Stringer: PS3 games 'infinitely more fun' than Wii

by Ross Miller { Dec 13th 2007 at 6:00PM }

Sony Chairman Howard Stringer is showing both teeth and scientific breakthrough. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Stringer was exuberant over the PlayStation 3's recent one-week triumph over Nintendo Wii in Japanese hardware sales. "I'm happy the Wii seems to be running a bit short of hardware," he said, before following up with the quip that the PS3 "will come into its own because its [high-end games] are infinitely more fun, demanding and exciting."

Infinitely more fun, you say? So how does one define infinite fun? Let's arbitrarily assign Wii games with a base number, we'll call 'W.' For conversion purposes, we'll let W equate to one anti-meh. Infinity itself is an abstract notion that we can obtain through various roundabout methods. For example, take the limit as 'n' approaches 0 of anti-meh divided by 'n.' (You can't directly divide by zero without the power of the Cell processor.)

This approach works for all scalars of anti-meh: oh, gee whiz, golly, awesome, sweet, wow, etc., which is convenient if a Wii game really is fun, then we can apply the limit (let's arbitrarily call it the "Sony limit") and obtain infinity, knocking the wind out of Nintendo's fun factor.

There are more accurate ways to obtain infinity, and we hear the Cell processor is actually capable of computing infinity directly to the nearest thousandth decimal place. As for the Wii, we heard from an independent source that the little console couldn't even handle two finite series duct tape together. It just kept waving its hands in the air hoping to fudge the right answer.

[Via GameDaily]

Tags: anti-meh, fun, howard-stringer, limit, math, nintendo, series, sony

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)

lavin @ Feb 6th 2008 9:02PM

I fuckin love the fuckin Wii th ps3 is a peice of shit

Alexisonfire @ Dec 13th 2007 6:05PM

PS3 has games now?

swiller @ Dec 13th 2007 6:14PM

Jeff Bell is saying the same thing about the 360. Except is slightly more tackful on Inside Xbox video. PS3 and 360 are family consoles now!!!

kojo87 @ Dec 13th 2007 6:27PM

thats news to me. you know something is wrong when car ads and videogame console ads start to sound the same.

"the PS3 starting at $399. as shown $599. taxes and titles extra."

Jack @ Dec 13th 2007 6:28PM

PS3 has had games for ages.

You should stop reading crappy rags like this, or try removing the Microsoft brain slug.

Bloo @ Dec 13th 2007 6:45PM

@swiller & kojo
Comment police here to let you know REPLY is for replying not making sure your self importance is shown at the top

Mike @ Dec 13th 2007 6:49PM

That whole PS3 has no games thing is getting pretty old!!!

Ninja Gaiden
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune
Rachet & Clank
UT3
The Eye of Judgement
Resistance Fall of Man
Heavenly Sword
Call of Duty 4
Warhawk
Motorstorm
Virtua Fighter 5
Burnout Paradise (coming real soon)

So please cut that lame thing about the PS3 not having any games...some of you guys are starting to look pretty stupid saying that!

Ignatius @ Dec 13th 2007 6:52PM

And four of those are non-exclusives... PS3 has games, but very little and they have an even smaller consumer base than the Wii or the 360.

Mike @ Dec 13th 2007 6:54PM

@kojo87
At what store do you shop buddy? There's no $599 PS3s anymore. People like seems to have a field day about the PS3's price! You damn well know the price of the machine. It's $399 and $499, get it straight! And if you cant seem to afford that then you need a carreer.

syco @ Dec 13th 2007 6:56PM

The PS3 has Uncharted and Rachet and Clank now. They are, from what I hear, good games.

Unfortunately, the fact that it took them a full year to get any good games at all is going to stick with people for a while.

syco @ Dec 13th 2007 7:01PM

@mike

If you honestly believe that the average person is going to be willing to spend $400 dollars on a game console, especially when there are $250 ones available, then you are deluding yourself.

Not to mention the fact that a majority of it's price is to supprot HD, and very, VERY few people have HDTVs.

Alexisonfire @ Dec 13th 2007 7:07PM

@ Mike and Jack

The whole reason I put that as my comment is because of the joking nature of it. Even if the system has games, most people still don't see the few good exclusives on the system to be worth it.

