If you have to switch disk it would more than likely be a game like Final Fantasy style where the game play is all linear and once you get through the first disk you don’t have to go back. I didn’t hear anyone complain about Final Fantasy in the PS2 days? Why is it such a big deal now? Second the cost to do this is still cheaper than Blu-Ray. With 6 DVD9 you can get 54gb for 6 dollars or less, Blu-Ray you are looking at 40 dollars or more for 50gb. Plus the Blu-Ray drive is so slow in speed i...
StarCraftRocks, after two days of reading your post I’ve come to the conclusion you don’t know much about what you are talking about. VC-1 and Mpeg2 are video compression formats, KEYWORD here VIDEO. These standards aren’t used in the compression of data, so it irrelevant what your talking about.
The next thing is 3D animation VS game programming is different. The 3D world’s 3D models that you see in games are all render during game play through vector graphics (Code), which c...
What will it be next, shipping with no power cord?? The good news is this one isn't a big deal.
if you think Sony is not going to sell you downloadable content you have to be stupid. There is a market for it, and no gamming company is going to stick around making extra content that they aren't going to get paid for.
StarCraftRocks, Onces again you clearly you are misinformed. The reason the 360 doesn’t support Direct X 10 has nothing to do with a HD. Direct X 10 support is determined by the Graphic Card. When the 360 was released Direct X 10 wasn’t released and it won’t be released until vista. Sorry to say but PS3 doesn’t even use Direct X technology they decided to go with Linux as an OS and OpenGL. Crysis will more than likely come to the 360 before it would ever come to the PS3, because the 360 video...
Yea, BLU-RAY is need for Sony’s pocket. They have spent 10 years on creating it, and I’m sure tons of money lost in research. They are rushing it to the market because if they don’t then all that research is lost. Honestly speaking BLU-Ray is out of date and the sad part is it hasn’t hit the shelf yet. But can we say if BLU-Ray wins it means Royalty money for Sony http://blogcritics.org/arch...
I think you’re a bit misinformed and want to retract what you said about Blu-Ray getting the 50gig to work. Your article is from the 16th of August. This one is news from just a few days ago August 29th. http://www.engadget.com/200... So who is misinformed?
I’m a programmer and I will tell you more space is not always better. A programmer should never not try to optimize code for peak performance. Yes, it’s nice to have space if needed but there are so many ways to make your code and graphics smaller and still do everything you wanted and more. I’m sorry but Mart is right we don’t need BLU-Ray at this moment, by the time we need a disk with BLU-Ray’s capacity, we will be welcoming the next generation console. By then something better then BLU-Ra...
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Everyone here is fighting over Drive capacity but there is a huge problem being overlooked and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD do nothing to address this problem. I can tell you right now that with slow transfer rate from Blu-Ray drive it will cause a lot of problems and you will see games scaled back before they launch. If you ever w...
Ok to a point I can agree with you a bout Microsoft over promising about things with Windows and under delivering. I will tell you this though Linux does not compare to Windows, an OS where it’s a security risk to run a Graphic User Interface is not a great leap forward. Clearly you don’t know much about Operating Systems and shouldn’t speak on it. Microsoft Vista isn’t Microsoft 360, we are talking two different products. If you want to argue Microsoft’s short coming with the 360 vs Sony and...
I totally agree. The Mart has a opinion and in most of the words he says he backs up with fact. Most people seem to get upset because of what he says, but if you look around he’s not saying anything different then most of the news. Crying out loud the CEO of the official PS magazine said looking at the system and price and what it has to offer she isn’t buying one. That says a lot… Don’t be childish if you disagree say something constructive to rebuttal what he is saying but acting ignorant a...
Karibu but one problem with what you are saying. The 360 was not marketed as a Movie platform. It just so happens the media needing to hold games is the same as movies so it’s a bonus. Not some forced standard on us. PS3 is forcing us all to have Blu-Ray, Sony say we need it for games but lets be honest if we will need it for games that come out 5yrs later, that’s cool that’s 5yrs later but at current we don’t and 5yrs from now there will be a new console that can adopt the next big media for...
I'm sorry but I want 75 games at launch time, not 75 movies. This isn't going to cut it for me, I'm a gamer and this is ridiculous. If I want to watch a movie I will go to the theater or watch in my home theater system. Also what benefits do I get from buying a brand new Blu-Ray DVD movie over current DVD's, there's no extra content in most cases and the quality isn't worth upgrading my movie collection replacing DVD movies I already own. I’m sorry I only want good games and to me it doesn’t ...
The reason why this was posted was not so Sony Fanboys could fight. What was done in this article was a guy took pure fact and analyzed it and made a point. Had this article been about why the XBox failed and why the Xbox 360 failed and would have been based on no facts, the PS3 fan boys would have been all about it, and this would be the coolest article. I’m sorry but today was the first time I looked to find news on the PS3, and Blu-Ray, and all I could find was bad news. Despite all the ba...
LOL, it's hard to find any positive news on the PS3. Anyhow thought this article might explain the delays in productions of PS3.
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Yes, your right no source however. The trend that’s been going on with the PS3 has been you here a rumor. Weeks later when Sony have thought of something to say to the public it confirms it by trying to talk it down and boast about something else. I would say this has a big chance of being and doesn’t seem unlikely. When most hardware is designed on paper it says one thing but when in practical use it can’t get near what the paper specs say because of other factors not considered in the specs...
You would have to be silly to think the PS3 or 360 is going to be around for 10 years. Look the hardware in both are already outdated. Blu-Ray will have to compete with the bio engineered DVD’s that will come out in the next 18-24 months that can yield 50 times the capacity of a BLU-RAY disk and I’m guess at around the same cost if not slightly cheaper or more.
Gigabit – I will tell you few reasons why this technology is worthless for most people right now.
1. Hi-speed interne...
bladestar you’re totally right, electronic components do go bad. That’s why places like Best Buy, Circuit City offer extended warranties. Be smart if you are spending a high dollar amount get the warranty and don’t be cheap. I had an electronic component go bad in my brand new 2006 Mazda RX-8. It happens doesn’t mean the company is crap and another company won’t have problems. Yes, it’s true some companies have a better history than others when it comes to this but all in all as pbo2m3 said “...
We have no idea when the studios are going to do this. Also it is a guaranty that they are going to do it. The reason why so many supported Blu-Ray is because they got to pick add in there two cents on copy protection. This just takes away from the whole argument this is a cheap Blu-Ray player.