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Its things like this that will set
the PS3 apart and its just what
I have been waiting to see.

http://www.portableplanet.co.uk/2006/10 ... enefiting/

Developers can now produce better
visuals and the artwork that are in
the games show much nicer.

And graphics mean precisely squat in the long run. A game can look like a small god but still play like crap.

Graphics mean nothing... Atari Jaguar and 3DO proved that... People forget that video-games are just that games... and in order for a game to be good it needs to be fun... It can have the best textures and all the anti aliasing you can do... But the fact is Sony needs to make it enjoyable... And if it cant do that then it will fail period... I plan on getting a PS3... Eventually... Right now the launch titles arent appetising and the price is too much... So i will wait till the spring/early summer to get one...

If gameplay were the issue, renting
instead of buying would solve that.

Software companies have the ability to
make games fun its not all sony when
it comes to Atari and what not.

The fact that the ability is there is nice
for the game that has good graphics
and good gameplay it would be absolutly
stupid to think that all thats needed is
good graphics.

It will still suck for cross platforming but
make your purchases based on what you
want as far as gameplay.

And Sony has allready obtained the right
developers that make good gameplay as
well as good graphics so this point counter
point is so dense.

And Sony has allready obtained the right
developers that make good gameplay as
well as good graphics

umm if memory serves me game developers are starting to pull back from Sony and go toward Xbox360 because the development costs are soo high for the PS3 that its cheaper and easier to develope games for the 360... Also Sony is starting to lose its exclusivity for certain games to other systems as well (ie. GTA)... So im failing to see your point....

Graywulf wrote:If gameplay were the issue, renting
instead of buying would solve that.

...no, that's not true. A game with great gameplay is a game I would buy and keep playing over and over. Why else do you think my favourite game to this day is The Guardian Legend on NES?

Graywulf wrote:The two formats will look the same
thats the HD part but its about storage
capacity.

You can put HD on a CD or DVD but
not as much so again its about the
storage.

You can make your buying decisions
with that in mind.

Actually, HD-DVD looks far better than anything the Blu Ray can produce. This is because of the encoding that both use. HD-DVD uses the new high definition codec VC-1. Blu ray uses an aged codec in MPEG-2 (the same thing in DVD's). If Blu Ray can fix the codecs and master old films for high def, they'll look comparable. At this point, HD-DVD is the way to go if you have to be on the cutting edge. (stupid until something wins)

Graywulf, to put this to rest, I'm inviting you to join the chat on Sunday night. We'd love to debate with you over there.

-Jon

Graywulf wrote:All the other parts of my post still stand IBM is selling the Cell Blade Servers for $16,000 for one thats loaded with 2 Cell chips thats $15,6020
more than the Cells supposed cost.

Hmm it seems to me that im getting a bargain for that hardware.

thanks Sony/IBM/Toshiba for that initial 1.2 billion to just lay the plans.

I have yet to see a price named for the Blade servers. If you could, please produce a link as proof.

And even if each server was $16000, there's more to a server than its processor, it isn't the only component.

The $16000 price tag would only make sense to me if it was a server cluster and each individual server is only ~$2000

DarkSakura wrote:

Graywulf wrote:If gameplay were the issue, renting
instead of buying would solve that.

...no, that's not true. A game with great gameplay is a game I would buy and keep playing over and over. Why else do you think my favourite game to this day is The Guardian Legend on NES?

Thats totally cool you found a really nice game to play over and over
I had a few also but to find them I first rented them.

Cause then i would waste 50 bucks on a sucky game and thats not
cool at all.

Gonna look that game up cause I was stuck on other nintendo games
like donkey kong, marioworld and starfox to name a few didnt get to
all the games nintendo allways had alot of good ones.

As far as joining in on this sunday I cant its me and my wifes 12th anniversary but I will listen to the cast later on my PSP.

mikew0440 wrote:

Graywulf wrote:The two formats will look the same
thats the HD part but its about storage
capacity.

You can put HD on a CD or DVD but
not as much so again its about the
storage.

You can make your buying decisions
with that in mind.

Actually, HD-DVD looks far better than anything the Blu Ray can produce. This is because of the encoding that both use. HD-DVD uses the new high definition codec VC-1. Blu ray uses an aged codec in MPEG-2 (the same thing in DVD's). If Blu Ray can fix the codecs and master old films for high def, they'll look comparable. At this point, HD-DVD is the way to go if you have to be on the cutting edge. (stupid until something wins)

Your serious VC-1 is a compression codec that supports the HDDVD for its lack of space no such codec is needed with Blu-Ray.

I buy games, play them out, and trade them in when I want to buy new ones. *shrug*

Actually VC-1 is a compression codec for 1080(i)nterlaced
not 1080p it will be a requirment for Blu-ray to have this codec
as well.

Graywulf wrote:Actually VC-1 is a compression codec for 1080(i)nterlaced
not 1080p it will be a requirment for Blu-ray to have this codec
as well.

Bah. I officially hate all High Definition formats, I've heard more important arguments about cake.