EUROs ,who is buying a ps3 on launch ?
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In the next couple of months. It would've been launch day if I had the money.
I have a confession to make too...
I nearly sold my 360 to fund a PS3. Not that I think the PS3 is better or anything. I think it was cos I like the thrill of the new. But (phew!) I backed out and, as I said, will wait a few months and for the first time ever in my life will be a 2 console chap.
I have a confession to make too...
I nearly sold my 360 to fund a PS3. Not that I think the PS3 is better or anything. I think it was cos I like the thrill of the new. But (phew!) I backed out and, as I said, will wait a few months and for the first time ever in my life will be a 2 console chap.
tongue_of_colicab
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I'll probably buy one once it has a decent price and enough exclusive games. I dont really feel like paying 600 euro's just to wait untill 2008 before I can finally play the games I bought the thing for in the first place.
When I get out of bed on Friday...
The shop has a deal so you can get a couple of games cheap if you get them with it so I'll probably do that. I was going to get Motorstorm anyway so this way I get RFoM as well.
More importantly I also have a Yellow Dog Linux DVD burned and ready to install.
I'm one of those odd people who are buying it so I can program it.
I've even set up a site up for anyone else interested in coding for it:
www.ps3coderz.com
The shop has a deal so you can get a couple of games cheap if you get them with it so I'll probably do that. I was going to get Motorstorm anyway so this way I get RFoM as well.
More importantly I also have a Yellow Dog Linux DVD burned and ready to install.
I'm one of those odd people who are buying it so I can program it.
I've even set up a site up for anyone else interested in coding for it:
www.ps3coderz.com
I'm thinking that even if in a year's time, the PS3 drops 150 euros, then I'll have had a PS3 for a year for 150 euros. That's worth it for me.
Anyway, what I really wanted to say, mostly to ADEX, is that the German magazine C't has a Playstation 3 special issue, which is pretty impressive. Even if they don't get everything right, they do cover a whole lot. I think it has been mentioned before here and there.
Moreover, it includes a DVD with Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 including articles, instructions, detailed discussion and so on. I have to say though that I'm still wondering if YDL really is the best linux for the PS3, or if I should go with Ubuntu or Fedora Core 6 (which I also have a disc for and which I've successfully tested on an old PC).
I'll probably try it ... the magazine also comes with detailed backup instructions, so I can always decide I should try another distribution.
I'm looking forward to at least giving some kind of coding on the Cell a try also.Moreover, it includes a DVD with Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 including articles, instructions, detailed discussion and so on. I have to say though that I'm still wondering if YDL really is the best linux for the PS3, or if I should go with Ubuntu or Fedora Core 6 (which I also have a disc for and which I've successfully tested on an old PC).
I'll probably try it ... the magazine also comes with detailed backup instructions, so I can always decide I should try another distribution.
It probably is not the best, but from what I've read, YDL seems to be the most easy to use and install on the PS3.
YDL 5.0 for PS3 is quite buggy (I actually installed it from the c't special DVD) with no updates available as of yet, but it's still the distribution that is best tailored to the hardware...
tongue_of_colicab
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Well its a combination of games and price for me. I bought a Wii because I wanted to play zelda but a big facter was also its price. You know the wii will get some great (nintendo) games anyway, the investment is relative small and the price will likely drop only in small steps so waiting a year would have saved me 50 euro's at best along with having to wait to play those few AAA games in that year. As for ps3 its the opposite for me. I'd love to buy one because the games look great, but 600 euro's imo is a big investment if you look at the fact that it will take untill the end of 2007 at best to show up for the games you'd really buy a console for.
What's buggy about it?[maven];951782 said:
Enlightenment crashes left, right and center. Keyboard map for a non-US keyboard didn't work at first, start-up scripts pass non-existing parameters to executables, applications menu is set up badly (i.e. "Applications" has a single entry called "Applications" under which the actual categories are), Bluetooth doesn't work, and that sort of thing.
It simply feels left in beta / unfinished.
i am not buying one for one pure reason, that i don't own a hdtv. i do have money to buy a ps3, but there is no way i am connecting ps3 on 480p tv
So ... Wii for you then.
So ... Wii for you then.
its too expensive IMO
i am saving up until i get an offer from universities, around that time!
edit: most likely that
"the day when pes7 comes out" = "the day when i am buying 720p tv, ps3, remote, 3 games"
I actually preordered mine from Konsolinet way back in September (just days before the delay), they have a list at least. I have a gut feeling it won't sell out though.. but you never know.
Neither am i, but i will buy one next month
But even at this time i won't buy "the thing" probably before late 2008 (if even).
The reason is simple : i bought PS2 at launch and had to wait for 18 monthes for decent games !
And even top games at this moment where so deceiving for me that i sold my PS2 right after playing Jack and Dexter, DMC, Onimusha and Silent Hill 2.
Sony has a big job to convince me back !
I preordered from Kodin Anttila, they said they had not sold that many of those DVD's, so I think I still have a chance, and those who'd bought that disc would be served first.
I've been pretty lucky in buying my consoles at launch, the original PS I got near launch, I don't think it was the launch day but very near. PS2 I got at launch, Wii I got the week after launch and it was really an impulse purchase for me (have not regretted it)... I have a feeling I'll get the PS3 too.
