PLAYSTATION 3 VISITS THE OPERA

Filed under: PS3 NEWS — Three Speech February 6, 2007 @ 2:25 pm

For all those that have been desperate to get your hands on a PS3 before launch, perhaps you’ve been looking in the wrong places… Sony are sponsoring a production of Puccini’s La Boheme and will have a PlayStation 3 in the foyer of the London Coliseum for attendees to test out the latest games. For those a little confused to why, here’s the explanation:

“We don’t want the PS3 to be pigeon-holed as a video game console,” Carl Christopher from Sony PlayStation UK, told The Times. “We want people to look at PlayStation as a brand in a different way.”

We’re pretty sure it will offer a new dimension to Resistance Fall Of Man.

For the full article: http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=7802

7 Comments »

  1. well, thats all good, but really i just want to have my own ps3……… Pre-orders???

    Comment by thedirector — February 6, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

  2. It’s not over till the fat lady sings.

    Comment by hamildan — February 6, 2007 @ 3:04 pm

  3. Well its goog to know someone it sony marketing knows there audiance. /scrcasim

    Comment by Carl — February 6, 2007 @ 3:08 pm

  4. This is odd. I love Opera and I love videogames but they don’t mesh well together. I still think it’s cool though that Sony is reaching out to a different audience.

    Oh and I love la Boheme.

    Comment by Neil — February 6, 2007 @ 5:29 pm

  5. It seems like Sony is more pre-occupied with marketing Blu-Ray than games this generation. Let’s be honest here, advertising PS3 with opera lovers is obviously targeting potential Blu-Ray buyers more than gamers. Sony has invested so much into R&D into Blu-Ray and knows the potential windfall of a new video standard is much greater than any success it could ever achieve with a videogame console.

    Sadly for us Playstation fans that view PS3 primarily as a videogame console, we have been and will be continually neglected. It’s not hard to see parallels between PS3 and PSP.

    The PSP is a brilliant device with lots of potential, and yet Sony squandered it by focusing on promoting UMD rather than on PSP games. Any PSP owner from the beginning knows what I’m talking about. We would go into a store looking for new releases only to see a handful of uniteresting ports while there would literally dozens if not hundreds of UMD movies selections.

    PSP game support has gotten better the past few months, but quality titles are still few and far between.

    I feel with the PS3, we could have had a lot more exclusives, and we could have a lot more quality games, period, if Sony was more focused on gaming rather than Blu-Ray.

    What we have now is really a trojan horse Blu-Ray player disguised as a gaming console.

    For the $1,000 I spent at launch, I’ve gotten around 2 weeks of decent gameplay from Resistance: Fall of Man, and the remainder 8 weeks it has been mostly collecting dust. I don’t know how many more rounds of the MotorStorm demo I can go, and I was able to do everything possible on the GTHD demo within a day.

    I’m the type of gamer that would gladly pay top dollar for quality content, and of course for AAA titles. But there has been a dearth of interesting titles for PS3, and that situation will remain unchanged until March at the earliest.

    Even for March, there are only 2 worthwhile releases, namely MotorStorm and VF5. All the titles are very tired ports which have been around for months, if not over a year, on the competitor’s console.

    And if you’re like me and only a mild racing and fighting game fan, and prefer games with more depth and dynamic gameplay, then it seems we will have to wait until fall at the earliest for the really good titles to come out.

    All I know is come March, my time will be mostly spent playing God of War 2 for PS2, and I certainly didn’t need to spend $1,000 to do so.

    And now with the rumoured price cut coming this year, I wonder if being an “early adopter” of PS3 was really the smartest move. Afterall, if I had waited a year or perhaps even 6 months, I could have saved not only at least $100, but would have been rewarded with a greater line-up of games. More importantly, I may have been spared the torture of having made a huge purchase, and then trying desperately hard to enjoy it and convince myself it was a worthwhile purchase. So far it’s been an uphill battle.

    Comment by Puccini Mushroom — February 6, 2007 @ 11:16 pm

  6. I don’t care about the price drop - I’m buying it the first day. I had the PS3 at home for 3 days and I find it a great piece of hardware… As usual in Poland we will have to pay a little bit more than those 599 euros but our sales tax sucks (22%). I think its worth buying on launch day anyway. And I dont agree that Blu-Ray doesnt matter - it matters a lot. Why buying an HD Ready LCD if you dont have the possibility of watching HD movies? So I think it was a smart move from Sony to include the BD player. I just hope we will get some extras on the launch day in Europe - I prey for a free BD movie - like Casino Royal :) . Im checking this site everyday cuz they wrote they gonna make an announcement on that - Im wondering when it will happen…

    Comment by ural — February 7, 2007 @ 11:22 am

  7. “For all those that have been desperate to get your hands on a PS3 before launch” lots of major Greek retailers have playable Japaneese PS3s in their stores. I have played almost all of the games till now…

    Comment by Fivos — February 7, 2007 @ 4:46 pm

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