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"X Box Live, How can Sony hope to compete?"

Hear that rolling sound? That because Sony dropped the ball on internet connectivity. Microsoft have picked it up, got their FPS line up sorted and seem destined to win the online battle by default. Sony have been way too slow. Microsoft are currently gearing their top titles for XBox live, for instance Halo 2 and PGR2. Also through May there's Ghost Recon and Wolfenstein. What have Sony unleashed as far as FPS's go? Tribes 2. erm..

Plus for the ps2 you actually have to buy the modem and buy the harddisk.

Am I overlooking something? aside from the blind loyalty factor?

I still want to hear both sides and i'm still willing to be persuaded why sony's online capabilities are good. I have never ruled out getting a ps2. I own a psone (bad decision, n64 was drying up and i was reaching, but still). I still can't see much point, aside from GTA. but they just don't appeal to me, and sonys track record worries me. so dislike sony, probably, worried about their track record definately. but hey seven years ago i wouldn't have bothered with any consoles cos before goldeneye my acorn archimedes beat them hands down

Your last comment made it all the more clear.
You dislike sony.

Dunno why, maybe because they have done so well compared to others, maybe because you don't own one. Or maybe like many others on here you just don't know why.

There are loads of biased views on here everyday.

i couldn't be bothered to comment on the saturn 'fact'. basically because if ps3 launched at 400 quid it would be suicide. i expect microsoft and nintendo would release their consoles at a loss again and bingo: ps3 go bye bye.

El Blokey wrote:


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> The Saturn launched at £400 and sold well enough.


Yeah...so well it led to Sega's retreat from the hardware industry.

yup. i'm getting the ps one confused with psx/playstation.

So yeah at launch it was 80 quid for a multitap (actually it was so long ago it might've been the 8 player one. was there one? i can't remember!)

psx is the playstation

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sorry i mean playstation not psx

£80???

I got my PSX multi tap for £20 on release.

i was taking into account Nintendo's and Microsoft's offerings and the likely hood that i'd get those again. besides, aside from GTA and (PSX) doom, sony's machines have never really offered anything to get me to buy one. so likely hood i wont. Also i like my multiplayer, so i'll get the one which is geared up to multiplayer the most. That's why i got my xbox, i can design countless levels on the harddisk for timesplitters 2 and then play them against my mates.

10 quids not too bad for a multitap and hopefully the ps3 multitap will be that price. but some of us still remember our friends hiring out the original PSX multitap because 80 quid for a multitap was just stupid. Thats why some of us think long and hard before considering sony

Hedfix wrote:
> I think the middle 'fact' is a little unlikely - people are not that
> stupid. 500 quid for the fanatics only methinks

The Saturn launched at £400 and sold well enough. Take a massivley popular machine like the playstation...and it could easily happen.

> Erm, the PSX came out when everything was pretty much 2 ports. what i
> was saying was that ps2 should have progressed to 4 ports when every
> other console did. the only good reason i can think of not to is to
> scam more money out of the ps2 owner/purchaser.

Well it is the only real reason. It's cheaper, and it gets them more money. Win/win for Sony, and people are willing to pay extra money for a multitap. I don't have one, but I still play multiplayer with friends.

> When competing against 3 competitors
> (dreamscast was still going at ps2 launch so its included) you don't
> adopt a "if it aint broke don't fix it" attitude. That's
> just asking for trouble.

And look how much trouble Sony are in!!!

> They'll probably do it with the PS3 and once again i probably won't
> buy one

Buyintg three extra controllers will cost a fair bit for 4 player gaming, so what's another tenner on top for a multitap? If you won't buy a console, no matter how many great games you want are on it just because it only has 2 slots, then you're really very silly.