2007-12-10
The $400 PlayStation 3 is a rip.
After a full year of insisting gamers get an extra job or cash in their daughter's college fund for a $600 monstrosity known as PS3, Sony has finally issued a price that drops perilously close to affordable, maybe, if I sell a few pints of my blood.
But caveat emptor (which is Latin for, "hey, check me out, I know Latin"). The new model of PlayStation 3 is even more feature-reduced than the infamous "Xbox 360 Retarded." Yes, it is... PlayStation 3 Alzheimers.
Why Alzheimers? Because it's forgotten a proud tradition that Sony started with the PlayStation 2:
The $400 PlayStation 3 is not backwards-compatible. Not even a little. You can't play PSOne or PlayStation 2 games on it. (Hell, you're lucky it can still play DVD movies.)
"The new model is also no longer backwards compatible with PlayStation 2 titles, reflecting both the reduced emphasis placed on this feature amongst later purchasers of PS3, as well as the availability of a more extensive line-up of PS3 specific titles (a total of 65 titles across all genres by Christmas)." [Link]
You heard 'em right -- 65 titles. Who could ask for anything more? Merry Christmas!
The reason for this, Sony will assure you, has nothing to do with the fact that you can now download PSOne games directly onto your PlayStation 3 -- for a small fee, of course.
In other words, the new PlayStation 3 won't let you play Final Fantasy VII, but it WILL let you pay to download a copy that works.
Can you imagine if Sony redesigned other things -- like your girlfriend?
The good news: She's a lot cheaper.
The bad news: Now she's missing a few ports. And she's no longer "backwards compatible," if you know what I mean.
Ha!
But caveat emptor (which is Latin for, "hey, check me out, I know Latin"). The new model of PlayStation 3 is even more feature-reduced than the infamous "Xbox 360 Retarded." Yes, it is... PlayStation 3 Alzheimers.
Why Alzheimers? Because it's forgotten a proud tradition that Sony started with the PlayStation 2:
The $400 PlayStation 3 is not backwards-compatible. Not even a little. You can't play PSOne or PlayStation 2 games on it. (Hell, you're lucky it can still play DVD movies.)
"The new model is also no longer backwards compatible with PlayStation 2 titles, reflecting both the reduced emphasis placed on this feature amongst later purchasers of PS3, as well as the availability of a more extensive line-up of PS3 specific titles (a total of 65 titles across all genres by Christmas)." [Link]
You heard 'em right -- 65 titles. Who could ask for anything more? Merry Christmas!
The reason for this, Sony will assure you, has nothing to do with the fact that you can now download PSOne games directly onto your PlayStation 3 -- for a small fee, of course.
In other words, the new PlayStation 3 won't let you play Final Fantasy VII, but it WILL let you pay to download a copy that works.
Can you imagine if Sony redesigned other things -- like your girlfriend?
The good news: She's a lot cheaper.
The bad news: Now she's missing a few ports. And she's no longer "backwards compatible," if you know what I mean.
Ha!
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