On the front of the Playstation store in San Francisco there's two signs that say "LIMITED EDITION" PS3's. 40GB with Spiderman 3 in Blu-Ray and the 80GB with Motostorm. They're going to come out with something different.

I downloaded an Eyetoy program from the Playstation site. The download was pretty quick, but it suddenly it did something that I've never seen the PS3 do after the download was completed. It actually loaded the program automatically! Wow!

All their downloads should work that way so all their demos and games are ready to play right after the download. Microsoft's Xbox 360 allows the user to download a program while playing a game (even online games!). During the game (even online games!) a little box pops up that says that the download is complete. When you go to the downloaded program it's ready to play. No sitting around waiting for the thing to load. I found out, the hard way, that the PS3 halts the downloads when you're playing a game. It only continues when you leave the game. How inefficient.

Anyway, I hope Sony continues the process of having the program load onto the hard drive automatically after the download is completed. It would really help when you have a dozen downloads you left on at night to come to the PS3 in the morning to find that you can jump right into whatever you just downloaded instead of having to load each program onto the hard drive. That was something that could have been done while you slept.

This is all lies and speculation. The PS3 will drop in price again as all consoles do but it won't be at least until this christmas and it will probably be a $50 not a $100 drop. Sony has just started to breakeven with the most recent price drop. They're not going to drop it again. It's not the same price as an xbox elite. They don't need to drop it it's selling great.REALJohnnyRebel

Frankly, I think there will be an uprising of angry consumers if Sony were to drop the price of the PS3 even $50 a month or two after Christmas. We would have people that just purchased the system, thinking they got the best deal they could get and suddenly the price dropped. Anger would set in and people will surely rebel against the company. Look at what happen to Apple with the iPhone. Granted that was a $200 drop in price, but still, a drop only 2 months after coming out causes some irritation, to say the least.

Yes, the price of the PS3 will drop, but probably not in January or February.

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I'm not going to defend Sony on this one. Maybe you guys don't like BC or would rather have two PlayStation products taking up desk space, but I don't. I love playing the old games from the PS store and popping in a PS2 game once in a while. It's honestly giving me something to do while I wait for new stuff to come out.

My PS2 is gone and next generation I don't want one console just for old games.

Travis281

I take it you don't play Guitar Hero 1, 2, Rock the 80's. If you did then you'd keep your PS2 hooked up. I have an 80GB PS3 and still keep the PS2 hooked up to play those games.

Yeah you go me there. I don't play those three games. Other than those three however, it makes sense for Sony to continue supporting BC. If Sony wants their machine to be the all-in-one magic machine they intended, they should allow me to play old-gen games.

To tell you the truth, I was just talking with a couple people about BC and I actually feel that Sony did themselves a disfavor by offering BC. I think they should have done with Microsoft did with the Xbox 360 and just cut the system at the knees, remove the PS2 from market and go forward. If they did that I think we would have started seeing a lot more games come out at a faster rate than we're currently seeing. A lot of people complained with Microsoft didn't make the Xbox360 backward compatible, but do you think they're complaining today? I was at Circuit City staring at the entire wall full of Xbox 360 games. I saw another wall filled with Nintendo Wii and DS games. I then looked at the 3/4 filled wall of PS2 games and finally the PS3 games that filled up not more than 4 game boxes side by side. Pathetic.

As it stands a lot of people are just buying more PS2's and not PS3's. Just look at the sales from Christmas. PS2 sales are still outrageously high. Sure Sony is making essentially free money since the unit prices have got to be pretty low, but on the other hand it's hurting sales of the machines that really matter, the PS3.

So, should the future PS3's and future systems be backward compatible (PS4 backward to everything before it)? In my opinion, no.

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[QUOTE="gregdrapes"]unles you have an HDTV i would be incredibly suprised if your tv can even accept HDMI. Even if it did, it would make no difference to the picure quality.LtColJaxson

Are you kidding? HDMI looks incredibly good compared to component. I have component on my front screen projector and I thought it looked great. I just hooked up HDMI and suddenly everything looked sharp and the colors were all perfect. The picture is similar to what I got with DVI when I hooked it up to my computer. There was no smearing like component and composite give. I say, go HDMI. You'll never go back.

His TV only supports 480i and 480p he said. So at those resolutions, standard, there would be no difference between HDMI and component.

I seriously doubt that the TV can even support HDMI.

Just stay with your composite cables, but get a component if your TV does in fact support 480p. It will give slightly better picture. But in your case, HDMI IS NOT WORTH IT!

If he has a port for HDMI on his 480i/p television, go with HDMI. HDMI IS worth every penny. However, get the cables online at an online place. I got mine at cablesforless.com. Others like monoprice.com, so it's up to you where you get it. If you think component is perfect then explain why all electronic companies are using HDMI instead of component? Is it just because they like one cable instead of 3? No, it's because, as one person pointed out, it's a pure digital signal. There are no conversions to analog taking place. It's a pure picture, plain and simple. A good example is HDTV. Get a non-HDTV tuner, stick a couple rabbit ear antennas on it. Pull in the strongest signal you can get. The picture will look extraordinarily sharp. Now get a HDTV tuner, stick some rabbit ears on it and pull in the weakest (you read correctly) signal you can get. The picture will outshine that analog signal by the largest of large margins. Why? Because it's digital. It's either on or off. There's no inbetween. It's either good or not. With analog there's that gray area of almost good, but there's snow, or a shadow, or ghost, or something. Will he see a difference on his 480i/p television? If it's a good television, most definitely. If you can have a pure digital signal then do it.

I recently bought the 80gb ps3 bundle (Motorstorm edition, with "5 free blue-ray movies" rebate), and am having regrets upon learning Japan is releasing a 160gb version (worldwide in a few months), which will come with dualshock 3 and a choice in platform color (black, silver). This is depressing me because I also know many great games will also be released in a few months, around the time of the 160gb ps3 release. I know it will cost more, and I know I can buy a hard drive for $100 to make up for the extra 80gb, but the proposed 160gb deal just seems like the right deal for me.

Also, I have already sent in the barcode on my box (preventing returning) to aquire my blue-rays.

Is there anyone out there that can bring light to any ideas on how I could get this 160gb in a few months, without just buying a whole new one (some sort of a deal with my 80gb)?

If not, is there anyone out there that can tell me something that will make me feel better about this whole thing and my 80gb?

Also, if there is anyone out there like me, list your regrets or non-regrets that you have.

heath911

When you run out of 80GB then start crying. I think you're fine. Truthfully, I've yet to even dent my 80GB hard drive.

I'm not going to defend Sony on this one. Maybe you guys don't like BC or would rather have two PlayStation products taking up desk space, but I don't. I love playing the old games from the PS store and popping in a PS2 game once in a while. It's honestly giving me something to do while I wait for new stuff to come out.

My PS2 is gone and next generation I don't want one console just for old games.

Travis281

I take it you don't play Guitar Hero 1, 2, Rock the 80's. If you did then you'd keep your PS2 hooked up. I have an 80GB PS3 and still keep the PS2 hooked up to play those games.

unles you have an HDTV i would be incredibly suprised if your tv can even accept HDMI. Even if it did, it would make no difference to the picure quality.gregdrapes

Are you kidding? HDMI looks incredibly good compared to component. I have component on my front screen projector and I thought it looked great. I just hooked up HDMI and suddenly everything looked sharp and the colors were all perfect. The picture is similar to what I got with DVI when I hooked it up to my computer. There was no smearing like component and composite give. I say, go HDMI. You'll never go back.