PS3 Impressions

jav1856 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:40 AM

I am bored today some I am going to throw down some of my thoughts on my PS3 I have had for a few weeks.

Pros:

The controller has a nice long battery life, I work long hours and I am on the road about 2 weeks out of every month so I don't get to play for more than an hour or two at a time two or three times a week, but the controller still hasn't run out of juice. My 360 controllers always seem to be dead after a week or two of non use.

They have changed the L2 and R2 buttons so there is travel instead of just click, so I am looking forward to GT HD or whatever it will be called.

You can change the controller assignments! So if the battery is dying just hold down the PS button and you can change which controller you are using, I have yet to figure out how to do this on the 360.

It looks cool, around xmas I bought a 37" Samsung TV for my bedroom, and the PS3 matches it perfectly, unlike my lilly white and lime green 360.

It runs cooler than I thought, maybe it's becuase I don't play for hours upon hours, but from everything I read I thought it would get blazing hot, it doesn't it get's a little warm but not cooking stuff hot.

It feels like it's worth $600. I was in college when the PS2 came out, I waited outside of a Target for 11 hours, in October, in Colorado. I was stoked to get one but when I took it out of the box it looked sweet for the times, but it felt sort of cheap for the $300 I spent on it. When I unboxed the PS3 I was really suprised at how sweet it looked and it's fit and finish is amazing the 360 doesn't even compare.

Cons
Um, it comes with a BluRay player, yet it comes with composite cables. The 360 comes with component cables, and doesn't have an HD optical drive but PS3 has the bluray drive but don't expect to see anything in HD out of the box because sony wants to clip you for another $50. I can understand not including an HDMI cable but they could have gone component.

Entering data sucks, Sony still thinks using that onscreen telephone type entery method, like hitting the number 5 three times to get the letter L, is cool, well it's not. Can't they just give us an actual keyboard on the screen?

The menu blows. I have a psp and the menu you works fine on that, but for the love of Jebus dress it up for the $600 piece of equipment I bought.

I am assuming one day that the battery on the controller is going to go bad. How do I replace it? Do I have to take apart the controller or do I have to just buy a new controller all together?

Dukefrukem · #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:42 AM

your first impressions are misguided

the PS2 didn't come with an S-video cable which at the time was very expensive.... HDMI is $20 online

the controllers are rechargeable with the USB cable that comes in your box... you should read the manual

and the menu is flawless

Craig · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:43 AM

Good stuff jav...I didn't know about the cons you mentioned. All said and done are you happy with the unit?

jav1856 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dukefrukem

your first impressions are misguided

the PS2 didn't come with an S-video cable which at the time was very expensive.... HDMI is $20 online

the controllers are rechargeable with the USB cable that comes in your box... you should read the manual

and the menu is flawless

I never said anything about the PS2 and s-video. I didn't even bring up the term s-video. I was just trying to get to the point that it is pretty weak that Sony included the lowest possible cable, aside from an RF adaptor for the system. If MS included a component cable for their system which didn't even have an HD optical drive, why couldn't Sony include one with the BluRay equipped PS3?

Yes I know the controllers are rechargeable, I was refereing to the battereis going bad, I don't know if the battery in the controllers ar NI-MH or Lithium Ion, but I am assuming that one day they won't take the same level of charge that they did new, so how are the batteries replaced?

Dukefrukem · #5 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:54 AM

my point was when Sony released the PS2, they only packaged the lowest possible cable... composite... with the PS3 they did the same thing... HDMI is a luxury and a top end interface... more people have composite and component than HDMI, hence why they shouldn't waste money on an option people don't have

as for the battery, eventually it will need to be replaced... but not for years to come.. the 5 screws in the back take the back plate off...

it seems liek youre nit picking on flaws with the ps3 when there is much more to worried about... like overheating for example, and the low sound with the blu-ray drive... compare those to its competitors

jav1856 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Craig

Good stuff jav...I didn't know about the cons you mentioned. All said and done are you happy with the unit?

I am very happy with it, the games look awesome, and it has only froze up on me once. My 360 froze up on me all the time, usually during saints row, but sometime during battlefield, so I don't know if it that was a console issue or game code issue.

The only thing that's frustrating about it is that there aren't that many games out for it, but it just came out and that doesn't detract from the qulaity of the system.

I was planning on buying one, but not this soon, but at the time I bought it I thought there weren't going to be any available for a long long time, so I jumped on it. If I knew they were going to be this available I would have waited until the end of march or so.

But you can't go wrong if you buy one in my opinion.

joe · #7 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:56 AM

I haven't seen anything about the PS3 getting hot, but I'm glad that it apparently doesn't suffer from the same heat problems that have plagued the 360. What games do you have for it so far?

Dukefrukem · #8 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 03:56 AM

I also wish there were more games. Time will provide us with that.

jav1856 · #9 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Dukefrukem

my point was when Sony released the PS2, they only packaged the lowest possible cable... composite... with the PS3 they did the same thing... HDMI is a luxury and a top end interface... more people have composite and component than HDMI, hence why they shouldn't waste money on an option people don't have

as for the battery, eventually it will need to be replaced... but not for years to come.. the 5 screws in the back take the back plate off...

it seems liek youre nit picking on flaws with the ps3 when there is much more to worried about... like overheating for example, and the low sound with the blu-ray drive... compare those to its competitors

It's $600!!!! Twice the cost of the PS2 at launch. PS2 was 50% more expensive than the PS at launch, $300 compared to $200, and HDTV at the time of the PS2 was still years away.

I can see and agree with Sony's reasoning behind not including an HDMI cable. But it should have come with component. I don't know why you are so opposed to my rational for it, buying a PS3 is buying a midlevel piece of equipment so they should include a mid level cable. And I have to say this again, MS included a component cable with the 360, which didn't even have any HD content at release, but if you got one of those PS3's that included a BLuRay copy of Talladega nights, you open up the box and unpack your PS3 to watch an HD movie and then it doesn't even come with a cable that allows for HD content. And it's not like a component cable would have added hundreds to the price, I am guessing it would have cost $5-$10 more at most.

Dukefrukem · #10 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 04:07 AM

$5-10 is a lot when Sony is already losing tons of money on every PS3 they sell. I suggest you look at the economics behind it. It's really not that big of deal.