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This article kinda amused me. It was the one titled, "Sony Talks About the Future of PS2". This is what I found funny:

With online gaming becoming a major part of the PS2 lifestyle, Sony is stepping up plans to evolve the online experience. In the near future, it will begin working with developers on creating a more consisten online world.
What this means to gamers is the introduction of a single username and login feature across all games, and a central "hub" where players can meet up, chat, and plan games / tournaments. SCEA says publishers will retain control over game content, and the idea isn't to change a monthly fee for these new convenience and matching features.
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OK, I'm hating and loving this statement. Hating it because it should've said:

"Sony decides to take another leap by copying Microsoft's tactics even further. First they build-up their online community after seeing it doing well with Xbox, then they try to get headset support on all their online games, and then, the biggest sign of them all, they create an HDD for the PS2. Now, they try and remake Live for the PS2."

OK, OK, I know that the above thing I said isn't ration in some parts, it's just my Xbox fanboyness kicking in when something good happens for the PS2. Well, not really, I mean, you gotta admit that Sony has tried to copy Microsoft in some ways. But anyway, I don't wanna get gang-raped by PS2 fanboys, so let's say why I'm loving it. I'm loving it because that means another console I can have a great online experience on, which is always enjoyable. Like I said awhile back, I don't hate my PS2, I love it, just not as much as my Xbox.

Oh yeah, I also wanted to add a comment about the 10-year-lifespan SCEA predicts for the PS2 since they mentioned it on the same page as the above article. Who the hell will be playing their PS2 four years after the PS3 comes out? Unless the PS3 isn't backwards compatible, if it isn't, that's understandable, but if it is, it's not. I still had my original Playstation till about two months ago after getting the PS2, and I never plugged it up once after the first time playing the PS2 since it's backwards compatible. But still, what do you call lifespan for a system? Sure, there was like one game this year released for PS1, but ppl still play a lot of old PS1 games, mostly RPG's. But they're not coming out with new games, it's just ppl playing it. It's like saying the SNES has 15-year+-lifespan, which is retarded.
 
[quote name='Scrubking']This thread is LAME/10

Please leave your fanboy ways over on gamefaqs. :puke:[/quote]

I can't help it, I love Xbox and CAG too much.
 
as consoles turn more and more into crappy computers i get less and less interested in them, if i want to play games online i'll play them on my computer where they don't suck. I can see myself leaving the console scene very soon if this is where all game companys are moving.
 
[quote name='xzafixz']as consoles turn more and more into crappy computers i get less and less interested in them, if i want to play games online i'll play them on my computer where they don't suck. I can see myself leaving the console scene very soon if this is where all game companys are moving.[/quote]

I wish I could bear to part with the console scene and get a top-notch computer, but I just can't. It would be easy to buy, all I'd have to do is sell all my systems and games, but I just can't do it.
 
It's not unheard of. The PS1 was released in '95 and they're still producing it in PSOne form, so it's coming up on a 10 year life-span.
 
I thought they discontinued production of the PSOne last October. (?)


[quote name='xzafixz']as consoles turn more and more into crappy computers i get less and less interested in them, if i want to play games online i'll play them on my computer where they don't suck. I can see myself leaving the console scene very soon if this is where all game companys are moving.[/quote]
m, let's see....more memory, DVD capability, bigger hardrives, internet capability.........

Yeah, I'd say that's where the console industry has been moving for decades. The segments will merge sonner or later, it's unavoidable. Look at Sonys experimant with the PSX. Although it's not come to fruition in the US yet, it's proof positive that that is where the industry is headed. The all encompassing HomeTheatre/entertainmentsystem/gamemachine/video-on-demand/ settop box. I'm wondering who's going to make the deal with Comcast first, while Microsoft tries to go it alone.
 
[quote name='bmulligan']I thought they discontinued production of the PSOne last October. (?)


[quote name='xzafixz']as consoles turn more and more into crappy computers i get less and less interested in them, if i want to play games online i'll play them on my computer where they don't suck. I can see myself leaving the console scene very soon if this is where all game companys are moving.[/quote]
m, let's see....more memory, DVD capability, bigger hardrives, internet capability.........

Yeah, I'd say that's where the console industry has been moving for decades. The segments will merge sonner or later, it's unavoidable. Look at Sonys experimant with the PSX. Although it's not come to fruition in the US yet, it's proof positive that that is where the industry is headed. The all encompassing HomeTheatre/entertainmentsystem/gamemachine/video-on-demand/ settop box. I'm wondering who's going to make the deal with Comcast first, while Microsoft tries to go it alone.[/quote]

Now we just need those cool clothes that dry themselves when they get wet after we fall off our hover board
 
When people say how Sony is copying Microsoft, you have to break it down into what has happened. Don't think that Sony is copying Microsoft, when in actuality, MS copied Sony first. Why did MS get into the console biz? Because the numbers Sony was putting up, and they knew the video game industry is only getting bigger. So, they did the only thing they could to be competitive, they went balls to the walls with Sony, building a technologically superior console, lost money on it and marketed the hell out of it. Sony, always does things peripherally. they love peripherals, so it doesn't surprise me that they are adding things that the xbox had, and they are making money on it. Withe the Xbox next, we are already hearing rumors about xbox going to a more peripheral system (no hard drive). Why, because they have established themselves and can start to make the money off of us suckers. So in the end, who's modeling after who?
 
