The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

Please send me all your PS3 games, thanks.

I'll take any psp games y'all wanna ditch

i bought a used copy of modern warfare 2 the day this happened

so its all your fault then

Whoa, AaronHz is back

And better than ever! Hi man.

I was kind of hoping to play Beyond Good and Evil HD this month.

Instead I've decided to finish Red Dead Redemption and I am having so much fun that I'm not even noticing my bank account being drained every time I switch it on.

more like gaystation pee imo

I've been calling it POS3 since long before this happened.

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I think my PS3's disc drive is failing on me :(

any idea how this is affecting the market value of second-hand ps3s? just wondering if now is the time to buy...

Not as much as you'd expect according to our numbers. But they're still in decline, I'd give it another week or two then see how things look.

You're saying I should sell quick?

I doubt the market will crash or anything, but even before the outage, most major retailers started discounting all three systems or offering $50 gift cards with one. With E3 around the corner, the Wii 2 already announced, I'm expecting price drops or new SKUs for every system. The original Wii drop is already pretty much in effect, with the new Mario Kart bundle.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-14-playstation-network-back-online

Well, I just got offered a firmware update in the US, so it might be!

..aaaand it tells me the network is still undergoing maintenance if I try to sign in. So they're partway rolled out.

got the update but it won''t let me change the password. wtf sony?

Not much psn functionality for my portable yet, it seems. But it's gratifying that at least something happens.

free games details

in US

PS3 - pick 2 out of
Dead Nation
inFAMOUS
LittleBigPlanet
Super Stardust HD
Wipeout HD + Fury

PSP - pick 2 out of
LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
ModNation Racers
Pursuit Force
Killzone Liberation

in EU

PS3 - pick 2 out of
LittleBigPlanet
Infamous
Wipeout HD/Fury
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
Dead Nation

PSP - pick 2 out of
LittleBigPlanet PSP
ModNation PSP
Pursuit Force
Killzone Liberation

I was fully expecting it to be a free copy of PAIN but that's a pretty good offer right there. my PS3 choices are pretty much set in stone (had owned LBP & Infamous previously but sold them a while back) - anyone have any feedback about the options on the PSP side?

Assuming I already have the Wipeout games and no others in the list, what are my best options?
(US)

Off another forum (presumably from a US blog):

The games are mostly on the older side but it's a nice lineup:

PlayStation 3

LittleBigPlanet
Infamous*
Wipeout HD/Fury
Super Stardust HD
Dead Nation

PSP

LittleBigPlanet
ModNation
Pursuit Force
Killzone Liberation

The lineup's a little bit different in Europe:

PlayStation 3

LittleBigPlanet
Infamous*
Wipeout HD/Fury
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
Dead Nation*

PSP

LittleBigPlanet PSP
ModNation PSP
Pursuit Force*
Killzone Liberation*
Asterisks can be a scary thing, but in this case, it's only scary if you're from Germany, where Sony's swapping those games for a few others, most likely due to the country's stringent content restrictions. inFamous and Dead Nation are placed with Super Stardust HD and Hustle Kings, while Killzone Liberation and Pursuit Force transform into Everybody's Golf 2 and Buzz! Junior Jungle Party.

As already announced, you'll also gain access to 30 days of PlayStation Plus. Existing members will simply receive an additional month. Sony will also have a lineup of "On Us" movies available to watch, too. If the lineup of games available is anything like the movies, it's reasonable to expect Sony-produced flicks.

PlayStation Home users are in for something, too, though Sony isn't saying what.

It's worth pointing out again that this lineup is for European customers and could differ in the US.

zappi just posted that

Wow, given that I only own four PS3 games, the chances of two of them being on the list were probably pretty slim. But yeah, already have LBP and Wipeout, and don't particularlywant any of those others. Might've been tempted by Super Stardust if that'd been on our list, bah.

I'm thinking Super Stardust and LBP?

oh whoops. forgive me, not well today

(Course, "boo hoo I don't like the free stuff I'm getting to make up for the lack of access to a service I wouldn't have used anyway over the last three weeks" is nagl. Guess I'll take infamous and r/c).

has anyone played Dead Nation? looks like Smash TV from the videos i've seen.

i wonder how well bribery is gonna work

well if i don't have to sign anything i'll pick up infamous and dead nation. don't really want to play dead nation but i have all the others.

Yeah does accepting anything invalidate your claim in the inevitable class action lawsuit?

almost certainly? why else would they be doing this?
btw: http://techland.time.com/2011/05/16/japan-not-letting-sony-bring-playstation-back-online-in-its-home-country/

Is coaxing people back to the service good enough a reason? Or am I being horribly naive?

i'm being kind of a dick about it cuz that's the mood I'm in; you're probably right. but i think i'm a little right too.

yeah tbh Sony is the last company likely to have honest motives if the past few years are anything to go by.

in EU

PS3 - pick 2 out of
LittleBigPlanet
Infamous
Wipeout HD/Fury
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
Dead Nation

Already got the first three :(

Doesn't PSN Plus entitle you to some free stuff from the store (like old PSX games - p sure o.g. Sonic was on there as an exclusive free game for Plus users)? Would that free stuff disappear once your free month ended?

tell me more about Infamous, Ratchet & Clank and Dead Nation, pls.

I am currently playing through Infamous and I think it's great fun. Free roaming third person hero stuff where the main protagonist has somehow harnessed electrical power allowing him to zap stuff. Playing through story or side missions and collecting stuff and doing random good/bad deeds earns XP and allows power upgrades. Lots of climbing and jumping around buildings and grinding power lines.

Good thread here: come anticipate a TS w/me: infamous Vs. prototype Vs. I am alive

oh yeah, lol i got real excited about Infamous on that thread. It is good though.

Apparently this Ratchet & Clank game isn't a full release, it's a four hour mini-version or something that was made for PSN?

quest for booty isn't very interesting. i stopped playing after the first stage.

what a shitty list of games imo

wipeout hd/fury is worth it.

yeah but presumably everyone already has it

2nd hand copies of Infamous & LBP gonna be piled high in yr local games shop in a months time

xpost I thought Wipeout HD/Fury sold so bad that the company who made it went out of business (or at least so badly that they were compelled to put shamefully unavoidable product placements in Fury)? I know the online playerbase was pathetically miniscule last time I checked.

in any event, it really is a shame because that game is capital-g Great.

sorry, I meant "everyone with a brain"

Wipeout HD is indeed great (can't remember if I ever got around to buying the Fury pack) which is why imo this whole free game thing is an empty gesture to entice people back. Stacking the list with musty old best-sellers that everyone owns and now aren't worth anything is the sort of cynical rubbish that doesn't surprise me coming from Sony.

i'll admit i was naive and harbored hope for Beyond Good and Evil HD in this list, given that it was due to come out in "May".. :(

InFamous has to be on the list just to drum up more fans for the sequel, right?