QUOTE(bigjimmy @ Nov 23 2006, 05:32 AM)
Hmmmm thats a bummer........
Damn I just remembered the one thing I forgot to pull apart in the PS3 was the BD drive. Id really be interested to see what is used to 'grab' the disc....
find a slot loading laptop drive and open it up.
QUOTE(fuzzyfuk @ Nov 23 2006, 03:35 PM)
How many problems is this console going to have?
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It has become extremely popular lately to bash Sony but I find that most of those doing the bashing are completely out of touch with reality. Sony has made some mistakes but so have most of their competitors. I remember when the Xbox 360 launched (I was the first person I know of in my town to get one) and there was a literal barrage of negativity and bad press which I thought was completely unwarranted. I defended the 360 and Microsoft whenever the subject came up.
Now the PS3 has launched and many people feel the need to attack. But the fact of the matter is that Sony has done no worse with the launch of the PS3 than Microsoft did with the 360 (or Toshiba with the launch of the A1 for that matter). If you remember, the 360 was launched with a similar low quantity of consoles and people were complaining about shortages, there were the problems with defective units, disappointment with the lack of certain features (up-conversion for SD DVDs, inability to do downloads in the background, no HDMI, no HDDVD drive, etc.) and games which many people were claiming looked no better than current generation games. In fact, my 360 after a few hours displayed the "red ring of death" and I had to send it to Microsoft and wait a week for them to send me a new one. As an early adopter of consumer electronics tech I have come to expect a certain amount of problems like these. Such problems come with the territory and rare is the launch of a new product that is completely free of such problems. And the more complex the product is the more unlikely that it will be trouble free.
The unarguable fact is that the PS3 is probably one of the most complex pieces of tech that has ever been released to market--even more complex than the Xbox 360 and the problems that have been reported so far really are minor in the grander scheme of things. In fact, the PS3 is doing better in some regards than the 360 did at launch and we can all see that the Xbox 360 has moved beyond those problems with firmware fixes etc. The PS3 will likewise be improved over time and these issues which some people are making such a big deal about will be a distant memory.
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