!EVERYTHING! PS3

[Redlum08]

How do you communicate with other people in the game? What if you want to warn someone that the enemy is behind the corner, how would you do that? Stop running around in the game to type out the message and send it to your teamates??  How exactly does playing online on the PS3 work in terms of teamwork?? Anybody know? Or is it just a run around and shoot affair? Not really caring who on your team.....

[Fkacn_tt]

so wat u guys think, is the ps3 getting there or is just another console that would be put to rest

[Redlum08]

How do you communicate with other people in the game? What if you want to warn someone that the enemy is behind the corner, how would you do that? Stop running around in the game to type out the message and send it to your teamates??  How exactly does playing online on the PS3 work in terms of teamwork?? Anybody know? Or is it just a run around and shoot affair? Not really caring who on your team.....

Is there a Mic that comes with the PS3 if it supports Voice Chat?

[BloodWar]

How do you communicate with other people in the game? What if you want to warn someone that the enemy is behind the corner, how would you do that? Stop running around in the game to type out the message and send it to your teamates??  How exactly does playing online on the PS3 work in terms of teamwork?? Anybody know? Or is it just a run around and shoot affair? Not really caring who on your team.....

Is there a Mic that comes with the PS3 if it supports Voice Chat?

There was one for ps2 so there should be one later on

[shivadee]

was a USB mic for PS2. ANy kinda USB mic

[TheApprentice]

You could use usb mics... bluetooth headsets.. etc...

>> Online Play Is Free (Only Premium Content from the Playstation Store is $$$)

>> The 20gb version Can go Online.. (Just not Wirelessly)

[BloodWar]

You could use usb mics... bluetooth headsets.. etc...

>> Online Play Is Free (Only Premium Content from the Playstation Store is $$$)

>> The 20gb version Can go Online.. (Just not Wirelessly)

U have 20 Gig one

[TheApprentice]

Last week's NPD sales data confirmed Nintendo's dominance at the register in both the handheld and console spaces. The Wii's lower price point pits the most heated (and arguably "next-gen") console war between Microsoft and Sony. When NPD reported that Sony sold just 127k PlayStation 3s in the U.S. in February, it's easy to suggest that the company is in dire straits, but looking at the path tread last year by the Xbox 360, Sony is actually on familiar ground.

During its first four months at retail, Microsoft's Xbox 360 was supply constrained but still managed a sell-through in the U.S. of 1.02M consoles through February 2006, according to NPD figures. With suffocating supply constraints during the November launch period, Sony's PlayStation 3 still outsold the Xbox 360 during the same four-month launch window with 1.06M consoles sold through February 2007.

Briefly ignoring just how supply constrained the 360 was during that four month period, the fact that the PlayStation 3 has outsold the Xbox 360 over the same period in its life span despite costing $200 more per unit isn't a something that should get lost amidst the cries of doom and gloom for Sony's platform. How much more would the Xbox 360 have sold had supply not been so constrained in the first four months after launch?

After selling 160k units in February of 2006, the Xbox 360 went on to sell 192k units the following month before bouncing back in April's NPDs with its biggest month since the November launch with 295K units sold. That 295K units would also be the second biggest month for PlayStation 3 sales, but Sony's biggest month wasn't the November launch, rather it was December where the system sold 491K units.

What does this mean for Sony? Considering the system's higher price point, if the platform can keep pace with the Xbox 360 through the first year (while the software matures), regardless of the installed base, the system has to be considered semi-successful.

A concerning statistic between the two platforms' first January and February months is the drop-off in sales for those two months. From January 2006 to February 2006 the Xbox 360 sales trailed off 36% (250K units down to 161k units). At the same point in its lifespan, Sony's PlayStation 3 experienced a drop-off of 48% (244K units down to 127K units). That drop in sales, considering the units are available at retail, is cause for concern. Yet, despite trailing off by 25% more than its supply-constrained predecessor, the system does still cost $200 more.

Neither console had major exclusives during their first February (Virtua Fighter 5 on the PlayStation 3 sold 53K units) -- PlayStation 3 has Motorstorm and Oblivion in March, where Xbox 360 had Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Oblivion at the same point in time last year. Ubisoft's GRAW, which just shipped a sequel this month, sold 486K copies in March of 2006; Oblivion sold a combined 356K copies in March 2006 (there was a limited edition of the game, too). Yet, while software surged for the Xbox 360 in March of 2006, the system only sold 191K units -- its third worst month to date.

What does that mean? Even if Motorstorm and Oblivion-PS3 sell with Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Oblivion-360 type performance at U.S. retail (the latter seems less likely considering pretty much the same game is coming to market a full year later), based on the Xbox 360's March 2006 sales, the PlayStation 3 may not see the sales surge some folks (myself included, albeit erroneously) said the system needed.

