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Who's buying a PS3?

Old Nov 15, 2006 | 08:50 PM
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PS3= Waste of money. I heard Blueray wont last. I dont know sh*t about the video game console, but a guy who I used to work with did and he said he did not like it. Thats his opinion, I understand that, but he seems to know what hes talking about.
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:15 PM
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Someone once told me that once a game has been played in your PS3 it wont work in any other ps3 console. I dont know how that'd work and told him he was full of sh%#. Hope he's wong. Can anyone shed some light?
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:28 PM
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That is rediculous. The consuming public will stand for a lot, but if you have to buy a new game for every console you play?...and what about the video game rental business?...they wouldn't be able to rent a game more than once. I would think Sony and Microsoft get a piece of that rental business in game/console rights as well. I'm not gonna say that person that told you that is stupid because I don't want it to turn out to be your mom, or best friend, or something, but I would ask for proof.
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 09:50 PM
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Naah, he's just a gamer who got had too much red cordial and got a bit excited while defending his 360 i think. He was adiment though...
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 10:39 PM
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There are people here (in Orlando) that have been campingoutside the stores since last night at 9 o'clock. RIDICULOUS!!! There are about 40 people outside Best Buy, 100 outside Walmart and about 30 outside Target. Thats a little to diehard for me.
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 10:50 PM
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My friend is in line right now. He is going to get it and I'm going to sell in on ebay on my account. There are a bunch of rules for selling them. I can't believe people would pay that kind of money just to play it before everyone else...
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 11:09 PM
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from what i heard on the ps3 the blu ray discs can only be played 2 times. then they are no longer useable.. good thing about it though is that it gets transfered to your console hd. i will try to find where i read that .... so i guess with 2 times once for your console and once for a buddies. so split the price of the games amongst both of you (because $80 for a game is crazy)
 
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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 11:59 PM
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...crack...
 
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Old Nov 16, 2006 | 12:31 AM
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The PS3 are selling for about $1600, but i dont think they have exceeded $1800. Theres already camper in Austin since yesterday after noon, thats funny...anyways if any of ya'll that live close to san marcos TX and want a PS3 you might have a chance and buy one cause all the town is made up nothing but college ppl and you know college ppl...WE ARE BROKE!!!..hahaha
 
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Old Nov 16, 2006 | 01:36 AM
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Wow, some of you guys have been seriously misinformed...

The PS3 games will play like any other systems games, sheesh.

Blu-Ray DVD's hold a ton more data than DVD's or their competition HD-DVD's. The upcoming format war is between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD's. Both are capable of recording games and movies in the highest HD resolution, 1080. Sony and a few other companies want to go with Blu-Ray while others like Toshiba want HD-DVD to be the new format. It will be like VHS vs Beta back in the day, obviously VHS ultimately won. I think they are both not going to be too popular. People just converted from VHS to DVD and have no reason to start buying BR or HD-DVD since most homes still dont have a HD-TV. But, eventually people will start to switch to one or the other. A major plus for PS3 is the BR player built in, which is also why it is so expensive. The 360 will eventually come out with an external HD-DVD attachment so it will also play HD movies some time soon.

EDIT:: Just for the sake of info, DVD's currently, i think, only record at a max of 580 resolution. BR and HD-DVD will both be much prettier. They are equivelent to the HD channels on your TV if you are in on that.
 
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