{"id":194,"date":"2009-09-09T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T00:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2013-02-18T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T05:28:57","slug":"ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"PS3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forgot to post this, but anyway, I picked up a PS3 when the new version came out.<\/p>\n

Dear Sony,<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you what it took to make me finally buy a PS3:<\/p>\n

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  1. For starters, you had to cut the price in half<\/strong>, from $600 to $300.<\/li>\n
  2. You had to increase the hard drive size to something I could actually imagine using<\/strong>. 120GB is something I can imagine using. I also like the ability to swap out the HDD.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice touch adding the front panel… although these days, I can fit 120GB on a flash drive the size of my pinky. (Or I will be able to do it in 5 years, tops.)<\/li>\n
  3. Adding DualShock to the SixAxis controller<\/strong> was a good idea. I was puzzled when the original PlayStation 3 came out without DualShock… it was only in about 7 years’ worth of PlayStation controllers. I’m sure that was done a while back, but when the PlayStation 3 came out without it, that was a turn-off to add to the other turn-offs. And I like that the controllers have built-in rechargeable batteries. The original Xbox 360 controllers didn’t have that, neither did the Wii. I hate <\/em>buying batteries. The only thing I hate worse than buying batteries is when they corrode inside the controller.<\/li>\n
  4. Most importantly, there was finally a critical mass of Games that Didn’t Suck<\/strong>. My rule is that there have to be at least 3 “OMG I have to\u00c2\u00a0 play this!” games out there. The original release games usually suck. It’s hard to get around that truth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The original PlayStation 3 was very shiny, but it was freakin’ huge, too. The new unit looks and feels a little<\/em> on the cheap side, but I don’t particularly care. I don’t sit and there and grope my PS3 all day. I use it for playing games or, whenever I get around to buying Blu-Ray movies, Blu-Rays.<\/p>\n

    I’m sure fit and finish is important to a certain degree (ask any Xbox 360 owner who had a RROD), but that’s what the extended warranty is for. One thing is certain– it’s a heck of a lot quieter than the 360, which often sounds like it’s about to launch from my entertainment center.<\/p>\n

    There are a few things that annoy me– updates, updates, updates. I buy a game, stick it in, get ready to play, and then have to wait 3 hours for 450MB of updates to finish downloading and installing. I can’t tell you how much I hate<\/strong> that. I’d love it if that were optional, or better yet, if I could play the game<\/em>, and let the updates be handled in the background<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    It’s not like it’s rocket science to handle more than one process at a time.<\/p>\n

    I also wish it did a better job of auto-detecting when I have the device plugged into an HDMI source. If you switch between a conventional TV and an HDMI TV, then you better have a way to hook up the PS3 using the composite video plug before you go HDMI, because it won’t do it automatically.<\/p>\n

    But it’s worth it to hook up the PS3 to any kind of HDTV, because the games look 10 times better than they do on a conventional TV. Even a computer monitor works, if you have the right kind. (That’s what I did at first.)<\/p>\n

    All in all, I have no clue how the PS3 is going to do in the long run, but I’m satisfied with it. I got my “must-play” games, all of which have hundreds of hours of replayability, and I have the ability to play Blu-Ray movies, too. Works for me.<\/p>\n

    Good job Sony, even if it is a little late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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