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Originally Posted by Tru2Chevy
No, it's just under $60 for a one year subscription, and you can find the subscription cards on ebay and such for $45-$50 without too much trouble. I'd rather pay a little bit every month for a much better online experience (that just get even better with their recent update) to go along with my less expensive system.
I don't really see how the player for 360 is going to be better or worse than the one in ps3....it's a DVD player - either it plays them or it doesn't.
On a side note....has there been any mention of when Sony might start to take advantage of the capacity of the blu-ray discs since every ps3 has a blu-ray player? It would (in theory) give them a huge advantage over microsoft since they can release every game that way and not have to worry about alienating their users who didn't buy the "upgraded" player.
- Justin
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You can get a 13 month subscription from Game Stop for 49.99. Or you can do a 1 month, 3 month, or 6 month one too.
The problem with the 50gig storage capacity on the blu-ray discs is seek time, hence loading. The big problem with these first few generations of PS3s is that they get a really cheap version of the blu-ray player, they're nowhere near as good as say the stand alone S-300 player. But even that one has poor load/seek times. The technology is still developing and the consumer gets to live through the early versions of the systems before they really catch up to their full potential. The next problem is that with the storage capacity of the blu-ray, there isnt anything else out that can match it, so when the hardware catches up, the developers would have to make the choice as to whether they want to spent twice as much money on a single game title in development (Gears of War for the 360 cost over 6 million dollars) because they would have to make a 360 version and a PS3 version, or to only do the development for the PS3. That choice isnt going to happen soon as it still isnt proven whether the PS3 will hold up and the gamers will accept it and the consumer support will keep the community going forward. The 360 is established and developers feel comfortable investing the money and time creating titles for the system because the gamers are buying them and Microsoft is backing it. Sure, the other PS versions have done well and Sony is behind it, especially now that Panasonic and their parters are dropping HD/DVDs for good, so blu-ray is now the only HD large storage format disc system on the market. But just because its good, doesnt mean it'll do well, just look at he Atari Jaguar that came out like 15 years ago. It was light years ahead of everything else at the time, but sales were lower than expected, and developers didnt trust it, so regardless of its potential and its sales, it was canceled. Im sure the PS3 will catch up to the 360 in terms of sales and titles, but they really need to fix the problems, and taking away the 100% backwards compatibility surely will hurt its appeal to current PS gamers that like the games they have and want to be able to continue playing them and are looking for a reason to drop huge bucks down on a new system, thats still slow.