"Fanboy-driven fervor with no substance.
A rumored new PlayStation 3 form factor that could well be on the horizon...But why..people seem to be so excited about this as-yet-unseen console? After all, the PS3..has lagged far behind its competitors.
Even when the video game industry was still roaring...the PS3..badly trailed both the Wii and Xbox. Yet by all measures, Sony has come up short with the PS3.
So why all the enthusiasm?
"The only real (reason) I can (think of) is 'fandom' or 'fan-boy-ness"..hopes it will help Sony pull out of third place in the console race..For others..something smaller, and possibly cooler--current PS3s run pretty warm."
..slow sales aside..this may be Sony's chance to catch up...For me, it doesn't make sense. To be sure, I'm not one of the partisans, but I just can't help thinking that even a newer, slimmer PS3 is still going to..be more expensive than its rivals, and have a games library which...is generally seen as less impressive than what's available for Xbox.
And clearly, I'm not the only one who feels this way.
"I think it's an overblown waste of time"..until we know, it's just rumors and speculation to torment the fanboy mind."
Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.
From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
I think the author is dead-on-the money.
I've said many times -- and heard it oft repeated -- that the ps3 slim is just a non-issue frankly.
Sony must start a price war to jump start it's install base -- just as Activision warned -- unless they do not, they will continue to languish and fail in distant 3rd.
I expect a $230-$260 PS3 by January - slim or not, things arent looking good for PS3 (PS3 sales are in freefall and titles are not earning sales).
I know this will bristle the feathers of a loyalist crowd at N4G, but please, consider this soberly before you hit disagree or nail bubbles, their isnt much good news for Sony's distant 3rd console in some time.
The PS3 had a bad start, a brief recovery and now a long steady decline. The PS3 slim - unless it is all-but "Dumped" at a super low price point, isnt going to make any dent.
And, as Carmack said, I fully expect the PS4 to hit market first for Sony to quickly try and end this gen.
"After all, the PS3..has lagged far behind its competitors. "
More bull from CNET, pretty much neck and neck with its competitor since it launched.
Yay, great more PS3 slim articles.
this is some pretty biased stuff.
I own both consoles but xbox library is not impressive over ps3's at all.
the only thing i like more about the xbox library is the rpgs.
But i still play my ps2 rpgs more then any system.
I'm not saying the xbox's library is lackluster just saying its not better then ps3's.
I still love gears of war and all. just sayin.
how is 8 million behind a distant 3rd?.
PS3 fanboys are not the ones bringing up all these rumors. Its the media/industry/gamers.
I know Cnet is biased but this is downright stupid.