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You would rather buy a HD-DVD player than a Bluray player for backwards compatibility. Why not get a Blu-Ray player for HD, and a regular DVD player? You would be wasting your money on a dead format. Also has anyone else played MGS4? This game shows the technical prowess of the PS3.
I hate M$ in general and really didn't give a crap for the original XBOX. Actually mostly "non gamer" crowds bought it because of all the advert. That made me like it even less. The original XBOX was just a PC in an ugly box with M$ trying fool everybody into thinking otherwise. Why would I want to buy another (and crippled) PC? As far as I'm concerned M$=Sony. They practice the same dirty mentally. That said, the 360 was a complete turn around(wouldn't that be 180?) from the XBOX. Such a sexy looking gaming machine.
I haven't been keeping up as of late, but what was really lame about the PS3 is that it came out a year later than the 360, was supposed to be more powerful, it cost more (and still does), and yet for the titles on both systems the PS3 versions were cutting corners or having problems (frame rate related, not as detailed textures, etc). There are some cool things about the PS3 like you can install linux and it plays Blu-Ray movies. But neither of those things interests me. I have a PC already and I would buy a dedicated Blu-Ray player instead of putting the wear on the PS3 unit (remember the problem with the PS2 and people playing DVD movies on it?).
As far as networking does, $50 a year to have M$ maintain a network gaming service isn't wallet buster. I spend $200 a month in gas, $4 a month is barely a drip in the bucket. Maybe if someone didn't have a job, then I could see argument about free networking service. The funny thing about free? You're still paying for it ;)
Sans a few exclusives, owning either system will net you ports of the same game. That means in the end we win... and we also lose.
Ummm hello? All Blu-ray players can play DVDs.
Oh yes, that's probably the coolest aspect of the ps3 so far.
And also the fact that I can play region 1 DVDs on it without moving my other DVD set. ;)
Are there any Blu-Ray drives for PCs ? My PC is my part of my entertainment setup...
Yes there is but they're pretty pricey.
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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
I know They're backward compatable, but I own multiple DVD players and don't want to invest in something that isn't nessicary.
I felt the same way about the original Xbox as I do with PS3, potential gone to waste for both systems.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomaitheous
Quoted from the creater of Earthworm Jim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug TenNapel
Bluray PC drives are under $200.
I think LG's Bluray/HD DVD (yes I went there) drive is under $200. Not too bad, I paid that much for my first DVD Burner before they became cheaper than $50.
Sum it up?? PS3 is more powerful, more reliable, plays Bluray and if MS releases the BD player for the 360 I won't be able to stop laughing for days.
Bluray players aren't expensive for the PC. LG sells a drive that plays BD, HD-DVD and burns DVD for $150!!!
There's alot wrong with that statement. The Sega CD was developed primarily for the Japanese market to compete with the Turbografx-16 CD add on. The Turbografx and Turbografx CD was a complete flop in the US, but in Japan it was a huge competitor. The Genesis can do scaling and rotation almost as well as the SNES thanks to the processor, which is over twice as fast as the SNES processor. Don't believe me? play Super Thunder Blade, Gunstar Heroes, Toy Story, Mickey Mania, or a number of other games and you'll see incredible stuff that the Genesis wasn't originally intended to do. While the Sega CD did have hardware scaling and rotation, the real purpose of the Sega CD was actually centered around music and FMV. In Japan, there were tons of RPGs for the Sega CD, but at that time RPGs weren't popular in the US, so we didn't see nearly as many in the US as Japan. The Sega CD's capabilities far exceed that of the Super NES in every way possible, except for on screen colors, that was still limited to 64 on the Sega CD whereas the Super NES had more (don't recall the number).Quote:
Originally Posted by sega fan
Not only that, but HD-DVD is being discontinued soon (if not already). Blu-Ray won, period, there will be no more new HD DVDs being made soon. If you're going to get an HD-DVD player, might as well get a laserdisc player instead and save a couple bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
PS3 is far from just being a PS fanboy machine, its more like the other way around, XBOX 360 is a micro$hit (sorry, I hate them) fanboy machine. If you compare hardware of the two head to head, the XBOX will lose in every category. You can't bag on the PS3 for not having a huge library of great games yet, its still relatively new, the XBOX 360 had tons of people bitching about its lacking library when it first came out, my friend was about to sell his a year after it came out because the library was so lacking. Give the PS3 another year or two, you'll see, like many have already said, it'll be like Dreamcast vs. PS2, not Genesis vs. SNES. It's sad though, because the Dreamcast was actually a good system, something Microsoft will never know how to make. I actually have a Wii right now (and hate it), and if I buy another system, it will be a PS3. This is words coming from someone that owns neither so it is by no means an "I own this system so it is better" rant.
From what sales figures I can find specifically for Europe it only seems to be outselling the 360 by a few thousand units monthly, and it's lead is not really rising.Quote:
Originally Posted by 108 Stars
If the internal roumours are true then we can expect both a blu-ray addon and a new 360 elite with build in blu-ray.
That should make the race very interesting indeed.
But I don't own either any more, so who cares :D
So Sony claims and I have yet to see this. Are they holding back or something?Quote:
PS3 is more powerful