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Is the PS3 living up to its do everything moniker?

Yes 123 50.83%
 
Yes, as soon as I get a DVR kit 21 8.68%
 
Yes, with Move I can do anything 12 4.96%
 
No 26 10.74%
 
No, I should be able to buy mp3's 1 0.41%
 
No, but it does more than... 59 24.38%
 
Total:242
Squilliam on 28 March 2010
MikeB said:

@ Squilliam

I mean, I don't hear my PS3 unless I'm sitting next to it with the volume turned down.

Resolution is one of many aspects making a game prettier, a bad looking movie in DVD quality will look bad on Blu-Ray as well. You can make many old PC games render in very high resolutions, but there usually isn't much to gain as the texture quality, polygon counts, special effects aren't that good by today's standards. Blu-Ray allows for a great varierty of high quality assets, but it's just one of various different aspects why the PS3's top games are at the very top with regard to production value and presentation. Credit should go just as well to the excellence of the developers as to the PS3's technical specifications.

And my PC is pretty damn noisy nowadays and I replaced its main fan just 2 years ago...

Red = Obvious stuff really, im not sure what you're trying to say with it. :/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/18/playstation-3-slim-unboxing-and-hands-on/

While our tests were far from thorough, the initial results from our quick-and-dirty decibel ratings show some promise. With a baseline of 49 decibels, the Slim averaged 53 to 56 db when in use / playing a game / installing data (in this case, Metal Gear Solid 4), compared to the 55 to 58 db of the original. Blu-ray movie playback is where it becomes noticeable, as the slim peaked for us at 60 db when the original was doing 70 db running the same disc.

Whereas many modern PCs will be in the range of 30-40DB which is between 2 and 4 times quieter than the PS3 slim and these PCs are perceptable.

 



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Mr. sickVisionz on 28 March 2010

It stinks at media streaming from my laptop. If I fast forward a M2TS file it takes so long that I assume it's frozen. When I stream MP4 files they stutter, it has the same FF issue, and it takes a while for them to load, but my 360 does it all way smoother and faster.

It also stinks that they disable subtitle support for H.264 content unless you burn it as a AVCHD disc. I can take the exact same files and load them and it won't show any subtitles but when I burn to a DVD they're there.

It does everything but a lot of it is meh, poor quality (media streaming and multi-plats in general), or stuff that I don't care about.



richardhutnik on 28 March 2010
SickleSigh said:
It doesn'r play Ps2 games?

Mine does though...so yea I guess it does everything.

Wait, how about yours does MORE than everything, if everyone else's just does everything?

On that note, a PS3 can't play Wii games, so I guess it can't do everything.



darkshadow23 on 28 March 2010

Some people are taking this a little too seriously...



MikeB on 28 March 2010

@ Squilliam

In my experience the average gaming PC and XBox 360 (often compared to a jet engine taking off by users) produce more noise than a PS3. Of course you can built a low-spec passively cooled PC or invest in some expense liquid cooling system. The average Mac in my experience produces less noise than the average PC as well.

My Blu-Ray drive is far more silent spinning and the PS3 harddrive seems to be well isolated within my PS3 as I hear it even less than the one in my laptop sitting next to it.



Naughty Dog: "At Naughty Dog, we're pretty sure we should be able to see leaps between games on the PS3 that are even bigger than they were on the PS2."

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MikeB on 28 March 2010

@ richardhutnik

On that note, a PS3 can't play Wii games, so I guess it can't do everything.


The hardware is more than capable of doing this. It's a software/legal issue mainly.

For example you can use the Wii-mote on the fat PS3s. Emulation of the system should technically be relatively simple if Nintendo provided the ROM and specs, as its GPU is very weak and its processor is a low spec PPC.



Naughty Dog: "At Naughty Dog, we're pretty sure we should be able to see leaps between games on the PS3 that are even bigger than they were on the PS2."

PS3 vs 360 sales

Squilliam on 28 March 2010
MikeB said:
@ Squilliam

In my experience the average gaming PC and XBox 360 (often compared to a jet engine taking off by users) produce more noise than a PS3. Of course you can built a low-spec passively cooled PC or invest in some expense liquid cooling system. The average Mac in my experience produces less noise than the average PC as well.

My Blu-Ray drive is far more silent spinning and the PS3 harddrive seems to be well isolated within my PS3 as I hear it even less than the one in my laptop sitting next to it.

I was of course talking about a quad core CPU + HD 4870 graphics card and over 300W load power, not some dinky little HTPC.



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deskpro2k3 on 28 March 2010
A Bad Clown said:
I still laugh when they say "It only does everything", they should put a "except plays PS2 games" in little print on the ads.

 

A question for you and the rest of the commenters that share the same thoughts as you.

 

Do you seriously still want to play PS2 games? News flash, they are not making any more PS2 games.

 

 



Innotech on 28 March 2010

not for me.  It doesnt play MKV files off my roomates server and it also has the worst browser Ive ever seen.  Very slow and clunky and horrible.  The Wii actually has a better one and Im 100% serious about that. 



fighter on 28 March 2010
deskpro2k3 said:
A Bad Clown said:
I still laugh when they say "It only does everything", they should put a "except plays PS2 games" in little print on the ads.

 

A question for you and the rest of the commenters that share the same thoughts as you.

 

Do you seriously still want to play PS2 games? News flash, they are not making any more PS2 games.

 

 

 

Newsflash : PS2s are still being sold around the world. PS2 games are still being published too, lol

 

And if you're trying to establish that a few year old games have no value you might not get much support on VGChartz or any other decent gaming website either.