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Talking to a 360 fanboy is like talking to a spoiled 5 year old! OMG i will never go to that console war sticky ever again! it frustrates me! They brag about how much games are out for 360 compared to the ps3......um HELLO! ANY BRAINS IN THERE! THE 360 HAS BEEN OUT A YEAR BEFORE THE PS3 CAME OUT!!!! THATS WHY YOU HAVE SO MUCH GAMES AND HALF OF THEM ARE s**t SO DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE YOU TRASHTALK! scream scream scream

Thankfully I have shaken the label of Sony Loyalist at my local EB, they have clued in that I spend more on PC games then any other, although they are well aware I really dislike MSoft. I have my opinions, but I can also point out the good points and bad about other systems I dont like. Frankly, I find that anyone that claims to have been a Sony supporter till this gen, is spewing more crap then a manure spreader (sorry, if that doesnt make total sense, but I live on a farm).

I remember how much I loved my Turbographix, I didnt even care I was missing the mario games, after all, I had Sonic !! heart We missed the SNES, but that was because we had to choose and for whatever reason, we pointed to a Gensis. If you take into account all the systems I have owned, Im more of a Nintendo loyalist or fanboy then Sony.

I've had to deal with people and KH3, I always try to make people realize its all just theory, and that Square-Enix wont announce anything likely until sometime near or after the FF XIII launch. Rumour has it also thats when, if they do it, they will announce a FF VII remake. Mostly spawned by interviews with different staff, along with the guy behind FF VII, saying he would love to go back but he was really busy with a few titles, including FF XIII, and that it would have to be sometime after that. Many hope it will come out on the 360, but for all we know, there could already be paperwork on the game, even though its not official, that links it to Sony. Frankly, I think S-E, although they are opening some to multi-consol production, will stick their real money makers on Japanese products, as a way to support a fellow Japanese company.

As for the xbox fanboys and hardware, its bad to bring that up, they look at the PS3 in the old manor, not taking into account the potential of the Cell, and deem it lower tech then the 360, which, is really just a PC, squeezed into a little white box. An ugly box IMO too, I hate the design and colour of the main box. Black doesnt help either, the design is just ugly to me. I have heard Xbox fans go on about how great it is that the HD player is seperate, and it makes it better then the internal blu-ray player on the PS3, saying they can use it on their system OR watch an HD-dvd on their PC. They shut up when people ask "so you have an HD monitor then eh?" because they know full well, the player is just a normal dvd player if you dont have the proper monitor.

That made me think, have you heard about the rumours that the 40 gig PS3 has a 40% failure rate? Sony has denounced it, and as of yet, I have seen no investigative reports to even support an above avg PS3 failure rate. It made me think that the rumours have been started by 360 fanboys as an attempt to make their systems massive, and horrible failure rate seem not so bad.

I don't care if they think I'm one. Cause I could easily shake it off, or make them wonder what I am.

I had a gen for years, and then in 1998 or 1999 got a N64 which frankly I didn't use much except for Pokemon games. I just didn't really care for most of the games, but then again when you're 10 and some N64 games are $60 you can't really get that many. Then in summer 2003 I got my PS2, which to me opened up a lot of what I am today.

To me FFVII is a Playstation game. If you look at the series with the exception of PC ports almost EVERY FFVII related thing has been done on a Sony platform. AC was put on UMD, you have CC on PSP, and they're making a blu ray edition of AC, not to say they did a Tech Demo of FFVII for the PS3. I wouldn't want a remake of the game I wasn't to overly amazed by it. But to tell true it KINDA wouldn't pull me off if they did it. They would make huge ammount of money off it.

The one thing I notice they attack is the PS3s RAM. Saying that 256MB isn't enough for anything. And because they're just looking at numbers and not at anything else when you talk technical you completely throw them off. Explaining to them that Cell and RSX can share RAM, and that the 360s main RAM speed is clocked at the same speed as the PS3 VRAM (700MHz). While the PS3s main XDR RAM speed is clocked at 3.2 GHz, which means it's a hell of a lot faster then the 360s RAM is.

