> -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:37 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: E3 Press Conference Impressions: Part 3, Sony > > Sony totally did not impress me with what I saw on the various sites. > > There was nothing from them that was truly standout as a must have PS3 > title.
I honestly can't see how anybody couldn't consider "Little Big Planet" a "must have title". > Now compare that with Microsoft. Mass Effect exclusive looking great, > GTA with special 360 content, PGR4. Fable 2 360 exclusive, Ace Combat > 6 360 exclusive. I mean even bloody Metal Gear might be available on > the 360 as well! How is this a comparison? Clearly your tastes are better served by the 360 at this point but how does that detract from the, by any account, equally impressive PS3 exclusives? Mass Effect does look great, as does BioShock - but dark gritty shooters are going to be a dime a dozen on either of the consoles. "Killzone 2" looks great as does "Infamous" - but honestly none of those titles interest me all that much. "Ratchet and Clank", "Lair", "Heavenly Sword" and "Drake's Fortune" are all much more my kind of games - adventure games. For me the PS3 is serving me much, much better than the 360 at this point. You mention Fable for the 360 but fail to mention Folklore for the PS3. I've never liked racing games but setting your jaw against GT5 from the incredibly little shown at E3 seems premature at best. > After the PS3 launch I don't trust any marketing material that sony > puts out whatsover. Until the actual game appears on review sites, as > far as I am concerned everything Sony says is a pre-rendered lie. Sorry kid - this is just myopic. You're picking on one instance (let's be honest: Killzone 2) which was definitely a black eye for Sony but far from unique in the industry. If you don't want to deal with Bullshots you should get out of this hobby. It's even more myopic since Sony really seems to have taken the criticism to heart. This year's show was open and much more honest. Nearly all the games shown were gameplay footage. > I think the PS3 is just totally underachieving. The PSP is > simply....not relevant anymore. A slimmer design, overclocked, more > Ram whatever is just not relevant. It just annoys me when people talk about the PSP as a failure. This can only be said in comparison to the unusually great success of the DS and even then it's not a failure. The DS has sold over 70 million units: and well done for them. We've got two of them here. But the PSP has sold nearly half that... how is 35 million units a failure? How does a 35 million-strong user base make a system "irrelevant"? It's horrible to accept a position in this industry that there can't be multiple successes in the same space. The DS is the clear "winner" but that doesn't mean the PSP is a loser. > I'm still waiting on the PS3 to WOW me. The PSP just...it never did > and I'm really done waiting now ^_^. The DS just beats it in all ways > except graphics. The PSP isn't for everybody but your statement isn't really fair. What did you want from the PSP? It was always designed to make portable the home console experience - how did it not do that for you? Games like "Daxter", "TokoBot", "I Love Katamari" and "Grand Theft Auto" are just as compelling and as high quality on the PSP as they are the PS2. Games like "LocoRoco", "Crush" and "Lumines" are innovative and addictive. It's also suprising because the very style of gaming you seem to enjoy on the 360 is well served by the PSP. "Killzone", "Burnout", "Metal Gear Solid", "Syphon Filter", "SoCom" are all available and of remarkably high quality on the PSP. I'm not saying that this detracts from the DS in any way: I feel very strongly that the two systems meet very different needs. As for the PS3 - yes, it's been a slow burn. A very slow burn. I've still only purchased "Resistance" (which is an incredibly good game - I liked it even more than "Gears of War" and I loved "Gears of War"). I don't like sports or racing - genres more than ably served on the PS3. I like adventure games and they're finally coming. I still don't see how ANYBODY can watch the Little Big Planet movies and not be wowed. Sure you may not be wowed enough to spend $500 but still - you're not impressed by that? This is truly the game that will define the PS3 if not this entire generation of gaming. Home has also been very impressive. Again, perhaps not enough to buy a PS3 but give credit where credit is due. If nothing shown so far "wows" you then what does? What on the 360 has wowed you where these don't? Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:238436 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
