Jameyt

Wow, did this guy just come over from Sony?

Brilliant maneuver.

Get peoples money now BEFORE the reviews come out, before the great gnashing of teeth.

Something makes me think that getting a refund for this IOU won't be easy.

Also, from a bookkeeping perspective, do they get to book these "pre-sales" immediately or only after the goods are shipped?

Yeah hype machines usually don't work . . . just look at what happened with all the hype around Halo 2. Look how bad that turned out . . .

/sarcasm

You know the thing that stood out more than Halo and Halo2 was one little word:

addicted

Not sure who thinks that aiming a commercial at mom and having a kid say "I was addicted to that game" is a good idea.

That's where the commercial is going to blow up for the parents (assuming they don't know/care about ESRB ratings, which most won't know).

Between the browser and adding some Linux support . . . how long till someone bricks a bunch of consoles with a virus, hacks someone's Sony Wallet and empties it and generally makes high holy hell for folks not wanting to play griefers online?

What, no "For $200 extra I can play Pitfall in 1080P" comments?

I'm still willing to bet that there will be no playable PS3 games on the floor at E3.

One important point that no one seems to want to discuss: the DVD drive speed and lack of Bluray so far. They mention in the article that the devs are just working with 12 speed (or was it 10x) DVD drives. Check out the other articles as of late. for a Bluray drive to get to this amount of data througput it's going to have to be 4x or more I believe. Might be off on that. The point being that there's no way that Sony will be able to afford anything other than 1x or 2x Bluray drives out of the gate. This means one of two things: horrendous load times from hell OR requiring a hard drive in every box to load the entire game for playback (more fixed cost per box. See Xbox 1 for the economics of this proposition.) So you're going to have one massive load time up front or a lot of long ones throughout the games. Doesn't sound like a very good experience.

Also, true, that devs will be able to do wondrous things at some future point on the PS3 but so will the Xbox 360 developers who will have at the least a good solid year head start.

Fanboys will be fanboys. Gamers will buy machines as much for brand loyalty as for the games. But there are limits. Too expensive and you price all the but most hardcore out of the market. Too little and they loose too much money. At this rate the PS3 will lose Sony significant money on every box. Most analyst predict rather large losses for a few years. Sony isn't in the financial position to be able to do this -- at least not for long.

Must . .. get . . . Halo2 . . . fix . . . now . . .

Must . .. get . . . Halo2 . . . fix . . . now . . .