now XB360 fanboys and MS, taste your slow and painful defeat..

Does this mean that the PS3 80gb will have a 40gbs stats or will the new 80gb be backwards compatible(most important feature – period). If not then I would rather pay more money and still be able to play my old PS2 games.

The Good:
- The new Resistance 2 trailer. The best trailer so far for this game. Awesome.
- The inFamous trailer. This title is shaping up nicely.
- The business presentation done within one level of LBP.
- Some innovative & fresh titles for the PSN : Flower, Fat Princess.
- The Warhawk and Uncharted spaces within Home.

The OK:
- The Video Download Service. I’m not interested in that feature, but some people do. And i understand this is something important from a business perspective.
- The “God of War 3″ teaser. We already knew that a PS3 sequel was coming. So this wasn’t some “groundbreaking news”. And this teaser, in my opinion, wasn’t really interesting.
- The “Resistance 2″ playthrough. I enjoyed very much the first one, his SP campaign and MP part. I’ll buy the 2nd for sure. But the scripted boss battle shown for R2 didn’t do any favor for this title. From a marketing point, with the GeoW2 gameplay demoed 1 day earlier during the MS press conference, this is even worse.

The Bad:
- The infomercial for the PS3 hardware by some developpers. Because it’s not convincing ! It would have been better to get Ubisoft on stage demoing a PS3 level of “Prince of Persia” while praising the hardware, EA showing some gameplay from “Dead space”, a teaser of “Bayonetta” from Sega, some new gameplay from “Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm”, etc…
- The emphasise on “Exclusive”. O_o ! Didn’t you get the memo that yesterday MS stole the biggest exclusive the PS3 had: FF 13 ?
- The 10 years life cycle for the PS3. With the current situation, don’t you think that’s something now pointless ?
- The new 80 GB PS3 WITHOUT BC to come for 399$. As if Sony didn’t see the tremendous demand for all the 80 GB pack with BC ! Very bad business decision here. :(
- So much talk about the multimedia features of the PS3. So few about what really matters : GAMES. And features for GAMERS. And that’s NONSENSE. Because it’s games that FIRST will drive people towards a console and then let them enjoy all of its multimedia features.
- Exclusive content for the PS3 version of Bioshock. This could have been great if the rumors were true : a new opening cinematic, 2 more ennemies, 2 new levels that were discared because of lack of time, etc… But, unfortunately, the exclusive DLC we are offered is not really appealing. A ‘grand coup’ has been missed here ! Bad business decision.
- Focus on pointless / anecdotal features. For exemple, the “weather world stuff” intead of bringing the long-awaited prepaid card for PSN.
- The lack of diversity. One more multiplayer fps was announced with MAG… Although there’s already TONS of fps : Warhawk, Socom confrontation, Resistance 2, Killzone 2… But no news about “Heavy Rain”, “White Knight Chronicle” or the new project from the Team ICO.
Why don’t you build up a japanese development team only dedicated to RPG and action-RPG ?

The Sad:
- The lack of communication : “WipeOut HD” was said to be available for summer but it has disappeared. And no words from anybody from SCE about that. No one to explain what’s going on.
- I’m under the impression those who are taking the strategic decision about the PS3 live cut off from the gaming world. That they don’t use the feedback from this excellent blog and some famous boards; See how the commnunity react to some decisions, determine what should be the next move, get fresh ideas, improve their strategy, etc…
- Capcom, Bethesda and Square-Enix were on stage during the MS conference. Worse, many major japanese titles are only available on the X360 (dead rising, ace combat 6, infinite undiscovery, star ocean 4, the last remnant, etc…). Although X360 hardly even exist in Japan. O_o What’s going on ? Are Sony relations with third-party that bad ?
- Don’t fool yourself, MS is going for the Kill. Don’t mess up ! Otherwise one day, SCEJ employees will go to work only to find empty offices. There will be a business card pinned on the wall saying : “Hi !, this X from MS. It has been a real pleasure competing with you on the console game market. We’ve heard of your recent misfortune from the newspapers. But we would like to let you know that we will heartly welcome any of your future projects on Xbox 720 when you’ll feel ready. MS”
MS will then achieve another monopoly: first on OS, then PC games and perhaps console games. 180$ for a 120GB hard drive. 80$ for WiFi. Yeah, the big deal ! :((

AND PLEASE TRY TO PUT A FFXIII TRAILER ON THE PS STORE!!!!!!!!! IT WILL HELP ALOT! AND SHOW THAT PLAYSTATION IS FF’S HOME!!!! PLEASE.

(btw they wont respond to us on this blog, because there are too many complaints for them to handle)

I have to give it to Microsoft. And I HATE Microsoft. Think about it…a console that breaks consistently, that copies other’s ideas, and is ridiculously loud…is beating you, badly. You’ll probably look on this board and see all of the cries for RPGs and think “that’s a small vocal few”. But what you aren’t getting is that Sony FANS are coming to this site. We want DESPARATELY for the PS3 to come out on top but you aren’t giving us anything to work with. The Xbox gathered all of the 1st person shooter fans. They aren’t going to leave that console for Socom, Resistance, Killzone OR MAG. Concentrate on the other genres. Uncharted was fantastic, Ratchet was superb, inFamous is going to be great…but you need RPGs. If you would have at least SHOWN White Knight Story, tons of people would have more confidence in the systems future. I TRY to buy 3rd party games on the PS3, but Microsoft keeps on getting special exclusive content for their versions so I’m forced, as a consumer looking for the best deal, to purchase the ones for their system. Please take note of what everyone is saying on the boards and make the needed changes, otherwise, might as well go the Sega route and make games for all consoles.

What a difference a console generation makes when bad decisions are made.