In addition to selling more over the first four months of its lifespan than the Xbox 360's first four months, the biggest first party software on PlayStation 3 outsold the biggest first party 360 title during those same four months. According to NPD, Insomniac's Resistance: Fall of Man sold 500K units through February -- the biggest selling first party Xbox 360 launch game over same period -- Perfect Dark Zero -- sold 396K units across two SKUs. The system is selling better over the first four months of its lifespan than the 360 and its major launch game outsold the 360's best selling launch game during the same window.


SOURCE: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158204

[W1nTry]

I am merging this with the PS3 thread

[TheApprentice]

No offense.. But why the merging???

This PS3 topic is so huge.. that to get news you have to go through pages and pages of data...

Separate topics doesn't harm the forum in anyway... + topics remain and contain independent discussions rather than jumbled up info 

[BloodWar]

No offense.. But why the merging???

This PS3 topic is so huge.. that to get news you have to go through pages and pages of data...

Separate topics doesn't harm the forum in anyway... + topics remain and contain independent discussions rather than jumbled up info 

Chakra for that post up ther man boy glad to see we have sony fans here i have sony since ps1 and i backing it till the end ftw.

as for merging as i said i find merging to be completely and utterly riduculous id rather look at a specific point in a different post than this jumbled up pile of nonesense but you have to remember its not our decision its the gms.

[TheApprentice]

yea...well .....mods... *sigh*

btw...
>>>

You could use usb mics... bluetooth headsets.. etc...

>> Online Play Is Free (Only Premium Content from the Playstation Store is $$$)

>> The 20gb version Can go Online.. (Just not Wirelessly)

U have 20 Gig one

I have 60GB

[Crixx_Creww]

hmm @ silly questioning of why the threads were merged


because when  say 10 of yu fan boys want to post on ten arbitrary sony things, there are going to be 10 post

and if anything new happens, GUESS WHAT, TEN MORE THREADS GET CREATED

thats alot of clutter

[BloodWar]

hmm @ silly questioning of why the threads were merged


because when  say 10 of yu fan boys want to post on ten arbitrary sony things, there are going to be 10 post

and if anything new happens, GUESS WHAT, TEN MORE THREADS GET CREATED

thats alot of clutter

I would much prefer that than have to look through this one pile of nonesense to find a specific topic im looking for than just looking for a topic in the console section.

Oh and if all yuh rushing for 20 gig they have stopped producing the 20gig model given that its costing sony around $800 to produce and the 60 gig is costing them about the same. But dont feel sony suffering consoles making they money off of advertising now.

[Crixx_Creww]

you may prefer it, but the fast majority of people would find it a gigantic nuisance, especially the mods.


like for instance, right now in the active topics

there are 4 ps3 related topics, so if you were searching the forums only by the active topics, you would get the wrong impression that all we talk bout here is the ps3, because everytime a fan boy makes a ps3 thread, another topic gets bumped off.

[W1nTry]

This is one of the FEW (I stress of FEW) times that I agree with Crixx. It makes no sense to have every topic as an apart. I merged this topic because its an update, not something that requires so much attention, OR for that matter will maintain any kinda of importance later on. In another 3 months they would have sold x more units and this news would be a thing of the past not worth digging up. If you notice, the Folding @ home thread is NOT merged as it is DIFFERENT and worth mentioning as an apart. Seriously though, ppl the fanboyism, relax (you too crixx). There are only so many fans of any console or brand in here, so its not a BIG deal if the topics aren't really needed as standalone... I am an Xbox 360 user and I merge or put TONNES of 360 news together in teh SAME THREAD. So its not fanboyism of any kind, just relazx ppl

[TheApprentice]

A legit explaination...

Thanks...

[BloodWar]

This is one of the FEW (I stress of FEW) times that I agree with Crixx. It makes no sense to have every topic as an apart. I merged this topic because its an update, not something that requires so much attention, OR for that matter will maintain any kinda of importance later on. In another 3 months they would have sold x more units and this news would be a thing of the past not worth digging up. If you notice, the Folding @ home thread is NOT merged as it is DIFFERENT and worth mentioning as an apart. Seriously though, ppl the fanboyism, relax (you too crixx). There are only so many fans of any console or brand in here, so its not a BIG deal if the topics aren't really needed as standalone... I am an Xbox 360 user and I merge or put TONNES of 360 news together in teh SAME THREAD. So its not fanboyism of any kind, just relazx ppl

i agree and i know why you do it i just think some topics shouldnt be merged at least until a few weeks later when it becomes less important or outdated and this has nothing to do with me being a ps3 if i were in xbox360 thread i would say same thing i just dont find a need to go in xbox thread.

[W1nTry]

Well that's simple, if we leave it for a few weeks it'll slip down into the recesses of that sub-forum and noone will want to put the energy into finding it to merge it, so its better this way.

[BloodWar]

Well that's simple, if we leave it for a few weeks it'll slip down into the recesses of that sub-forum and noone will want to put the energy into finding it to merge it, so its better this way.

Oh well i guess theres no way to make it simpler lol so i can understand why u do it