[moep]

Does anyone know if the 45nm Die-shrink for the PS3 is still scheduled to come soon? (that is in <3 months)

Slashdot | Cell Hits 45nm, PS3 Price Drop Likely to Follow

I know that I will buy a PS3 for Bluray at some point down the road, the question is just if I'll buy one now together with GTA4 or if I'll wait some more (and grab GTA4 for the Xbox).

[Hawkeye_a]

Thats kinda nice to hear. If the shrink in die(and heat sinks) would lead to a smaller, cooler, quieter PS3 model i'd wait.

[moep]

Yeah, there were rumors about a "PS Three" popping up already, including mock-ups of what it might look like:


Rumor - Sony to release a slim PSThree this Fall - SlashGear

Guess I'll wait until fall after all.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Seems a bit soon for any smaller version to come out. I don't think it will come till next year.

[Aegis]

The white mock-up looks like somebody stepped on a Wii.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Wow, I didn't realize GT5 released for PS3 a few weeks ago. For Sony's flagship, I'm surprised it got so little fan-fare around here.

[sek929]

huh? Wow, i heard nothing about what is most likely the most important release for PS3 thus far.

[angelmb]

SONY is indeed advertising GT5 here in Europe when TVs broadcast Formula 1 Grand Prix, maybe due to the lost about the exclusivity regarding the FIA F1 license. They also sell it as a pack, anybody surprise. Albeit they are still far far away from ubiquitous Nintendo's marketing machine they are better than Microsoft's.

[ort888]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

Wow, I didn't realize GT5 released for PS3 a few weeks ago. For Sony's flagship, I'm surprised it got so little fan-fare around here.

It's Gran Turismo 5 : Prologue

It's basically a beefed up demo that costs 40 bucks. The real game comes out in 2009.

I might have these numbers wrong, but I think it's 5 tracks, 70 cars, no customization and very barebones online.

Not the real game, just a teaser to hold over the fans until the full game.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Wow, weird.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

PS3 software has leading percentage of 'good' games - PS3 Fanboy

[- - e r i k - -]

What an odd argument:

While the software library of the PS3 is rather small, in comparison to the other two, it's more likely that a shopper buying a completely random game from the PS3 shelves will fare better than when shopping for the other consoles. While we have to endure through a bit of shovelware on our system, we feel bad for the uneducated Wii shopper, where "bad" games are seemingly the norm.

Surely what really matters is the size of the software library and exclusive "good" titles. I think this "fanboy" is reaching.

[Hawkeye_a]

Yea no kidding, when the PS2 in its time had a comparable ratio, it was all fine and dandy. double standards...fanboyism's most obvious symptom.

Anyway... whats this...$40 for a demo ? wow

[Hawkeye_a]

The "other" game released this week was Mario Kart for the Wii.... most reviews downplayed the graphical jump over the GCN version, and i must admit i was a LITTLE disappointed as well at first. but 12 player multiplayer probably factored into it somewhere.

To see the visual 'upgrade' over the GCN version, here's a comparison video from Gamespot.. GameSpot Video: Then & Now: Mario Kart Wii

[jokell82]

Report: Only 11% of Wii games score above 80% - Joystiq


tl;dr: The Wii has more crappy games than any other console.

Edit - And of course this was already posted above. Disregard.

[Dakar the Fourth]

I wanna know how many of that 11% are 3rd party titles.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

I got Mario Cart that I was really looking forward to. It is a bit meh but still fun.

The main problem is that it feels like Nintendo isn't even trying anymore. They know they can just make an OK game and it will sell like hotcakes (And Nintendo making money is my main concern anyway) so why push the limites or come up with something new?

The game is still fun but it has the same problem that the very first NES version did... horrible AI. Expect to be in 1st for most of the race only to have yourself hit with 3 different brutal weapons 50 feet from the finish line and watch 4 racers rush past you.

As for graphics... yickes. It isn't horrible but looking at Metroid we know although the Wii hardware sucks it can still do better than what Mario cart gave us.

The other bad news is they took out drifting and gimped the battlemode. God knows why.

When I look the value I get for the $50 for this game and the $10 more I spent on GTA IV it really makes me feel that Wii games should be $40 max.

[ort888]

GTA4 isn't really a fair comparison, but I do feel you.

I'm starting to get more and more annoyed with the Wii and what it offers me.

I know Nintendo is raking in the cash right now, but they are really sticking it to the hardcore audience. Right now they are targeting casuals and massive Nintendo fanboys and that's about it. Once you get over the waggle controls (which I did almost immediately) you are left with a Gamecube and a bunch of rehashes of games we've already played.

It's like they aren't even trying anymore. I wonder if it's eventually going to bite them in the ass. The casuals will eventually tire of this thing, which will leave them with just the massive Nintendo fanboys, a bunch of bored casuals who have moved on and a bunch of scorned hardcore gamers.

Although I guess people have been saying this all along and been continually proven wrong, so who knows.

The only game on the Wii that has really blown me away was Mario Galaxy. The rest of the big games are either rehashes of what we have seen before (Zelda, Metroid, Smash Bros, Mario Kart) or waggle mini-game fests. (wario ware, Wii Sports, WiiPlay, Wiifit).

I like to see the envelope pushed. At least in the past when Nintendo rehashed a game for the 3rd time in a row, we got a generational leap in graphics. Now we're just getting Cube games with Waggle.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Here's a question: What do you think was the last Nintendo game that pushed the envelope?