Recently the Sony Playstation 3 was released in Australia. I had been looking forward to this for months. Being a total nut job for advanced computer hardware, this is right up my alley. Not discouraged by the large cost, $999 AUD for the console, plus $140 extended warranty, $30 HD component cable, and $320 for three games. Lets also not forget the great DELL 24" widescreen at $1000 (I bought this a while back), which sadly lacks HDMI. For the last few months prior I was occupied by my studies and saving money was much easier then normal, however the initial costs are not to be laughed at.
With the large costs in mind, and the over-hyped lunch, I wanted to make sure I got my PS3 as quickly as possible and pre-ordered it. Which meant I did not have to act like a loser and queue at midnight to purchase a console that I probably wouldn't play tell the next day.
Since my experience with the XBOX360 left my slightly pessimistic, due to continual over heating and the games weren't what I would have liked, I was not sure what to expect. The games I played on the XBOX360 included NFS Carbon, NFS High Speed Persuit (I think that's what it is called), Halo 2, Call of Duty, and a few others. Mostly I found them boring, except NFS. Surprisingly, the newer version, carbon, was less interesting, as the scenery in the older version was much more impressive.
This inspired me to purchase the only PS3 NFS game, Carbon, and I also bought MotorStorm Madness, and Genji. MotorStorm was only selected cause the kewl looking dragon game Lair wasn't available. I must say my first experiences with the PS3 have been pretty good. NFS and MotorStorm Rock!!! While Genji blows chunks and I find it dull and boring. That being said I haven't spent much time playing it, but the dubbed Japanese voices piss me off. Also I don't like the game play much.
The one problem I have had so far has been setting up the network for the PS3. While I was able to browse the internet with some trivial settings (automatic DHCP), I could not log into the PS3 Network. This was fixed by setting an external DNS servers, e.g. not the router. I am also slight annoyed that I had to purchase a component cable...
Images in this blog are probably the property of Sony or at least licensed to them. Since this page is pretty nice about the PS3 I am sure they won't mind. Images taken from www.playstation.com.au.
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