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July 23, 2007

I have a PS3 ()

by fluffy at 11:01 PM
I now have a PS3. It seemed like a good idea at the time. My PSN username is 'plaidfluff' (same as on AIM). Add me as a friend. Or don't. Whatever.

Thoughts so far:

  • Somehow that opening symphonic orchestra sample is very very nice to hear. It's so basic yet so rich, and definitely helps to give the PS3 an air of refined sophistication.
  • Getting the network working was a bit tricky. For some reason it couldn't get a DHCP lease. A manual configuration works fine though.
  • The 1.90 firmware sure is big.
  • It'd be nice if the PSN signup stuff would explain WHY a username wasn't available. It didn't like my usual choices of "fluffy" or "fluffy <3" and even "fluffy.3" wasn't accepted, but "plaidfluff" was fine. Similarly it'd be nice if they said which characters were legal to use in the "full name" thing (and whether that had to be, like, a legal name; clearly fluffy <3 isn't considered valid, for example)
  • The store is WAY better than Wii Shop. The browse interface, the available selection of stuff (trailers! PS1 games which you can play on both PS3 and PSP! full movies!), and the fact there's a background download manager all kill the Wii. The wallet functionality is a little bit gimpy (in how when you check out you have to add money to your wallet so that you can take money out of your wallet... I think Penny Arcade did a comic about that) but it sure beats the whole "points" system, which really does the same thing anyway.
  • Folding@Home runs way too fast on the PS3. Curse you, Cell. (Though it's a bit annoying how it spent so long to download a 50MB download only to tell me that there was immediately an update available as well. Why not just download the latest version to begin with?)
  • I can feel a pillar of heat eminating from my entertainment center when the PS3 is on. This thing sure isn't friendly to the environment (or to my power bill, I suspect).
  • I so want the new Ratchet and Clank. Also, video playback (DVDs and downloaded game trailers) look fabulous. PS2 games also look rather nice; Katamari 2 actually looks decent now. I'll definitely have to get a PS2→USB adaptor so I can play DDR properly on this thing. Too bad it's too late to return my upconverting DVD player, now that I no longer need it... oh well. I guess I should sell a lot of stuff before I move, though, including my GameCube, both deprecated DVD players, and my PS2 (I really don't think I'll be needing to keep it for the Linux kit at this point). I guess that's worth a new post.
I suppose I will eventually actually play a game on this thing. I bought The Darkness and right now Super Stardust HD is downloading. And it's not like I need to be particularly lucid at work over the next two weeks...

1:18 AM Super Stardust HD is pretty cool, yes. Of course I'm not lucid enough to play it now. It'd also have been nice if it gave a tutorial on the controls or something, though figuring out the actual controls wasn't so hard.

Comments

#9516 07/24/2007 09:04 am
The browser is also way better than the Wii. Also the input mechanism seems better.
#9517 07/24/2007 09:10 am
Make sure you get the Pelican PS2 adapter...the one that says "compatible with guitar hero". It has the "PS" button, which is important.

Ironically, the store is considered a bit of a weakness by management...probably because the interface won't scale well.
#9518 07/24/2007 09:13 am
Whoa, the browser supports tabbed browsing!

And yeah, I was thinking a pair of Pelicans (since I have a pair of DDR pads). It'd be really nice if Cobalt Flux would just release control boxes for other systems though. They should at the very least release XBox and USB control boxes (especially important for XBox since normal PS2->USB adaptors appear as gamepads instead of dance mats, so CF users are unfairly discriminated against on the network play mode).