PS3s Online Services to Compete With XBox 360 182
wh0pper writes "Dubbed WA!PS3 Online, Sony plans to combat the Xbox 360's download service with their own service for the Playstation 3. Though this is only going to happen in Asian markets at first, this adds even more fuel to the fiery debate over whether the Playstation 3 will have a hard drive included with the system. The Playstation 3 will be able to download games to the console for gamers to play and Sony says it will be better than the Xbox 360's features."
Name? (Score:3, Funny)
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That said, I hope the service is good enough to overcome it.
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WA-BANG-PSSS-THREE, it's as easy as Samir Nagheenanajar...
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^_^
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Maybe they plan to be mostly targeting at WA!SP [wikipedia.org] customers?
I'm just waiting for the day when the inevitable immature kiddies on the service get called "WAPS".
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I'm hyped! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm hyped! PARENT NOT TROLL (Score:2)
Whomever modded the parent as Troll -1 is a MORON -5.
DRM? (Score:2)
Either way, you get clobbered with DRM.
So instead, I'll steal a joke from an earlier article:
In college, you owned a Sony. In Corporate America, SONY own YOU!
I don't feel too bad about stealing that joke though, the
Where's the real stuff? (Score:5, Insightful)
So far Sony has been able to provide people with.. promises. Nothing concrete and no I don't consider a few screenshots or videos here or there as believeable material as most of them have already been revealed to be pre-rendered material.
There's way too much hyping on both sides, yet only one party has so far been able to even deliver a reasonably working box to consumers.
Re:Where's the real stuff? (Score:2)
1. I don't like MS all that much
2. GTA5 will be exclusive on PS3, at least for awhile.
I'm not a PS fanboy, but you could say I'm pro PS, or more Anti-MS, whatever.. still these stupid bullshit vaporware press releases are annoying me. Show me something, or shut up until you're at least near where you need to be.
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Like having to buy all thos "Undocumented DOS" books
Re:Where's the real stuff? (Score:2)
Ah yes. Sony has never done anything. Like have the last two leading consoles. With thousands of titles. Selling hundreds of millions of consoles worldwide. Yes, I'd say t
Re:Where's the real stuff? (Score:2)
Yeah, I remember when Atari and Nintendo had that too.
-Eric
Re:Where's the real stuff? (Score:2)
Wouldn't this apply to your entire post? Past performance, especially of other companies (!), is hardly guarantee of future results.
However, while it's not a guarantee, that doesn't mean it's not a decent indicator. It doesn't mean that at very least, we can't give them the benefit of the doubt. Nintendo, despite not being #1, have shown that they are worth the benefit of the doubt, despite extreme skepticism about various decisions (the DS, th
Reading between the lines ... (Score:2)
Well since nobody seems to have patented reading between the lines and empty speculation yet (:P), I'll try to answer your question.
This is how I interpret what's been happening with the PS3, especially in the last couple of weeks:
Other PS3 storage media. (Score:2, Interesting)
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I'm not against Sony generally but on the memory card issue I think they're completely out to lunch. This is particularly true
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All Talk If You Ask Me (Score:2, Redundant)
Big surprise that Sony says that. Well it should be better since it's gonna be out over a year later than the 360.
http://religiousfreaks.com/ [religiousfreaks.com]Re:All Talk If You Ask Me (Score:2, Informative)
Re:All Talk If You Ask Me (Score:2, Flamebait)
I liked it. I'd suggest you try to remember that the only person you speak for is yourself. Nobody voted you in as Grand Poobah.
Put it in your sig where it belongs.
He can put it wherever he pleases. Go be something less obnoxious, like a grammar nazi.
Max
No HD in the US = foolish (Score:4, Insightful)
There is no question that any next gen system needs to have some type of local mass storage. The only question is how big it needs to be. The 360's 20GB HD is already looking way too small.
Oh and Fight Night Round 3 kicks ass.
Re:No HD in the US = foolish (Score:1)
I'm not pushing my HDD, but its by no means empty. And storage on the order of single digit gigabytes would not be enough IMO.
Of course all of this may just be a ploy to sell memory stcks.
Re:No HD in the US = foolish (Score:2)
Hard drives are so cheap nowadays I don't see why they don't bundle them with 250GB drives. Of course, it was very smart of them to have the hard drives be user-swappable in the 360, which makes upgrades in the future a very real possibility. If they're smart, they'll start letting people download full games soon. I h
Re:No HD in the US = foolish (Score:2)
Big publishers would never support a console that cut them out of the equation entirely. Madden would never shout "Boom!" on a machine that cut out EA. EB wouldn't be too thrilled about pushing a console that pushed them out.
With downloadable games, a lot of development houses could cut out the publisher. More and more people these days are willing to throw some high-risk funds at video game developers. And develope
Re:No HD in the US = foolish (Score:2)
If you can't post a response without saying fuck, and can't say fuck without posting as Anonymous Coward, I won't bother feeding you, troll.
