but this seems like the start of the ol' death spiral - you reduce capital expenditure and try to compete on price with reduced margins and then go bankrupt. But I wonder if this is just a reflection of the reduced PC market - a lot less reason to own a high-end PC when most games are out for consoles.
The reality is that there is little reason to upgrade your PC if you are not playing cool games (because email and surfing are still fine on my 2800+ AMD/Radeon 9600 Pro combina...
1280 X 720 is the sweet spot. More than that and the textures look like crap. And the difference between 600p and 720p is hard to see, depending on the art work. Hence, a lot of developers cheat a little. On the 360 the scaler covers up most of that so not a problem. The PS3 has a less impressive scaler but can also do this. So the net result is that both are going to look similar and current GPU's can blow them both out of the water. But since my TV is a 720p, I am good for this gener...
I wanted to love this game but it sound like Jade and company made some bad decisions. Shame really - this could have been fantastic.
Basically - everyone agrees that that gameplay is repetitive and boring by the end. The only question is how much of the cool vistas go toward compensating for that. Some people felt the beginning and the idea helped compensate for the mediocre game play. The more cynical people say this game is mediocre. So it sounds like you should rent it...
But they are waiting until there are enough games to make it necessary :-)
Seriously, this should be a required feature and Sony will probably add it down the road - that Home thing could be incredibly addictive.
But I suspect developers are going to compensate for the graphical short comings of the PS3 (as well as its problems handling branching code) and in the end it will be a wash (or hard to see when you are playing a game). The real problem for PS3-only developers is that they are going to have to be more careful and spend more money getting the performance out of the PS3. So they are not going to have the profit they would have on other systems.
And the cost of making a DS ga...
That was funny. I could mention some of the antisocial behavior associated with the PS3 but still - that was funny.
Chemical - when did you get a chance to play ME?
Depends on the contract - some contracts bind the successors in interest.
My biggest complaint is that EA now owns the studio that created Mass Effect - EA has the worst management in the industry, constantly overworks its employees and screws up almost every single thing it touches. As a rule, I just don't buy EA games. Mass Effect is an exception because the game is done but future versions - I serious doubt I will ever buy them.
handle Mass Effect - the AI, the textures, just wouldn't be possible...
Okay - on a more serious note (because I consider the consoles to be close enough to equal that either console could do anything that is done on the other console) - if Mass Effect does well it seems like EA would be stupid not to port/develop for the PS3. Assuming it doesn't cost too much (and EA has to be getting better with ports with all the practice it has) it would sell a couple of hundred thousand at le...
Yaris - that had to be the worst game I have ever had the misfortune to try. It sucked so bad it could have overpowered a blackhole.
Cheaper BR players are great for consumers. But I wouldn't buy one of the older BR players - most of them cannot be upgraded and I believe they have issues with playing the newer disks because they are not compliant with the new BR 1.1 spec. At least HD DVD didn't screw that up so you can enjoy the first generation players and upgrade them via the internet.
Shame the BR couldn't get the specification figured out before they started to sell players. Still, eventually we shoul...
I will be surprised. $200 is too big of a price difference - HD DVD will start to gain too much momentum and the BR will lose for not winning.
I love how competition forces the prices down. Problem is that Sony can ill afford a price war right now. I wonder what asset Sony is going to sell next.
Broadcast often film in 1080i (because of the amount of data) and then you get artifacts. I hate watching sports filmed in 1080i - the compression algorithms used by Comcast make the artifacts even worse. Where as with HD filmed in 720p/60 there is no issue with artifacts and the compression doesn't generate artifacts.
Film, on the other hand, is filmed progressively and is stored in 1080p/24 and has to be coverted (either with 2:3 pulldown or directly if you have an uber TV)...
Re the glasses - I think you realize by now that was a silly comment.
Once you do the conversion to 1080p/30, it is mathematically identical to providing 1080i/30 or 1080p30 (because 1080i/30 is really just spliting the 30 frames of 1080p/30 into two half-frames and sending the information twice as fast so that it can be combined on the other end to form the 1080p/30 frame (which is of course converted to 1080p/60 by your tv by repeating each frame twice). So - bottom line is that i...
1080i does not mean 1M pixels on the movie side - that is only on the TV side.
On the data side, the difference between 1080i and 1080p will be invisible to 95% of the people who have a 1080p TV (only 1080p tvs that accept 1080p/24 and can play at 48 or 72Hz benefit from true 1080p/24 signals). Most TVs have to convert 1080p/24 into something else. Guess what that usually is? Yep, 1080i/30 (which is what the HD DVD player in question outputs). The two fields are combined ...
That is what Sony must be feeling right now - they sacrificed the PS3 in hopes of winning the format war and now it looks like both formats are going to co-exist. That will prevent Sony from charging as much as it wanted to and thus, Sony is going to lose millions (probably hundreds of millions but who knows).
For $200 dollars I was going to do it but for $100, assuming I can get one, oh yeah. It upscales regular DVDs and most of my favorite movies are on HD DVD (LOTR is coming allegedly - that seals the deal for me).
To everyone one that says "Oh, but it isn't 1080p" - don't be a fool. I bet no one has a set-up on this entire site that can see the difference. 40 inch tvs - hahahaha. You need to go 60" to see the diference at any reasonable distance if you have 2...
First - the PPE is not a standard PPE (not the same as what is used in Macs - it is a simplified and stripped down version designed to for in-order instructions. I am going to paste a quote from Wikipedia (I know, not a 100% accurate but easy to find):
Re the PPE:
"The PPE is the Power Architecture based, two-way multithreaded core acting as the controller for the eight SPEs, which handle most of the computational workload. The PPE will work with conventional opera...
I didn't say the PS3 couldn't do out-of-order instructions, I said it sucks at it.
The PS3 (and the XBOX 360 to a lesser extent) sucks at out of order instructions because of the narrow execution core pf the PPE. It is using in-order CPUs to perform out-of-order instructions as are common in gaming code (you know, the type that includes branches, loops and pointers). All the game control, scripting, AI and other branch intensive code has to crammed into two threads and run ...
but Sony makes nice TVs - I owned a Sony tube before I picked up a Panaonic plasma and if the price drops a little I wouldn't hesitate to pick up another Sony TV.
Still, the problem right now is the price - I suspect it is going to be about two years before the price drops and the size increases enough for OLED to be viable. It will be interesting to see what LCD and plasma do to compete. Still, I like the power consumption so I suspect, all other things being equal, the OLED...