"Free" might be their way of saying that they just can't complete with Xbox Live and so really there is no way they can charge for it.
Same thing with Sony. As far as I can tell "free" means that they are leaving a lot of development up to the individual developers and that they will not have a unified service perse - just a bunch on plug-ins in their operation system. If this is the case; then the online for the PS3 will completely suck! Not to mention t...
Rock on 360, Rock on!
I don't really care for skins, I just want to find some nice controller cases ...anybody?
Sony loves fanboys. Infact they build their entire console strategy around ignorant loyalty.
I suggest you refer to: Comments #45, #46.3, and #50.1 for a road to enlightenment.
Then check out this link to see just how useless Blue Ray is relative to a full year's delay and the rediculous price of the PS3:
http://www.gamesfirst.com/?...
PS: Don't believe the propaganda: Bo...
Windows Graphic Foundation (WGF) is the next major release of DirectX. It will bring about some changes regarding how shaders and the entire 3D architecture is handled in Windows. Over the course of the evolution from 2.0, 2.x and 3.0 of the pixel and vertex shader models, the abilities of pixel and vertex shaders have become very similar. Originally, pixel shaders lacked the functionality and complexity of vertex shaders. Under WGF 2.0, shader models are identical, and this identical specifi...
In marketing this tactic is called "Buy-in" theory - in which a company (in this case Sony) appeals to their existing fanbase and basically lies about their specs, and acts arrogant, in order to get people to buy-in to the notion that the PS3 is worth waiting for. This kind of abuse carried out on the backs of the ignorant masses is why I became a techie. Well that and because I am an economist and therefore a student of game theory and incentives.
When you have bec...
Rock on 360! Rock on!
At E3 (2005): Sony officially unveiled the PS3 and for the first time and claimed that their Cell processor would be capable of 200 GFLOPS.
Now you might be asking yourself; how did they get that figure? Well from IBM's own white pages of course:
http://www-128.ibm.com/deve...
...As you can see from the link; the Cell has a theoretical peak of 201 GF...
The budget for this movie is actually really high and the script is supposed to rock - so if Peter does his magic with the effects and helps out a lot ---- then maybe this new director will pull it off :)
Hope so, ...for Earths sake!
Lets face it people; the Wii is nothing more than a supped-up Xbox 1 and although it’s controller is innovative – it is also gimmicky! The key point here is PRICE! It appears that the 360’s Core SKU is already as cheap as the Wii’s launch price and you just know that a price cut is just around the corner from Microsoft. With all of the killer aps coming to the 360 in the Wii’s first year launch period, and given the HUGE power differential of the 360 over the Wii – you would have to be cra...
First of all, I would not recommend doing as you propose because anything attached to your computer's USB ports will require processing and therefore will depend on the speed of your computer. It sound as though you are trying to use your computer as a router? And seriously what do you mean plug a ethernet cable into your Xbox? What ethernet cable?
Any ways, you should have your internet coming into your house and attached to a modem. To the extent that you have multiple de...
I guarantee you that these units will be technically superior in every way and for a better price. Also, Apple more than pissed me off with their rationale of not allowing I-pod users to extract files off of the I-pod. And the fact that you can't store actual MP3's, and WMF files on the unit itself is a joke. I mean seriously who the hell wants to convert their whole library to Apple's proprietary ACC format and risk sound degradation. Ha maybe the rumours of Apple doing something with So...
PC's do not run this game better than the 360, it's just that when you look at this game on a big screen TV - it becomes most obvious that the Doom 3 Engine is dated. I guarantee you that the 360 will have superior anti-aliasing than 99% of all PC's out there, just like in Oblivion. To that end, the only reason why there were more detailed textures and slower loading times in high-end PC versions of Oblivion was because of MEMORY (and specifically RAM!). So if Sony fans want to get on the 360...
Seriously, I should never do anything before I've had my daily dose of coffee :(
Once again sorry folks, I'm going to repost this in it's intentended section but while I'm here, ...I think that this camera idea is a good one for all of the companies to impliment. I know that Microsoft's camera will have this aswell and (forget copying) I'm glad that Sony fans will also be able to enjoy this type of functionality.
PC's do not run this game better than the 360, it's just that when you look at this game on a big screen TV - it becomes most obvious that the Doom 3 Engine is dated. I guarantee you that the 360 will have superior anti-aliasing than 99% of all PC's out there, just like in Oblivion. To that end, the only reason why there were more detailed textures and slower loading times in high-end PC versions of Oblivion was because of MEMORY (and specifically RAM!). So if Sony fans want to get on the ...
But it will probably be out before the PS3 even launches so whoop-di-doo, ...all that this says to me is that Sony knows what the Big M is doing and doesn't want to get left behind ---- especially when you consider the success of the Eye Toy!
Now only Nintendo needs to catch-up in this area.
The 360's component costs are much cheaper than the PS3's, even when you take Blu-Ray out of the equation.
Micorsoft OWNS the price mechanism because they are in far better financial shape, with respect to PROFITS, not total revenues, not total costs, but workable cash for new investment.
Sony's shareholders are screaming fowl and Sony now has very little investment capital to sustain a price war with Microsoft.
The 360 more than matches the PS3 fr...
The screens VERY average. Those who think that they look good are probably setting themselves up for a big disappointment (as if waiting to buy a PS3 on launch won't be a big enough one on its own).
However, that said, I must say that the screens for Tekken look ABYSMALLY BAD, ...so give Sega some credit for doing the best with the hardware that Sony gave them to work with - arrg!
I pity the fools!
Infact, I actually bought the first Playstation on launch when everyone else was saying "I'm not so sure about Sony" because we had only grown up with Sega and Nintendo. Whereas the Saturn absolutely spanked the Playstation in the 2D department, the Playstation was far superior in the primary 3D processing areas. I had done a lot of research and read a lot of reviews about the initial Playstation games and the consensus at that time was that Sega's initial batch of games fell shor...
In the article, someone mentions that: "Little more information is known on [1080 output] or if there will be a gaming performance impact."
As a techie, I can’t help but laugh at that statement because one of the many benefits of the Xenos GPU’s 10mb of embedded D-RAM is that it gives the 360 a fill rate of over 16 gigasamples per second using 4 x MS - Anti Aliasing at 720p. The catch here though; is that unlike the RSX, or any other traditional PC GPU; the Xenos ...