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I strongly believe that GameCrazy made a horrible choice in not accepting classic games' trate-ins after the last holiday season. They are losing a ton of money from folks like me who would have otherwise had to pay massive amounts if it weren't for their '2 for $5' deal. I probably saved over $200 utilizing their special order's department, ordering moderately rare, old, and hard-to-find games like the Phantasy Stars, Bust-A-Move, Beyond Oasis, etc. I wrote a blog on it: http://the16bitter.blogspot.com/2007/08/retro-gaming-tips-game-crazy.html

Other than that, they're the only games store now that doesn't open their games which is excellent news for collectors, but somthing that EB and Gamestop seem to think they need to do in order to be 'secure'. I think it's complete bullocks.

NOT FAKE! Honestly, all it has to do is interpret the signals from the device as certain mouse movements. It's a little more complicated than that, but, whatever.

I think this is kind of useless, but we'll see. I would have liked to have seen some pointer action.

They're not actually that bad of games, if you ignore the crappy cutscenes. The whole anti-CDi Zelda conspiracy really grows out of mass amounts of ignorance.

Cnet is dumb.

Not to diss on consoles, because I have my share, but the PC format has already surpassed consoles in every possible way.

Honestly, all I'd need to do is switch graphics cards and I'd have better than a PS3, coming from my 900 dollar computer bought 3 years ago. All I'm saying is that Sony fanboys will talk like the graphics on this thing are the best the world has seen, or will see for the next some-odd years, but face it, the tech has been out. The PS3 is a Blu-Ray drive with a tiny bit of ram, a backward graphics card, and a bit of processing power (my PC matches the PS3 in GHZ). Consoles are becoming more like PCs every generation, why don't you all just skip the 'development process' and use what you're typing on to play some friggin games? Or, go the Nintendo route.

Just did some additional math. You may be asking yourself, "Why would the PS3 need games to be installed?" Because the Blu-Ray drives are unnecessarily slow.

The Xbox360's decision to go with the well-developed DVD format is going to be the decider here. It turns out that the 360s drive will access the data a lot faster then the PS3's, an incremental amount.

Now that I think about it, The Xbox 360 is faster than the PS3... Much faster. The Xbox 360 has a 12X DVD drive, which reads at 16.0 Megabytes a second. Source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360 The PS3, on the other hand, has a Blu-Ray Disc drive, which is capable of reading 36 Megabits a second for the cheaper model, and 72 Megabits a second for the 1,000+ dollar model. Source= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_Ray#PC_data_storage Now, a MegaBIT is roughly equal to, what, 1/8th of a MegaBYTE? Source = http://www.crucial.com/library/mb_vs_mb.asp So, take 36 Megabits and translate it to megabytes. Divide by 8, that leaves you with read speeds of about 4.5 megabytes a second. Take 72 Megabits and convert to Megabytes: that leaves exactly 9 Megabytes a second, optimistically.

Tally:
Xbox 360's 16X DVD drive: 16.0 Megabytes a second.
PS3's 1X Blu-Ray Drive: 4.5 Megabytes a second.
PS3's unlikely 2X Blu-Ray Drive: 9.0 Megabytes a second.

We have a clear winner. We'll see unnatural load times, like with the other 'brilliant' Sony format, the UMD disc. That's why the install is necessary. How can the PS3's ultra leet processor do with only digesting a quarter of the needed files a second? Please.

So ask yourself: Is switching a game disc every so often really that bad? Microsoft was doing a good thing in not making HDDVD their standard before the technology was produced. DVD is the fastest, most affordable removeable media that still has ample space available. Blu-Ray is definitely not the best thing for gamers. Sony is pushing the format, making the consumer pay for it, and it's bad for gamers. Wake up.

It would take a 1X Blu-Ray drive an hour and a half to fully read a 25 gigabyte Blu-Ray Disc. Think about that.

Umm, he doesn't know what he's talking about:

"Sure, the interface is sleeker with context-sensitive menus and a smart little bar that lets you more intuitively toggle modes like 'power attack' and 'stealth,'..."

Did he not play Neverwinter? Or was he too dumb to use this 'smart bar' when it came out? It sounds like he playedthe first three minutes of the game, which are supposed to be 'checking stuff off your list'. Obsidian explicitly stated that you have to build your reputation in the town before you are called on to save the world, unlike many other games. Me, I pre-ordered and found out that my PC was running it at 1 frame/second (time for a serious upgrade...) SO I haven't had an opportunity to play it yet, but I can definitely tell the level system has been much improved. An unfair review, to say the least. I'm sad because 1up didn't catch this before they 'published' it.

Sony had absolutely no reason to fuss over this. Sony has showed that they don't care one little bit about gamers, much less consumers. First of all, their products cost an extreme amount for no good reason, and if anyone says that that implies quality, you've been decieved.

They do other things against gamers for no reason, this isn't the first tragedy. For instance, the constant battle between homebrew developers and Sony's PSP firmwares. What are they protecting besides their stupid egos? If they cared about gamers, they would turn the other cheek when it came to homebrew and emulation, hell, that's what made me buy a PSP in the first place. (I sold it in favor of a GP2X once I found out all that firmware bullocks...) It's apparent there's no real reson to buy a PSP over a DS nowadays, they have nothing to bank on but homebrew and emulation, as far as I can tell.

Plus, the whole CD bullocks, that prevents Sony produced music to be ripped from your computer? I mean, WTF is that? I want a CD on my Ipod, and they're bitching? They don't care about us.

And now we find out that 1/3 of the cost of the PS3 is because of thier Blu-Ray device. They're pushing an unneeded format that I'm not sure I, or a majority of consumers want to accept, but they're shoving it down our throats, and on top of that, they're making us pay for it. It's ludicrous.

It's apparent to me that major companies that make objects other than gaming machines have no business in the industry because all they're here for is to get a peice of the billion dollar industry. Sony is taking steps more poressive than Nintendo did in the 80s when they were declared an illegal monopoly in the US.

Where the hell is Sega?

BOYCOTT SONY.

Wow. What an 'unbiased' report...
"It was, in fact, almost the same system as Nintendo's, with a similar gamepad and 8-bit processor." Talking about the Master System? Bah! the SMS was WAY superior to the NES. I doubt the jackasses who wrote this actually even played any of the consoles they pretend to know so much about. One look at an SMS game side-by-side with an NES game, it's very apparent which is technically superior. Plus, the 3D glasses? Puhleeze.

They also didn't talk about Nintendo being cocks about their licensing at the time, and lost a court case declaring them an illegal monopoly because they locked their developers into a contract that would force them to produce games ONLY for the NES. Just by virtue of the NES being out first and the contracts that everyone HAD to sign, they came out on top. Failed to mention that SMALL detail.

Just read the PSP load of bullocks... Yeah, I said it, these guys know nothing about gaming history, sorry.