[quote name='jlarlee']I missed the part where Sony copied charging players for the right to play online[/quote]

Wait.
 
My personal opinion on this is that you need to kick your self in the balls for bieng an xboxfanboy. Xbox is fuckin awful. And I have the right to say this, I owned one for over a year. I think you need to shut up and play a ps2 so you can see how your wrong and come out of denial.
 
[quote name='bruce_pwns_j00']My personal opinion on this is that you need to kick your self in the balls for bieng an xboxfanboy. Xbox is fuckin awful. And I have the right to say this, I owned one for over a year. I think you need to shut up and play a ps2 so you can see how your wrong and come out of denial.[/quote]

I know fanboys get on a lot of ppl's nerves, and I was expecting at least one comment about me being one. I probably would've respected your opinion, but it's just funny because you are obviously a PS2 fanboy, so you can't say shit. See, we try not to start console wars on this forum as it has been done here and EVERY OTHER game forum in the universe!!!
 
[quote name='jlarlee']I missed the part where Sony copied charging players for the right to play online[/quote]

Oops, I meant to add something about that in there because I knew someone would notice that. Although it says they won't charge montly fees, I think they will, but only time and God can tell, so we can either wait or ask God.
 
[quote name='XboxMaster'][quote name='bruce_pwns_j00']My personal opinion on this is that you need to kick your self in the balls for bieng an xboxfanboy. Xbox is fuckin awful. And I have the right to say this, I owned one for over a year. I think you need to shut up and play a ps2 so you can see how your wrong and come out of denial.[/quote]

I know fanboys get on a lot of ppl's nerves, and I was expecting at least one comment about me being one. I probably would've respected your opinion, but it's just funny because you are obviously a PS2 fanboy, so you can't say shit. See, we try not to start console wars on this forum as it has been done here and EVERY OTHER game forum in the universe!!![/quote]
What bruce said is not NEARLY enough for you to state that he's "obviously a PS2 fanboy." You assume too much.

As for the main topic. I agree to some extent that Sony is copying Microsoft, but I also don't like this direction that consoles are headed. Online play should mostly just stick to computers.
 
shit, i really hope the PSM article is true. Damn, that is one good news I've heard of SCEA so far regarding the incositent online play. I don't care if they copy XBox Live or whatever, but that is one thing that would get me to keep the ps2 i have no instead of an Xbox.

do it soon!!
 
[quote name='XboxMaster'][quote name='jlarlee']I missed the part where Sony copied charging players for the right to play online[/quote]

Oops, I meant to add something about that in there because I knew someone would notice that. Although it says they won't charge montly fees, I think they will, but only time and God can tell, so we can either wait or ask God.[/quote]

I'm not a fanboy for any sytem and once I can find a good deal on an X-Box I will have all three, but to me there is not a more irritating practice than charging gamers to play games online. There are some of you that paid 300 bones for that thing than you spend 20-50 for a game at that point they should sure as heck not be charging for online play
 
Sorry to tell you xboxmaster but I'm not a ps2 fanboy. I own a gamecube and I used to own a xbox. So you shouldnt assume things so quickly.
 
[quote name='jlarlee']I missed the part where Sony copied charging players for the right to play online[/quote]

How long do you think it will be free? Long very long.
 
[quote name='bruce_pwns_j00']Sorry to tell you xboxmaster but I'm not a ps2 fanboy. I own a gamecube and I used to own a xbox. So you shouldnt assume things so quickly.[/quote]

It doesn't matter if your have a Gamecube. I have all three next-gen systems and are still an Xbox fanboy. Let's take another look at this.

My personal opinion on this is that you need to kick your self in the balls for bieng an xboxfanboy. Xbox is fuckin awful. And I have the right to say this, I owned one for over a year. I think you need to shut up and play a ps2 so you can see how your wrong and come out of denial.
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1.) You said Xbox plain sucks
2.) You attacked an Xbox fanboy very vigorously

That sounds like a PS2 fanboy to me.
 
I don't think he's so much an PS2 fanboy as much he is anti-Xbox. I also don't think your second reason is legit. I've had a bad history with Xbox fanboys and their ignorance, so i can understand where bruce's statement comes from. But you aren't as bad as the Xbox fanboys I've talked to, since you at least appreciate the other systems to some extent. Everyone else has been like, "XBOX ARE TEH PWNAGE!!! PS2 + GAMECUBE SUUXXX!!" and I would very much like them to be kicked in the balls.
 
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