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tapedeck Newbie

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Anyone any tips of where to buy a PS3 controller for a good price? (Only official PS3 controllers mind.)

 

I want a Dual Shock 3 as it's got the rumblez. Cheapest I've seen is £32 at 365games.

 

Anyone seen any cheaper?

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there was one site that did it for 17.99 so make sure you scout around, although it is very unlikely you will find one for that cheap. I got my white Dual Shock for £30 on ebay new, which is alright I guess.

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Anyone any tips of where to buy a PS3 controller for a good price? (Only official PS3 controllers mind.)

 

I want a Dual Shock 3 as it's got the rumblez. Cheapest I've seen is £32 at 365games.

 

Anyone seen any cheaper?

DualShock + Wrap = £25.98 at GAME.

Dante Newbie

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Remember this?

 

CNBC reporting 'Sony wins E3 thanks to MGS4' :laughing:

 

The Ultimate Proof Sony Is Winning

Posted By:Jane Wells

Topics:Video Games | Movies & Film Studios

Sectors:Travel and Leisure

Companies:Sony Corporation

 

Forget the analysts. Forget the NPD sales figures. Forget the CEO’s. I live with the ultimate expert on the video game industry—my 16-year-old son.

 

He not only plays video games, he watches every show about them on G4, he participates in chat rooms about them on the internet, he competes in a variety of games on a variety of platforms. He always tells me the latest trend three months before I read about it in the media.

 

But he’s never been a PlayStation fan. Sure, he had a PS1, but as soon as the Xbox came out, it was game over. He loved the Xbox graphics, and once he was old enough to play “Halo,” he loved the games. He graduated to the Xbox 360, Xbox Live, “Gears of War,” etc. He even hung in there during the overheating Xbox “red ring of death” phase. Other than a two-year detour/obsession playing “World of Warcraft” on his computer, he has always been an Xbox fanboy. Sony just didn’t have great games.

 

Last week he recorded all of G4’s E3 coverage so he could watch it after work (he’s got a summer job to save money to buy gas and videogames, in that order). He was very excited after Microsoft had its news conference. “You can stream Netflix movies onto the Xbox 360!” he exclaimed.

 

Then he watched the Sony press conference, and the world as we know it changed. After hearing about “Metal Gear Solid 4”, as well as other PlayStation exclusives in the pipeline and the awesomeness of Blu-ray, he promptly packed up his Xbox 360 and all his games and went down to Game Stop to trade them in. He bought a PS3 and “Metal Gear Solid 4.” I had to be there to approve the purchase of the M-rated game since he’s not yet 17, and I was surprised at how rapturous the Game Stop employees were about Sony. They then sold him a USED copy of “Metal Gear Solid 4.” “How can the game already be used?” my son asked. “Because some people get frustrated if they don’t have ‘cheats’,” he was told. But the cashier assured him that the game “was just as good as new.” My son asked, “How can that be?” “Because PlayStation players are ninjas!” was the response.

 

I’m happy to say my son didn’t accept this answer. Perhaps that’s because he’s now spending his own hard-earned money to purchase these games. He said, “Seriously, how does that work?” And the Game Stop fanboys explained that Sony now has a special coating on Blu-ray game discs which makes them virtually scratch-proof. We shall see.

 

One thing we do know. We may not be able to stream Netflix movies onto the console (yet) but now we can start ordering them on Blu-ray.

As we left the store, I said to him, “I never thought I’d see you with a PlayStation.” “Neither did I,” he replied.

 

Three months ago!

It was the blog that blew a gasket. Last July, I quipped that my son, a die-hard Microsoft Xbox 360 fan, threw it all away and traded his game console for a Sony PS3. I called it "The Ultimate Proof Sony is Winning."

