sailordude said:
Gnizmo, i think you need to reread my post. i never said that sony copyed anything from the 360 or stole ideas. someone above said that having a hard drive and music on a gaming system is original. how the hell is that an original idea? and please tell me what console could in the past could save music, pictures and movies to the hard drive, also WIRELESSLY stream music, movies, and pictures from any computer in the house. i can go on all day here, who had a (shit whats the name of those... little camera memery chip slot), plug flash drives in and use them, use an internet browser? was there a console before ps3 that could be used as a media center because if there was i was missing out! i dont know to much about what the 360 can do in this dapartment, can it even do all of that? oh not to mention bluray.
another question for this thread, which company started development on there next gen consoles first? microsoft or sony?
my opinion, of course sony did. i bet since the start of bluray they wanted to incorporate it into their next generation console. they helped to develop a new processor and ram to go along with this. in the end it shows they put alot more time into it then slapping together some top notch(2005?!) hardware in the PC world and mass producing it. can anyone see what im saying here? |
You want to know how music and movies being saved to a harddrive is original, and then ask what other consoles can do it? Do you read what you type or just throw out words that sound pretty? And regardless of whether or not Sony started first Microsoft was still the first to put it into consoles. Or are you saying the PS3 has been in development since before the Xbox was released? I am not saying the PS3 does nothing original, and I am not saying it copied from anyone. I am saying you are proclaiming contradictory ideas in a single post. You have kept doing it to.
Gnizmo, i read your post on the top of this page. sony is forcing bluray onto there customers! can you honestly tell me that you would rather want a DVD player in your 360 than a bluray player? im not even talking movies here. you would NOT want 50 gigs, maybe in the future alot more, of space for your games?! maybe if microsoft had "forced" there customers to have HDDVD- HDDVD would be a success and youd be playing Metal Gear Solid! oh ya, they made the wrong choice.
I honestly couldn't care less if an Xbox 360 has a blu-ray drive or a DVD drive. Either way I don't own one and it would be of no benefit to me. Even if I did own one, I wouldn't care so long as the price was the same. From what I have seen all this extra space is being used for nothing but pretty graphics and better sound. I really could not care less about pretty graphics, and don't even notice the difference in sound between 5.1 surrond and mono. I just don't pay much attention to it. Gamelength hasn't noticeably increased with any of the other large jumps in space. I don't see why it would start now.
Oh and HD-DVD was dead from the start. A simple rundown of the people backing it would have told you which format would win. Still, if it had won, and if Metal Gear Solid 4 was put on it I still wouldn't play the game. If you gave me a PS3 with MGS4 as a gift, I would not play the game. I have never liked the series. I find the gameplay boring, and the storyline dull. Others may disagree, but thats the way opinions typically work.
With all that said, that still does not address what I was saying in my original post. I was pointing out the fact that Microsoft has never been two faced about blu-ray. It is not wrong to critisize forcing someone to choose a feature you offer as an option. It is just another way of doing buisiness.
