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$499 and $599?

Insane. My purchase decision has been made. Too bad.

It's really kind of disgusting how fast Sony copied Nintendo. They didn't even get past E3 before they did it.

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lolol, remember when they said the boomerang was here to stay and would only receive minor cosmetic changes?

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copy and improve. thats what its all about. they all steal ideas off one another. nothing new there.

sony making some smart moves tho it seems.

everyone talking about how they copied nintendo... but seems to me they took the xbox live button idea from MS too. looks like that center PS logo button in the cetner of the controller might do something similar.


And im very happy to see the wireless controller has the option to be wired. VERY useful feature. i'd of hated to have to worry about batteries all the time.

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Sony is the ----ing laughing stock of the entire gaming industry.

I hear an uncreative ship sinking, do you?

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you dont have to be creative to be #1, all you need to be is SMART.

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It depends..

Seems like in order to copy, they had to remove rumble from the DualShock.

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/rele...f/060509be.pdf

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if its missing rumble, that might have more to do with the lawsuit rather then the motion.


be interesting to see tho if they find a new way to impliment the forcefeedback.



[edit] actually the reason they say kinda makes sense too, the rumble interferes with the motion sensing. which i could see happening.

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haha...Nintendo fans are priceless...enjoy your Wii and stop complaining, I know i'll be enjoying the best of both worlds

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I hate to sound negative but I had to sit through that.. granted its my own doing but eh.

Anyhow, it just seems like Sony is making all the wrong moves.. maybe I am mistaken.

I know this much was out of their hands, but Rumble has pretty much became standard in controllers and to take it out just seems like a step backwards.

Then they tried to follow the 360's route with two SKUs, but in the process made the cheaper one even more crippled and seems non upgradeable. In the cheaper version, you won't get WiFi or HDMI support, worse off it doesn't look like it supports any memory cards.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/705/705887p1.html

And of course, the pricee puts it out of the casual market atleast for now. Granted, I'm sure people will still buy but eh.

and it also looks like the tilt function is a bit more limited than the Wii's and also I think it only detects original motion and not like depth or speed, I could be mistaken here.

also don't take up like an hour with racing games.. especially when one is a port and the other is a 10 year old game on the go... granted Nintendo has done this stunt, but they never spent 10 mins reshowing the super mario advance line

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actually i dont like seperate bundles or systems at all, i think they should all be the same. However, the way sony is doing it IMO is much smarter. they take away things to bring down the cost that WONT effect gameplay. rather then take something away like a HD that will HUGELY effect gameplay.

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F*@#@#&#Y%$*#Y%*(%

stupid @$$ boss makes me work! missed it :'(

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no rumble really pisses me off.

I'd rather have rumble than motion sensing in PS3 - PERIOD.

let nintendo do the motion sensing, keep the rumble.

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It made me smile. :) pwnd.

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I'm most disappointed with the boomerang being gone.

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I think I prefer to game 'rumbleless'. When it's a game that requires acute timing and reflex, rumble just messes me up and makes it more difficult. It's not that realistic anyways, at least not on the Gamecube.

It doesn't matter anyway, Sony can't undo screwing themselves over now. They've branded the PS3 as the over-priced system that's attempted to rip-off features from the other two systems at the last minute in an effort to succeed. Unfortunately, that kind of underhanded **** doesn't wash with the gaming community.

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I had a WaveBird for cube but I always prefered the standard controller for the rumble. Hard to go back to a rumbleless world.

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<3 Wow, actually a cool quote from GameMaster!

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and you're so cute Stu

I can't believe no one has said a bad joke yet...the PSWii

*shames head and walks off

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Wow, this is shocking I expected Ninty's tech to get copied after a year or so. The only bad thing about this is that this will make Nintendo more paranoid about revealing new products or game ideas. *sigh* :(

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Nintendo really has every right to be paranoid. To be copied this soon is insane. From now on they should reveil something only if they plan to release it the following day.

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Me 3.

I'll post what I posted earlier

Wouldn't it be funny if Nintendo suddenly said "hahah, that was our fake secret controller, that idea was destined for failure" and then they go back to copying the dual shock controller.

I wonder if Sony would follow Nintendo? Most likely.

If anything what Sony have done with their controller shows that they are concerned with Nintendo being in this generation gaming and they will try anything to stop them....this is where they may lose out. They shoulda stuck with the original banana controller.

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i doubt the boomerang controller woulda had rumble in it either.

im pretty sure rumble was NOT taken out for the motion sensing, i think motion sensing was put in to hide the missing rumble because of the lawsuit.

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Please explain the lawsuit to me...... between who was that? :confused:

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Originally I was really excited about the PS3, but after that press conference I feel kinda bummed. They were meandering all over the place and it wasn't clear what they were trying to accomplish. Hopefully things will pick up as E3 continues and we see the playable demos.

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i foget the companties name... immersion? something like that.. sued both MS and Sony saying they used thier force feedback technology in thier controllers.

MS had the smarts to settle outta court.
Sony had the balls to fight it.

MS settled and payed them i dont know how much, plus licensing fees for using it. Sony Lost, appealed. and i believe lost the appeal.

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yep...looks like crap

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I watched the conference. Well, I skipped the boring "we'll show you a souped up version of GT for 15 minutes" parts.

Man that thing was boring.

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Stop it! I had just managed to push that out of my mind. :banghead:

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why?

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Because I hoped it would be funny, like the 1-minute thing. =) I laughed at Ridge Racer - Riiiiiiidge Racerrrrrrr!..... it was a ROM!!!!! >.<

And all the noobs who don't know how to play... or games that aren't finished yet and you can see it.... or a certain air combat game that looks impossible to play due to oversensitive controls.

I may be wrong about some things, but that's just the impression I got from the presentation. :)