Comments on: Top 10 reasons this chick’s a Sony fanboy

By: mu

mu — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:14:14 +0000

the advantage of being intelligent is that you are able to more easily decipher what people are trying to convey, no matter how much difficulty they have had trying to convey it. i guess you would know that if, well, you know, or maybe you don’t.

- mu

By: HU1212ICANE

HU1212ICANE — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:56:42 +0000

The one reason why XBOX 360 is better than PS3……. XBOX 360 has Halo 3, and Gears Of War.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:44:48 +0000

Glad to hear it.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:31:54 +0000

Quite alright, you have never once annoyed me so you get a free pass.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:28:20 +0000

COD2, yep. Good times with women to be had on that game.

(Yes Glovny, I did just bugger the English language. Have your fun with it. ;))

By: Studley

Studley — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:08:54 +0000

http://www.mygamercard.net/chixboard.php

Most played games by girls:

1. COD2
2. Uno
3. DOA4
4. Hitman
5. FFXI

Granted it’s only recording about five players, but still… that’s fairly varied

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:49:04 +0000

But the point you are missing though is that you have a choice to bring the 360 up to matching specs if you choose to and it will have a comparable price. What if you don’t want a second control pad, Wi-Fi, HD 60Gig HD which you would struggle to fill with anything meaningful and Blu-Ray which has not even established itself as the format to go with.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:31:54 +0000

“reasonably well enough to be understood “

Don’t really think the grammar is very good at this point either.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:29:59 +0000

See woman can have vaild points that make sense and make them stand out as an individual, unlike the other ones which posted previously.

Well done Girliegirl.

Of course I will probably now find out that Girliegirl is a 7ft tall 500lbs transvestite named Steve who uses the net to groom his next victim.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:27:12 +0000

Why do all women have to generalise everything?

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:26:06 +0000

You can when the company that employs is intelligent enough to realise that if someone is working in a customer facing role then they should hire people that can communicate on an even level with the customer base.

As crazy as it sounds it does happen, i work for a company that bases its call centres in the places that the business is sold. There are offices in China with Chinese call centres, UK with British call centres, Canada with Canadian call centres. The list goes on and it works.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:22:52 +0000

I have Doug’s back on this one.

I have to deal with people with accents on a daily basis, good for them they have learned a second language but that doesn’t make my job any eaiser when they cannot communicate to the standard needed to do their job effectively and so hampering my ability to do mine.

Fair enough they can ask where the library is, whats the time, can I have the bill please but none of this means they can carry out the tasks they are paid to and so should not be working in the role.

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:17:20 +0000

Whats the reaction of people in this site got to do with females in general and gaming?

Beating women ain’t funny, talking about a hypothetical situation in which a woman is beat can be funny if delivered in the right way. Just like anything can be laughed at and should be laughed at if delivered correctly, it’s not anyone elses fault if someone can’t separate reality from fiction.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:07:00 +0000

Yeah, I’m afraid Blu-Ray is available, and the movies I’ve seen available on BR, I’d rather see in super hi-def than the ones available on HD-DVD. Kate Beckinsale and Milla Jovovich or Morgan Freeman? Hmm…

By: Clawz114

Clawz114 — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:33:39 +0000

Comment by MacDaddy on 2006-08-20 16:22:45 | Reply
On the issue of BR versus HD-DVD, one thing you’re totally missing the point on is that BR is still not avaialble and its success is by no means ensured as a platform.

***

Take a look at this link
http://www.overclockers.c...talog/Blu_Ray_Drives.html
Why arnt their hddvd drives on there?
http://www.blu-ray.com/players/

And you said the technology isnt here yet???

By: The_Glovner

The_Glovner — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:47:57 +0000

“Every one of these comments is riddled with horrible spelling, atrocious grammar, and punctuation errors”

No need for a comma before “and”.

Cheers Mr Grammar King.

By: MacDaddy

MacDaddy — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:22:45 +0000

You’re totally missing the point, nobody stis around and does their sums before buying a console. People buy them based on cachet value of the system (how “cool” is it to have one) and the quality of the games. Right now, Xbox360 is winning hands down because frankly, its on the market. Microsoft suggest they’ll sell 15 million units before PS3 hits the market.

Sony is also releasing the PS3 at the same time as the Wii, which will split the market a bit for them initially. A good Mario title and Sony would be in trouble because nobody can afford to buy both originally. If the PS3 doesn’t live up to the hype initially, the cachet value wears off and the future looks bleak. Meanwhile, Microsoft still have 15 million units in the bank.

On the issue of BR versus HD-DVD, one thing you’re totally missing the point on is that BR is still not avaialble and its success is by no means ensured as a platform. Similar to the argument that Sony will offer online gaming for free where as Microsoft charge for it - well, Xbox Live is out there in the market, is quite successful and is GOOD. Right now, online play for the PS3 is vapourware - free doesn’t equate to good.

Microsoft are heading down an interesting path with the Xbox and PC. By moving to a more unified gaming development platform they stand to leverage the much wider PC gaming market better for the Xbox and more importantly, they diminish the cost of development for the development shops if they standardise on the Xbox/PC platform. Its a compelling business model because of the cost of multi-platform development and then licensing fees.

