Near the end of Apollo 13, Tom Hanks (as Cmdr. Jim Lovell) was describing the events that lead to the accidental explosion aboard the Odyssey service module on the ill-fated 1970 mission to the moon. "It was a minor defect that occurred two years before I was even named the flight's commander," he explained. I imagine that's what it must have been like for Sony on late Sunday afternoon when thousands of PlayStation 3's decided to take a 24-hour break in observance of a non-existent leap year, programmed into the system without anybody seeming to notice.
There was a slim chance that the situation could develop into a full-fledged fiasco, and it inadvertantly pointed out the potential dangers of surrendering control of your purchased games to a central authority.
Then late on Monady night, things just got crazy over at Infinity Ward. But you've already read a lot about that. This week's edition of Feedback tackles both of these topics with Adam, Patrick, Abbie, Sterling, and myself rounding out the table. And to cap it off, we threw in our reactions to yesterday's new Metroid: Other M trailer. Spoiler: I hate it. But I have yet to determine if the hatred is rational or irrational.
(We're not usually negative people, I swear.)
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christof_
Apollo 13 reference Ftw!
The Face of Boe
great feedback, infinity ward hmmm? i wonder what will happen? i hope they start a new studio.
alivealie
Major thanks to Sterling for your comments on just how negatively this whole PS3 glitch has impacted consumer ''faith''.
It's not a matter of how many hours I had to wait for my system to work again. It's the experience of having nearly every game I bought suddenly become unplayable, even offline. After such an event, the physical purchase is no longer a guarantee, at least not for this consumer.
(On a larger scale) if this were, say, a crisis involving oil... people put oil into their cars but their cars still don't drive, we would have measurable anarchy. There would be outbreaks of violence. People would lose it! The implications of this Playstation debacle are frightening. I'll still play my PS3, but I'll never be quite as assured or satisfied going to the store and buying a new disc again.
RockieOllie
Personally I do not think that Nintendo has really fully shown that they mean buisness with the hardcore, although this is a good start. The reason is that since the the spawn of the Wii, Nintendo has released the same 3 franchises and excessivley at that. Yes Mario, Metriod and Zelda series are nice, but i would like to see a new IP or at least some of the other franchises like F-Zero, Starfox and Pikmin (I can do with out Mario Party for another year) for example.
P.S Still waiting for a show to fill in a time-slot on G4
frankurban
I just bought a PS3 today. ha. perfect timing.
UxorialKopaka
wow your nes still works i can never remember mine working to well i remember blowing on the games alot and push them up and down in the console yet i bought my xbox 360 on e bay 2 years ago and i run it nearly all the time and it still works perfectly all those peaple who's 360 fudges up just arent treating it properly
hypra
sterling has a point. i mean my nes, snes, n64 still work. my ps1... ps2....xbox are all in landfill somewhere.
hypra
OH NO! ps3 owners got owned by a groundhog?!
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