Personally, I'm saying this and I have 50+ titles on my PS2. I would just rather stick with what I have until PS3 has more for me than Folklore and Uncharted. And this article is talking about games out right now, so the titles coming out soon (MGS4, Disgaea 3, LBP, and White Knight) can't really fit the criteria of "infinitely more fun". Unless you mean waiting for them is funner than Metroid Prime 3, which only some severe Sony fanboyism can muster.

And I don't even own an 360 and I hate Windows, so no microsoft brainslug here.

@Bloo Totally Agree. I don't care what someone's opinion is. If you aren't actually responding to a post, it should be deleted.

Aberu @ Dec 13th 2007 7:53PM

Let's get some things straight. There are at least 10 exclusive games that are very much worth the buy. Not many people, extreme spender nutjobs with too much money from their daddies need not apply, can afford 4-5 games in a year or so, and not many buy more than that. Heck the PS2 had what, a 10 game per console average sales? Over the 8 years now? Stop saying OMG A SYSTEM NEEDS 1000s of games to be good. It's bullshit. If a system has FFXIII, MGS4, EoJ, Warhawk, Motorstorm, Folklore, Uncharted, and Resistance, I personally believe that's plenty for any NOT completely insane fanboy consumer, don't you?

The thought that very few people have HDTV's is utter bullcrap too. 3 years ago, 33% of TV sales were HDTV's that year. 3 YEARS AGO. Now it will be a lot more considering that for the size, they are about 1/3 the price. Not even going to look up the statistic, no need, the thought that people don't have HDTV's is an ancient talking point, stop bringing it up. HDTV's are relevent to consumer's interests kthx.

From a consumer's standpoint, as more and more HDTV's are coming into the living room, more and more bluetooth and HDMI products are being sold, AND more and more high-def web-enabled media-servers are becoming the THING to have, this thing has a market. Stop thinking of the PS3 as just a gaming console. It isn't. It handles media and the internet a whole lot better than the 360, comes equipped with far more options for what you want to do and want to play, and has an extreme amount more of potential to boot for the future. Your bashing is pretty ignorant, all of it.

Alexisonfire @ Dec 13th 2007 8:19PM

Aberu, you're forgetting that some people don't care about media functionality. When I'm looking for a cell phone, do I look that it can play MP3's, use bluetooth to connect to my computer, stream video, or a camera? No. I want to phone people, text people, and listen to freaking midi quality ringtones. Barebones, yes. But it gets the job done.

Do I care that the PS3 has Blu-Ray functionality, Home, and other media services? No, I really don't. The problem with the PS3, like you stated, is that it ISN'T just for games. The same reason why I don't like the PSP. It's putting the functionality of everything else ahead of focusing on the games. Which makes me sad.

You also must accept that, no matter how good games like Resistance, Warhawk, Eye of Judgement, or Motorstorm are, there will be people who don't want to play them. Myself included. Just because a game is great doesn't mean people like the genre. Plus, FFXIII and MGS4 aren't even out yet. And I can wait for them with anticipation but without buying a PS3, can't I?

The best thing about the PS2 was that no matter what your tastes were, there were always at least half a dozen games to look forward and several others already out that you had yet to play. The wealth and diversity of titles on the PS2 are just not being matched by the PS3.

Though, I completely agree with you on the HD thing. Big mistake on Nintendo's part.

syco @ Dec 13th 2007 10:25PM

The most recent data I found shows that HDTV market penetration (which is NOT sales. Sales are irrelevant, OF COURSE most NEW televisions bought are HDTVs) is around 10-20%

While that's a lot bigger than several years ago, it's still a niche. You can't expect everyone to pay for capabilities that only 10% of people can actually use.

Ancedotally, EVERY SINLGE PERSON I know who owns a 360 has it hooked up to a normal SDTV.

I don't know anyone who actually owns a PS3.

Capt. Castellanos @ Dec 13th 2007 10:40PM

longest string of replies Ever.

Fullmetal Salchemist @ Dec 13th 2007 11:16PM

At Bloo:

The kettle called, it's calling you black.

