Originally posted by racketboy@Apr 5, 2004 @ 10:14 PM
've discussed this before, but I just have not had good experiences with Sony hardware and I haven't heard good things about the systems physically.
I can't agree more. I'm on my
fourth playstation machine, and now I need to turn it on its side to get it to work.
It's aggravating, because I take extra special care of these stupid machines, whereas my Saturn, in its '97 glory, has traveled to four different states and countless parties, and has been abused quite a bit, but plays as well as the day I bought it. Well, not 100%, the memory card needs to be pulled up a bit, but that's
it! My SegaCD (Model2), Genesis (model1, bought new in '91) and 32X all work very well too.
Maybe it's just my luck. Before anyone gives me grief about brownouts, surge protectors and the like, all I have to say is all my audio visual stuff (amplifier, TV, VCR, DVD) and my dreamcast are hooked up to the same surge protector. They've had no problems.
Incidentally, an employee at EB told me how he's already gone through seven systems.
That being said, I do have a PS. And I concur with Jamz as well, about the 'feeling'. I got it playing Mario64 for the first time (I didn't think Zelda was all that great, but that's just me). Maybe I don't have enough games/the right games. I've played about 20 minutes of FFVII, but I think that there's a long setup or something.
That's not to say all DC games are awesome, since I still haven't had enough interest in the legendary Shenmue to play it, even though I own it. But there may be an issue that because PS was mainstream, there was/is a lot more crap titles than DC, of which most were made by Sega, and had to be better just to stay afloat. Kind of like Nintendo, and Atari (man were there some terrible games for those systems!). Same goes for the Genesis.