NYTimes: PS3 is $299, GT5 'best seller,' and Xbox uses Cell chip

by Alexander Sliwinski { Nov 30th 2007 at 6:45PM }

Talk about all the news that's fit to copyedit. The New York Times has a hat-trick of errors in a recent technology piece discussing video game options. They manage to make it through the Wii spot on -- but then the real fun comes.

First the Old Gray Lady says Gran Turismo 5 is "a hyper-realistic, high-speed journey, [and] is one of the best sellers for [the] Sony console." One little problem, the game isn't out yet. Next up they say the PlayStation 3 is $299, which would be awesome and perhaps the Times has some incredibly privileged info about Sony's holiday strategy, but we're pretty sure the system is going to be starting at $399 for a while. Oh, but they're not done yet. Did you realize the PS3 and Xbox 360 are both powered by the Cell processor? This is being reported by the venerable New York-freakin'-Times, so it must be true, right?

[Thanks, Murph]

Tags: copyedit, error, new-york-times, nyt

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Ace121212 @ Nov 30th 2007 6:48PM

That cat is mad at us.

rTwelve @ Nov 30th 2007 7:58PM

Was that from that Cats vs Dogs movie? I think that was the Russian Blue.

Obie @ Nov 30th 2007 8:04PM

Don't worry at least their War journalism is 100% accurate, afterall videogames are "fluff" pieces.

ThornedVenom @ Dec 1st 2007 1:48AM

Looks like a cheap third-party peripheral to me.

Snipermonky @ Nov 30th 2007 6:49PM

GameSpot take note, thats when you should start questioning your editors.

ruibing @ Nov 30th 2007 10:27PM

What in the world is wrong with all game-related editorials? Are they too busy playing games to write properly about them?

Will @ Dec 1st 2007 8:01AM

the problem is they're too busy NOT playing games, and have no idea what the hell they're talking about

Burritoclock @ Nov 30th 2007 6:50PM

Well, but their political reporting is completely accurate.....

Cheezeman3000 @ Nov 30th 2007 7:05PM

Hahaha that's almost as funny. If anything this proves their editorial deficiency.

Killswitch On @ Nov 30th 2007 7:50PM

Their political reporting is accurate??? What NYT do you read? That is the funniest thing ive read all day. What's your follow up act?

LaughingTarget @ Nov 30th 2007 7:55PM

Sarcasm + the internet rarely go well together.

Rayonic @ Nov 30th 2007 8:05PM

And to think, the NYTimes is probably just as accurate about every other topic. We just don't know it because we're not experts in those areas.

(And we don't read the NYT)

Grant @ Dec 1st 2007 1:31PM

i personally find that if someone makes a strong definitive statement on the internet, and it doesn't end in "/rant" that it is most probably sarcasm.

Leonidas @ Nov 30th 2007 6:51PM

*witty comment connecting Gamespot with the NYTimes*

Eric @ Nov 30th 2007 6:52PM

Too late!

gonk @ Nov 30th 2007 6:51PM

ahahahaha

fischju @ Nov 30th 2007 6:51PM

*head -> palm*

MGSLOL @ Nov 30th 2007 10:41PM

Big toe -> eyesocket

SoulBlade @ Nov 30th 2007 6:52PM

This explains why so many people are either ignorant or retarded when it comes to most things reported by the media, not just video games.

ill trooper @ Nov 30th 2007 8:07PM

This explains it? This explains NOTHING of the sort. This is a twig of an error in a media river of accurate reports, passing by every day. And there will likely be a correction posted in the next day. Where ELSE can people get information? The term "The Media" refers to every source of information you get that isn't discovered by yourself or told to you by acquaintances, and most of that is probably from a 'media' source.

If more people read the New York Times, they would be far more informed about events in the world. In fact, in this case, regular readers would likely question that $299 price as there are dozens of ads and inserts for BestBuy, Circut City, J & R, etc. letting you know that the PS3 is $399.

