The funniest part of the amirox rant is the MGS4 to 360 thing.
Yeah I think it depends how far back you go. Coming off of the PS2 and pre-$599 announcement, the PS3 was expected to wreck all shit up. From that perspective, it's performed pretty poorly. But then things got bad enough that the turnaround, in terms of sales but also in terms of the quality of the games, is pretty remarkable.They've come a long way since the days they were trying to hype up lair and haze.Lots of people here with revisionist history. The PS3 did not become a success by any metric. In order to get it to the point where it's posting respectable numbers Sony had to spend every penny of profit SCE had made since it's inception, lose 70million PS2 users to Xbox 360 and fire/lose most of their management.
Lots of people here with revisionist history. The PS3 did not become a success by any metric. In order to get it to the point where it's posting respectable numbers Sony had to spend every penny of profit SCE had made since it's inception, lose 70million PS2 users to Xbox 360 and fire/lose most of their management.
Turning it around was a great achievement and PS4 will be all the stronger for it but to call it a success is being massively generous.
The first Haze reviews and the reactions among the true believers inspired one of my favourite GIFs ever. If only I was on my computer I'd post it, because I've got it saved.I mean, have you seen haze?
Was this why he was de-moded ?
Was this why he was de-moded ?
lol would love to see that.The first Haze reviews and the reactions among the true believers inspired one of my favourite GIFs ever. If only I was on my computer I'd post it, because I've got it saved.
Yeah, let´s forget that the PS3 won Sony the HD format which gave Sony plenty of money from royalties, BR disc manufacturing, and BR players sales, and build very good first party studios.
Incorrect. PS3 won the Blu-ray Disc Association the HD format war.
Sony do not own or control Blu-ray.
Sony lost billions of dollars and blu ray is on the ash heap of history. But uh congrats on outselling the Xbox in Japan?
Sony lost billions of dollars and blu ray is on the ash heap of history. But uh congrats on outselling the Xbox in Japan?
the only important thing about the early history of the ps triple is chad warden
Lots of people here with revisionist history. The PS3 did not become a success by any metric. In order to get it to the point where it's posting respectable numbers Sony had to spend every penny of profit SCE had made since it's inception, lose 70million PS2 users to Xbox 360 and fire/lose most of their management.
Turning it around was a great achievement and PS4 will be all the stronger for it but to call it a success is being massively generous.
Looking at PS3's turnaround really is remarkable and it can't all be attributed to the price drop either, Hirai did a good job of salvaging things and definitely earned his promotion.
As for Amirox, he was a fanboy who was emotionally invested at a moment where emotions were high. There was a ton of stupid hyperbole after E3 that year so it's unfair to single him out. Hilarious considering how meaningless the Xbox port ended up being in the grand scheme.
Wow, slightly off topic, but thanks to this topic I found out;
Why Amir0x was Demodded which lead too best gaf exits;
Drinky crow stuff
But most importantly, spent 4 hours reading about JBaird. Holy shit, this site is awesome.
Wouldn't be complete without this post as well:
the only important thing about the early history of the ps triple is chad warden
PS3 was TERRIBLE at first. Got mine in February 2007. This was all I had that year:
- Resistance Fall of Man Multiplayer (pretty cool but nobody had a mic)
- Motorstorm demo (hey it was better than Gran Turismo Prologue)
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma (thank god for this game)
- Virtua Fighter 5 vanilla version with no online play
- Warhawk which was really cool for like an hour
- Call of Duty 4 (thank god for this as well)
- The original Uncharted with plastic graphics, simple puzzles, and as much if not more shooting than Uncharted 2. Also jetski level
- And a version of the Orange Box with a practically unplayable version of Team Fortress 2
So just think twice when you complain about a launch that will have a 60 FPS 64-player Battlefield game, a handful of indies, a full blown Killzone, Watch Dogs, a driving sim with high production values, a full blown Assassin's Creed, a new CoD, e.t.c. because the PS4's launch day lineup alone already trumps the PS3's entire first 12 months.
PS3 was TERRIBLE at first. Got mine in February 2007. This was all I had that year:
- Resistance Fall of Man Multiplayer (pretty cool but nobody had a mic)
- Motorstorm demo (hey it was better than Gran Turismo Prologue)
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma (thank god for this game)
- Virtua Fighter 5 vanilla version with no online play
- Warhawk which was really cool for like an hour
- Call of Duty 4 (thank god for this as well)
- The original Uncharted with plastic graphics, simple puzzles, and as much if not more shooting than Uncharted 2. Also jetski level
- And a version of the Orange Box with a practically unplayable version of Team Fortress 2
So just think twice when you complain about a launch that will have a 60 FPS 64-player Battlefield game, a handful of indies, a full blown Killzone, Watch Dogs, a driving sim with high production values, a full blown Assassin's Creed, a new CoD, e.t.c. because the PS4's launch day lineup alone already trumps the PS3's entire first 12 months.