Sony is totally awesome again(re: europe shafting)

Michael Knubben · Feb 2007

http://www.playfuls.com/news_06326_Sony_Offends_European_Gamers_Again.html

In a nutshell: delays and higher price didn't impress europe, Sony decides to add crippled backwards compatibility to the mix

boo-urns indeed.

MRFlynn · Feb 2007

Typical ;(

Justin Meisse · Feb 2007

It can make baby dolls cry, blow up your rubik's cube and plays Blueray movies! You're lucky it can play games at all! Excuse me, I'm going to go watch some Franz Ferdinand videos on my PSP and maybe look at pictures a mysterious girl left me on a memory card.

KeyserSoze · Feb 2007

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It can make baby dolls cry, blow up your rubik's cube and plays Blueray movies! You're lucky it can play games at all! Excuse me, I'm going to go watch some Franz Ferdinand videos on my PSP and maybe look at pictures a mysterious girl left me on a memory card.

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Hells ya!

ebagg · Feb 2007

I feel like I'm going insane every time I read or watch a Sony rep talking about the PS3. I talk to you guys, my coworkers, my friends who work at electronics stores, and look at lots of articles like this, not to mention those horrible ad campaigns they have on TV (haha great way of putting it Justin!). Everything points to Sony shooting themselves in the foot with every decision like this they make, and are turning tons of people off the PS3. The GPU on the PS3 is not as good as the Xbox 360, while apparently it has more processing power for stuff like kerrrrazy physics or something...but what games slated for the system are truly going to put that to good use?

But then back to a Sony rep spin on things;
-PS3s are doing amazingly well, the reason they are on shelves is because Sony is keeping up with demand! Not because it is selling badly
-PS3s are on store shelves? Ha! I'll pay you twice the sale price as a bounty reward!
-That desert racing game is going to be a system seller!
-And of course...the old favorite...the Killzone video is in-game!

Now either, Sony is going insane telling themselves they are still doing great and their decisions are awesome despite everyone's protests to the contrary, or we are all insane, and the PS3 is the best console ever, ever!

Mongrelman · Feb 2007

I've love to see MS and nintendo actually get together and sell a Wii60 combo with the words "cheaper than a PS3!" on the front of the box.

What does PS mean again? Piss Shit? Phallic Shafting?

rooster · Feb 2007

plus, you want a 20gb version in europe? tough son, you're buying the 60gig..
well, its not like I want either

thomasp · Feb 2007

if i understand this correctly, there will be no specially crippled euro-version, it's just cost cutting measurements that will affect all territories. and yes, it blows. backwards-compatibility is a big deal at least for me and it didn't seem to work as well as promised even on the current PS3 so far.

btw. the emulation of PSX on PSP is pretty much awesome, so at least there's some hope left. not that i would consider nor recommend buying a new console system within it's first year of shelf life anyway. so it's plenty of time to play the waiting game.

biggest complaint i have about PS3 so far is the whole appearance of the system. it looks and feels just plain cheaply made and poorly designed, so totally unworthy of it's price tag.

Michael Knubben · Feb 2007

There's also the new casing though. it remains to be seen if the cheaper casing (which, if you've noticed, doesn't make the console cheaper) is just cheaper to manufacture, or actually less sturdy.

thomasp · Feb 2007

i'd assume that the new casing will only be changed internally (airflow, etc). seeing how warm that box get's even in idle operation, it is in their best interest to improve that to keep numbers of hardware failures down.

the plastic is quite cheap and crappy as it is now, if the new one was to be even less sturdy, it might break when you carry the unit around.

and you don't seriously expect them to cut prices just yet, do you? no matter what the forumgeeks say, PS is a huge brand in consoles, it's not like it will sink overnight because of the bad press. they surely are not desperate at this point.

Rick Stirling · Feb 2007

We sort of expected a price cut for the EU launch, because of 3 keys facts.

The EU console at launch is the most expensive (almost twice the Japanese one (60gb vs 60gb))
The EU console at launch is now the cheapest to manufacture (this WILL become the same for other territories)
The EU console at launch has less features (backwards compatibility)

Most expensive, cheapest to make, backwards compatibilty for only a 'handful' of PS2 games.

KDR_11k · Feb 2007

Look at the bright side, Sony claims the games will only cost 60€.

Keg · Feb 2007

this had me laughing some: http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15342&page=1

Quote is copy pasta from joystiq
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* On negative press: Mr. Harrison isn't phased at all, pointing out that those who have purchased a PS3 have been naught but satisfied thus far. He goes on to say that negativity originates from "a fairly narrow section of the media" (Time Magazine and New York Times BURN) and that if there "were genuine criticisms, then of course we'll address them, but there's nothing that bothers me." Nothing at all?
* On PS3 price drops: Sony feels under no pressure to drop the price of the PS3 this year, expressing comfort with their current strategy and the level of software currently available.
* On the lack of rumble: Phil Harrison says motion controls offer far more opportunities to innovate than rumble ever did, adding that rumble is like, totally last-gen. "Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is." Analog stick, your days are numbered, my friend.

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Joao Sapiro · Feb 2007

bwahahaha ! we europeans so get fucked that it even makes me laugh !!!! its not only in consoles but Tv sets everything, and whats up with this riddiculous region shit ?!?

to Sony : i Own a Ps2 , and my brother has a PsP ( wich i snatched since he doesnt play at all ) , but keep going like this all youll loose more than "fans"

eld · Feb 2007

I can feel my butt hurting already,

Btw, for you psp owners, there are quite some ways to play your own psx games on your psp without having to buy them through the monolith.

hawken · Feb 2007

at least the PSP firmware has been hacked again. Yay! free gamez!

rolfness · Feb 2007

The EU does get a complete shafting over and over again with just about everything. I own the Ps2 (currently used as a door stop but might pug it in to see what FFXII is like) and a PSP which I think is great, I got one of these "fixed" (because standard ones are considered broken over there haha) ones from the middle east on my last trip there, with a couple of 4 gig cards for about £180 Bargain ! I can now discreetly surf porn at starbucks !!

almighty_gir · Feb 2007

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at least the PSP firmware has been hacked again. Yay! free gamez!

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lol, since the ps3 is a linux based system, i don't imagine it will be too long before the same kinda thing happens there, and then i'll end up using it for the same thing as my psp. and no, i don't mean a super computer, capable of playing all the latest, and greatest hit shootemups, which look stunningly like that one released 2 months ago but with a nice bloom overlay to make it more realistic.

i'm talking hardcore, i'm talking... sega megadrive (genesis) emulators, complete with streets of rage nasty

Uly · Mar 2007

Don't know how important this is to anyone, ultimately depends on how much gaming news you read, but Sony just blackballed Kotaku from their promotions, media events, and what-not. I smell a bad aftermath.

Sony Blackballs Kotaku

doc rob · Mar 2007

I just read that. It seems to me like Sony is giving the rumor much more creedence by reacting so strongly. They would have been better off just ignoring it.

hawken · Mar 2007

eh?

sony un-blackballs kotaku

Sony is totally awesome again(re: europe shafting)

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