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| Thread ID: 89629 | 2008-05-06 11:16:00 | The Next Generation Debate | CaptainVincent (76) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 666589 | 2008-05-07 00:51:00 | PS3 is a better machine, but I prefer XBOX, for some bizarre reason, despite GTA4 giving my little white box a few problems. The controller's nicer to use than the PS one, and I really like the triggers. Apart from that all personal preference. Oh... and it was a few hundred cheaper than the PS3. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 666590 | 2008-05-07 04:40:00 | I traded my xbox 360 for a nintendo wii. Maybe it was a moment of weakness but I just feel xbox 360 and PC are too similar. My little PC I'm adding to will handle gears of war, assassins creed and GTA IV for PC in 6 months fine. So I kinda gave up the 360 for the wii. That's why the wii got my vote, for something entirely fresh and different. | CaptainVincent (76) | ||
| 666591 | 2008-05-07 08:06:00 | I don't own any, but I would consider a PS3 if PlayTV (Freeview HD adaptor that turns the PS3 into a PVR) is a reasonable price when it is released later this year. | maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 666592 | 2008-05-07 10:14:00 | Hmm that is something you could put into a deal of consideration. | CaptainVincent (76) | ||
| 666593 | 2008-05-07 10:43:00 | Assassins Creed is over-rated. The idea is amazing, but the gameplay is utter bollocks. Don't bother. | Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 666594 | 2008-05-07 11:13:00 | PS3 compatible with PS2 and PS1 games! You obviously haven't purchased a New Zealand one lately! You missed an important con: Zoned so you're locked into paying greedy distributors prices. Yeah, the NZ versions never played PS1 games that I'd heard of. I believe the 60gb model did play NTSC PS2 games (it used some form of software emulation) and I think some PAL games but not many. The ones they are making/selling now do not feature any backwards compatibility at all. Blu-ray media (PS3 Games and BD Movies) are not zoned, the PS3 is still zoned to region 4 for DVD's. For me, I honestly don't play that much games anymore, I pop out the console (Xbox, not Xbox 360 :P) when friends/family come over and it collects dust otherwise - partly because you can't get games for it anymore. I find that Wii seems the console when it comes to party stuff. I mean DOA/Halo are great but theres no beating the Mario games :) Theres also all those sports things that look so interesting. Only problem is that to plug in nun chucks and stuff you have to buy another remote to plug those things into which I thought was a weird idea. So yeah, if I had to buy one of them 3, I'd end up with a Wii. Cheaper console + cheaper games + the nature of their exclusive games seems to be fully 'fun' oriented rather than to showcase its graphics capabilities or anything like that. |
Deathwish (143) | ||
| 666595 | 2008-05-07 11:38:00 | Yeah, the NZ versions never played PS1 games that I'd heard of. I believe the 60gb model did play NTSC PS2 games (it used some form of software emulation) and I think some PAL games but not many. The ones they are making/selling now do not feature any backwards compatibility at all. Blu-ray media (PS3 Games and BD Movies) are not zoned, the PS3 is still zoned to region 4 for DVD's. For me, I honestly don't play that much games anymore, I pop out the console (Xbox, not Xbox 360 :P) when friends/family come over and it collects dust otherwise - partly because you can't get games for it anymore. I find that Wii seems the console when it comes to party stuff. I mean DOA/Halo are great but theres no beating the Mario games :) Theres also all those sports things that look so interesting. Only problem is that to plug in nun chucks and stuff you have to buy another remote to plug those things into which I thought was a weird idea. So yeah, if I had to buy one of them 3, I'd end up with a Wii. Cheaper console + cheaper games + the nature of their exclusive games seems to be fully 'fun' oriented rather than to showcase its graphics capabilities or anything like that. The 60GB PS3 contained the original Emotion Engine from the PS2. It essentially had a PS2 inside of it. I'm pretty sure the 60GB version can also play PS1 games? correct me if I'm wrong but I think via software update it can. the 80GB PS3 uses software emulation. Resulting in buggier backward compatibility. |
CaptainVincent (76) | ||
| 666596 | 2008-05-07 11:39:00 | 40GB contains no backwards compatbility. So PS3 is kinda 'downgrading' to compete really. |
CaptainVincent (76) | ||
| 666597 | 2008-05-07 22:26:00 | 40GB contains no backwards compatbility. So PS3 is kinda 'downgrading' to compete really. WRONG! The 40Gb just uses software emulation. The reason it's so bad is because the PS2 is so hard to emulate (the PS1... not so much). The original 60Gb had the Emotion Engine on the motherboard (in the late PS2 models the EE and GS were on the same chip, so only one chip to put onto the PS3 motherboard). I'm not sure about the PS1, but I don't think it had hardware for it (the 60Gb or the 40Gb), but it's just basically a MIPS R3000A CPU running at 33MHz, so not too hard to do in software (PCs have been doing it for a while). |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 666598 | 2008-05-08 04:44:00 | WRONG! The 40Gb just uses software emulation. The reason it's so bad is because the PS2 is so hard to emulate (the PS1... not so much). The original 60Gb had the Emotion Engine on the motherboard (in the late PS2 models the EE and GS were on the same chip, so only one chip to put onto the PS3 motherboard). I'm not sure about the PS1, but I don't think it had hardware for it (the 60Gb or the 40Gb), but it's just basically a MIPS R3000A CPU running at 33MHz, so not too hard to do in software (PCs have been doing it for a while). What do you mean wrong? The PS3 40GB can't play PS2 games. 80GB Software Emulation 60GB Emotion Engine 40GB Has No Emulation At All 20GB Has Emotion Engine 40GB and 80GB have no emotions haha. |
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