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arsenicazure on 12 August 2009

It simply boils down to your preference.. black or white?



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owner of : atari 2600, commodore 64, NES,gameboy,atari lynx, genesis, saturn,neogeo,DC,PS2,GC,X360, Wii

5 THINGS I'd like to see before i knock out:

a. a AAA 3D sonic title

b. a nintendo developed game that has a "M rating"

c. redesgined PS controller

d. SEGA back in the console business

e. M$ out of the OS business

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Gnac on 12 August 2009


WHERE IS MY KORORINPA 3

dandd on 12 August 2009

I honestly can't believe that another one of these posts is showing up again.

We have MHZ, XDR, DDR, different architectures, different designs, theoretical limits, GFLOPS, etc. Ok, all that stuff is great, but its very hard to directly relate those specs to how incredible a game can be. Honestly, who really cares how powerful something is on paper? A system is only as powerful as the best piece of software that can really showcase what the system's capabilities.

Also keep in mind that a system is only as powerful as it's weakest link. What if you had a system that had 3 Cell processors and Quad GTX 295 Videocards, but it only includes 64MB of total system RAM? I'm sure I could get some crazy theoretical numbers on paper, but real life performance would definitely be disappointing.



selnor on 12 August 2009
Zizzla_Rachet said:
selnor said:
WheelStriker said:
Playstation 3 is better spec wise. The xbox 360's potential has already been unlocked. And we have yet to see the playstation 3's (looks at agent, uncharted 2, god of war 3, final fantasy versus XIII, quantum, heavy rain).


But personally, I feel we are only just starting to unlock the potential of 360. With games like Forza 3, Splinter Cell, Alan Wake and even 3rd party games like Lost Planet 2, FF13. Personally no game on PS3 beats Forza 3 or Alan Wake. So it's really what art you prefer. As the PS3 and 360 are so closely matched. The best tech in a game yet is ID Tech 5 RAGE. And that is running better on 360.

Carmack is lazy...Please Selnor...What are you going to do next...Post Real time in game images?


Carmack is the most respected graphics guru in the industry. Saying bad against him is quite laughable.



selnor on 12 August 2009
NKAJ said:
selnor said:
WheelStriker said:
Playstation 3 is better spec wise. The xbox 360's potential has already been unlocked. And we have yet to see the playstation 3's (looks at agent, uncharted 2, god of war 3, final fantasy versus XIII, quantum, heavy rain).


But personally, I feel we are only just starting to unlock the potential of 360. With games like Forza 3, Splinter Cell, Alan Wake and even 3rd party games like Lost Planet 2, FF13. Personally no game on PS3 beats Forza 3 or Alan Wake. So it's really what art you prefer. As the PS3 and 360 are so closely matched. The best tech in a game yet is ID Tech 5 RAGE. And that is running better on 360.


those game arnt even out yet,but what do you mean by "beats"?


I referenced the previous post. Personally Heavy Rain, GOW3, Agent and Quantum aren't that impressive. Uncharted 2 looks good, but prefer Forza 3 and Alan Wake for graphics.



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yo_john117 on 12 August 2009
NKAJ said:
yo_john117 said:
C_Hollomon said:
PS3 looks, smells, and taste more powerful.

Lol??  What does it smell like?  New car smell? Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies? Gardens?  And how can something tase more powerfull?


cant you smell it? it smells like some black plastciky stuff ...but serioulsy id go with the choclate chips

Mmmmmmmm....



AnarchyWest on 12 August 2009
selnor said:
NKAJ said:
selnor said:
WheelStriker said:
Playstation 3 is better spec wise. The xbox 360's potential has already been unlocked. And we have yet to see the playstation 3's (looks at agent, uncharted 2, god of war 3, final fantasy versus XIII, quantum, heavy rain).