Re:Pong! (Score:2)
Whether it's a bad business decision for MS is irrelivent to me. I really don't understand why everybody's crying a river because they got more value for their dollar and one of the richest entities on earth ran at a loss. Seriously, you console enthusiasts have the mindsets of serfs.
Re:No HD in the US = foolish (Score:1)
humm yea (Score:1)
you think... i don't think they would come out and say "we are going to add this thing but the 360 blows us out of the water.. hell we wish we had that feature set on this thing"
everything you do is better in your own eyes.. only others (and not the people you pay) can tell you if it really is
"Better than the Xbox 360!" (Score:4, Insightful)
'cause no company, anywhere, has ever made claims like this as a matter of course. I mean, I'm sure Sony actually
I mean, can you imagine Nintendo, for instance, coming out and going, "Yes! The Revolution is cool...! But the Xbox 360 is a better product." Even if it were true (and of course, the jury is still out on the competition to the 360), of course they wouldn't say it.
Re:"Better than the Xbox 360!" (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not, ever browsed a sony portal/website? You can hardly find worse pieces of crap.
Yeah, the makers of SWG, the sinkers of Everquest, woohoo, that's something to look forward to, kind of like watching the titanic depart from england after knowing the end of the story.
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Kutagari's more of a hardware guy, not a software/networking one. I kind of doubt he has the expertise with that kind of things, while the Sony Online Entertainment supposedly do.
Now, truth to be told, there is still hope... as long as the SOE guys don't start making games for the PS3 it may recover.
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For those that don't get the reference:
****SPOILER****
The ship sinks.
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-Eric
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Yeah, just look at the fine job they've done with Star Wars Galaxies.
-Eric
WASP Online! (Score:1)
Submitter could have just included the next two sentences and left off the link entirely, too.
---John Holmes...
Re:WASP Online! (Score:3, Funny)
Goes something like this: (Score:5, Funny)
Sony: "Nuh uh! Your system is poop! Mine's gonna be awesomerer than your's! My system is gonna have, uh.. um..A ROUTER.. and uh, dual shock 3.. maybe I can squeeze in a harddrive.. nah, no harddrive. well, maybe.. And it's gonna play the Blu Rays! And, and, and it's gonna go online too! Only faster than your system! With prettier colors! And more funner games than what you've got! And I'm gonna call PS Web! It's gonna rock. So, nya!"
Microsoft: "Wow, that sounds pretty cool." Here's mine *shows an Xbox360 Premium*
Sony: "DOODY HEAD!!!"
somethin like that
meanwhile, Nintendo is playing quietly in the sandbox by itself making controllers in the sand and revolutionizing the way the other kids are playing on the playground they've been using for years.
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-Eric
3 things (Score:2)
2. It's not going to be as good as Revolution: I'd given up on consoles (I'm not spending over 60hrs walking around some rpg fantasy land, slowly) - but the revolution allowing me to download old snes games from my past sealed the deal.
3. I would like to pass my condolences to CowboyNeal (aka. da honk) for being shot yesterday at 2.47am while running his pimp service on the streets of Harlem, and wish his right arm a speedy recovery. I wi
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Also, the point is brought up that the PS3 doesn't even have a HDD announced yet. All this is majorly pointing to a tiered release like the 360 had. After all, if us non-Asian countries don't have access to the online action, what would we be doing with the hard drive?
And I think I recall reading something about developers or some other group wondering how Sony is planning on fiting everything into its little model bo
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Okay enough about the old game downloads already. It's as much crap as those who keep their PSP's at firmware 1.0 so they can play hacked roms on the new hardware. As cool as that is, does it really make sense? I have a ton of old videogames that I never play even though I could and why would you even buy a $300+ device just so you can play 10 year old games on it? Not to mention the fact that Nintendo isn't going
Re:3 things (Score:3, Interesting)
Mostly, my Xbox is a media player. Secondly, it is an emulator, and I have full collections of genesis/megadrive and snes games on it (everything from US and UK, plus some translatations of Japanese roms.) Thirdly, it is an Xbox, and plays Xbox games. I have spent vastly more time playing SNES games than Genesis games, and vastly more time playing Genesis games than Xbox games.
In particular, the Xbox is a better player of most games (those which are supported, which is the vast majority) than the origin
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Plus I find platforms games more fun and skillful - I have yet to see something like those cool minecart levels (like the speed and timing required) in the Donkey Kong Country recreated in a 3d game. You get the very occasional platform game for newer consoles, but they're not as great as the entire nintendo backcatalogue put together.
Additionally, since I have a PS2, and Sega has released the
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What's funny is people say that, but at the same time tout the xbox Live, which makes you pay for EVERYTHING including to play games you already bought! Nintendo doesn't charge me extra to play online games for free with the DS. That must be why it took them much less time to get the same amount of unique connections to Nintendo WiFi Connection
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You don't have to blow on carts any more. They make cleaning kits.
