Being designed as a media center, and MS having their Media Center OS, you can already guess it will tie in with your computer. That's a given.
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Being designed as a media center, and MS having their Media Center OS, you can already guess it will tie in with your computer. That's a given.
technaly xbox360 supports blu ray since media center pc's will have them and 360 can stream video off it.. so really thats not a promblem
On the blu-ray/hd-dvd topic, will you have to buy a new reader/writer drive for each?
i dunno... beats me :think:
Yup...they are quite incompatible with each other.
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Recent comments of Bill Gates at a joint MS and Toshiba presentation indicate future inclusion of HD-DVD drives in XBox 360 units.
Although nearly a month ago, Microsoft's chairman stated that XBox 360 would feature plain, old DVD technology, "rival" Sony's Blu-ray/PS3 combination offering might have caused him some strategy rethinking. During his talk (jointly with representatives from Toshiba, one of the leading HD-DVD promoting companies) Gates commented that although initial shipments of Xbox 360 will include vanilla DVD drives, future versions might incorporate some form of an advanced capacity DVD player, like HD-DVD.
This wise and rather diplomatic statement, does not fully cover MS's anxiety about securing in advance an alliance with the most prominent to win HD-camp, which at this time is certainly the Sony/Philips Blue-Ray format. This format is more advanced (both in terms of data capacity and reliability design criteria) and offers more prospects to end users. The recent Fox's announcement for the support of the Blue-Ray format has already shaken positively the movie industry.
It is not currently known if x360 will contain a DPM (Trusted Platform Model) chip and how strict the content restriction rules will be. There is already an open criticism of DPM and the other practices of the Trusted Computing Group among the German Security industry that might influence future EU parliament decisions. XBox 360 certainly needs a DPM chip if it is to be allowed to play high definition DVD content, and the adoption of one format against another might make a big difference on one HD format finally prevailing over the other....
they should just go with Blu ray at the later shipments... like u quoted it is better in both ways
Okey, still respecting those that prefer 360 over PS3, one thing is that and another is to say that PS3 is overpriced because it costs more and offers almost the same. :naughty:
Thats not true, PS3 is pricey, very pricey, too pricey if you ask me, but it is like that for a reason. Do some research, is not only the graphics and processor (in terms of hardware)
Really? Where did you buy your PS3 because I haven't been able to find one ANYWHERE!Zitat:
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Does that ook like a rant ot you.? But king shouldn't be using multiple accounts.Zitat:
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yea i shouldnt? :PC: just spicing up the conversation... it was getting dull :ROFL:Zitat:
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the nintendo account was made on my computer.. but im not the one posting for it..
Soviet it was an offensive comment... PSPositivie posting does not allow for negative comments :naughty:Zitat:
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Although he has multiple accounts, it has not been forum policy that it is wrong, the policy has been updated now to include some multiple account issues
I meant it is going tobe pricey, and i'm talking about the announced specifics so far. English is not my first language, as i already said before, no need to be "so friendly".Zitat:
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can u delte the other one.. becuase i really have no use of it.. as i am never going to be banned?
nah, just let it rot!! I can't delete accounts anyways. I suggest to just have it rot in HFILZitat:
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You think shut up is offensive. Come on, ths isn't preschool.
it is offensive. you could of said something more appropriate like: KON please stop talking bout that stuff or something like that, but shut up is offensive to a lot of people I know..Zitat:
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ok.. ill guess ill change the password to something impossible or give it away..
I'm just going to drop it.
[Kon, just leave it inactive, users might abuse the account, and I don't want that happening]
Pyrobon, that's not my point. The point is that every Sony console, add-on, or project has had its price speculated since their introduction into the video game industry using 12 month specs, etc, and every time they've for the most part been wrong. We do NOT know the price of Sony's machine and likely will not for quite some time.
well i think the 360 wil be more powerful due to those unified shaders. After reading up on shader effeciency, the ps3 wont do the 2 teraflops, weraz the 360 will do the 1.9 teraflops all the time. Without unified shaders the ps3 will do about 1.7 on average because it wont be 100% effecient. So not only is it out late, its slower and only advantage (if u can call it that) is its blu ray drive.