 

This elicited the sort of response usually reserved for Georgians who rise up against Russia. But this week I received the following email from Jerry A.:

 

"I was wondering if you could update me...I'd like to know if he was ultimately satisfied with (the PS3), or dissatisfied and wished he had never packed up his Xbox. Also, what did you think of the 'scratch-proof' (treatment) which is really just scratch-resistant? One thing I've learned is that no matter what people tell you, GameStop employees know virtually nothing about the PS3, no matter how well-informed they sound. Seriously. It is rare that a hardcore 360 gamer trade in his setup for a PS3. I myself am a PS fan, I've never owned an Xbox and am generally satisfied with the PS3. I'm more a casual gamer, and love the games I have on PS3. I still have no interest in an Xbox 360. I enjoyed reading your article, as a PS3 fan, but as an objective person, I know the story can't end there; whether it ultimately ends with a PS3 victory or an Xbox victory, I'd like to read a follow-up."

 

So I thought I'd follow up, even at the risk of unleashing a second fusillade of verbal missiles.

 

My son still owns his PS3. I asked him if he likes it. Yes. I asked him if he regrets trading in his Xbox 360. Yes to that, too. Why? He says that while he enjoys the quality of game play on the PS3, especially the graphics (and no discs have been scratched yet), he misses all his friends on Xbox Live. I've noticed that he's not playing the PS3 very much, and, in fact, he's reactivated his old "World of Warcraft" account, from Activision's Blizzard Entertainment.

 

Regarding the PS3, he says he's waiting for new games--many angry emailers warned of this! So... does he want to trade back and get an Xbox? No. He's hoping to save up enough money and "possibly" buy a 360 so he can have both consoles. Maybe Microsoft's new price cuts will encourage him to do that. Then, perhaps, we can unite as one nation, one household, behind both consoles. That will only leave out the Wii, which, I'm afraid, he wouldn't be caught dead owning.

 

Today update!

 

I know most of you are beyond caring, but in the interest of full disclosure, my son this weekend threw in the towel on his Sony PlayStation 3 and returned to the Microsoft Xbox 360. Like an errant husband crawling back to his wife, he said, "I guess I should've thought this through."

 

Last July, this die-hard Xbox fan traded in his console for a PS3 after being impressed by the Sony press conference at E3. He liked what he heard about new PS3 games, and he liked the look of the graphics.

 

What he soon realized was that he missed his friends on Xbox Live.

 

So this weekend, he dragged his PS3 back to the same Game Stop where he bought it to trade it in for another Xbox. This, even as a friend in line with us complained about his Xbox acting up now that it's out of warranty.

 

How did my son come up with the difference between the trade-in price and the new Xbox? He made $300 this weekend selling his decked-out World of Warcraft character on eBay.

Lessons learned:

 

1-the gaming experience is more than a few games and cool graphics.

 

2-repeatedly doing trade-ins at Game Stop is a money losing proposition.

 

3-PC games like World of Warcraft can actually MAKE you money.

 

4-don't talk to your mother about these things.

 

 

This is so ridiculous. :heh:

Cookyman Newbie

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I'll be buying a new one soon. I'm putting off downloading Ratchet and Wipeout untill i do as i have hardly any room left.

 

What size are you? Hard drive that is - jeez that sounded dirty!

Cookyman Newbie

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40Gb, about 4gb left. I don't like using up my last bits of space.

 

Another solution for you £25.00 + £3.95 shipping for 160gb hard drive cheapest I've seen Here!

Please Ignore! I don't think this is 2.5" drive

Cookyman Newbie

Cookyman

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thats a bargain..does it defo work with PS3 though?

 

Don't think it will actually - sorry.

 

But this will work - £29.95 + £7.00 shipping 120GB

Here!

 

I'd personally go for the 320gb one i posted earlier.

 

remember you can buy a 2.5" hard drive enclosure for under a tenner so you can use your old drive as an external drive for your pc or ps3 too!

LegoMan1031 Newbie

LegoMan1031

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Don't think it will actually - sorry.

