PS3 not so expensive for what you get?

[DragonBlaze]

I was just browsing through some best buy ads the other day, they had a blue ray player, and they were asking $999.99 for it. Then I remembered, a PS3 will have one of these players built into it. So if you think about it, a PS3 that is $600 but can play blue ray disks and games wouldn't actually be that bad of a deal.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Makes no sense to me. I don't give a damn about "Blue Ray". Hell, I watch more VHS than I do DVD.

[Kijuki_Magazaki]

Does it need that for gaming experience? No.

[DarkFlood2]

It's just so they can have 120 GB discs, but even now with 9 GB discs only about 6 are used at most. 'Tis a waste.

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Kijuki_Magazaki
Does it need that for gaming experience? No.

No.

Did the PS2 need a dvd drive for gaming experiance. No
Did the gamecube need disks for gaming experiance. No
Did the psx need a cd drive for gaming experaince. No
Do next generation games need HD support. No
Does the wii need a motion sensor in its controller for gaming experiance. No
Did the snes need the 256 color support for gaming experiance. No

Did/does all the above help, hell yeah.

If you're content just playing old retro style games, thats fine. Theres nothing wrong with it, but once and a while, I like to play the newer games. Blue ray disks can hold a ton more data on a disk than a dvd could, just like a dvd could hold a ton mroe data than a cd could, just like a cd could hold more than a cartrage could. Blue ray disks are the next step, they allow games to hold more data, have higher quality stuff, and give game develpers the freedom to put more on a disk. This alone may not be worth the $600, but if you want to play blue ray movie disks,  you might as well just buy a ps3 instead of a blue ray player because for the little extra money, you get a whole gaming system.

And for videos and such that are in high definition, you'll need that much space to fit the whole thing on a disk.

[DarkFlood2]

Heres something to wrap your mind around:

"The PS3 is so superior, It is inferior"

The tech doesn't make the game.. go outside and you would learn that.

[Smokey_locs2006]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze

quote:

Originally posted by Kijuki_Magazaki Does it need that for gaming experience? No.

No.

Did the PS2 need a dvd drive for gaming experiance. No
Did the gamecube need disks for gaming experiance. No
Did the psx need a cd drive for gaming experaince. No
Do next generation games need HD support. No
Does the wii need a motion sensor in its controller for gaming experiance. No
Did the snes need the 256 color support for gaming experiance. No

Did/does all the above help, hell yeah.

If you're content just playing old retro style games, thats fine. Theres nothing wrong with it, but once and a while, I like to play the newer games. Blue ray disks can hold a ton more data on a disk than a dvd could, just like a dvd could hold a ton mroe data than a cd could, just like a cd could hold more than a cartrage could. Blue ray disks are the next step, they allow games to hold more data, have higher quality stuff, and give game develpers the freedom to put more on a disk. This alone may not be worth the $600, but if you want to play blue ray movie disks,  you might as well just buy a ps3 instead of a blue ray player because for the little extra money, you get a whole gaming system.

And for videos and such that are in high definition, you'll need that much space to fit the whole thing on a disk.

Man..me and you are like on the same wave think frequency thingy.
I found out the price of a blue ray a while back when they were talking about blue ray on tech tv and I arrived at the same conclusion that it would be cheaper if I just bought a PS3. I was going to buy a Blue Ray anyways.

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by DarkFlood2

The tech doesn't make the game.. go outside and you would learn that.

When did I ever say that the tech along makes the game? Either way, you can't deny that it does help. An average playstaion game was 600 mbs, some such as ff9 were 4 disks, I don't know the exact size, but at the most it could be 2.8 gbs. The average ps2 game on the other hand is 6 gbs. Some, such as Star Ocean, needed two dvds. Then, if you look back at snes games, they were maybe 1 or 2 megabytes. With every passing system, games require far more space for the enhanced graphics and whatnot. The PS3 is just following that trend.

My whole point in this topic was that the ps3 isn't that expensive for what you get. If you saw a blue ray player at a store right now for $600, that would be an insane deal.

[Almeidaboo]

More details, more playing time, more more more. More than 1 game in a disk...

Itīs gonna be great.

[Tomi]

Meh, I can live without a PS3.  I currently still play my PS1 and I'm perfectly happy with it.  But yes, Blu-ray looks pretty cool.  I mean, its Blue...

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Tomi
Meh, I can live without a PS3.  I currently still play my PS1 and I'm perfectly happy with it.  But yes, Blu-ray looks pretty cool.  I mean, its Blue...

I used to be happy with my PS1, but then I played pretty much ever game I heard of that I thought I'd like , so now I'm playing my ps2 instead.

I'm not going to get a ps3 until I get my full satisfaction out of my ps2, by then the ps3 will have gone down in price, and I'll be able to experiance the glory of the blue ray disks at an affordable price :p

Now I just need to get a monitor and a TV tuner that support HDTV...

[oooog]

The PS3 is basically trying to be a bigger version of the PSP.  Why is this bad?  It distracts them from their original goal, good gaming.  I see a topic in the future.  Similar to the PSP Vs DS thread.  And I predict many of the exact same arguements will be used.

[DragonBlaze]

The problem with the psp was that it didn't have many good games, and it wasn't backwards compatable like the ds was. The ps3 on the other hand, does have a lot of good games lined up, and I'm pretty sure that its backwards compatable (it better be   ).

[Meiscool-2]

Xbox360 isn't backwards compatable and that's why it sux

[Drace]

Originally posted by DarkFlood2
Heres something to wrap your mind around:

"The PS3 is so superior, It is inferior"

The tech doesn't make the game.. go outside and you would learn that.

No, but the games on it do. The same for the PS1 and 2. I loved the games, I'll love the PS3 games.