The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

Here's what needs to happen re: optical drives

PS5/XBOne2 need to just ship with a 64GB thumb drive included in the box(by the time those systems release, that's like a $5 manufacturing cost added to the console)

All games can be purchased/downloaded online for people with good broadband connections. For people that have shit internet, they take their thumb drive to Wal-Mart, or BestBuy or wheverer, which has a Kiosk where you can buy any game you want, insert thumb drive, and game loads to thumb drive and you take it home and install it just like you would a physical disk.

It's a win/win for Sony, Microsoft, and game publishers as most of their sales become digital downloads that are direct to consumer and they don't have to cut a retail store in on the profit margins, but it doesn't exclude anyone who has crap internet and still needs physical media but the cost of manufacturing boxes, disks, and shipping are completely eliminated.

Now, if you don't have decent internet and you live in the middle of nowhere you are probably boned, but that's no different than now. I guess those people probably just order most of their purchases online anyway and have them mailed/delivered.

I've been using a portable/external USB dvd drive/burner for several years now, I haven't had any drives installed in my PC besides hard drives in probably half a decade, works out great. I almost never use it, I plug it in maybe once a much to burn a movie or something for someone but I haven't purchased any physical media in years.

God bless Steam

So after the month is up in free games, you can't to back and get those same games for free right on play station plus?

Of course the next month is new free games but it's not retro active, right?

If you added them to your download list (so that the games are flagged as purchased), you WILL be able to re-download them when you have PS+ again.

You dont' even have to download it. Just "purchase" it and you can download it whenever you decided to play it. My PS3 ended up with around 50 games installed first year of PS+, thats even with passing up games I already owned or had no desire to ever play.

Vaclav_sl said:

Check your audio settings you can set it either way.

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I switched between HDMI/Optical in the settings and turned the multi-channel option on/off, and none of that worked. If there's another setting that I need to change, I'm not seeing it.

spanner_sl said:

You dont' even have to download it. Just "purchase" it and you can download it whenever you decided to play it. My PS3 ended up with around 50 games installed first year of PS+, thats even with passing up games I already owned or had no desire to ever play.

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Awesome! Picking up my ps+ membership card today from best buy and will start tagging the games to my account!

This will be the first generation where I won't be buying every console, I see the Wii U as too outdated already and I really don't enjoy any of the Xbox exclusive titles. Last gen as soon as I got into the PS3 I bought all multi-platform titles for it and the last Xbox exclusive I got was GoW, they're too into the whole men in giant robot suits thing for me.

Very impressed with the visual quality of the PS4 so far and PS+ is excellent value.

Got a 3-to-1 pigtail switch today from Amazon (for $7 including shipping! And apparently from the packaging from China since it had a Chinese customs stamp on the backside - must've been like $3 with $4 in shipping preincluded - and of course about 10 days ahead of their earliest estimate) and I was worried it would degrade the signal for the PS4 but it does it like a champ still crystal clear - and PS3 and PS4 both work with it's autoswitching so I don't even need to touch the thing ever. Sucked having only 2 HDMI on this TV but now it's far less painful. [And yes, it's a 60" with only 2 HDMI - didn't even think about checking the quantity while I was purchasing - same TV next year had 4 I think, heh...]

Who wants to sell me a Playstation 3 for cheap? Come on, do it!

Crone_sl said:

Who wants to sell me a Playstation 3 for cheap? Come on, do it!

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Keep getting tempted to get the Azurite Blue just because and replace the wife's with it. If I bite the bullet I'd let her old one (40 GB "Slim" model) pretty cheap - probably $100 + shipping.

Vaclav_sl said:

Keep getting tempted to get the Azurite Blue just because and replace the wife's with it. If I bite the bullet I'd let her old one (40 GB "Slim" model) pretty cheap - probably $100 + shipping.

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I'm down!! I trust your goodies better than some dude off craigslist. I saw GameStop had the used 250gb Azurite PS3 with Last of Us bundle for $250.

Seeing as I'll be downloading most everything from the free game list given to Ps+ peeps, I assume I want some decent hard drive space.

40GB is tiny for PS+ as a warning if we do end up doing it, probably about 5-6 games at a time and you'll be out of space (7GB is OS I think - and 5-7 isn't a rare game size). And it's $250 new for the Azurite w/ TLoU. (And I've been jonesing to rebuy it since it's pretty clear it's not coming back down and the Ellie DLC can't be too far off so it's basically $200 from my standpoint)

Vaclav_sl said:

40GB is tiny for PS+ as a warning if we do end up doing it, probably about 5-6 games at a time and you'll be out of space (7GB is OS I think - and 5-7 isn't a rare game size). And it's $250 new for the Azurite w/ TLoU. (And I've been jonesing to rebuy it since it's pretty clear it's not coming back down and the Ellie DLC can't be too far off so it's basically $200 from my standpoint)

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Ya, probably right. Your goodies suck! Haha. Naw, I play so little console as is, I'll be back piling games on ps+ but have no idea when I'll ever have a chance to play them. Probably better to just hold off until I know I'll actually use the console.

I wouldn't buy a PS3 bundle based on HDD size, you're far better off buying as cheap as possible, or in whatever color you want, and just popping in a cheap large laptop HDD from Amazon in there and not worrying about space.

Devlin_sl said:

This will be the first generation where I won't be buying every console, I see the Wii U as too outdated already and I really don't enjoy any of the Xbox exclusive titles. Last gen as soon as I got into the PS3 I bought all multi-platform titles for it and the last Xbox exclusive I got was GoW, they're too into the whole men in giant robot suits thing for me.

Very impressed with the visual quality of the PS4 so far and PS+ is excellent value.

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The WiiU shouldn't be judged based on its shitty hardware. It has some good games now and will have a fairly good library down the road. I am definitely going to pick one up when X is out and the price on them will probably be pretty low then. Sure, Nintendo isn't going to have the best looking games, but they will have quality stuff that you can't get elsewhere and the console won't cost much at all before too long.

Super Mario World 3D looks pretty damn good and runs at[email protected]/* <![CDATA[ */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--if(t[e].getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t[e]}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling{p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail'{for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16.slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e,c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* ]]> */Yeah the console can't do the super realistic graphics i.e. Battlefield 4 on PS4 but Nintendo doesn't make those type of games - all the hardware does is shut off the major 3rd party releases which even if Nintendo had the hardware they still wouldn't get the ports because outside of a few, publishers hate Nintendo. The hardware was built with Nintendo games in mind, for better or worse. I personally don't see the point of 3 consoles that all have the same games - I guess if you can only afford 1 console you'd like for every game to be on every console but at that point a PC is going to be the best machine you can have.

You buy a Wii U if you are interested in Nintendo first party/Retro/Platinum/Monolithsoft games and their other 2nd party studio games.

Sean_sl said:

I wouldn't buy a PS3 bundle based on HDD size, you're far better off buying as cheap as possible, or in whatever color you want, and just popping in a cheap large laptop HDD from Amazon in there and not worrying about space.

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Oh ya!! I have a spare 160gb ssd laptop drive I could probably use for great success!