 

But this will work - £29.95 + £7.00 shipping 120GB

Here!

 

I'd personally go for the 320gb one i posted earlier.

 

remember you can buy a 2.5" hard drive enclosure for under a tenner so you can use your old drive as an external drive for your pc or ps3 too!

 

Do u know where from? I might look into it. It could solve 2 of my problems if i get a bigger HDD for my PS3 and have my old one as an external. What ele would i need?

Cookyman Newbie

Cookyman

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Do u know where from? I might look into it. It could solve 2 of my problems if i get a bigger HDD for my PS3 and have my old one as an external. What ele would i need?

 

Just type in 2.5 hard drive enclosure into amazon

Hero-of-Time Mentor

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Here's the TGS lineup of games from Kotaku

 

PSP

 

Sengoku BASARA: Battle Heroes

Shin Sangoku Musou: MULTI RAID

Musou OROCHI: Maou Sairin

KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep

DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY

Clank & Ratchet: Maru Hi Mission Ignition!

Sarugetchu Pipo-Saru Senki

Patapon 2 Donchaka

BLEACH ~Soul Carnival~

Mainichi Issho Portable

Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida or2

LocoRoco 2

THE iDOLM@STER SP

Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam

Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2

 

There will be three unannounced titles from Sony Computer Entertainment.

 

PS3

 

Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock

FIFA 09 World Class Soccer

Street Fighter IV

Resident Evil 5

Lumines Super Nova

Metal Gear Online

Way of the Samurai 3

Sonic World Adventure

SOCOM: Confrontation

PlayStation Home

Mainichi Issho

MotorStorm 2

LittleBigPlanet

Resistance 2

WWE 2009 SmackDown vs RAW

Gundam Musou 2

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm

 

The are unannounced titles as well. One from Irem Software Engineering, one from Konami, and nine from Sony Computer Entertainment.

 

Im hoping that the Konami project is ZoE3!

Dante Newbie

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Impress Watch technology writer Hiroshige Goto has posted his latest "Weekly Overseas News" at the Japanese game and computing site. The subject, believe it or not, is PlayStation 4!

 

According to Goto, who doesn't cite any sources, Sony has started investigating the possibility of using the Cell Broadband Engine, the same CPU that powers the PS3, as a base for the new system and is currently seeking developer feedback. While it's possible that Sony will move away from the Cell, says Goto, Sony does appear at the moment to be moving towards an upgraded version of the current PS3 chipset as a basis for the next generation system.

 

The plan to use variants of Cell in future PlayStation iterations was always in place, explains Goto, which is why Sony invested so heavily in the chipset. However, while the use of the Cell in the PS4 may seem like Sony just sticking with its original plan, the real reason could be that the company in its current form doesn't have the reserves to create another chipset and build all the requisite development tools above it.

 

Going with Cell has the benefits of keeping production costs down for the PS4 and also allowing cutting game development costs due to a consistent architecture. Sony would also be able to include a smaller chip size from the start, potentially reducing the system's retail price.

 

The rest of Goto's article is mostly speculation as the highly respected writer considers how much of a performance increase we can expect from the PS4. According to Goto, Moore's Law suggests that Sony could go about including as many as 32 cores in the system (compared to the current 8). However, he doesn't think this is likely. Due to cost concerns, he thinks its more possible that Sony will stop with somewhere between 10 and 20 cores along with a small increase in clock rate. Looking at just the CPU, he says, the PS4 would have 2.x times as much power as the PS3.

 

Goto also feels that an early PS4 launch could be reasoning for the reuse of the Cell architecture. Assuming Sony wants to launch the PS4 earlier than it did the PS3 in comparison to the competition, going with a new architecture could be tough. According to Goto, it takes at least three years, and more usually four, to go from the start of chip development to an actual product. If Sony wanted a 2011 launch, for instance, they'd have to speed up the process, and one method for that, says Goto, is to use an existing architecture.

 

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