PS3 in danger

[hussain21]

Originally Posted by electricjoe13

Sony is really good at marketing there systems...period. It doesn't seem to matter about the system downfalls, they market well and drench the population with as many games as possible. I for one have NEVER owned a Sony system and thus far have NO plans on ever owning one. They simply got in the mrket by 1) under cutting the Sega Saturn in price,...and then saturating the market with games. Yes the first system had innovation with an odd new controller AND surprising new gaming experiences. But so far after the PS1 I have seen through the mass marketing and gimics. What do I mean?
Well for one the supposed "emotion enigne". Uh yeah, if a lack of anti aliasing is supposed to cause emotion then I missed the boat. Lets face it PS2 was rushed. Sega surprised the market with the underrated Dreamcast, and Sony didn't want to be the one playing catch up. So why does such a supposed poorly designed and rushed system(my opinion) succeed? Thats where the marketing comes in. Yes I will be the first to say the PS2 has some great titles...but again if you pour them out as fast as possible....odds are you'll have good ones with the bad.....simple logic. I could go on and on...believe me I am an opinionated guy....lol. What does this have to do with PS3? wellll....again we have a chipset with a gimic name" the cell"....uhhhhh not impressed? You shouldn't be...most of us can see its flaws and WE are not experts. We don't program for it, and we didn't build it...but again if problems like bottlenecking is soooo clear to us now...what will we be saying in years to come about it? Other things I personally do not like about it...how many USB ports do we really need...or will this machine actually take advantage of? Even better question....did you who had a PS2 use the ones given to you on that system? Support for 2 monitors? Uhhhhh why? And again who and how many of us can or will ever use this? Am I nit picking? Perhaps....I guess I just wrote this to get you to think...it could all just be a bunch of non-sense...lol

Not nit picking

Support for 2 monitors, last time I checked you needed 2 HDTVs, sure it's a neat feature, but who has 2 HDTV right next to each other, the majority of the population don't even own one, that includes a bunch of hardcore gamers.

You forgot to mention the support for 7 controllers. It's an odd number, they'll always be a black screen, now excluding HDTVs, how tiny do they expect the screens for each player to be? are developers going to bother supporting 7 players?

The emotion engined promised that it could show emotions, hahahaha, plastic faces are quite emotional, they thought it would replace desktop processors, I think I'm still on an Intel processor, not a sony one.

I've seen the PS2 USB ports but heard from many friends that they don't know what it is (:hmpf or they've never found anything to use it with. Will the PS3 be different, well who knows.

[skbriot22]

I agree with hussain on the controller issue. How are they planning to divide those screens, will six persons be confined to one screen whilst the 7th gamer gets one screen for him/herself? Or, being a bit more realistic -- 4 to 3. I think few third-party developers will utilize that feature and stick with support for 4 players at any one time, leaving parent/ 1st party developers(sony)to back-up their claims where necessary.