Comments on: Sony Suicide Watch: PS3 hardware… not looking good

By: kyle

kyle — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:22:43 +0000

ps3 and xbox 360 are srewed !!!!!!!!!!
yes i knew this day would come the wii will be awosome it nintnedo online and play a fps with the new controler and we got game play. if they could get any of the final fanticys on it wich is where they belong i think microsft and sony got screwed by a system weaker than them!!!!!!!lolololol

By: Finster

Finster — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:02:58 +0000

I would tend to agree, but one indication of Sony's success in Japan are the recent readers' polls that Famitsu did of what topics they were most interested in hearing about during E3. The first poll [1up erroneous calls this a post-E3 poll] done during the week of E3 showed HEAVY bias towards Sony. Nothing in the top 10 was Xbox related (no surprise) and the only item that had to do with Nintendo was because of SSBB's inclusion of a character made popular by the PS2's perennial MGS series. The second poll was done AFTER E3, and was VERY different. The Wii dominated the top ten pretty handily. (FFXIII was still #1.) And Halo 3 even managed to squeak into the top ten. Also, 88.4% of Famitsu readers thought the PS3 was too expensive. That is pretty telling... I dunno, quite a reversal, and it looks like the Wii will be released a few weeks BEFORE the PS3, essentially rendering the PS3 launch pointless. "Hmm, I can buy this 25,000 yen device that's exciting right now... or this 60,000 yen device 2 weeks from now, that will someday be able to play FFXIII..." If Nintendo somehow managed to get FFXIII onto the Wii... well. Stick a fork in the PS3, because it's done.

By: Jason "Botswana" Cox

Jason "Botswana" Cox — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:14:03 +0000

On the other hand, they just may well achieve getting everything wrong on a console release.

You also know it will also sell like crack in a plastic case in Japan while X360’s continue to gather dust over there, right?