With the PlayStation 3 Slim starting to show up at Best Buys around the country, the national retailer has kicked off a plan to try and cut-down on the number of people returning a recent PS3 for the newer PS3 Slim, sourced tell Kotaku.
An internal memo, verified independently by a number of employees at different stores, shows that Best Buy is offering people who come into the story to exchange recently purchased PlayStation 3's for the newly released PS3 Slim a choice of a free PlayStation 3 title in lieu of the new slimmer, larger-hard-drive sporting console.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
The inFamous games are an important part of PlayStation history, but the series is in limbo and playing older entries isn't exactly easy.
Would like remasters of 1 and 2. I enjoyed them much more than Second Son.
1 & 2 had more of an emphasis on climbing and the traversal requires a bit more effort in a good way. It was rewarding. Second Son made climbing mostly obsolete so they put little effort into it. The traversal was just great in inFamous 1 & 2. There's a reason Sunset Overdrive copied and improved upon the induction grind mechanic.
Reminds me of how I felt about the decline of parkour and the well designed tombs (basically Prince Of Persia levels) that we saw in the Assassin's Creed games.
The story and atmosphere were also much better in 1 & 2.
Electricity is just a brilliant superpower for an open world city. It perfectly fits just like webslinging does in New York and it has many applications.
Wouldn't the onus be on the consumers? If they bought the Infamous games, then we'd have more games from that series.
I would love to see a new game but a feel that would get a response similar to Saints Row.
Loved all 3 of them. I couldn't get on with the vampire spin off though. Wish they didn't move away from cole but I didn't mind the other character.
Nixxes' Remaster focus could set the stage to resurrect many obscure titles like the karma-centered, superpower-fueled sandbox of Infamous.
Infamous remaster? How about an Infamous re-Boot! This is one game that doesn't need a remaster, it needs either a proper equal of a reboot of the original. And since Sony is currently in development with Marvel, i can totally see them having guest marvel characters to appear in Cole's world.
I'd like a Killzone 2 Remaster.
Keep the visuals style as is ... just improve the LoD and the resolution
There is a lot of the PS3 era that I would love to see ported/remastered. But, unfortunately, they are probably not commercially viable and I have no idea who owns the rights currently. Stuff like Sire: Blood Curse, White Knight Chronicles, Tokyo Jungle, Folklore, etc.
Infamous on the other hand was never a series that I found good or interesting. Especially when compared with other contemporaries like Prototype. But, given how bare the subgenre is right now, I would dig a remaster.
Infamous, Resistance, and killzine are so ripe for a remaster, I wish Sony would make it happen.
Wow that would be so unfortunate if you bought a PS3 and found out a few days later that the slim was announced. Oh well, I guess you should have done some research and seen all the rumors floating around.
Anyway, its cool that Best Buy is trying to do something for the consumers who got a little unlucky with this deal.
Shame they didnt visit... the internet. They would of known about the Slim months ago, not only known but have it continually rammed down their throat :)
But I know that stores such as Gamestation and GAME no longer and for a long time now allow customers who have purchased a console to just bring it back cos they didnt want it. So am wondering can customers in the USA do that? As I was aware that with games they cannot return them at all?
Also I own the original PS3 60gb and to be honest I love how shines all over and the memory slots and bc that is offered along with 4usb ports and internal power supply. I totally dislike those tacky buttons on the new slim along with its new design and logo etc.
The only thing about the slim that is interesting is the HD audio.
The fat is the best of the bunch (IMO). In fact I just ordered a 320gb seagate 7200 16mb cache 2.5" hdd for my fatty. $70 at newegg.
Plus the fat just looks so nice and shiny in a home theater center. The slim looks like it belongs in the kids room.
Why? Because we have to support SONY by buying it, not by trading our old models.
If you want the new model so bad, just sell your old model or trade-in at gamestop, but you'll know they'll fork you bad...