PS3 Poll Police: Would you like to see PS3 Fanboy Theatre?

by Nick Doerr { Jun 3rd 2007 at 2:30PM }

You can call it "theater" if you want, but it's the same thing. What are we talking about? The Poll Police are curious, not about your drinking habits, but about your willingness to accept an idea we've got brewing called PS3 Fanboy Theatre. Imagine this: downloadable game and movie trailers, up to 1080p. If you get that streaming function working on your PS3, you could easily stick 'em on there, or just open up the site on your PS3 to download them that way (javascript disabled, of course). To get an idea what it would look like, check out PSP Fanboy Theatre. Our poll this week is to gauge whether or not you, the readers, would be interested in such a feature.

After you get your vote on, feel free to check out the results from last week's poll. The result was predictable, but still worth looking at anyway. Even if just to see how many people are sick of a certain type of game.

Last week we asked what type of game you were sick of seeing. Now, we got a lot of issues with the question, like "where's the FPS" or "where's the movie tie-ins" among others. We've got an excuse ready for you, so you can either buy it or say we're totally trying to dodge the bullet. We asked what type of game, not genre. An FPS is a genre of games -- WWII themes are a type. As for the movie tie-ins? Well, nobody plays those, so they don't count anyway.

With that out of the way, clearly you can see that people are sick and tired of games centering around World War II. Close behind are "street" style racing games, JRPG's, and classic arcade titles. We claim shenanigans on the JRPG vote, since there aren't more than a handful on all the next-gen consoles combined. Or the old Xbox. Or the GameCube. Only the PS2. But there sure were a lot on the PS2.

Thanks for voting, guys! We'll see you next week!

Tags: PlayStation 3, Playstation3, poll police, PollPolice, PS3

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

massive_98 @ Jun 3rd 2007 3:29PM

I have given up on the playstation browser. It is just too slow, so this would probably take forever.

Thundercizzle @ Jun 3rd 2007 3:59PM

I don't see why not. PS3 can use all the content it can get since the PSN is currently not up to par.

adam @ Jun 3rd 2007 4:57PM

Id rather see the effort go towards making the PSN better, and better games available through PSN. not another pointless project like this.

Dahk @ Jun 3rd 2007 5:26PM

Unfortunately adam, I don't think ndoerr has the power to make PSN better =P. He MIGHT! But if not, why not start this theatre thing lol.

massive_98 @ Jun 3rd 2007 5:48PM

You get all those videos on us.playstation.com
Why would you waste disc space on game/movie trailers.

Alex Filipovic @ Jun 3rd 2007 6:05PM

Yeah sure do this but make the videos longer then on the pspfanboy website

F-Man @ Jun 3rd 2007 6:59PM

This reminds me... Whatever happened to fan art fridays that were planned? No submissions?

Matt B @ Jun 3rd 2007 6:58PM

This would be a sweet and welcome idea. I think it should offer content not currently on the PSN since it would bett a lot quicker hitting the website than the store. I hope you guys don't have a bandwidth cap.

Vincent060 @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:02PM

Why is it that here there are two(2) options to vote for, but when you go to the results page there are four(4)? Just wanted to throw that out there.

-Vincent-zero-six-zero(060):)

ndoerr @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:22PM

@ Vincent -- because I'm lazy. Actually, when I changed the code for the actual poll to have two answers, I didn't think the results would still have those other options in there. Not that it matters -- it's a yes/no question. Hope that clears it up =P

nerfgun @ Jun 4th 2007 12:06AM

I'd wait until the PS3 gets RSS support like the PSP, then try this idea again. There will be lots of video content on the PS Store anyhow. The browser is a little cumbersome, but if you were to put your videos out on a feed, it would probably get more attention/traffic. Just a thought.