PS3 - Playstation 3 - Pre order

CYBERCIDERSAVER

I have to say save even more on the price of a PS3. Get an XBOX360. I am well impressed with it and the fact you are able to stream tv music etc. from your computer is really cool.

I used to have a video recorder, a dvd player and a Digibox under my tele. Now I just have the XBOX360.

oh and for all you Grand theft auto fans. I believe Microsoft has signed an Exclusive contract with Rockstar Games to develop GTA4 solely for the XBOX!!!!

blaze

slowen wrote:

Apparantly they are releasing two versions in the UK, a cheap one and premium version.

The cheap version contains a 20gb hard drive and less features than the premium version which comes with a 60gb hard drive so they are trying to get people to spend more money purchasing the more expensive version

I think a Sony exec confirmed reports that came out of the UK retail industry that that UK will only have 1 version, the more expensive one, which will be priced at £425, we wont see the cheaper version over here (although that may not be a bad thing considering what was actually lost by choosing the cheap option).

oh and for all you Grand theft auto fans. I believe Microsoft has signed an Exclusive contract with Rockstar Games to develop GTA4 solely for the XBOX!!!!

Only 'episodic' content, which is literally downloadable content through Xbox Live - GTA4 will be available for both the Xbox360 and PS3.

For all we know though, Rockstar could be thinking they could have difficulty including the data on the X360 DVD discs, whereas that content may already be on the much larger capacity of the bluray disc - only time will tell with regards to what that episodic content is (and its a long wait! towards the end of 2007)

greyster

CYBERCIDERSAVER wrote:

I have to say save even more on the price of a PS3. Get an XBOX360. I am well impressed with it and the fact you are able to stream tv music etc. from your computer is really cool.

I used to have a video recorder, a dvd player and a Digibox under my tele. Now I just have the XBOX360.

oh and for all you Grand theft auto fans. I believe Microsoft has signed an Exclusive contract with Rockstar Games to develop GTA4 solely for the XBOX!!!!

Negative .... XBOX360 and PS3.

Press Release:

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., is proud to announce Grand Theft Auto IV, the next-generation console debut of the genre-defining Grand Theft Auto franchise. Developed by world-class designers Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360™ and is currently planned to be in stores in North America on October 16, 2007 and in Europe on October 19, 2007.

PC version will probably be out 2 years after, knowing them. Traitors GTA1 came out on the PC first!

Andyblizz

Over 4000 views. And only 2 people have found the orginial post usefull.

Very strange

Andy

GeoThermal

delmontebanana wrote:

<Debate mode on> Seeing that PC equipment is getting more advanced and quicker to be replaced each day, would you use a Pentium from 2001-2002?Namely: A Pentium2 1.5Ghz with 512MB RAM computer? Let's not even mention a recent game like Elder Scrolls 4 here, just for simple everyday use you will find it to be slow. That was possibly THE top end PC of the time so it's extremely doubtful ANY PC will last 4-5 years.

I'm using a slower PC than that!

GeoThermal

slowen wrote:

Apparantly they are releasing two versions in the UK, a cheap one and premium version.

The cheap version contains a 20gb hard drive and less features than the premium version which comes with a 60gb hard drive so they are trying to get people to spend more money purchasing the more expensive version

According to some retailers that is not the case in the UK although I think Sony have still to confirm officially whether or not the UK will get the cut down version. It's worth noting however that unlike the XBox 360 core and premium packs, the PS3 "core" pack cannot be upgraded fully to the PS3 "premium" pack.

sco0ter

Heres a little bit of info....

Apparently Microsoft are gearing thier new Windows Vista to be XBOX 360 Live compatible. They are also making all thier XBOX accessories Vista compliant so If you hang off and by a new PC with Windows Vista you are in effect getting an XBOX 360 built in to it and you can play online with people who have XBOX 360's.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/may06/05-09G4WE3LineupPR.mspx

rooo

I was nearly going to sell my PS2 in the next few weeks to start saving for the PS3, but at that price, I'm not going to bother. I'll stick with the PS2 and maybe get a 360 when GTA 4 comes out.

blaze

And another interesting article on the Cell processor (one of the reasons why were paying so much for the console);

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/15101/PS3_Chip_Hardware_Slow_and_Broken

If you can't be bothered reading, it pretty much says the Cell processor isnt very good...

Biffer

If you're serious about buying a PS3, take a look at this article...

PS3 pre order strategy

I'm a bit dissapointed to see retailers doing bundle only pre orders, hopefully there will be some console only deals soon.