I think in line with the above comment, one thing that is driving up the cost of the PS3 is the Cell processor. Development of multi-threaded games to take advantage of multi-cores is a tough road. If you were going to do that kind of development, you’d ask yourself a question, do I want to write for the single Sony platform or do I want to write my multi-core capable games for a Microsoft platform that opens up both the PC and Xbox and abstracts me from the compilation nightmare. Bear in mind, Intel will ship more multi-core processors this year than anyone else in the PC market so if you were doing multi-core targetted development, which platform would you aim for?

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft take the step of getting out of the hardware for the Xbox and just license the platform. So we could see a Dell Xbox360 at a fraction of the cost.

Finally, I think right now, with all of the problems Sony are having with overheating batteries in Dell, HP and other machines, nobody in their right mind would be spruiking the advanced power management capabilities and low running temperatures of any Sony product.

By: the thought police

the thought police — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:22:45 +0000

in section 4 she shows a real fear of being watched by microsoft ,seems to me people who show this level of anxiety towards being online have got something to hide ,but what your gamerstats

By: Clawz114

Clawz114 — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:35:13 +0000

Ok, thats fair enough. So the guy who started the topic in the first place got the maths wrong not me. And neither did you while im here. If he got the right total then yeah its $599. But the point im trying to make is the playstation 3 doesnt seem so expensive when you give the 360 matching specs. Wether it will turn out better or worse we will have to wait.

By: TRIGGER M4N

TRIGGER M4N — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:17:23 +0000

(Ok, Xboxic admins, edit all these comments as much as you need, bu he said keep it coming.)

Lets start from the beggining. I’ll keep a running tally (the proper answers) next to it.

1 Xbox 360, $399
1 extra wireless controller, $49 ($448)
2 games, $119 ($567)
1-year Live subscription, $49 ($616)
1600 Microsoft Points (for arcade games), $19 ($635)
The whole shebang: $639 ($635)

ok now 639 + 200 is 839. ($835)
839 - 19 is 820 ($816)
820 - 49 is 771 ($767)
771 - 119 is 652 ($648)
652 - 49 is 603 ($599…)

By: Clawz114

Clawz114 — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:33:44 +0000

Comment by TRIGGER M4N on 2006-08-20 00:12:21 | Reply
Maybe you should do your maths again, as that little quiz you did there isn’t $603, but actually $599. Not much difference, please do check, the next time you act like you know your maths…do it properly

Ok, try as i did. i couldnt get the answer of $599.

Ok let me spell this out and lets see whos right.

1 Xbox 360, $399
1 extra wireless controller, $49
2 games, $119
1-year Live subscription, $49
1600 Microsoft Points (for arcade games), $19
The whole shebang: $639

ok now 639 + 200 is 839.
839 - 19 is 820
820 - 49 is 771
771 - 119 is 652
652 - 49 is 603

Now please tell me how you worked out that it costs 599???

Onto the next comment.

Comment by The M.A.R.T. on 2006-08-20 02:25:15 | Reply
One tiny winy detail you’re missing though.

You don’t know what the standard of next gen drives will be. For PS3 you have no choice. If the standard will be BR they you’re lucky. But what if BR will not be the standard? Well damn. Then you paid a lot of money for well urm nothing!

360 at least has the choice. If HD-DVD won’t be the standard, in the future it’s possible to sell BR add-on if wanted.

Furthermore, why in heavens sake should the 60 GB HDD be accounted to the 360’s price? It’s not nescessary to have a 60 GB HDD. So I guess the PS stays a hell of an expensive console AND with the possibility to pay for a non standard drive.

Ok now someone obviously doesnt have a clue about bluray and hddvd.

The playstation 3 games will be on a bluray format so the console wont be useless at all you just wont be able to watch BLURAY movies.

And as i said, can you honestly tell me that you think the hddvd drive for the 360 will cost $100. i think it will cost $200 at least. But you guys are completely missing the point. im trying to show you why the playstation 3 is suddenly a good deal.

Keep it coming guys

By: Gh0s7

Gh0s7 — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:17:01 +0000

So what makes being an Xbox fanboy any better than being a Sony fanboy? What a waste of internet. Both of you.

By: The M.A.R.T.

The M.A.R.T. — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:25:15 +0000

One tiny winy detail you’re missing though.

360 at least has the choice. If HD-DVD won’t be the standard, in the future it’s possible to sell BR add-on if wanted.

That sucks

By: The M.A.R.T.

The M.A.R.T. — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:15:24 +0000

It’s not funny to beat women. But for the one that wrote this article we make an exception

By: Psycho300x

Psycho300x — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:14:20 +0000

that person is on crack; consumer support replaced my xbox right away after it died plus all the over reasons suck GJ XBOXIC ON OWNING A SONY FANBOY

By: rollypolly

rollypolly — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:58:44 +0000

wow. the author might be wrong in exaggerating the xbox’s faults, but i find the deep rooted misogyny on this thread completely saddening. no wonder there are less women gamers– the gaming community is hostile to them. beating women is funny? and surprise: no one in this thread batted an eyelash. business as usual.