With the HD DVD player, it REALLY only shows on 360s with HDMI. You don't even notice the HD unless you use VGA and have it shown in 720p or higher. Same with PS3, you don't notice the HD in ANYTHING unless you have some sort of HD cable hooked up.

Yeah, that was crushed FAST. Sony said:

"We are very proud of the quality and reliability of PLAYSTATION 3 and are disappointed that such extremely sloppy journalism has resulted in this totally inaccurate story... Since launching the 40GB PS3, we have experienced a fantastic jump in sales and the failure rates have remained at the very low level that we not only strive for, but have been achieving since the launch of PS3"

I don't know if you had this. But I remember asking if the PS3 had any problems when it first came out. I remember PMing with this guy on Gaia who told me how horrible it was, and such. He told me how he worked at a gaming store and how people were bringing them back because of over heating. When I would ask other people they said the same thing, when I asked for a news article. I got the same respone "It's all over the internet go find it yourself".

It could, but it would be up to them if they want to do it or not. What Si-Shen is saying is that they are interested in doing multiplat with their games instead of what they did last games.

That's right money does speak. And if they were to multiplat they would get more money. Unless MS wants to pay for exclusive rights + the est. money sales they were to make if they were to multiplat.

But I'm sure there are still devs out there that think of the good of thier game over the almighty $. mrgreen

I dont care anymore what I get labeled, it has no real effect on my life.

True, FF VII will likely forever be linked to Sony, as for the remake, I would love to see a remake simply because I never had a copy of the game and its hard to get my hands on a copy to borrow. I know the Blu-Ray version of AC is supposed to have more features, I dont have an HD TV but I might get it anyway.

Your right about the tech specs, also I note they like to compare it to a standard PC or Mac, both of which have extremely powerful, system draining OS's running on them. I would say that about HALF of your standard PC or Mac specs are dedicated to just keeping your OS running. Without the massive drain of the standard OS, a system doesnt need to be a mini-PC.
BTW, speaking of OS, I have to ask, is the user interface on the PS3 really all that horrible as people make it out to you? I frankly love the interface, its easy, nothing overly fancy but really easy to use. That and it looks sleek and clean IMO.

I will eventually have an HDTV.. when I can afford it stare Then I will go HD with the PS3 for sure. Ive yet to buy any blu-ray discs simply because I dont have the TV for it.

I think its funny people are spreading this failure rate stuff, because if it was failing that badly, so should the 80 gig version, since everything, other then what they removed (a couple USB ports, card readers and the emulator), is identical. So the 80 gig would be failing at the same rate. Ive not had the pleasure of speaking with people whome have claimed to have first hand accounts of the failures, and I rarely believe people when they say they work for a EB or Best Buy, or whatever since they never feel the need to show some proof. As for all the claims and lack of evidence, they dont have any proof to back up their claims, and they know that what is on the net is nothing but unsubstaintiated rumours. I bet half the people whome say they had a PS3 fail, are 360 fanboys. The kicker is when they say they got a PS3, if failed in a week, but just returned it to the store, didnt sent it to Sony and get a replacement, they say they got the money and got a 360. Ask them about the red ring and they say, without missing a beat, they had it once or twice, then ask why they didnt do the same thing, they try to make up excuses. I really do believe that its just some hostile rumour started by either fanboys, or maybe someone from inside MSoft itself.

I think it had something to do with the DOA2 port for the PS2.

Reading up on it and all, Itagaki didn't think the game was finished and wanted another month on it. But Sony wanted it as a launch for the PS2 in Japan, so they denied him the extra month. Something I'm sure pissed him off, and from what I've seen he's somewhat of a hard head, and can easily be offended type of guy.

I think he likes Microsoft because they treat him well. From what I see, after DOA2 was done with and he was working on DOA3 he saw the Xbox and decided to get back at Sony by supporting it because it's hardware was more powerful then the PS2. Something that I think in his head he could kill two birds with one stone. Make DOA look and play alot better then Tekken on the PS2, and to pretty much shove in Sony face what they're missing.

Also I think Microsoft treats him VERY well, he's the only Japanese developer that believed in them and stuck with them since day 1 with the Xbox, something that they don't want to loose.