Although this is a ridiculous batch of errors, the Times is an excellent source of information, and always has been. Some strange errors in a 2007 holiday tech-gift guide are hardly enough to make me think the NYTimes is "why people are retarded."

Dirk Dorkelson @ Nov 30th 2007 7:54PM

You're right. We'd be much better off as a society if no one consumed any media and just got all their information from word of mouth. This is easily the dumbest comment I've read all week.

Fenix @ Dec 1st 2007 3:53AM

Guys, chill out with the comments against SoulBlade.

SoulBlade was merely trying to use a canned response that would deem him "hip" and "cool" with his blatant apathy towards "The Media."

Will @ Dec 1st 2007 8:01AM

You idiots jumping down his throat for insulting the media are the same as people who say don't criticize America and 'love it or leave it.'
He's not arguing for NO media, he's arguing for a BETTER media, and since all I've learned in the last six hours of news is NOTHING NEW regarding stacy peterson and bill clinton's 'against the war' comment.... I'd say I 100% agree that a media not so full of bullshit would make the world a much better place

Dirk Dorkelson @ Dec 1st 2007 4:39PM

Wow Will. Just wow. I don't think I have ever, in my entire life, said, "America, love it or leave it." If I did, my family would think I'd been kidnapped and replaced by some crazy Bill O'Reilly android.

The point you two halfwits are missing is that "the media" includes everything from Fox News to CNN, the New York Times, Joystiq, Outdoor Life, Sports Illustrated, etc. To just say that Americans are stupid because we pay too much attention to "the media" is wrong-headed and idiotic, considering the alternative is, I don't know, getting all your news directly from the government, non-media big business or your neighbor.

Don't like what's on CNN? Don't watch it. There are plenty of other media out there worth paying attention to. I'm sure if you picked up, say, the New York Times (or the LA Times, the Washington Post or any other decent newspaper), you'd find that most of the articles there had nothing to do with Stacy Peterson or Bill Clinton's comments.

Abscissa @ Dec 20th 2007 12:35AM

"The point you two halfwits are missing is that "the media" includes everything from..."

Even an idiot can figure out that he was referring specifically to *mainstream media* and not literally all media...A fact which flew clear over your head.

Shockgamer @ Nov 30th 2007 6:57PM

In other news, the model for Fat Cat in the live action Rescue Rangers movie has been cast...

Marty @ Nov 30th 2007 7:00PM

I would be so upset if they were actually planning on making a live action Rescue Rangers movie.

LaughingTarget @ Nov 30th 2007 7:57PM

After this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0952640/

I think you should have already lost enough hope in humanity to even think that way.

Marty @ Nov 30th 2007 7:00PM

Gah, I hate lolcats.

velocitystrike @ Nov 30th 2007 7:12PM

You have no soul.

ThornedVenom @ Dec 1st 2007 1:51AM

But cats have 9 of them.

Nessuno @ Nov 30th 2007 7:05PM

And in other news, the sun rises in the east.

Really, the NY Times is terrible.

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Nov 30th 2007 8:04PM

It does?

I honestly didn't know that.

ill trooper @ Nov 30th 2007 9:07PM

Does blurting out "The Times is terrible" make any sense? Do you even read newspapers?

I fail to see it.

Hikaru @ Nov 30th 2007 9:20PM

Whoa!, I think some trooper here works or have someone dear working in NY Times....

Kylearan @ Nov 30th 2007 7:09PM

Wow, way to do your research Mr. Wayner.

And who proofed that article, anyway? You're fired, too.

Colin @ Nov 30th 2007 7:19PM

It's just like the recent review of Haze in Maxim, which was printed before they had even announced the game had been pushed back to '08. douche bags...

"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times??!! You stupid monkey!"

-Z- @ Nov 30th 2007 7:20PM

The Cell processor should make the 360 turn green with spots and have squeaky feet. It also gets killed by Gohan. It's a stupid reference...but I'm tired and very uncreative. This is why I don't read newspapers...morons. (I, myself am stupid for this post. And yet.....*falls asleep*)