The Next Generation of Consoles: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 8/3/2007, 4:02 pm

This is going to drive me to drink!

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/3/2007, 4:15 pm

Try this.

Make a UK account with whatever false info you want, with this address:

555 Abbey Rd

London

and no postal code or anything

If that doesn't work, then something weird is wrong because that is the exact address I used for my fake UK account

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 8/3/2007, 6:06 pm

Finally!

My online ID is TrueLoveWaits

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/3/2007, 6:10 pm

Good job. I'm RenegadeGuardian, like I mentioned earlier.

Will you be getting Warhawk when it comes out? I think I will, since it'll probably be only about $20 or $30 from the PS store (it retails for $60 cause it comes with a headset)

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 8/3/2007, 6:15 pm

It depends on how busy I get with school. :nod:

Do you still have R6V?

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/3/2007, 6:40 pm

Yeah, though my parents have commandeered the TV at the moment.

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 8/6/2007, 12:47 pm

So.....

Just read that a certain website overseas is taking preorders for....

Xbox 360: Metal Gear Solid 4

Xbox 360: Haze

Hmmmm. Interesting.

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/6/2007, 2:20 pm

Eh, nothing on the Penny Arcade forums (and they post about every game related news item within seconds) so I'm gonna chalk it up to HMV (that's the site, right?) is dumb until I hear something from Konami/MS

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 8/6/2007, 6:32 pm

Haze is news to me, MGS4 will be on the 360 a few months after the PS3 release. Official Xbox magazine confirmed it in the last issue and had it as a rumour in a previous issue.

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/6/2007, 7:38 pm

Both the official Kojima Productions site and wiki still say MGS4 is a PS3 exclusive...

http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/english/index.html

In fact, there's no mention of the XBox anywhere on the Kojima site.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 8/7/2007, 3:01 am

Yeah they haven't wanted to announce it and probably won't for a while. The interesting thing is that Kojima won't be supervising the port to 360.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 8/7/2007, 3:15 am

Official Xbox 360 price drop starts wednesday August 8th!

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/811/811056p1.html

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 8/7/2007, 8:54 am

when do the 360s with the new chipsets come out?

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 8/7/2007, 2:09 pm

Crap Bag wrote:when do the 360s with the new chipsets come out?

"Falcon"??? I'm actually not totally sure.

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 8/7/2007, 4:26 pm

So Canadians get a way better price drop than the US.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/811/811221p1.html

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 8/7/2007, 5:41 pm

Yup, I heard.

How much is that conversion?? Like, the Canadian price in US dollars?

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 8/7/2007, 5:57 pm

The canadian dollar is at 0.95 compared to the US dollar. So I did the conversion mostly for the premium console (since it was the biggest price drop for US buyers.

In the US, The Premium console is $350 US, $369.35 CAN

In canada IGN's pricing is wrong. The pricing for the elite has always been $550.00 CAN, they're saying it'll be 500 after the price drop of $100.00 when in actuality it will be $450 canadian for the elite.

So for the premium which bundles with forza for 500 CAN, (450 if you can find it without a bundle! which is almost impossible) the Premium would be selling for $350.00 CAN and 331.66 US. That's without the bundle, 400 CAN with the Forza bundle.

The core pricing is accurate on IGN actually. It'll be selling for 299 CAN after the price drop, which is only 10 to 20 bucks more than a Nintendo Wii depending on where you look.

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/7/2007, 7:12 pm

So for UT3 on the PS3, there will be mouse/keyboard support with the option of specifying if they are allowed when creating a game online.

What might this mean? Well, it might mean PC vs. PS3 matches.

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 8/9/2007, 6:45 am

HMV reported that posting the MGS4 and Haze (360) preorder sites were a mistake.

Also, not sure if any of ya heard about Best Buy and their "Rock Band" preorder posting fuck-up; but for a couple days they were taking preorders for the Rock Band full bundle; and only posting a 59.99 price tag.

I was one that preordered; then the next day best buy realized the fuck up and cancelled everybody's preorders; sending out a mass email apologizing.

ihatethunderbay · Post by **ihatethunderbay** » 8/9/2007, 2:00 pm

I heard some Rock Band pricing from Amazon: $200 for the game + all instruments. Really, not too bad considering what you're getting.