PixelJunk Monsters, flOw, Super Stardust HD, Assassins Creed, Fight Night Round 3, Far Cry 2, do I need to go on? It's insane to say the PS3 doesn't have good games when there's plenty to choose from.

Also, your prices are wrong. The price for a PS3 is $400, not $500. Plus, lets think about it for a second. You're getting a console that not only has blu ray (which if you have an HDTV you're going to want one), but also a console that comes equipped with bluetooth technology, HDMI 1.3, and you can swap out any 2.5" hard drive of your choice! And did I mention it doesn't have the failure rate the 360 does? To get a good gaming PC you will probably spend a total of $1000 ($700 if you want a crappy one with a tiny monitor), $600 over a PS3. On top of that, if you have to spend $150 every two years for RAM upgrades and $100 for a CPU upgrade that's like buying a PS3 every 3 years, so after three years you're now up to $1400 instead of $1000. And you're going to sit here and say the PS3 is expensive? Also, do you want a PC to game with when it gets all the games later? Where's GTA IV? Or even better, PC's usually miss the biggest games of the year. No MGS4, No Gears 2, No LBP, the list goes on. Heck, how come you aren't arguing the PC is lacking games? The PC only has Warcraft and Crysis to brag about. And do you even know you can put a different OS on the PS3 to turn it into a computer? Some Universities even use PS3's as small super computers.

The PS3 doesn't have casual games? Have you played flow, pixeljunk monsters, Lbp, Pain, that bowling game? No you haven't. Have you played Super Stardust or PixelJunk Eden? Highly Doubt it. How is the PSN wimpy when you can download Burnout Paradise or Gran Turismo 5 Prologue? The PSN also has a video store and home and most games work just fine playing over the net.

Lastly, as I said earlier, your blu ray argument is completely untrue and only proves you don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps if you owned a PS3, HDTV, DVD's and Blu Ray movies you'd know that dvd's look horrible compared to Blu Ray movies, it's not even close. Most of your reasoning lacks common sense and apparently you haven't done the math either. The PS3 is expensive yet you think buying a PC for over double the price is ok, you say the PS3 has no games but the PC is missing most of this year's biggest titles, and why buy what you call a "midrange PC" that won't let you max out your graphics and get everything out of the game you just bought? 

There are good games, i've been playing them. For example, MGS4, LBP, Resistance 1&2, Motorstorm 1&2, GT5: Prologue, Uncharted (horribly underrated), COD4, Oblivion, DiRT, Burnout Paradise, GTA IV, PixelJunk Monsters, flOw, Super Stardust HD, Assassins Creed, Fight Night Round 3, Far Cry 2, do I need to go on? It's insane to say the PS3 doesn't have good games when there's plenty to choose from. Also, your prices are wrong. The price for a PS3 is $400, not $500. Plus, lets think about it for a second. You're getting a console that not only has blu ray (which if you have an HDTV you're going to want one), a console that comes equipped with bluetooth technology, HDMI 1.3, and you can swap out any 2.5" hard drive of your choice! And did I mention it doesn't have the failure rate the 360 does? To get a good gaming PC you will probably spend a total of $1000, $600 over a PS3. On top of that, if you have to spend $150 every two years for RAM upgrades and $100 for a CPU upgrade that's like buying a PS3 every 3 years, so after three years you're now up to $1400 instead of $1000. And you're going to sit here and say the PS3 is expensive? Also, do you want a PC to game with when it gets all the games later? Where's GTA IV? Or even better, PC's usually miss the biggest games of the year. No MGS4, No Gears 2, No LBP, the list goes on. Heck, how come you aren't arguing the PC is lacking games? The PC only has Warcraft and Crysis to brag about. And do you even know you can put a different OS on the PS3 to turn it into a computer? Some Universities even use PS3's as small super computers. The PS3 doesn't have casual games? Have you played flow, pixeljunk monsters, Lbp, no you haven't. Have you played Super Stardust or PixelJunk Eden? How is the PSN wimpy when you can download Burnout Paradise or Gran Turismo 5 Prologue? The PSN also has a video store and home. Lastly, as I said earlier, your blu ray argument is completely untrue and only proves you don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps if you owned a PS3, HDTV, DVD's and Blu Ray movies you'd know that dvd's look horrible compared to Blu Ray movies, it's not even close. Most of your reasoning lacks common sense and apparently you haven't done the math either. The PS3 is expensive yet you think buying a PC for over double the price is ok, you say the PS3 has no games but the PC is missing most of this year's biggest titles, and why buy what you call a "midrange PC" that won't let you max out your graphics and get everything out of the game you just bought?Jrfanfreak88

Everything this fella said is correct. I got a PS3, so am I gonna let it sit there and do nothing? No, I am gonna go out and buy games for it and enjoy myself. Ranging from Uncharted to Ratchet to Resistance to Assassins Creed, Fight Night, Midnight Club, GTA 4, MGS 4, Motorstorm,Fallout 3, DMC 4, Force Unleashed, NBA 2K9, and PSN games such as Siren, Wipeout, Gran Turismo 5. There is also a lot more than I cant mention in this post alone. Not to mention the upcoming games such as Killzone 2, Batman, RE 5, GOW 3, Uncharted 2, and much more, how can you say the PS3 has no games?

