Yeah I have a comment: Who cares? She admits she's not a hardcore gamer, she doesn't have a HDTV (Which the 360 and PS3 are go-go-gaga over) and she only plays old games. What's the point? it's not like your losing someone who actually cares.

Cool, I can wait

Going to be awesome, can't wait. Hey major any news on the HD-DVD drive and when it will be released?

Cant wait for the Dead rising interview, good work major!

@hi and bye

Get off my internet ;)

Now to the matters at hand, The article about the OPM editor is kinda cool, it's wierd not more PS fanboys have postedd comments there though

Ahh, the 1Up site, home of one of my absolute favourite Podcasts, the 1UpYours weekly show. WELL worth a listen IMO.

my comments are this: the people who work for a gaming mag...be it nintendo, microsoft, or sony based, ALL have one thing in common: they're gamers.  and gamers go where the games are.  and if all things are considered to be equal, then they'll go where the cheaper games are.  which, i feel, is the reason she wrote that article.  for the next year or so, the only difference between the PS3 and the 360 is going to be price and hddvd/blueray.  and if you dont care about the formats, then all you're gonna care about is the price. and 360 has the ps3 whipped.

The PS3, with it's high price point, has frozen too many potential consumers out. For this reason I think it will fail.

Very interesting article and what is Sony thinking.  They are on their side but its a good decision IMO.

Sounds good Major. As for the link, I guess I agree with the OPM editor with her reasoning for buying a 360 over a PS3 come November. If she isn't planning on gaming in HD and could care less about HDDVD/BluRay then I guess the 360 is the sound decision for her. I guess I can see why someone wouldn't want to pay $200+ for a system that may have very minor graphical enhancements and pretty much the same exact games (give or take a few). The fact that she works for OPM and openly came out and stated this is a bit bizzare though. However, I plan on buying all 3 next-gen consoles and enjoying everything that each company offers since I can afford it, but if I was tight on cash then the 360 or the Wii (depending on your preference) definitely seems the way to go.

I am honestly not surprised about Dana's decision. I personally know a good number of people who went out and bought an Xbox 360 after hearing the price of the PS3.

I was wondering when this story was going to do its round here lol its already been a flamefest on every other messageboards lol. i dont realli know what the big deal is lol she will still get a bloody ps3 to play with at work lol! maybe she was fishing for a free one off sony! lol

i personally dont think much of the PS3 because of its endless sequals, a good thing about Microsoft and Xbox is theirs a lot more origional games comming out for it, bar the yearly sports titles

PS3 though slightly better in power then the 360 wont have games showing this for a while until developers get to grips with the system more like with the more recent graphically decent ps2 games that have been released.. im sure itl do well, but with nothing but sequals i feel nothing towards the PS3.. not even final fantasy 13 lol

the price killed it for me, not because i cant afford it, theirs nothing to justify it besides blu ray and since the 360 has HD i dont want tons of different dvd types lol

and i can just feel the responses like oh metal gear solid 4... devil may cry 4 are worth the price.. sorry all sequals

concerning the 1up blog. It's easy to see his point. It will be a year from launch before ps3 sees any great titles. And while the 360 has been hammering out kinks for a year with the 360 out on shelves and in homes, the ps3 will have their year of hammering out their kinks. Gamers want a gaming machine. I find very few care about Blu Ray or whatever. I mean HD movies will be awesome in a few years, but having to buy exclusive movies for it is not really important, much like I don't buy a regular dvd and a psp dvd of the same movie.... All the PS fanboys are up in arms over there... Truth is, in my eyes, a PS mag editor should own all the systems, so they can better compare and report honestly what is better. Still, I wonder if that blog is a play at getting Sony to send the editors of OPM free hardware ;) It would be worth a shot at least. I like the post, though. It's an honest perspective many gamers share. Much like the PSP tried to cover too much at once (personal music player, exclusive movie player, gaming machine, internet browser, dog chew toy), the ps3 is trying to do the same. I already have all that other stuff(ipod, dvd player, computer for browsing, rawhide bones). I just want a gaming machine to play games, offline and online.

oh man a late-late show that is actually worth my attention.  :)

YAY.

YAWN

its definately gonna be a great show. cant wait for the Interview with Keiji Inafun.

$600 for a Ps3 and $600 for a Premium + HD-DVD.

You have to compare the simular systems if you must compare them at all...

I getting all three system cus I want the best of all worlds!

So what's all high price for a Ps3 fuzz about? The simulare 360 setting cost just as much!!!

oo0 getin excited about  dead rising sounds like its gona be a good show. very gd points (A.Searrs) i suspect once people realise the ps3 price and then think hey i only got a small SDCRT the rest is simple (ps3 1 game xbox 360 3,4,5, games now that bundles are becoming more available over here its gona be tough to hand over that cash if you have enuff lol

about the why buy a 360 this november. its true. $600 for the ps3 is a no no. ill get a ps3 a year later to try it out. 360 is my fav. the wii well its just not in the competition. its only 2X more powerful then the gamecube.

THANKS FOR THE UPDATE MAJOR

She's smart, I'm never going to buy another launch console from sony or ms again after what happened  with the ps2 and with the xbox 360. Especially with ms which went like this

"Hey my xbox 360 broke."

"Sorry, send it to us."

"Awesome."

One week later

"Hey, this xbox doesn't work either."

"Oh, sorry send it back."

2 months later (There was one or two calls during the 2 month period.)

"Yeah, I sent an xbox 360 to you guys before christmas... Haven't got it back yet."

"You're not on record."

"Well I sent it."

"Okay, I see what happened. Yeah, we lost it."

"When am I going to get it back?"

"When we find it."

and then 3 weeks later I got a working xbox.

I realize she's getting a wii at launch but Nintendos last forever. My original nes was a launch and it still works to this day, even though I have to do a dance to appease it before inserting games. It's been the same story with all the other nintendo systems minus the pre game ritual.

It's OK because she would have to stab some kid in the head in order to get a PS3 this x-mas anyways. There will be enough people who can meet the price to sell the units out and next x-mas it will probably have a price drop. When people ask "what is sony thinking?", I am not surprised. SONY is doing the opposite of Microsoft. MS has completely dropped all support for xbox1. SONY still considers PS2 to be a viable product and they would be more than happy to keep making those for the next century if they thought they could sell them. SONY consider PS3 to be a different market than PS2 and they are planning on fully supporting both platforms well into the future. By the time PS3 becomes affordable they will have upgraded the chipset as a "premium" edition and the standard package will have dropped in price. They can't produce enough to meet demand so it doesn't matter that the price is astronomical. As we all saw on ebay, XBOX 360 could have been $1000 and they would have still sold them all out.

November is going to be fascinating.  The Wii will be widely available, Gears of War will be displayed on 360 demo units (hopefully) and the PS3 will have..    

..  come to think of it, what will the PS3's strongest selling point?  Is there a system selling game this xmas for it?

no.