Day 1 of the PS3 has seen mostly highs, a few lows and enough time to jot down some quick thoughts…
- The hardware looks fantastic
- Power brick is integrated and side by side with the 360 it’s not that much bigger
- It’s oh so quiet compared to the industrial noise coming from the 360
- It’s hot.
- Blu-Ray movies look great
- Flow isn’t up on the store – fools
- Rumble is a big miss – I guess by Christmas though that will be resolved
- Stripped down menu system is a joy to use
- Motorstorm is a great game both offline and on. Again online is pretty quiet as there’s no standard headset.
- It crashed once during an online game.
- The lack of an integrated online service like Live is a real step backwards when you try to meet up with friends and play online. Xbox Live is years ahead of this.
- For first gen games the graphics look really good.
- The charging cable for the pad is too short. Off to Maplin tomorrow to resolve that little issue.
I’m more impressed than I thought but I’ll play some more with the system before putting up a more extensive post.
The pad is pretty poor though. Especially those convex triggers. Other than that, I agree with the above.
The pad is also see through. Go figure. The triggers are awkward and to be honest the 360 is perfect and in that respect we are spoiled. I wouldn’t say it’s poor…just an old design that’s had more and more squeezed into it without the design and thought that was applied to the 360 pad.