By: TRIGGER M4N

TRIGGER M4N — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:12:21 +0000

Maybe you should do your maths again, as that little quiz you did there isn’t $603, but actually $599. Not much difference, please do check, the next time you act like you know your maths…do it properly

By: Clawz114

Clawz114 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:57:05 +0000

You know guys, i dont like microsoft il say it now. I will be getting a playstation 3 and i wont be touching an xbox360. im all for open critisism but when you argue back with incorrect “facts” i just had to post my annoyance.

1 Xbox 360, $399
1 extra wireless controller, $49
2 games, $119
1-year Live subscription, $49
1600 Microsoft Points (for arcade games), $19
The whole shebang: $639

Ok, lets not forget that the ps3 will have a 60gb hdd compared to a 20gb hdd and it wont have a high definition dvd player. so…lets just say that its going to cost $100 for a 60gb hdd and $100 for an hddvd drive addon…(i think it will be nearer $200 but lets just say $100 in this example)

thats $639 + $200 = $839. ok now lets take away those 2 games…at $119.

$839 - $119 = $720.

now lets take away those microsoft points at $19.

$720 - $19 = $701

and while we are here lets take away that extra wireless controller.

$701 - $49 = $652

Now lets just take off the xbox live subscription at $49

$652 - $49 = $603

Omg would you look at that…the 360 is more expensive with no online subscription. and might i add there is no HDMI port on the xbox 360.

So next time you try to act like you know what your on about…do that maths first.

By: aces high

aces high — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:54:01 +0000

Wow that bitch needs to get a clue.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:06:13 +0000

Have you considered joining our forums?

By: Shah

Shah — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:55:29 +0000

I’ve a thing for XBOX 360. I don’t want to wait for PS3 to come out. There are lots of games for Xbox. Moreover, with the release of the developer packs for making games, Xbox is very appealing. PS3 will have games but few of those games will exploit all the cores of the RISC cell processor. Moreover, XBOX + PC beats PS3 on the appealing level. XBOX is already far ahead. XBOX is extensible. Ms. did a nice box for this console unlike PC OS Vista. PS3 is not meant for the masses right now.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:17:49 +0000

And before you guys use this as an excuse to bash girl gamers and I know some of you will this isn’t respresentative of the whole market. I know two women who can beat me like a drum at COD2, and one’s even a mom. This girl just has a megaphone.

Also, from what I am to understand, stuff like Bejewled, Zuma, and what you find on the DS like that brain training is much more popular with the ladies, normally. There are girls who like the shooters and the sports titles (I have played a few women in PGR) but unfortunately there aren't many. Unless there are. Then please prove me wrong.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:13:02 +0000

I love people with accents. When I can understand them. If I’m on the phone - which already has less-than-desirable audio quality - and I can’t understand what the person on the other end is saying, we have a problem.

By: frankly

frankly — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:06:32 +0000

Every one of these comments is riddled with horrible spelling, atrocious grammar, and punctuation errors so bad that the meaning of the sentence is garbled beyond understanding by intelligent people.

Seriously, you spotted faced losers, quit playing dumb ass games and learn to communicate, reasonably well enough to be understood by those of us who actually studied in school, before you start spouting off about someone’s accent.

Morons.

By: GirllieGirl

GirllieGirl — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:50:34 +0000

The rant is just phony hype to convince people that they WANT to spend $1000 on a PS3. Everyone knows its not worth it. So they take some cheap shots by lying about the 360. I have a 360 which has never given me a single problem and works right out of the box.

Sony’s real competitor is the Wii. Because everyone I know is talking about the Wii and no one has even mentioned the PS3.

Imagine the scenario at GameStop. There are three consoles on display. The Wii will amaze everyone not to mention its mini price tag.

The 360 and the PS3 are just there, with great upgraded graphics for conventional gamers, only the PS3 is close to $1000. And the PS3 games are each ~ $80…

The PS3 is going to tank. Its too expensive, overhyped by Sony, and who cares about blu-ray. That’s all you had to say.

By: Munkyd

Munkyd — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:27:18 +0000

a 6lb power brick? i just picked mine up a minute ago to get a better idea of how heavy it really is. its about 1.5lbs

wow

By: Alisha

Alisha — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:13:42 +0000

Oh, so women only play Bejeweled, huh? Y’know, that’s why you don’t hear from more girl gamers… because you belittle and marginalize them.

By: Chris C

Chris C — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:53:29 +0000

This is a really stupid girl. Let me give you the reasons I hate Honda and all you will find is biased bulls**t. She needs to pull her head out of a hole.

By: devofoms

devofoms — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:27:13 +0000

You con’t find too many people offshore without accents and that is where tech suport is done these days. The amazing thing is how well they speak english considering its a second language for most of them.

By: sepa town

sepa town — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:18:07 +0000

What do you have against people with accents? Doug is no better than the chick he is trying to burn. It’s funny that most posts are kissing his butt LOL