Are we a bunch of Sony haters?

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29 Jan 2007, 08:45 AM
RoleTroll

The situation with Sony is perfect. 360 and PS3 will have 99% the same libraries over time - porting is too cheap and production costs too high to have lots of exclusives. Sony will hopefully make a comeback at a lower price point. Factoring in five years of Live, the PS3 price doesn't look so bad.
29 Jan 2007, 09:15 AM
RoleTroll

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Originally Posted by MarkRyan

Everyone called the PlayStation the "PSX" back in the day, not just some gaming magazines. "PS" is still a weird abbreviation, and "PSone" is most commonly used now--of course, pre-1999, "PSone" didn't make sense.

I thought that, back then, PSX referred to the Playstation line. The X could refer to any number. So the PS1 was a PSX, but a PS2 would also be a PSX. Evidently that was wrong, or no longer is true; the PSX moniker isn't used for PS2 and PS3.
29 Jan 2007, 09:15 AM
Dyne

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Originally Posted by Nirvana

I prefer "annoyed". I liked the PSX and the PS2, but the combo of hype, lack of good titles for the moment, and price all have me putting the PS3 into the "when it's cheap" zone.

From what ive been reading, it going to be a VERY long time, if ever for the ps3 to see a price drop.
29 Jan 2007, 09:59 AM
K3V

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Originally Posted by RoleTroll

I thought that, back then, PSX referred to the Playstation line. The X could refer to any number. So the PS1 was a PSX, but a PS2 would also be a PSX. Evidently that was wrong, or no longer is true; the PSX moniker isn't used for PS2 and PS3.

PlayStation X was the codename of the original playstation, hence PSX. They dropped the X but the Internet didn't.
29 Jan 2007, 10:04 AM
dog$

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

Why on Earth wouldn't I have bought the 2D PS games

I donno, something about you hating Sony or some shit.

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and what gave you the impression I didn't?

Just from how you spoke about the death of 2D.

It seems to me that a lot of people cry about Sony killing 2D but turn around to only have bought sprite based games for the fucking GBA since 2000. Your list even supports my point to an extent; some of those games aren't pure sprite based 2D games, that number of titles alone is a fraction of the 2D games available for the PS1/2 library, and none of those games sold well at all.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Sony from the very beginning of the PS1 trying to prevent most 2d games from being released in the US

explains why one of the first SCEA published games for the PS1 was fucking Raiden Project. Which nobody bought.

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There's no denying that Sony did everything they could to put the nail in 2d's coffin.

Likewise, there's no denying that the consumers wielded the hammer.
29 Jan 2007, 10:47 AM
Bacon McShig

Sony's just been riding mostly on hype since PS1, it's just that with PS3 they've finally broken the barrier of insane hubris that jolts everyone into actually realizing it. "You're going to want to work a second job for the PS3"? No, I'm not. Fuck off.
29 Jan 2007, 11:06 AM
Advocate

<3 the Mcshig.
29 Jan 2007, 12:33 PM
NeoZeedeater

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Originally Posted by sethsez

Get off your high fucking horse. The entire industry is built on the backs of casual gamers and has been from the word go, and people thinking Halo is 100% pure sunshine and gumdrops doesn't strike me as any different from people thinking Battletoads was anything more than a mediocre TMNT cash-run with terrible game balance.

The game industry was never "more hardcore" than it is now, it was just smaller. Shitty overhyped games still sold, sports games were still a big deal, licensed titles still moved units no matter how they reviewed, and good titles slipped through the cracks. Nostalgia's a bitch.

This needs repeating despite it being such common sense to anyone who has been gaming through multiple generations.

I'm not buying the argument that the Playstation was the specific point gaming went mainstream anyway. There were millions of arcade gamers, millions that owned Atari/Commodore/Nintendo/Sega systems. The Playstation was another step in popularity in an already huge industry. Apparently when Nintendo increases gaming popularity they're a savior, when Sony does it, they have ruined the industry. Nice logic.
29 Jan 2007, 12:44 PM
Nash

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Originally Posted by Bojack

People acting like making 3d mainstream and bringing casual gamers to the table are actually good things are dopes. Plain and simple. To this day the playability of your average 3d game is shit to 2d games. Now we have casual shit bags who think Halo is the greatest thing ever that are now actually RUNNING the industry.

I remember Penny Arcade summing it up nicely that Sony sold out our gaming industry to the same shits who beat us up in Gym class, it's already been said here that Sony simply got lucky and while Sega and Nintendo were tripping on their own mistakes Sony had a chance to shove them under the money bus. Yoshi has it right as fuck.

Sony wasn't/isn't the best. They were just the richest and now that some one with more cash than them and with better drive to support the industry with good stuff they're failing. Hell even Nintendo seems to be making a comeback with their "Desperation Stunt" (what I like to call the DS now) trashing the PSP supposedly and the Wii still being tricky to find while buckets of PS3 are here, it looks like the vengance I've wanted since the DC days is finally here.

I'm going to go ahead and blame this post on GameFan magazine.
29 Jan 2007, 12:52 PM
Xero_Kaiser

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Now we have casual shit bags who think Halo is the greatest thing ever that are now actually RUNNING the industry.

They're no worse than people who think every 2D game in existence is the second coming of Christ.

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