The PS3 just plays Blu Ray as a bouns and it is a darn good bonus.

[QUOTE="Jrfanfreak88"]There are good games, i've been playing them. For example, MGS4, LBP, Resistance 1&2, Motorstorm 1&2, GT5: Prologue, Uncharted (horribly underrated), COD4, Oblivion, DiRT, Burnout Paradise, GTA IV, PixelJunk Monsters, flOw, Super Stardust HD, Assassins Creed, Fight Night Round 3, Far Cry 2, do I need to go on? It's insane to say the PS3 doesn't have good games when there's plenty to choose from. Also, your prices are wrong. The price for a PS3 is $400, not $500. Plus, lets think about it for a second. You're getting a console that not only has blu ray (which if you have an HDTV you're going to want one), a console that comes equipped with bluetooth technology, HDMI 1.3, and you can swap out any 2.5" hard drive of your choice! And did I mention it doesn't have the failure rate the 360 does? To get a good gaming PC you will probably spend a total of $1000, $600 over a PS3. On top of that, if you have to spend $150 every two years for RAM upgrades and $100 for a CPU upgrade that's like buying a PS3 every 3 years, so after three years you're now up to $1400 instead of $1000. And you're going to sit here and say the PS3 is expensive? Also, do you want a PC to game with when it gets all the games later? Where's GTA IV? Or even better, PC's usually miss the biggest games of the year. No MGS4, No Gears 2, No LBP, the list goes on. Heck, how come you aren't arguing the PC is lacking games? The PC only has Warcraft and Crysis to brag about. And do you even know you can put a different OS on the PS3 to turn it into a computer? Some Universities even use PS3's as small super computers. The PS3 doesn't have casual games? Have you played flow, pixeljunk monsters, Lbp, no you haven't. Have you played Super Stardust or PixelJunk Eden? How is the PSN wimpy when you can download Burnout Paradise or Gran Turismo 5 Prologue? The PSN also has a video store and home. Lastly, as I said earlier, your blu ray argument is completely untrue and only proves you don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps if you owned a PS3, HDTV, DVD's and Blu Ray movies you'd know that dvd's look horrible compared to Blu Ray movies, it's not even close. Most of your reasoning lacks common sense and apparently you haven't done the math either. The PS3 is expensive yet you think buying a PC for over double the price is ok, you say the PS3 has no games but the PC is missing most of this year's biggest titles, and why buy what you call a "midrange PC" that won't let you max out your graphics and get everything out of the game you just bought?Ninten007

Everything this fella said is correct. I got a PS3, so am I gonna let it sit there and do nothing? No, I am gonna go out and buy games for it and enjoy myself. Ranging from Uncharted to Ratchet to Resistance to Assassins Creed, Fight Night, Midnight Club, GTA 4, MGS 4, Motorstorm,Fallout 3, DMC 4, Force Unleashed, NBA 2K9, and PSN games such as Siren, Wipeout, Gran Turismo 5. There is also a lot more than I cant mention in this post alone. Not to mention the upcoming games such as Killzone 2, Batman, RE 5, GOW 3, Uncharted 2, and much more, how can you say the PS3 has no games?

The PS3 just plays Blu Ray as a bouns and it is a darn good bonus.

[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"]I smell a 2007 topic.MarloStanfield

ALL of the consoles are lacking GOOD platformers and JRPG's. But at least the PS3 has mainly quality ones that have been released. LBP, PixelJunk Eden, Disgaea 3, and Valkyria Chronicles have all been awesome and have kept me satisfied. I'd rather have that than whatever the 360 or Wii have tried to pass off as platformers this year and excluding Tales of Vespiria, JRPG's.

I've been told to ]JUST WAIT with the PS3 since it came out. I've been told that the PS3 will have good games in early 2007, in late 2007, in early 2008, around now, and now it's 2009 (and even 2010!?!?!? for Final Fantasy) will be the date when the PS3 is ready. Oh wait, supposedly the PS3 will also come down in price since... late 2007. The Xbox 360 is now about $100 cheaper and the PS2 is down to $129 ( a $20 drop) and even the Wii is at least easier to get a hold of now, and the PS3 is still at the same base price as before, except the crappy "Basic" model is no more and now you get all the features for the LOW LOW price of $500 bucks. WTF? The Wii and the base 360 are half that.

 You can get a decent gaming PC for $700, and that'll be a whole PC... and a reasonable graphics card upgrade and RAM upgrade ($150-200) every 2 years and a CPU upgrade at 3  years($75-100) will keep it nice and mid-range for around 4-6 years. So why  would anyone spend just $200 less for something that only plays games and watches movies, which you can already do with your DVD player?

About Blu-Ray: It sucks. DVD's look great on HD. They look wonderful. Unless you have some 65"+ screen that you sit right next to, it'll be fine. There's a million more movies in DVD format, they're cheaper, there's more other stuff, and you know that everyone else can watch your DVDs and that you can watch theirs.For some people, like with a big HD setup with high-end TVs that cost $1700+ and sound systems that are $200+, Blu-Ray might be a good idea iftheir cable doesn't have enough HD already. But for the average PS3 buyer, there is no way Blu-Ray is worth the $200 or more extra the PS3 costs, especially when the games are arguably better on other platforms, like PC and 360.

As for games... Where are the platformers? Where are the Casual games? Where is the 360 Arcade/WiiWare equivalents? PSN is wimpy, and the Platformers and other common genres, like Racing, third-person AA, horror, etc. And where's those cottage adventure games that are all the rage now? 

 Those are the traditional console strongholds, especially platforming, TPAction, horror, and fighting games. I don't see very many good ones on the PS3, which means you might as well buy a PC, which has plenty of the rest, like WRPGs, MMO, FPS, Grand Theft Auto, Action, etc.

And where are the JRPGS and turn-based strategies? Another console stronghold, usually found more on Nintendo and especially Sony systems, and less on the Xbox line, which tends towards action games.  But I don't see many good ones on the PS3. The PS2 and PS1 were king of JRPGS. I think the makers of Final Fantasy and other large series have too much ego. A series needs more than one game per system when a sytem's lifetime is like 5 year. That's why FF had 2 or more games on each of the past two systems, plus spinoffs. What happened? Now we still don't have Final FantastyPS3 and when we do it may well be the system's later period, when manufacturers are considering the PS4.

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[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]The 360 is lacking in JRPGs and platformers too though, unfortunately. MarloStanfield

[QUOTE="MarloStanfield"][QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"]The 360 is lacking in JRPGs and platformers too though, unfortunately. SiKh22

[QUOTE="AgentA-Mi6"]Infamous, GT5, Gow III, White Knight Chronicles, Killzone2 etc Look pathetic to you?MarloStanfield

 fanboy BEGONE

The PS3 is actually pretty good and it's dominating the 360 this year. I'm actually njoying it more than I enojyed my 360. 2009 onwards is looking pretty pathetic for the system though. I might sell it and buy a PSPMarloStanfield

When sony said Play beyond they really werent joking :lol:Gh0st_Of_0nyx

[QUOTE="SiKh22"][QUOTE="MarloStanfield"] :( so true. That's the nature of this gen I supposelawlessx

I've been told to ]JUST WAIT with the PS3 since it came out. I've been told that the PS3 will have good games in early 2007, in late 2007, in early 2008, around now, and now it's 2009 (and even 2010!?!?!? for Final Fantasy) will be the date when the PS3 is ready. Oh wait, supposedly the PS3 will also come down in price since... late 2007. The Xbox 360 is now about $100 cheaper and the PS2 is down to $129 ( a $20 drop) and even the Wii is at least easier to get a hold of now, and the PS3 is still at the same base price as before, except the crappy "Basic" model is no more and now you get all the features for the LOW LOW price of $500 bucks. WTF? The Wii and the base 360 are half that.

 You can get a decent gaming PC for $700, and that'll be a whole PC... and a reasonable graphics card upgrade and RAM upgrade ($150-200) every 2 years and a CPU upgrade at 3  years($75-100) will keep it nice and mid-range for around 4-6 years. So why  would anyone spend just $200 less for something that only plays games and watches movies, which you can already do with your DVD player?

About Blu-Ray: It sucks. DVD's look great on HD. They look wonderful. Unless you have some 65"+ screen that you sit right next to, it'll be fine. There's a million more movies in DVD format, they're cheaper, there's more other stuff, and you know that everyone else can watch your DVDs and that you can watch theirs.For some people, like with a big HD setup with high-end TVs that cost $1700+ and sound systems that are $200+, Blu-Ray might be a good idea iftheir cable doesn't have enough HD already. But for the average PS3 buyer, there is no way Blu-Ray is worth the $200 or more extra the PS3 costs, especially when the games are arguably better on other platforms, like PC and 360.

As for games... Where are the platformers? Where are the Casual games? Where is the 360 Arcade/WiiWare equivalents? PSN is wimpy, and the Platformers and other common genres, like Racing, third-person AA, horror, etc. And where's those cottage adventure games that are all the rage now? 

 Those are the traditional console strongholds, especially platforming, TPAction, horror, and fighting games. I don't see very many good ones on the PS3, which means you might as well buy a PC, which has plenty of the rest, like WRPGs, MMO, FPS, Grand Theft Auto, Action, etc.

And where are the JRPGS and turn-based strategies? Another console stronghold, usually found more on Nintendo and especially Sony systems, and less on the Xbox line, which tends towards action games.  But I don't see many good ones on the PS3. The PS2 and PS1 were king of JRPGS. I think the makers of Final Fantasy and other large series have too much ego. A series needs more than one game per system when a sytem's lifetime is like 5 year. That's why FF had 2 or more games on each of the past two systems, plus spinoffs. What happened? Now we still don't have Final FantastyPS3 and when we do it may well be the system's later period, when manufacturers are considering the PS4.

I smell a 2007 topic.Ragnarok1051