Defective PlayStations 3??? Cell Core Not In Use???

[col-p-todd]

Halo 1 = godly among consoles

Halo 2 = overhyped piece of crap

I agree with this

 

[VBDude]

yeah maybe, im not sure anymore. i dont know that much about film industry

Well, I know it's a sad place to be if an Academy Award winning Director can't make a movie based on a hugely successful game franchise or a prequel to an Academy Award winning movie trilogy based on one of the most successful book series of all time.

But there may still be hope as imdb lists Halo as only being postponed. The Hobbit, however, is still a mystery.

 

[crualtortus]

Halo 1 = godly among consoles

Halo 2 = overhyped piece of crap

I agree with this

somewhat. yeah halo 1 was awsome. and halo 2's single player was overhyped shit. but its multiplayer was pretty intense.

 

[plankmeister]

LOL....

That's like saying "I'm selling this CAR with FOUR WORKING WHEELS!"

His PS3 is just like everyone elses.

 

[Eurasianman]

So yea... about the topic... I'm sure Sony would be sued if they sold defective PS3s! Look at MS XBOX 360! People are trying to sue because of the fall dashboard update (luckily, I had no problems 😀 )

Waiting for Sony to drop the price... and then maybe... just maybe, I might get a PS3 since I already own the Playstation (not the PSOne, the big whitegray box PlayStation) and the Playstation 2 (my g/f's dad swapped me the new slim design for the bulky one I had 🙁 Said the slim one wouldn't play one of his games).

I don't know. I liked the originals for Sony. The new ones just feel too cheap.

However, for Microsoft, I wouldn't mind at all if they were able to slim down the size of the XBox without making it feel cheap!.

Oh yea, I also own a XBOX, XBOX 360, PSP, Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP. Not big on Nintendo... except for Zelda. D@mn! I wish I still had my GameCube that came with that nice 4 Zelda games on one disc collector's set 😳

PS3 Launch > XBOX 360 Launch (as in, SUCKED!)

/END THREAD

 

[Eurasianman]

*Wanna be a safer, better driver? Replace your airbag with a sharp 12" metal spike!*

Hah! I wouldn't even drive at that point! ROFL! Point made, but just a little too extreme :tongue:

 

[crualtortus]

*Wanna be a safer, better driver? Replace your airbag with a sharp 12" metal spike!*

Hah! I wouldn't even drive at that point! ROFL! Point made, but just a little too extreme :tongue:

whah? jerky.

 

[Eurasianman]

check plankmeister's sig

 

[crualtortus]

oh. yeah. anyways... so back to the topic... ps3 sucks. and the demand is droping for them hardcore. sometimes you can even find a few in some stores. and people arent paying 3 times retail on ebay anymore. people are starting to realise ps3 isnt the own machine they thought it was.

 

[shinigamiX]

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[Mr_Speedy]

Just to throw another thing in this discussion:
http://www.mtv.com/news/?source=TLD_mtvnews.com#/news/articles/1548258/20061218/index.jhtml
last paragraph

I don't know how much I will believe, however I do agree with one thing said, the PS3 isn't being utilized 100%.

The graphics will continue to be improved during the next year.
Then, and only then can we compare XBox 360 vs PS3 graphics...
Which will be better? I don't know, but now isn't the time to judge.

Also another thing...
The PS3 is different from the classic PC...
You can judge a PC by its graphic card alone (provided a decent CPU is paired with it)
What does everyone think all of those cores in the PS3 are for? Sound? Wireless? Internet? I don't think so.
They are for graphics. They help render the scene. Even if the GPU was exactly a 7800GTX (which it is not), it will kill any 7800GTX any day.

 

[VBDude]

Last paragraph: "And with that, he just about wrapped up his year."

The paragraph you actually reffered to is rehashed material for any console since time began. There's never been a console or computer that was used to 100% potential, ever. So you're right that it's too early to compare hardware potential, but it's not too early to compare hardware as games are using it now. Right now, its complexity may be to its detriment until developers figure it out. There's less of a learning curve on alternative systems.

As for the core duties: Sound, yes. Wireless, very little. Internet/networking, yes. But you forgot AI and Physics, big yes. Larger number of more complex units, yes. More complicated world geometry, yes. On the fly deflation, decoding, decryption, yes.

There's a lot more that these processors can and will be doing, but they could help a bit with graphics on the off chance that one of these things is twiddling thumbs. Though honestly, if the developers are directly off-shooting graphics duties to another proc any time soon, they really aren't using the GPU, let alone the rest of the system, to its partial potential. Even the 7800GTX is capable of a lot more than it's doing on the PC.

Sorry if anything doesn't make sense. It's 2am.

 

[Atolsammeek]

Sorry to say xbox and 360 and ps3 fighting with each other is So funny.

 

[Mr_Speedy]

Maybe I went a little too far...

The extra cores in the PS3 have a variety of functions, but they do help in rendering graphics as well, much more than a CPU ever helps rendering graphics in a PC.

 

[Atolsammeek]

Sorry to say Mr_Speedy You dont know much about computers do you?

 

[VBDude]

You're certainly "sorry to say" quite a bit, aren't you?

 

[jkflipflop98]

You're certainly "sorry to say" quite a bit, aren't you?

:lol: