Don't think it's a jab to ask why I would pay several hundred dollars (family) on Live EVERY single year when your telling me it's EA that hosts the servers. I assume same with Valve, Ubisoft etc.
So why am I paying MS when they aren't even providing the servers?
Buy a gaming console from MS and then pay MS extra for gaming online and they don't even provide the gaming servers. Have I got that right? Your joking right.
Attack the person rather than the facts. Typical.
I guess the court documents and the lawyers and the judges that convicted them all wear tin foil hats as well. Yep it's all a conspiracy against poor law abiding victim MS. Even when they spell out how they manipulate the media to deceive people in their own e-mail. LOL.
USA land of the brave and duped. Willingly.
MS plant stories all the time. They use 3rd parties to make it look like independent journalism. It's why magazines have two different "standards" when it comes to PS3 and 360. It's why the language is so forgiving of the 360 and disparaging, mocking and hate filled towards the PS3. At best begrudging acknowledgement with a tacked on but the 360 could do it as well. Even when all the evidence is it can't and hasn't.
They have been doing it for decades. It's part of the...
Or just switch to Linux.
Kill two birds with one stone.
There are some Blu-Ray players that are now as fast as loading as the PS3. I don't know of any by Samsung.
Samsung has by far the worst playback and firmware upgrade history. All of the other mfgs put together wouldn't match how poor their support has been. PS3 is still the best on the firmware front and gets the most testing coverage because of the install base.
PS3 does netflix, PS3 has done Youtube for a long time, and has way more storage than any standalone fo...
"I still prefered R1's in-game/online structure more!".
Same here. Bring back the weapon wheel !!!!. 40 players with crystal clear chat was pretty impressive for a launch title. Expectation for R2 may have been a bit too high based on that out of the gate performance.
I don't think they are a 1st party studio so they won't have the same level of access/support as Naughty Dog or Santa Monica teams. So I wouldn't be expecting quite as much. Expect R3 to step...
Not sure how anyone could believe that hardware used in the last generation would lead to true next generation games. Defies common sense really.
Small scratch-prone DVD, lossy audio, no standard HDD ( < Xbox), no standard HDMI.
What did you expect? Next gen needs next gen hardware all around. Not major hardware the same (or less) than the Xbox of almost a decade ago.
The 360 had everything to do with the way it turned out. Slow memory, old style ar...
"because we all know that console games these days do not pump out 1080p native resolution games."
Not true.
PS3 has 40 or more.
~30 of them are full 1920x1080p. They are mostly sports, racing or PSN.
360 has about 5.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/s...
Not true. HDMI gets you the best sound - lossless (HD). Optical is lossy (non-HD).
Been the case with multi-platform games since Day 1. MS going the cheap route has impacted the industry in a negative way. We all could have had more on every release. Everyone also could have had scratch free media and lossless sound as well.
Wouldn't be so bad if MS hadn't gone on a year long FUD campaign warning people to stay away from that new and likely unreliable Blu-ray technology and how extra space wasn't needed etc.
Just don't fall for it next time around...
I wouldn't get to to excited about jet packs. Of the 3 expansion packs to Warhawk they were the worst addition. They completely unbalanced a lot of the CTF maps. Not saying it will be the same but might want to temper your excitement. It's definitely another option and is a good thing in general. Just saying.
PSN Launch. RFOM 40-player. Now 256.
XBL still waiting 7+ years later. 7 years.
XBL for a family is $200/year.
PSN is free.
Like Google, Facebook, Twitter. Best network services on the planet. Free.
XBL more downtime in last 3 years than PSN.
Guess you don't get what you pay for.
Same can be said for the media.
Running 256MB of the RAM @ 4.5x the speed of the 360 memory helps a bit as well.
But but the Cell./s
I haven't watched it yet (doubt I will) but did he bash the graphics or just state they were inferior. They are different things.
Agree different strokes for different folks. Logged more time in Warhawk (which also has 4 player split-screen) than any other game ever. Planes, tanks, jeeps, turrets, mines make it the most varied and interesting multiplayer fun I've ever had. I only play 24-32 player games because I personally find anything less than that pedestrian by comparison. ...
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LIVE API has a hard coded limit of 31 per MACHINE. That means an individual 360 can host no more than 31 users including the server itself. Which is what I originally said. Straight from developers as I already posted.
LIVE (not console) can support more players than 31 but you need MULTIPLE servers and they need to co-ordinate their own communication so as to appear as a single server. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a dedicated server (ie. single state machine). Not to men...
The 10MB is a specialized cache for frame buffering of graphics. Cache because the rest of the system is slow. Hardly relevant compared to 256MB main RAM that's actually of use for general purpose server code.
The PS3 can access the 512 MB. Just because it's not unified memory doesn't mean it can't be used. Especially when half of it is 4.5 times faster than the 360. 4.5 times.
Frontlines is the only game and it's because they actually used PC servers in a round robi...
It's because they are dedicated servers.
It's because of the SPU's number crunching capabilities.
It's because the 256 RAM on the CPU side is 4.5x (3.2Ghz) faster than the 360 (700Mhz).
4.5 times. Let it sink in. No really let it sink in. The PS3 is 4.5 times faster moving bits around memory. It doesn't have a tiny 10MB cache like the 360. Why? Because silicon caches are a crutches to deal with the typical mismatch between CPU and RAM speed because RAM running at the...
Extra cost battery chargers are for 360 controllers not PS3 ones.