Sony Playstation 3

[Toaster]

Expensive toy. Best to wait and let the price come down. Or maybe get outside and meet real people and do some exercise (which I tell myself as I post on the forum website).

[scracha]

Expensive toy. Best to wait and let the price come down. Or maybe get outside and meet real people and do some exercise (which I tell myself as I post on the forum website).

I'll say it's expensive. Did you know we pay the most for PS3's IN THE WORLD!
I'd say that's a shocker as our GST is only 12.5% and the kiwi peso is currently very high. 640 euros by my calculations.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03..._price_survey/

[Quartermile]

Doesn't surprise me we seem to pay alot more for stuff here

[ManDownUnder]

I'm just waiting for vitual wanking. You can do everything else "virtually" so why bother enjoying the real thing?

The Wi seems particularly well appointed for it... a full range of hand motions combined with a dicky sounding name...

[vifferman]

PS3 sux.

IMO.

Firstly, it is very hot. It's no coincidence it looks like a toasted sandwich maker.

Secondly (and these are not in order of suckiness), when playing music CDs, there was distortion, which is not a Good Thing.

Thirdlery, (and most galling), it has led to much Screaming and Performing, due to the ObsessiveOwnerWhoTakesGamingVerySeriously.

Fourthly, it had a bug, and when said OOWTGVS tried to log it, it (Sony?) didn't accept his password, then said he wasn't registered (he was) and wouldn't let him re-register because he already was. Gnarsty Catch-22 loop.

Fifthly, our Loewe 29" isn't good enough (now a moot point as we've banished it from the LoungingArea) and the dual 21" IBM monitors are too small. So OOWTGVS is trying to get us to buy a 42" high-res monitor/TV.

[Lias]

ObsessiveOwnerWhoTakesGamingVerySeriously.

Gaming is serious.

I've cut down my gaming quite seriously and I still spend more hours per week gaming than I spend working.

.. must.. grind.. next.. level!..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxPE6fYbuI

[SpinFx]

Well I went back on my original word of waiting, and bought one along with the 32" HD LCD Monitor, may have cost a bit but I feel it's worth it. Keeps the kids occupied ( priceless for when it's hosing down outside). We've got over 30+ PS2 Games and it plays all of them so far. Plugs directly into the HD TV and the Home theatre no sweat.
Awesome full emersion experience. Love it.

[bull]

will await till i hear if rugby 07/08 will be on it - for now will stick with the Xbox, Xbox360, 2 PC's and MAME arcade cabinet - yep my 3 boys love the gadgets in our house, hard part is convincing the accountant that we need these things. IF anyone has an old pc lying around then i reccomend you investigate building a MAME (multiple arcade machine emulator) cabinet. Ours has in excess of 4000 games going from the old pacman/defender through to the likes of King of Fighters and Metal Slug series, my boys 10,6 and 5 love it and i reckon its great that they get to experience the original arcade games that i grew up on.

[scracha]

Hey...my email worked.

"That leaves us with price. As we revealed last week, the UK is one of the most expensive places to buy a PS3 - though we should point out that New Zealanders and Irish residents are being hit harder than the Brits on this. The UK price is almost double what folk in Hong Kong pay, a differential that can't be explained by freight, import duty and sales taxes alone."

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04...k_sales_slide/