^^^^^A jealous PS3 fanboy says these things because his fanboy heart was crushed when he heard that Kojima will be building the TRUE next gen (and not sub HD) Metal Gear Solid experience in a multiplatform game ;)
What Sony did was raise the bar for gamer's expectations. Before they entered with the first PlayStation gamers didn't really expect much other than what was tried and true. "Legitimize" wouldn't fit so well as "modernize" to be honest.
My biggest gripe with Sony however has been that they got pigheaded enough to think that they needed to build a $600 console. PS3 to me will always represent when Sony shot itself in the foot. Coming off the suc...
...it's just that there wasn't really any reason to own it. Google's Android basically already took that long and uncertain road towards mainstream and frankly I'm not sure consumers are ready to do it all over again and wait for another device to hit its stride. And of course Kin is more than just Windows Mobile, it's a phone built for quite a specific audience.
An audience who breathes one of two words right now, Android or iPhone.
A common fanboy mistake is to take the small sample and apply it to the whole. Microsoft took a $1 billion in losses for warranty claims having to do with red ring errors and warranty replacements, but in the end it didn't actually cost them anywhere near that. Plus there will be those bogus claims made by guys who like to abuse warranties and customer service reps.
Articles such as these help keep the weak-minded fanboys at war.
When your console messes up within the first 30 days of buying it, take it back to Walmart/Best Buy/Amazon/etc. After that you have the manufacturer's warranty, up until 1 year on damn near 99% of electronics. These are not hand assembled machines; they are machine assembled and will always carry a defect ratio no matter what. For the sake of market saturation and meeting consumer demand EVERY ELECTRONIC IS ...
Yeah, PS3 fanboys really overhype the console's capabilities. Honestly thought they're both neck n neck, but PS3 fanboys would have none of that. They still believe bluray actually makes games look better LOL.
So...Kojima did what he could with PS3 and MGS4 was the result. Now that he's got better hardware to work with it'll benefit PS3 owners since they'll finally get an HD Metal Gear Solid title.
Go Xbox 360!
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We're in agreement there, but a game like Just Cause easily trumps MGS 4 in content...even in its demo there was literally WAY too much to do, and it was only 1.1 GB
I remember playing the first 2 games back on PlayStation. It was good fun back then and today we have games like Split/Second and Burnout Paradise that might not have the heavy firepower but sure do have the crashes.
Hm... I remember Full Auto on Xbox 360 too, that game was pretty cool.
All the PS3 fanboys are here to talk about how to make Xbox fans' console better. Well we're fans of why its not a PS3, so you guys should buy a PS3 if that's what you want.
How to make this new experience better?
Kinect enabled crime/forensic thriller game. Take Condemned and see how that would work.
It would be like Heavy Rain...but cool instead of lame.
A 9/10...for being launched in 2005, duh! Every console looked its best when it first came out.
You say Sony offered it from the beginning, but that was at $600. Sony has admitted that launching PS3 so expensive and including "non essential" features was a mistake for them, proof being that they gave into demands for a slim PS3.
The PS2 slim came out in 2004...four years after the original, and another subsequent redesign in 2007. They raped the console a good four years (and the first 2 years of PS3's life) before DECIDING to make the slim. A $300 CONSOLE...
Damn...already bought a new Arcade last month, but this is one good deal. Does anybody see the old memory card slots?
That game was one of my favorites on PSP.
Hopefully it's a non-sub HD Metal Gear game...
I have a copy of the game, runs smooth and looks beautiful on my 1080p HDTV. The only exception to me are the CG movies, they did suffer from inferior codecs.
Yeah its the compression. The video files could've benefited from more modern and sophisticated codecs, like hell even Microsoft's superb WMV HD codecs. The game looks better in-game than in CG I'm afraid.
But honestly it's just a few tv calibrations away from being barely unnoticeable. Just sit back...that's what wifi controllers are for :-D
XIII is a great game dude. And having no towns has nothing to do with DVD space and much more to do with how you have to fill 3D worlds even more in an rpg than in any other type of game. Check out the vastness of a game like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, a first gen 360 title. But to the guys at SE they decided that would totally dilute the one thing every FF is all about: the story.
XIII is perfect the way it is to me, to others who need an open-world rpg they should turn to MMOR...
...who are interested in MGS. Well many of us had consoles before 360, like PS and PS2. And before MG was on PlayStation it was on SNES. So you guys that feel it's a Sony series need to remember it's actually a Kojima Productions series.
Because of the games and because of the service. Um most people don't mind paying for a good thing.
Seriously guys how can you take a billions a year company and ask them to produce the worlds premiere online gaming service for free? Sony will do it as long as you're hooked on bluray and buy into their hype, so they all have their gimmicks. At this point its all about the plus, whatever money they can make after they got you to buy the console. And money equals win, s...