PS3 soon to have WOW killer

[Smooth Groove]

Year of PS3 continues.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/03/17/soe-president-ps3-mmo-could-rival-wow

Speaking of MMOs, Smedley revealed that he believes that the console space actually has an advantage over the PC when it comes to that particular genre. When asked whether or not he believed that a console MMO could be as successful as World of Warcraft, Smedley responded "I absolutely do, and in fact I think by having a stable platform where every customer has an online capable box is a huge, huge potential advantage in building an MMO because you've already got an online userbase. It's a massive advantage over the PC and we don't have to worry about graphics cards or things like that. It's going to be very big," he said.

[hyp]

you know what to do, boys.

[hyp]

^ home is the fucking WoW killer. 

year of ps3 continues.

[calcifer]

eb could become a non-xfag dump

doesnt mean it will happen

[drew]

bleh

[Joe Molotov]

smh @ Sony

The only WoW killer will:

a) come from Blizard
b) have a "World of" in the title

World of Year of PS3

[MrAngryFace]

I think Sony fans underestimate WoW

[Eric P]

i underestimate wow

i started a priest and it's fucking hard to solo with

edit: it's a warlock w/o a pet

[The Fake Shemp]

You're never on, Eric P and now I need HALP.

[Eric P]

You're never on, Eric P and now I need HALP.

i may be on tonight if possible

email me and we can schedule something in google calendar

[The Fake Shemp]

Google Caledar?!  I ain't yer fucking wife!

[Powerslave]

World of PS3

[Eric P]

Google Caledar?!  I ain't yer fucking wife!

not with that filthy hollywood mouth you ain't

[pilonv1]

Someone should show him some data on how many people actually use the online functions of their consoles. I'd put money on it being less than 1/3

[Candyflip]

LOL

No. The only thing that was supposed to even come close was Warhammer, and after seeing the videos for that I doubt anything will "kill" WoW for a good while.

Aside from that I can't imagine playing an MMO on a console. I have so much bound to keys it's ridiculous.

1-6
Shift 1-3
Shift F
Control 1-3
Control F, S, W, E, R
W, A, S, D, F, E, R, X ,Z, G, V, Q
Middle Mouse
Space Bar
..I'm going to stop now. It goes on forever.

Basically they'd need a controller like this.

[T234]

Only thing even in the running at this point is Champions Online or the Warhammer 40K MMO.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Aside from that I can't imagine playing an MMO on a console.

lol you'd just use a keyboard peripheral, like FFXI does.  That controller looks hot though 

I wouldn't be surprised to see FFXIV Online draw a million concurrent subscribers when it's finally released (in 2010?)

[bork]

Aside from that I can't imagine playing an MMO on a console.

uh, you'd just use a keyboard peripheral, like FFXI does.  That controller looks hot though 

Or just go plug in any USB keyboard and type away.  You can get a generic brand one for what, less than ten bucks?

[The Sceneman]

yeah, consoles being online out of the box is a huge advantage.

I mean, how man PC's are online? 4k or so at most globally?

lmfao

[Candyflip]

Aside from that I can't imagine playing an MMO on a console.

uh, you'd just use a keyboard peripheral, like FFXI does.  That controller looks hot though 

Or just go plug in any USB keyboard and type away.  You can get a generic brand one for what, less than ten bucks?

Oh. I'm distinguished mentally-challenged lol.