So there is no advantage since only the launch games will be blu ray.Zitat:
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well i said all along after sonys e3 demonstration that they wer scared of the 360 so span lots of numbers and pre rendered everything. They had early dev kits they cud have put some realtime stuff together. Xbox 360 was running on an alpha dev kit. Since e3 all sony have tried to do it spin numbers and make ther console seem amazing so ppl will buy it, now ther saying there making it pricey because of its sheer power, BS its expensive because of that $300 blu ray drive and thats a marketing ploy to try and win a format war.
Your just like my friend from school. :ROFL:Zitat:
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recent polls have been putting the xbox 360 just 3% behind in popularity to that of the ps3, lots of ppl are wising up to sonys marketing BS. Tbh they should have relized that with the ps2 wen they said it can render toy story real time and fly a plane.
I can't believe i missed this topic.
But i just read everything, and instead of a million quotes/I'll just sum up what i am going to say.
1)Games i loved for the PS2-MGS2/3, FFX, Im done
2)Games i loved on the Xbox, Halo 1/2,Ninja Giaden, MechAssult 1/2.
(these are the games i love not al of the good ones)
3) I know buying an xbox 360 for 300 dollars when it launches. I am not spending 500 dollars on something that can't preform as good as the 360 for 300.
4) PS2/3 online will not be even close to as good as XBL(thats a fact)
5) Sony gave the PS3 better specs then the 360 in the places where it wouldn'y matter in a game.
6)Sony thinks that calling it a media center will make ppl send $500 on the PS3. There are retards, no one is buying a ps3 for its media center features over the games features.
7)The ps3 wasne't even buit at E3 while the xbox was using alpha kits.
Which means that ps3 best movie graphics are only as good as about 1/3 of the xboxs in-game graphics.
8)paying 70 for one year of xbl service is a very good price. When a lot of Sony pcs games cost more then $10 a month.
Lastly call me a fanboy. i sapport the 360 over then the ps3 because of its better gameplay(xbl), btter graphics(not render), and better price.
now if only the milions of ppl that are buying the ps3 on blind faith would relize that they are buying an inferior console for more.Zitat:
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My friend and me spent all of 4th quater of school argueing wth my other friend in 6th hour.Which was math.we had the worst teacher there so i played my psp all hour.He didn't care.I think i got a b and i never did any of my homework since he never callected it. I also didn't learn one thing in that class. and i passed all my tests my cheating. just like the rest of the class.Sosince we could do anything we wanted. I was showing my friend the Our colony clip on my psp. and he still thought the ps3 was better cuz. He said sonys not telling something about the ps3 and how will launch in spring of 06. eveb all the stuff about have bad and ps3 was in my friends backpack, couldn't change his mind.
some ppl have blind faith and ignore the facts, but tell him the confirmed price tag and he may change his mind lol.
We did. It was the firsts thing my friend said to me and him. When he found out that is was going to be $500. I was amazed at first cuz i thougt 500 was way to much.Zitat:
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oh ya, the rest of the class, we made fun of the indian kid.
I;m making the our colony vid into a mp4 sincemost ppl here don't have a 2.00 psp. So this should show them why the 360 is so good
pc ver. need winzip or winrar
http://msxb.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ourcolon...ny_v2_750k.zip
Just put this on your psp in :
psp ver.
G:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01
G is the drive of your so yours might be differnt.
Despite everything that has been said i think simply on the strength and success of there last two consoles i guarentee 100% that the playstation will be more successful......at least to begin with...though i do think it will be closer this time round!!
anyone wanna take any bets?
you can't judge a new console by the strenghs of last ver.Zitat:
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NES. SNES. N64.
Every couple of generations, the leader changes.
But thats the same leaderZitat:
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err yeah?!?!?Zitat:
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anyway from recent opinion polls and the fact that most people these days cant even remember what happened last week i think they buy what they already own a version of(i.e happy with). I maybe wrong hell i hope its more open this time round!!
