@NJ5: Damn, you got me.
Ok thanks, i'd call it lost in translation.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
Good god people just shut up and enjoy your consoles, stop wasting time posting useless messages and play the damn games
The term "____ proof" usually means that whatever is in the blank is protected against, like "water proof" and "fire proof". Well, considering what has happened with the PS3, "future proof" could end up mean that it is protected from having any form of a future. The $500-$600 launch price, advent of the Wii, and the 360 (at less money) holding its own, are cases for Sony "future proofing itself".
So the ps3 will be the best console in what....3 years?
Great!
| Draven26 said: Good god people just shut up and enjoy your consoles, stop wasting time posting useless messages and play the damn games |
All right, you go first and unsubscribe yourself from the forum then 
Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.
Good. I won't buy a PS3 now, but I do plan to get one in the future (maybe in 2010, maybe a couple of years later...)
Bluray and Hard disc are future proof, but the Cell is not THAT future proof. Also the most important things, the GPU and the RAM are future proof??? Hell NO!
Playstation 5 vs XBox Series Market Share Estimates
Regional Analysis (only MS and Sony Consoles)
Europe => XB1 : 23-24 % vs PS4 : 76-77%
N. America => XB1 : 49-52% vs PS4 : 48-51%
Global => XB1 : 32-34% vs PS4 : 66-68%
| freedquaker said: Bluray and Hard disc are future proof, but the Cell is not THAT future proof. Also the most important things, the GPU and the RAM are future proof??? Hell NO! |
Exactly. RAM will be the PS3's achilles heel.
With such a great emphasis on graphics (supposedly ps3's strongest point), PS3 GPU and RAM suck compared to Bluray and the alleged potential of the Cell... They are the ultimate bottlenecks on the system!
Playstation 5 vs XBox Series Market Share Estimates
Regional Analysis (only MS and Sony Consoles)
Europe => XB1 : 23-24 % vs PS4 : 76-77%
N. America => XB1 : 49-52% vs PS4 : 48-51%
Global => XB1 : 32-34% vs PS4 : 66-68%
| RED53DEVILS said: Before you debunk this as more hell fire thrown unto the PS3 or any other console at that, please remember that I will never post flaimbait or fanboy crap. This article is here to highlight the many features generally regarded as Future-Proof on the PS3 and see just how future-proof they really are... I wil not base this on opinions but instead fully on facts.
Future Proof Feature 1 - Blu Ray?
Since the announcement of Blu Ray there have been many doubts and skeptics created in attack of this very capable technology, but when it waged war against the most popular HD media disc format at the time, everyone could see Sony meant business. We were about to see a turning point. The war was won, HD DVD saw its demise, earlier than many expected, And this is all because Blu Ray packs a lot of punch - It features a 25GB standard single layered disc and a 50GB Double layered counterpart. Far greater then anything known before. It is the one thing on the PS3 that has clearly differenciated it from the competition since release.
And with the movie industry adopting the Blu Ray disc as their very own... Its going nowhere.
Future-Proof? YES!
Future Proof Feature 2 - The Cell?
Every Console system has a processor, but not many have seen a processor as powerful as the PS3's Cell Processor. Since it was first announced there has been one word lingering on this gadget and it is 'Future-Proof'. Jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba and IBM, the Cell processor on the PS3 features a hefty 8 SPEs, 7 of which are operational all clocked at 3.2hz. This means the PS3 is able to handle more tasking operations and realtime calculations than the Xbox 360. To be frank - It is generally more powerful.
Although with all the Pros of this technology, there is one Con that has proved quite painful for the Playstation 3 and its users alike. It is the difficulty and learning curve that comes with developing for an entirely new framework. It is this reason that has seen many Multi-Platform games lose out of their extreme graphical potential on the PS3, and appear to have an edge on the Xbox 360.
But seeing as the Cell is indeed a new piece of architecture it is expected in the next 6 months to a year to become more familiar and soon enough become less difficult to code for and more approachable for the vast majority of developers who are currently finding it tasking.
Future Proof? VERY!
Future Proof Feature 3 - PS3's more universal Hard Drive.
If their is one thing very distinguishing about the PS3 as a games console it is it's amazing flexibility at least in the storage department, The PS3 is compatible with just about any 2.5-inch SATA notebook hard disk. This is a hard disk used by many laptops.
Because it is also shared by the PS3, Sony are not in any hurry to develop greater hard drive sizes. Toshiba, Hitachi and other manufacturers have that covered as they too use these hard disks for their laptops, and as people keep filling up their hard disks as games and other forms of media are being released in greater sizes and higher qualities - these drives can only get more spacious.
Future Proof? YES!
To conclude. Of the 2 elements of the PS3 that are most classified as 'Future-proof' and the 1 suprise entry(Hard Disk) I can say that they are pretty much as future proof as 'Future Proof' goes.
http://badassgamer.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-ps3-really-that-future-proof.html |
1) The BD drive in the system is too slow. I'm thinking they went with a 2x BD drive to cut cost as appossed to 4x. Because of these, some developers have to either throw on some peices of data more than once or make an HDD install.
2) Cell. Doesn't matter, the system is limited to 512MB of RAM and a fairly unimpressive graphix chip.
3) No matter what games they develop, they must cater to the 20GB HDD owners. Similar to how MS has to cater to the Arcade owners. SONY placed an HDD install limit against PS3 game developers of 5GB max. So unless you're talking about completely downloadable titles like Siren, for disc based games, installs won't pass 5GB. MGS4 had to remove data and add new data between each act. And I've noticed that the Game Data never went above 4.9GB.
What the PS3 needs to be "future-Proof" right now is "better sales figures".
4 ≈ One
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