Why Rumors of 120GB PS3 Fail to Excite.

While its twice the size of the original 60GB, 3 times the current standard 40GB and 50% larger then the recently defunct 80GB. The Sony PS3 120, which remains a rumor to be confirmed or denied by SOny, is not news to me. I've found 11 stories to blog about and while going through them, the 120GB story via Game|life blog, doesn't seem to impress me or get me jumping up and down like a crazed addict in need of a fix. Why ? No games!

All they (Sony), have done is put yet another SKU out to pasture and replace it. Most people are happy with the 40GB which can compete price wise with the 360, at least it looks appealing given the 55 dollar price difference.

That being said, most people have settled for the 20GB 360 although as I download demo's and content via xboxlive, I find myself wondering if an elite's 120GB HD would've been the way to go for the extra 100 dollars.

Which would mean 3X the hard drive space for 50% higher price tag vs the 40GB PS3, which is the current favorite SKU.

However when we get into why we buy these freakishly larger and larger hard drives, content. The people at SOny might as well be hallucinating out in the desert, becuase the collection of AAA titles they see is about as equally belieavable.

Kane and Lynch, GTA IV, Endwar, Turok, Devil may cry, Final Fantasy series (Final Fantasy XI Online: Wings of the Goddess), all can be either found on the 360 as well as the PS3(though release dates for PS3 versions are later), or take a piece of what used to be exclusivly Playstation (PS1,2,3) territory.


The much coveted Killzone2 remains vaperware to this day. Even if were coming out tomorrow, it would be like compareing ugly friend you're girlfriend (HALO series), got for your friend on a double date. You thank w/e gods may exist that you're not dateing *that*, and value what you have all the more. The Halo series is alot like that only you don't have to contend with mood swings. Though Xboxlive's holiday troubles and subsequent launching of ideotic lawsuites by spoiled retards could dent that statements truthfulness somewhat.

The one thing I could always count on from Sony were epic RPG's but with Nintendo's DS doing a descent job of churning out RPG's for the gamer on the go (most of which are Playstation family ports), and the upcoming release of the 360 exclusive RPG "Lost Odyssey", there's no reasion to go to SOny when you can expect a 360 version or that that the next killer RPG will be 360 Exclusive. Didn't even mention the Bioware treasure chest of Mass Effect, KOTOR and Jade Empire, All available exclusively via microsoft's consoles (xbox & 360).

O sure you have unreal tournament and rumors of crysis for the Playstation 3 but that ignores the fact that both titles are on the PC and that if anything they are better experiences on ever improving PC hardware then with the Playstation 3. Unreal Tournament isn't a hit like HALO 3 and Crysis bombed in spectacular fashion when it managed to sell only 80,000 copies in its first month. A whole month and the most hyped, sophisticated game sells below 100,000 while games like Assasins creed (the bulk of which was sold via 360 not PS3), sold 2.5 million copies before the holiday christams rush of 2007.

The Developers who create our games have been saying for a long time that the Playstation 3 is harder to develop for given its cell processor. Add to that, the fact that Sony hasn't reached out to get more developers. Especially inovative and creative Indie developers. Xboxlive arcade is seeing more and more titles developed by hobbyists and small teams via microsoft's game creation software XNA. Which I might add is free to download and play around with. Requiring you to pay a fee only to publish your titles and even then your still getting money back for pennies compared to the thousands of dollars spent to develop for the Playsation 3.

While Sony is falling all over itself to create an online community "HOME", resembling that of its 360/microsoft counterpart, it hasn't exactly excited anyone or made people feel like there Playstation 3 is anything more then a Blue Ray player that plays games.

Despite Blue-Ray's success and obvious advantages over microsoft supported HDD DVD, AppleTv's digital distribution shceme seems to forshadow the coming end or at least reducing of physical content in favor of digital.

Though its fortunes can only go up, one has to wonder if the PS3 will be Nintendo's N64 equivelent. The 360 is the PS2 of this generation of game platforms to todays gamers.