Anyway, I agree with you (obviously, I have a sibling comment to yours that makes it quite clear) but I just wanted to chime in and say NO, you DEFINITELY don't want all those systems hooked up. At one time I had coleco, intellivision, atari 2600, sms, nes, genesis, snes, turbo grafx, ps2, and gamecube hooked up to the same system. It was a fucking nightmare of switchboxes and crap. Never again. All hail the hacked Xbox full of emulators
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Tiered model (Score:1)
I am tired of this sony hot air ... (Score:1)
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Sounds like Sony's answer to Nintendogs!
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What's up with /.? (Score:1)
And since I'm a googlewhore, I readily enjoy and appreciate this.
But Sonywhore'ing? Don't like it, don't want it!
Slashdot is starting to suck just a little more every day.
When did it jump the shark?
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Re:What's up with /.? (Score:2, Funny)
Ah- Judging by your user ID, about two years before you signed up.
Sony should be... (Score:2, Interesting)
I think what Sony needs to do is make a solid product and actually make sure they have a better game line up. One of the main reasons I switched from Gamecube to Xbox was because I was attracted by titles that I couldn't get on Gamecube. All that to say that I don't think that throwing a lot of hardware and technology is the way to go. Instead, software features and game tit
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Anyway, how can 2 products battle when one product is a myth?
Good god! (Score:2)
In other news... (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, duh! In other news, Coke to compete with Pepsi!!! Stay tuned to Slashdot where, after these brief messages from the OSDN ad network, we'll discuss how Gillette's next product will be competing with Schick!
Not Obvious (Score:2)
In contrast, you pay for XBox Live once, and login once, and from there see where all your friends are playing, send invites to them to come join you for
Dupe... (Score:1)
This one is just reiterating buzz-word [wikipedia.org] about vaporware [wikipedia.org], that has been posted before [slashdot.org].
Forget PS3 and Xbox 360 crapp (Score:2)
Re:Forget PS3 and Xbox 360 crapp (Score:2)
Don't settle for some pansy-ass Gaminator! For 2010, they is only ONE system to buy. Think the futu
Here come to mod-downs (Score:2)
It's all a combination of Sony wanting to maintain the hype by sending out non-facts via
Re:Here come to mod-downs (Score:3, Insightful)
There are good reasons to think the PS3 will be a 2007 release in a giant box at $1000 (the PS3 is a Blu-ray player and more, how's it going to be half the size and half the price of a Blu-ray player alone?) so Sony keeps making sure little blurbs about how awesome they are and that the PS3 is just around the corner. Of course the fact that no one has seen one, and that they aren't even showing demos, but only pre
Whatever.... (Score:1)
2nd off, from what I've read (quite a bit, mind you...) no the PS3 is not going to have a hard-drive included, it's supposed to be a seperate add-on from what I understand... I think the download service the article refers to was supposed to put the games on BDs when you bought the content online through te
So... (Score:2)
Pretty please?
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"To give an idea of the graphical prowess of their new system, Sony claims it is capable of rendering the movie "Toy Story" in real time."
http://www.dvdfuture.com/features.php?id=2 [dvdfuture.com]
See it to beleive it (Score:2)
News? (Score:2)
Or were people thinking they were trying to compete with a Whopper?
Or is the article trying to imply that the fact that they are going to have an online service hasn't been well known for ages?
Breaking News!!!! Sony Makes Lofty Claim!!!! (Score:1)
Is it just me, or is this really old news? Sony has been promising this since GT4. Oh yeah, and it will work with the PSP too? *snicker* I'd like to see that. I really would. But I don't think that I will.
The WA! (Score:1)
WAPS? (Score:2)
The fact that they didn't catch that they are using an ethnic slur as the name of their online services suggests it's time to short the stock.
Donald Trump would fire someone for that. How stupid can you be. And it's not like they don't have a whole lot of eyes looking at this stuff.
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Re:Apple/Nintendo - Microsoft Is Irrelevant (Score:2)
I think Bill Gates is getting so disappointed with MS in general, let alone their "360 fiasco". Word is he's going to shoot himself in the nuts.
Please continue your sterling efforts.
Re:but will it be better than the xbox720? (Score:1)
how do you know this one will be better? i'm no fan of ms or sony they both suck as far as i'm concerned. i do own both current consoles and the 360, will buy ps3 as soon as it gets here too. anyways since no one has been ablt lay their
Re:Sony says PS3 will be better than 360 (Score:2)
My Mac kicks your Linux in the scrotum, my PSP spanks your DS and I really have no opinion on the straight/gay issue... I personally prefer the ladies, but to each their own when it comes to getting off, I figure.
Re:Sony says PS3 will be better than 360 (Score:2)
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Re:*If* Sony makes a better Live... (Score:2)
Re:Too bad for Sony... (Score:2, Insightful)
But these half-ass releases make me mad, on both sides, can't they step up the production? what good is advertising things when you cant even suppy them?
I Still cant belive I cant walk in to Best Buy yet and buy one of these things.
I keep calling around and everyone says they had some, but they were gone as soon as they came in!
Havent found a online site yet that is selling them that is not a total rip off.