Deozaan @ Dec 14th 2007 12:27AM

@ Fullmetal Salchemist:

The pot calls the kettle black.

ExMcloud @ Dec 14th 2007 4:09AM

Nobodies saying that PS3 doesn't have games...They're saying it doesn't have that "it" game.....Like M$ got GOW and it was an instant classic...Nintendo just got the highest rated game of all time in Mario Galaxy....The PS3 needs that "it" game thats gonna move consoles something that everyone will buy just because...and MGs 4 isnt that game go look at the sales for each title....So I dont kno what game it will be but it needs that game

bm @ Dec 14th 2007 5:51AM

lulz

I don't normally do this, and it's more for the hell of it to see some reactions, but anyway:

-Ninja Gaiden

Port.

-Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

Linear. Not much else to complain about I guess, but it's no Tomb Raider 1.

-Rachet & Clank

After Galaxy, this seems... dumbed down.

-UT3

I've got a PC, thank you.

-The Eye of Judgement

Yeah like anyone buys that. "Oh noes the wii is a gimmick" no THIS is the very definition of a gimmick.

-Resistance Fall of Man

LOL! Archaic, generic, boring, worse than Halo... this piece of shit is only well-known because it was the first FPS on the system.

-Heavenly Sword

Half an hour of button-mashing? Rental only.

-Call of Duty 4

I've got a PC, thank you.

-Warhawk

Nobody seems to be making such a big deal about this one... probably because it's nothing special.

-Motorstorm

Didn't live up to the hype. But what's new on the Sony front, right? ;)

-Virtua Fighter 5

I've got a 360, thank you.

-Burnout Paradise (coming real soon)

I've got a 360, thank you.

Noshino @ Dec 14th 2007 9:05AM

bm,

before I read your comments about those games, have you played them? I mean play, not watching behind the should someone else play a demo of them....

bm @ Dec 14th 2007 9:47AM

I've played enough. And for what I didn't play, well, you'll notice half of my comments apply, regardless of whether I have or not. ;) Back to you now, Jeff!

Noshino @ Dec 14th 2007 10:25AM

"I've played enough. And for what I didn't play, well, you'll notice half of my comments apply, regardless of whether I have or not. ;) Back to you now, Jeff"

I miss the days in which people's opinions towards any matter were based on actual experiences and not on what they were told by someone else...lame

bm @ Dec 14th 2007 10:49AM

Are you illiterate?

oh well, it's only to be expected. I guess you don't have any real retorts. :)

tc @ Dec 13th 2007 6:06PM

i once divided by zero...but my whole maths book instantly got baleted!

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 13th 2007 6:38PM

Only the Cell can divide by zero... and to count infinitely, twice. Ah, and Chuck Norris too.

Zeus the God @ Dec 13th 2007 7:12PM

The Cell divided by Chuck Norris?

OH SH-

h0mi @ Dec 13th 2007 8:25PM

Last time the cell divided by 0, Paramount went HD-DVD only.

Admiral_Mike @ Dec 13th 2007 6:07PM

whats he smoking?

copa @ Dec 13th 2007 6:22PM

Two hours later, the November NPD's were released.

And Stringer was never heard from again.

James @ Dec 13th 2007 6:07PM

Hahahaahaha.

Sony still saying stupid things. Any PS3 games in gamings Top 10? Not even the PS3 version of Orange Box managed to get in there.

Again. Hahahaha.

ColossalHat @ Dec 13th 2007 6:18PM

Who's top ten are we going by here?

If we're going by review scores, you'd probably better check the user scores and sales as well. If you're going by sales, you'd probably better check reviews of both types.

Top Ten lists are highly subjective, so if you're going to make one at least use more than one type of data for your ranking.

*Note this post does not mean I think any PS3 game should be in the top ten of anything.

James @ Dec 13th 2007 6:21PM

I'm going off the ratings one, where Galaxy and OoT fight for first whilst Orange Box (360 and PC) float around and have Metroid Prime somewhere round the lower half.

The one that matters. Since people buy crap games all the time. Just look at the sales of Final Fantasy: Coronation Street.