Crack a Window, Sony... Smells Like Launch in Here
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Friday, October 20, 2006
by Gary A. Ballard
Today, Sony unveiled its list of launch window titles for the PS3, which includes 20 games. Apparently the window for Sony is big enough to fit launch day and the rest of the holiday season. Might want to get a lock on that, Sony, it's a mighty gaping chasm. In fact, the chasm will resemble the orifice of gamers after they get done purchasing this system.
Of course, no one knows how many of these will be available when sweaty-palmed gamers reeking of an overnight outdoors camping trip at the local Best Buy are bumrushed by the Ebay speculators in the chaos that will be the first sales of an overpriced console. I'm going to bet on the number being somewhere between not enough and not enough worth giving two shits about. But here's the list anyway (Source: GameDailyBiz):
But for your $600 troubles, you'll also be treated to complementary Blu-Ray version of Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby which looks like a funny movie, but it's not the kind of movie you want to really show off the crisp clarity of your next-gen disc format and HDTV. It will come with their free, unnamed online service, which has been given less definition than a heroin-chic model's bustline. All we know is it will be free, have games and demos for download and purchase, and have no developer standards whatsoever. It will come with a web browser free out of the box. Take that, Microsoft bitches; it is now an official badge of dishonor that you haven't bundled Internet Explorer into the 360.
But not content with shoving a $600 purchase down your throat, if you want a second controller, bend over farther. Each controller will retail for $49.99, which I must note is more than a Wiimote (though $10 less than a Wiimote/Wiichuk combo). Like your PS1/PS2 save games? Buy a memory card adaptor for $15 to be able to use your old memory cards in the PS3. And if you like having a remote for your new Blu-Ray drive, sometime in the nebulous future you can get one for $24.99. Oh, the privilege.
For more information, as well as apologists speaking about the awesomeness of the system, follow the link to the full story.
Of course, no one knows how many of these will be available when sweaty-palmed gamers reeking of an overnight outdoors camping trip at the local Best Buy are bumrushed by the Ebay speculators in the chaos that will be the first sales of an overpriced console. I'm going to bet on the number being somewhere between not enough and not enough worth giving two shits about. But here's the list anyway (Source: GameDailyBiz):
- Resistance: Fall of Man
- NBA 07
- Genji: Days of the Blade
- Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
- Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
- EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts)
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
- F.E.A.R. (Vivendi Games)
- Full Auto 2: Battlelines (Sega)
- Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts)
- MARVEL:ULTIMATE ALLIANCE (Activision)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
- NBA 2K7 (2K Sports)
- Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts)
- NHL 2K7 (2K Sports)
- RIDGE RACER 7 (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega)
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
- Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Activision)
- Untold Legends Dark Kingdom (Sony Online Entertainment)
But for your $600 troubles, you'll also be treated to complementary Blu-Ray version of Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby which looks like a funny movie, but it's not the kind of movie you want to really show off the crisp clarity of your next-gen disc format and HDTV. It will come with their free, unnamed online service, which has been given less definition than a heroin-chic model's bustline. All we know is it will be free, have games and demos for download and purchase, and have no developer standards whatsoever. It will come with a web browser free out of the box. Take that, Microsoft bitches; it is now an official badge of dishonor that you haven't bundled Internet Explorer into the 360.
But not content with shoving a $600 purchase down your throat, if you want a second controller, bend over farther. Each controller will retail for $49.99, which I must note is more than a Wiimote (though $10 less than a Wiimote/Wiichuk combo). Like your PS1/PS2 save games? Buy a memory card adaptor for $15 to be able to use your old memory cards in the PS3. And if you like having a remote for your new Blu-Ray drive, sometime in the nebulous future you can get one for $24.99. Oh, the privilege.
For more information, as well as apologists speaking about the awesomeness of the system, follow the link to the full story.
posted by Gary A. Ballard @ 9:18 AM
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I seem to recall hearing that MS considered anything released in the first year of the XBox 360 a "launch title."
Stupidity is as stupidity does. Launch title means launch day. Everything else is "holiday filler."
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