But also consider the fact that nintendos reletive demise had alot to do with its style of game! When the ps1 and the n64 came out i was pushed towards the new more adult console (ps1) it changed gaming forever so i dont think you can really draw comparisons on success to any consoles before the ps1. Plus wether you like the game or not gta will have alot to do with what ever next gen console will be successful and it seems highly likely sony wont want to let go of that money maker ;)
Sure you can draw comparisons. For the N64, Nintendo continued doing what it was known for, bright graphics and simple gameplay. They had changed gaming forever, too, you know. For the PS3, Sony is going to continue what it is known for. The comparisons are pretty blatant if you ask me.
And no...the N64 was a lot of things, but it wasn't the leader. The small library of games made sure of that if nothing else. As far as GTA goes, people said the same thing about Rare.
i never said it was (n64 comment about being leader or am i missing something :doh: and i do remember the rare thing well but you cant compare the success of rockstar to rare )Zitat:
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yeah but not one console except nintendo creates games like nintendo you cant really use there history and sega's to forcast the current set of 3d gaming consoles hmm i think we will have to agree to disagree. i didnt say that nintendo didnt change gaming forever they did but just not as successfully!! when the n64 came around a generation of nes, snes , master system, genesis/megadrive had grown up and they wanted something more adult. its well documented!
This could go on for a while garp i agree with what you say to a degree but everything in life i believe is cyclical and the circle keeps getting smaller especially in gaming (at the moment anyway, with the exception of the ds) so i wouldnt expect to see a great change in peoples prefrences microsoft has a certain amount of stigma attached to them and sony tend to do a better job in advertising (remember im not commenting on which console will be better technically) and dont forget im not trying to start an argument with you!! :D
i have no doubt that the ps3 will have more sales, playstation is a house hold name, xbox isnt. But I am saying that the gamers out ther will relize that the 360 is the better console. And such the 360 will sell much better than the original xbox. If they get even more market share off sony when they release another console MS may become market leaders. This competition is good, it means that we get much better consoles. If xbox wudnt have been released the ps3 would have been a 1ghz console with a 9800 pro in it or something. But because of competition they both tried harder and made consoles with insane amounts of processing power.
i dont feel like reading 16 pages of posts, so I'd just like to say this-
being the most powerful console doesn't garuntee you'll be the best selling.
Lets take a trip in my Wayback machine to find out.
its 198* something. the simple Atari 2600 is king. Soon more powerful compitors come in, the Coleco and intellivision come in to the picture, both of which boast more powerful processors and graphics. Guess what? Atari rains supreme.
its the early 90's. Both the SNES and the MasterSystem are out. guess what? the MasterSystem has much faster processing,(thats why it can play Sonic at full speed and the SNES couldn't) Guess what? SNES won everyones hearts.
Still in the 90's. SNES is king. Atari comes out with the much, much more powerful Atari Jaguar. Guess what? Nintendo still reigned supreme.
Still the 90's. SNES is still #1. 3DO comes out with a much, much, MUCH more powerful console; at a much, much, MUCH higher price(does that remind you of a certain Sony?). 3D0 failed, because consumers just didnt want to spend $500+ for a gaming console. Snes remained the best seller.
Mid 90's. Both Nintendo and Sony have their creations-the lower 32 bit PSX, and the much supperior N64 with 64 bits. Guess who out sold who.(hint-its Sony)
Its the late 90's. PSX is king. the 128bit(!) Dreamcast comes out. it has FAR better graphics then the PSX. PSX remains 1#.
Now into the 200*'s. PS2, Gamecube and Xbox are dueling it out. Xbox is the much, much superior console with better graphics and all. In fact, it was about the same price as the PS2. PS2 STILL remained the best selling console.
2006-PS3, Xbox360, and Revolution. Whos to say who'll reign supreme? All I'm saying is that in the past, simply being the most powerful console doesn't always mean you'll be the best selling.