But personally, I feel we are only just starting to unlock the potential of 360. With games like Forza 3, Splinter Cell, Alan Wake and even 3rd party games like Lost Planet 2, FF13. Personally no game on PS3 beats Forza 3 or Alan Wake. So it's really what art you prefer. As the PS3 and 360 are so closely matched. The best tech in a game yet is ID Tech 5 RAGE. And that is running better on 360.


those game arnt even out yet,but what do you mean by "beats"?


I referenced the previous post. Personally Heavy Rain, GOW3, Agent and Quantum aren't that impressive. Uncharted 2 looks good, but prefer Forza 3 and Alan Wake for graphics.


they are not that impressive to you because you don't want them to be impressive...your telling me Splinter Cell Conviction looks better than Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2?...and can you post the Agent screen shots I really like to see them...I bet you'll add FFXIII Vs to your list of best graphics (we seen more of this game than Agent and Quantum) when it's announced for the 360

selnor on 12 August 2009
AnarchyWest said:
selnor said:
NKAJ said:
selnor said:
WheelStriker said:
Playstation 3 is better spec wise. The xbox 360's potential has already been unlocked. And we have yet to see the playstation 3's (looks at agent, uncharted 2, god of war 3, final fantasy versus XIII, quantum, heavy rain).


But personally, I feel we are only just starting to unlock the potential of 360. With games like Forza 3, Splinter Cell, Alan Wake and even 3rd party games like Lost Planet 2, FF13. Personally no game on PS3 beats Forza 3 or Alan Wake. So it's really what art you prefer. As the PS3 and 360 are so closely matched. The best tech in a game yet is ID Tech 5 RAGE. And that is running better on 360.


those game arnt even out yet,but what do you mean by "beats"?


I referenced the previous post. Personally Heavy Rain, GOW3, Agent and Quantum aren't that impressive. Uncharted 2 looks good, but prefer Forza 3 and Alan Wake for graphics.

they are not that impressive to you because you don't want them to be impressive...your telling me Splinter Cell Conviction looks better than Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2?...and can you post the Agent screen shots I really like to see them...I bet you'll add FFXIII Vs to your list of best graphics (we seen more of this game than Agent and Quantum) when it's announced for the 360

Splinter Cell Conviction looks incredible. definately in the same ball park as KZ2 and Uncharted 2. So impressed with the animation and lighting in Conviction. It's only an opinion though. :)



Pristine20 on 12 August 2009

360 is better cos it's in your avatar



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Xoj on 12 August 2009
Zizzla_Rachet said:
Xoj said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
jacks81x said:
deathgod33 said:
well i dont know what system is more powerful, but so far 360 versions of games have been better or at least on par with the ps3 counterparts and thats all i need to know.

That's a little misleading because it's a known fact that games developed using the 360 as the lead platform do not port well to the PS3.  Up until now pretty much all multiplatform games have used the 360 as the lead platform.  I think we'll have a better comparison when FFXIII comes out, as that's the 1st high-profile multi-platform game I'm aware of that is using the PS3 as the lead platform.

Also...a few devs have said that if you lead on PS3...The 360 will be able to give the same performance....But not vice versa...Funny right?

but that not because power, it's because 360 gpu and cpu get benefits from good programming practices, you are forced to do to get perfomances from the cell and even so many developers only use the PPE, 2 spu and RSX at most.

 it benefits games like burnout paradise that was one of the first 60fps games on the 360.

with a lazy programmer when you give them engine they never rewrite libraries, let alone go on low level programing,  to make use of the cell spus.

epic done a good job making ue3 better, batman asylum, and UT3 run great on the ps3, and look the same or even better 360 version.

same can be said about RE 5.

but this practices  have slowed, graphics lead we being seeing since it takes extra effort, to get better graphics and developers are happy to the outcome they get.

but now you see games from sony, like killzone 2 uncharted 2, GT5 with better graphics than the competition and even so progressing even more.

 

the comparison for Arkham should emerge soon after the release...as for RE5...LOL...

it looks the same. ;) yeah i had them running side by side.