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DF Retro Extra: Sony at E3 2006 - PlayStation 3's Darkest Hour Revisited
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Despite the bad E3, the PS3 ended up being the best console of that generation. It was the last time we had console online gaming without pointless extra subscription fees. Now we've got the mandatory subscription fee on every console and gaming is ruined.
"So here is the giant enemy crab!"
This and Konami E3 memes are hilarious.
Glad Sony learned from their mistakes and turned things around.
This and Konami E3 memes are hilarious.
Glad Sony learned from their mistakes and turned things around.
How fortuitous given the discussion around Anthem's reveal vs final renditions. This is going to be a fun ride.
As always, DF's work is very much appreciated.
I see what you did there.
As always, DF's work is very much appreciated.
I see what you did there.
Love these E3 retrospectives on bad conferences. Really enjoyable work, guys. When's Nintendo 2008 coming?
I'm pretty sure that Sony is making their own E3 with blackjacks and hookers. :D
I'm not glad that Sony learned from their mistakes, as the process of learning involved making PS Plus mandatory.
I feel like that the reasons why Nintendo 2008 sucked have nothing to do with underlying tech, so I don't think there's much material for them to mine. 2011 or 2012 might be more what Dark1x is interested in, but I think that due to how much Nintendo has moved away from pie-in-the-sky demos to begin with, who knows.
Will watch this soon, but needless to say...
Best games maybe, but the hardware itself was pretty awful.
The expensive BD-drive was so slow compared to the 360s DVD-drive that many games required a mandatory install. A lot of devs ended up using the extra space to duplicate their game data in order to increase the access speed. The PS3 GPU was so underpowered that many of the Cell's "tricks" were used just to achieve parity. The split memory pool was awful compared to the 360's unified system, and the OS didn't have enough headroom to add features like party chat. Bethesda games in particular become unplayable after a certain amount of time due to ram limitations.
That's without even getting into Sony's documentation and dev tool shitshow. PS3 games were good in spite of the hardware, not because of it.
Yeah only about 1/3rd are subscribed, which I honestly expected more.
I honestly hope for another meltdown by Sony with the PS5. We need competition once more. Sony has good exclusives and a massive user base, which almost guarantees third party support. But their services have been lackluster, Hopefully they can include regional pricing like MS and Steam do. And proper BC.
Honestly, this feature is a godsend. Bought Ace Combat 7 with season pass for 39.99 in South Asia. Blessed. While most of NA and and EU were paying 79$+.
You could probably just call it PlayStation's darkest hour. Now where's that ahole Winston Churchill?
Not hoping for another so called metldown from Sony they are doing good. That narrative your trying to push saying that they are lackluster makes no sense. If it's about gamer pass they have had ps now for a while olny slight changes need to be done.
Looking it right now.
Pretty funny how conferences were different back in the day. Lots of numbers and specs.
Pretty funny how conferences were different back in the day. Lots of numbers and specs.
Sure, there was free online, but it was absolute garbage. Sony's online is still dodgy now, but it has improved and I'd rather have the quality now with the paid service than what we had back then.
There is no need for Sony to invest the money from Plus into its online service. For instance, Valve offers an arguably better service and doesn't charge any money at all.
Also why do you think Sony's online is "still dodgy", I haven't seen anything major this gen to lead me to believe so.
I really don't know why people say that PS3 online play was bad unless they're talking about that month-long hack. It always worked great for me.
It costs a good deal of money to run a stable online service. Valve may have a different model, but they're still paying to provide that to players. Why do you assume Sony would want to follow Valve's approach?
Yeah, my comment may have come out more negative than I intended. Mostly it's pretty good these days (and some pretty innovative features too), but in early gen days there were peak time issues and such. There still seems to be a lack of cross-game matchmaking foundations and such, so sometimes you still find games with bad online implementations, but I'm not sure if that's because they tried to roll their own or something.
It was bad on several levels. At one point the system failed because people started having more than 100 friends. In terms of actual gameplay, I guess if you stuck with mainstream titles like COD or whatever it wasn't too bad, but most other games had abysmal matchmaking and lobbies. Plus no cross-game chat system.
Is that the one with the historically accurate giant enemy crab and the claim about 120fps games?
Man, Eight Days looked like complete bullshit even then, but seeing it again for the first time in years, it's incredible just how fake it looks in retrospect.
I mean one its not mandatory, and as much as it was cool, online on ps3 was a trash fire compared to xbox.
I'm glad I chose 360 last gen. Horrible download speed, no cumulative or differential patches, mandatory installs and mostly worse versions of third party games.
Three years ago, we bought my Father in law GT6 for his PS3 and then we tried to update it. We were visiting him for a week and when we left game was still not fully patched... Perhaps it's one of the worst examples on this system but this was just a "nope" moment for me. Not to mention that you can't play it online anymore.
Three years ago, we bought my Father in law GT6 for his PS3 and then we tried to update it. We were visiting him for a week and when we left game was still not fully patched... Perhaps it's one of the worst examples on this system but this was just a "nope" moment for me. Not to mention that you can't play it online anymore.