Yeah but it helps the 4 of us actually waiting for a PS3 feel bettermech wrote:Anyway, talk like "Sony are seriously fucked. MS and Nintendo must think this is a wet dream or something." is incredibly premature and ridiculous.
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i) PS2. Sony customers are assured of a slew of top new releases to hold them over until the new system launches. ii) Software support. MS will have more games at the time having been out for over a year prior but across the board MS are not as strong as Sony regarding software support.mxlegend99 wrote:Can anyone name one good reason that consumers have to wait till March 2007 and not just grab a 360 now or at Xmas?
Indeed, if one were to look at several recent North American console launches, you'd see a particular pattern. In 2000 when the Dreamcast sold 514,000 consoles in two weeks, it was record-breaking and worthy of press releases proclaiming the feat. Just one year later when the PS2 launched, those same numbers were indicative of a shortage.
What we're saying is that, basically, these numbers don't mean anything. Despite what appears to be gross incompetence to much of the gaming press and the hardcore industry watchers (that's you guys), the mainstream gamer is blissfully unaware of reductions in shipping estimates. To him, it will appear that the PS3 is the hottest thing this holiday -- just like the Xbox 360 appeared to be last year and the PlayStation 2 back in '00 -- and may have no problem waiting for the demand and/or price to go down. People are still buying PS2s today, remember? Just a reality check before the hype consumes us all.
MS told us stright off the bat? What the? They set a global launch date. They realised there wouldn't be enough units for global launch so shafted PAL territories. Sony have done the exact same thing.Jizzy McLobber wrote:microsoft gets credit here, don't compare them with Sony.
Although the PAL launch was later than US/JAP, they at least told us straight off the bat.
Sony has thrown a lot of BS out way since E3 05, of course they didn't know this would happen but they were trying to out do MS's worldwide launch.
they failed and people feel shafted.
?? Europe got the system only a couple days after the states, austral-asia regions minus japan got shafted in the year after. But we knew that 6-9months before hand.MS told us stright off the bat? What the? They set a global launch date. They realised there wouldn't be enough units for global launch so shafted PAL territories. Sony have done the exact same thing.
I guess you wouldn't feel shafted if you had your doubts about the launch, i had little faith they were gonna make it, and even if they did launch it here, it would be practically a paper launch, which imo does more harm than good, it just frustrates people and makes scalpers rich.The people who will explain in fullest detail how shafted everyone feels are xbots who weren't getting the thing at launch anyway. As someone who actually preorded the thing I can tell you the delay is noteworthy and worth a few wry smiles at Sony's expense however it's nothing to feel shafted about.
What do you mean 'straight off'? Haven't Sony just told us 'straight off' that due to manufacturing shortages PAL misses out until 03/07?Jizzy McLobber wrote:that's what i'm saying, and although it was delayed here they at least told us we were getting it early 06 straight off.
EDIT- People WILL feel shafted.
after telling us it would be released in november at E3.Peppermint Lounge wrote:What do you mean 'straight off'? Haven't Sony just told us 'straight off' that due to manufacturing shortages PAL misses out until 03/07?Jizzy McLobber wrote:that's what i'm saying, and although it was delayed here they at least told us we were getting it early 06 straight off.
EDIT- People WILL feel shafted.
They still managed to delay our already delayed launch.Jizzy McLobber wrote:anyway my point was they at least tried to give everyone the system around the same time, they didn't give out dates willy nilly like sony did and that's why they shouldn't be compared
comments like "yeah but the same thing happened with xbox 360".