Me too. Though maybe not the price drop that usually takes a while. The first batches often has things wrong with it.

yeah, ill give it as long as it takes and see what kinda games get released with them as well. Either of those would fair better than the 360 here id imagine. Unless somebody here can *ahem* modify the chip for me?

My friend has a PS3 on order and claims he will be getting it on launchday. So I'll take a look at that then.

Sure it's nt just an IOU?

Would like to see it myself. Considering it is launching very soon I don't see much buzz about it. Then again, if they only have 12 consoles before 2007....

Interesting article about the PS3 launch yesterday

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

interesting, this seems to be the case with a lot of things these days - big sports tickets and so on. cash rules.

i played a ps3 in toys r us yesterday, not bad but no different to the xbox360 that i could see, and only 4 or 5 games out for it and much more expensive.

Saw a thing on the PS3 about them making games etc on TV the other night.
Damn the graffix on the grand turismo for the PS3 looked insane!

I saw the Wii for the first time on TV the other day too (on a CM) and that night I had a dream I had one, and was having a really good time with it! What does that mean? Should I line up on Dec 2nd??

Probably the most fun I ever had playing games was on the nintendo NES and N64. But I got a gamecube and it was pretty poor. Id quite like to try this new Wii but I think I'll be going for an xbox360 soon. The games coming out for it are looking really good .

I have owned all most every console since the 80's not a rich kid, I worked part-time to feed my game habit. Bought almost every one of them at launch date.

NES
SNES
Megadrive
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Xbox
Cube
PS1
PS2

At the time the PS1 was 300 Irish pounds. Which is actualy more expensive than what I can get the PS3 for now. So I dont get what all the anti sony thing is in the press.
Now that I am older I just dont have the time to play all three and for me its going to be the PS3
Mostly because the PS3 will have more adult games. I dont want to play fishing or drums on the Wii.
I dont think the controler is that good even, I had the Microsoft Sidewinder controler with the gyro about 8 years ago. Where you can control the tilt and yaw by moving the controler.
It got boring very quick. I want a next gen console that has everything needed at once. e.g. 360 not having a hd drive installed, wii undecided. Especaily living in Japan as there is not enough room in my flat.

Lastly,
the PS3 is the only native full HD 1080P.

People spend too much on consoles, the only one I've ever owned is the original xbox which was given to me as a gift.

I don't understand people paying so much for the PS3 though. As far as I'm aware, there are only two games that will be available that aren't already out on the xbox360.

I didnt know that about full native 1080 - is that right?

xbox360 comes with a 20gb HDD built in in Japan I think.

For me Xbox360 is looking better than PS3 right now, but in 2 years time it may be a different story once more games are available and we see who wins the bluray / hddvd war.

I'm more and more sceptical about the Wii. It just doesn't sound like it will maintain interest. And apparently it "looks" pretty much this gen. The others will race ahead with people who aren't into party games and pikachu or whatever.

I'll be getting a PS3. Games being region free will be a big thing.

Yes bobby12
The PS3 is Native 1080P
The 360 is Native 1080i
The Wii is Native 480P

The 360 can be firmware upgraded to 1080P but 90% of games will never support it, it may also produce visual tearing.

1080P = 1920 × 1080 or about 2.07 million pixels
1080i = 1920 × 1080 / 2 or about 1.04 million pixels that is for an interlaced tv but single pixel x pixel is about 1366x768
480P = 640 x 480 or about 3 hundread thousand pixels.

The Wii while looking nice on normal TVs and can upscale a bit but if you have a HD tv it will never look good. I think the controler is a gimic, when playings I am a couch potatoe and I dont want to be flailing my arms around to make mario jump.

make sure you buy the hdtv too!

As it happens my monitor is 2560x1600 way above HDTV quality. I plan on using said monitor for the PS3 and use a HDMI converter. I guess in a few months there will be some hacks for the PS3, I wouldnt mind over clocking it. Even the PSP can be overclocked just by software.

Anyway please have a look at this page.
http://dreamgamers.blogcindario.com/2006/11/00018-rr-6-xbox-360-versus-rr-7-ps3.html

It compares the same game(ridge racer) between the 360 and ps3(at the same resolution). There are quite a number of differences. All this adds to the experience. All in all PCs have the best graphics haha.

Wii looks really kiddy. I can't imagine people wanting to wave the thing around all the time.

I got a spyware alert when trying to go to that link you posted above.

After using DS for a while I was reaffirmed that it's all about game play and not about graphics. Though I hear some PS3 games finally have non-Zombie human rendering.

Lots of tech stuff discussed in this article .