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"PS3 > PC

Not on a technical level, but because of its game library. "

Problem with that is that you can make a PC play like 90 percent of games ever made from Grim Fandango to Mario 64 to Metal Gear Solid to Half Life to Baldurs Gate.

Whereas PS3 can play maybe 1 percent. A decent PC can ironically play more PS2 games than most PS3 consoles out there AAAANDDD it can do it in HD resolutions which no PS3 can do. DOH!

4817d ago 20 agree15 disagreeView comment

If your career >>> faith then you should probably rethink what faith actually means to you.

I am not religious at all, part of the reason for that is seeing lots of people that claim to have some sort of 'faith' dropping their beliefs or bypassing it or disregarding it when it becomes inconvenient for them.

It is laughable to me seeing people profess certain things when it is convenient, then excusing themselves at a point where holding their...

4818d ago 3 agree1 disagreeView comment

Haswell is my next platform of choice, time to retire the old faithful LGA1366 Bloomfield!

LGA 1150 USB3.0, PCIe 3.0, TRIM in RAID 0....here I come.

Apparently about 10 percent faster per clock than current Ivy Bridge.

It isn't a massive leap over the 3770k but the performance improvement for me will be significant.

4820d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

Their customer support is appalling. Probably the worst I have ever dealt with, and I have dealt with a lot, and a lot of crummy ones.

EA's take the biscuit.

Get whoever managed Amazon customer support on the job, because they are world class.

4820d ago 12 agree0 disagreeView comment

EeJLP

"And here we go with the this single $400-450+ part is better than what's in the PS4 argument again."

Please show me where I made this argument.

I mentioned absolutely nought of costs.

All I stated was that yes, in fact PS4 is a lower- midrange gaming PC best case as of May 2012. If you have a valid argument to dispute this then please go ahead but unfortunately all the evidence I have presented really pre...

4820d ago 3 agree0 disagreeView comment

Titans problem is that it isn't reaching the clockspeeds the other high end parts are. This is understandable because of the huge size of the die and faintly prototype whiff of the silicon revision which is why it is such a limited edition (10k units).

If nvidia have better revisions of the silicon and can also chop off some units they might also be able to do better on the clocks so that a cut down version isn't all that much slower than a full fat.

4820d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Weird. Back when Ps3 was launching there was a similar sort of sh7tstorm on the internet over various choices Sony made, like the cost because of the bluray drive etc. It almost certainly impacted sales of the machine early on.

This sort of ominous internet hate building up everywhere for the idea of an 'always on' console is really, really bad news for Microsoft, who benefitted from internet animosity directed at Sony this gen.

Major Nelson's own...

4820d ago 6 agree1 disagreeView comment

Obviously you need to have a look at current hardware _-EDMIX-_

PS4 is a midrange PC by 2012 standards. 7850 launched in March 2012 and was absolutely midrange. The 7970, 7950, GTX680 and GTX670 are much, much faster and were all launched by the end of May 2012- virtually a year ago now!

A 7850 sits precisely in the middle of the current Radeon 7 series range hierarchy. It has been something like 18 months since 7850 level performance was considered 'high...

4820d ago 5 agree1 disagreeView comment

The game was designed on PC for PC.

Be happy consoles are getting them game at all. PS4 is a lower midrange PC, why would you expect it to run a game created for hardware probably faster than PS4 to run so much better on it?

4820d ago 3 agree2 disagreeView comment

They could, but they would just keep coming up with games where technology destroys humankind.

That would be slightly worrying.

4822d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

The world economy is a very different place now, and Sony have a less than brilliant current financial situation.

These consoles are sons of austerity. Cost is now incredibly important and hugely critical, much more so then when PS3 launched.

Really an average consumer doesn't want to buy a console for $600/£400+ pounds in these times and nor do Sony want to lose hundreds of dollars on each machine they build and sell for years to come like they did ...

4822d ago 7 agree4 disagreeView comment

As many disagrees as you would get I have mentioned this before because it is just the truth of the matter.

When Xbox 360 launched in November 2005, the fastest single GPU in the world was probably the Radeon X1800XT which launched in October 2005- just a month before.

The X1800XT was a £300/$500 GPU.

Xenos in Xbox 360 if you take it as the daughter die and the main core together is not really much slower. Xenos boasted superior unified ...

4822d ago 3 agree1 disagreeView comment

@ Ju

Hybrid memory cube.

320GB/s.

Whats the point in moaning when in about 2-3 years you'll be able to have system memory on PC knocking out over 300GB/s compared to about 25 now. You could dump whatever APU you want on a die and have loads of bandwidth to share in a unified pool should you so desire.

Chip stacking is the real computing technology revolution and consoles will just miss it and PC will reap ridiculously mas...

4822d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

I can see you need to learn a bit more about technology.

A lot of what you said is meaningless and a bit stupid to be honest. 'Wii U has no limitations'

O RLY???

Comparing generations of graphics cards is also irrelevant. Just because a GPU is older, doesn't make it vastly slower....

Wii U isn't really much faster than Xbox 360 or PS3. Its main advantage is just that it has more RAM. Its GPU is not really mor...

4823d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

It varies game to game how well optimised they are but PC game optimisation has gotten better and better and will only keep getting better with better OS refinement, Direct3D advances and the fact the consoles are now x86 machines.

Certainly you do not need a massively more powerful PC to beat a console.

It isn't like you need 5 times the power of a console to actually best it.

You'll start to easily the the difference when a PC is tw...

4823d ago 12 agree3 disagreeView comment

Various little inaccuracies in the report. All you need to know I guess is that the core is maybe 15 percent slower than a 7970M because of cut down CU units and clocks and less than half the performance of a full blown desktop standard 7970 I. e not the gigahertz edition which is even faster.

Memory bandwidth about the same as the 7970M because I have seen 20gb/s or so claimed to be used by the CPU which is roughly what you would expect.

But we known this f...

4824d ago 2 agree1 disagreeView comment

Wii U's GPU is not hugely faster than Xenos in 360, which is over 7 years old.

According to the various info gleaned it has 320 unified units, 16 TMUs and 8 ROPS @ 550mhz.

In short those specs would show it is SLOWER than a Radeon 4650, less than half the TMUs- it has only 25 percent better pixel and texel fillrates than Xenos. Although the architecture is better elsewhere, it is by itself at most 50 percent faster than Xenos in practice.

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4825d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

I'll let you down gently, but absolutely best case scenario Wii u is twice as fast as PS3 and 360. It's GPU is certainly not more than this in terms of fill rates and it's CPU is no better than what is in said aging consoles. In reality it is maybe 1.5x current consoles.

If Durango has the touted 7670 like then it is at least a little more than twice as fast as Wii U and PS4's 7850 like performance is again at bare minimum 3 times as fast as Wii U. In reality ...

4826d ago 9 agree10 disagreeView comment

Both can improve a bit. Early days for PS4, but also the elemental demo was first shown on PC 10 months ago and is dated as such on that platform as well no doubt.

Since then the new PC demo has moved on a little bit further with infiltrator to take advantage of newer hardware and advances in the engine.

4826d ago 2 agree1 disagreeView comment

UE3 was designed for the existing generation HD consoles, of which Wii U is quite closely matched to.

UE4 is really designed at the top end for next generation technology, like PC and PS4.

Both scale downwards to mobile.

However, so does windows 8. You can run windows 8 on a 10 year old machine designed for windows xp.

But you probably shouldn't...because you'll never get all the enhancements and it will be suboptimal...

4826d ago 13 agree8 disagreeView comment