Posts by Garrant

Sony announces 80GB PS3

memory Loss

I would agree with wages being less in the states but it depends where you go and anybody who has recently been will notice the sharp rise in costs in general, e.g glass of Stella (not a pint, about as much as you get in a bottle of bud/becks) $4.50, that works out at around the $9.00 per pint or £4.50 in our money, the place aint as cheap as people harp on these days.

Regards PS1 being launched at £400, it was actually launched at £299.99 and came with playable demos of Demolition Derby and some soppy platform game among others.

The crux of the matter is, a lesser console for more money, they are stiffing us and even if it does come down in price, by the time it does we could be looking at another dead format like the Philips CDI or the Panasonic 3D0 so you wont be able to get any games for it. Given that some software houses have pulled out of development for the PS3 already, this could run true and serve them right.

Come the revolution, brothers unite, lets dig up Wat Tyler, He'll know what to do.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum: 25 today

Speccy

Ooh the memories, late sunday night playing Manic Miner with lights off incase my Mum and Dad sussed that I was still up. Like they didn't know with the telly glow eminating from under the bedroom door.

I know computers have moved on and we all have x-boxes etc but you can't help feeling a little nostalgic when you pick up your childhood toy on ebay in original packaging for £16.

FYI, all the technology in the world and last night I downloaded Jetpac from Xbox live, stuff yer decent graphics, cop a load of the speccy emulator.

Oh Halcyon days.

UK PS3 price begins to drop

And what did fony expect

Ok lets see whats going on here, the PS3 isn't selling, er call me picky but £254 in the US and £425 over here with a cheaper to produce motherboard due to the lack of PS1/2 chips and a broken emulator for backward compatibility might go some way to explaining why.

When chatting to the fella in Game (whilst buying a 360 game) I asked if he had any PS3's in stock and he said he had just got the second batch in, problem being that he still had some of the first batch laying around. Stop it, mustn't laugh.

I think sony has missed the boat by the country mile with this one.

Sony comments so far;

UK is a dear place to live with expensive housing and spiralling costs, they will buy it at what ever price we want (yeah £300 with 3 games and an extra handset)

It is a bargain as it has a blu ray player built in (er...?don't care, I want a console at a reasonable price and there is bound to be a blu ray player out for £30 in the supermarkets before Christmas)

Sorry Kuteragi, you're not retiring at my expense mate.