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disolitude on 06 January 2010
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Icyedge said:
disolitude said:
BigBoobieHead said:
@ Kowen .....they would, but can the 360 do 3D atm? If not, wat im sayin is that i believe the sales boost the PS3 would get from being the only 3D games system would be bigger than the boost the 360 would get from Natal.


I feel like Im the 3D police on this forum...

1. There are many different types of 3D and neither PS3 or 360 can do the 120 hz field-sequential 3D. They can't output 120 hz refresh rate...CAN NOT!

2. Both support the 60 Hz checkerboard format that plasma and DLP TVs have been using for a few years now.

3. There are 3 games already available for all 3 systems. Avatar, Gforce and downloadable game. These games have native 3D support built in to the game using the checkerboard or anaglyph.

Sony is behind Mitsubishi and Samsung atleast 2 years in adopting 3D. Mitsubishi already has partnership with Nvidia and is oficially supported by the best 3D game drivers (Nvidia 3D vision) and samsung has plasmas that support 3D for sale.

Also, 3D TV has been announced by a lot of networks...ESPN being one of them. Their is supposed to start Summer 2010.

 

Im not raining on the Sony parade here...good for them for finallyg etting on the 3D bandwagon. But they have some serious work to do to be an industry leader at this point...

Its been at least 3 years they are working on 3D. They could have release their TV by 2008 if they would have wanted (ces 2008 they were already using their TVs to show 3D). They already stated that they are going to release everything at the same time, TV, camera, PS3 firmware update, a couple of games title that can be upgraded to 3D and some 3D movies. They also just finished taking regulation for 3D blue-ray. Finally we have a company that makes 3D simple. Which is a great thing because more people will get in it so there will be more developement on it. Sony are the first one that really push 3D in fixing the current problem behind it, frankly it is worth 2-3 more years of development.

Whoa...hold on. Lets not jump to conclusions here. We don't know what Sony will announce or bring out in 2010.

If sony brings out magic beans and says "plant these and you will get 3D" then hats off to them. But people are just hyping the smallest things Sony is announcing some of which wont see the light of day for 2-3 years if the materialize at all. Being familiar with workings of 3D, I know that there isn't a cheap, simple solution...no matter how much sony wants to work on it.

Sony has the tendancy to do this...remember when Microsoft was bringing out Xbox live and sony announced how they ar partnering with AOL/Time Warrner to bring out online network for PS2 which will be superior to everything. Well here we ae 7 years later and Xbox Live is still seen as the network to beat.

Don't get me wrong...I am glad Sony is finally stepping up. But they should have done this years ago. If they announced 3D TVs along with Samsung and Mitsubishi in 2008, we'd already be watching Bewolf and Final Destnation 3D in 3D in our homes... Problem is that Sony dumped plasma and DLP a while ago, and LCD TVs could not do this in 2008 under a 5000 dollar price tag. So 3D was "not importnt" back then to them...