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Re:Not according to Kaz Hirai
Your statement is false.
The XBox360 is not faster than a PS3 - it is significantly slower. The only area it competes is the amount of RAM, and GPU performance.
Your statement is rather like saying "crappy_sound_mixer_A is faster than expensive_fancy_mixer_A because they both play audio and it is cheaper". If your only criteria is that it plays audio(or in the case of the XBox360, the graphics look good), then clearly the cheaper one is better - but your statement of it being faster is still false.
PS3 vs XBox360 specs have been debated endlessly in the past. I don't care to argue. It's quite subjective figuring out which hardware is most important, to determine whether the price is justified.
What I can tell you is, the XBox360 isn't fast enough for this game:
http://www.gametrailers.com/game/5528.html
Too much physics crap.
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America's defense is too Quake-centricAs a superpower, the US would love to define the rules of engagement with the enemy, but unfortunately as the gaming industry has evolved internationally, we can no longer expect that our enemies will attack us using one of the Quake or Doom engines. Increasingly these foreign gaming forces are dominating US FPS teams on digital battlefields rendered using the Counterstrike engine. Fortunately to this date, the most menacing Counterstrike forces are based in friendly European nations. Should Al Qaida attack us on a Counterstrike map, it is likely that our European allies would lend a hand.
Nonetheless, consider these risks associated with our Quake-based homeland defense strategy:- Fata1ity seems like a patriot, but what if he were to switch sides?
- Our framerate depends on video cards designed domestically, but are built in Asia. State-sponsored sabotage of our video card hardware could reduce us to 5 fps newbs when a critical spawn point is at risk of capture.
- Much of our video card driver code is closed-source and written by overseas programmers. How are we to tell if they've implemented transparent wall-hacks or hit-box visual assists only available to insurgents?
- With the growing popularity of console gaming among American youngsters, tomorrow's digital soldiers will be unaccustomed to the brutal gore of frags and gibs in real online combat.
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Another Benchmark/Review for KillerNIC
http://hardware.gotfrag.com/portal/story/34683/
The benchmarking starts on page 5. -
overclocking
GotFrag Hardware overclocked it to 3.63 so I don't know what the big deal is about the 'bit-tech boys'. http://hardware.gotfrag.com/portal/story/35229/
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Re:any other parallels with olympics?
are we going to have cities competing to host? i think seoul will host the next 25 olympics then, considering their massively superior bandwidth infrastructure as compared to the rest of the world
From 2001 until this year every WCG finals took place in South Korea. However, starting last year cities do in fact compete to host the WCG, and San Fransisco was succesful in their bid and got to host this years event.
are we going to have sports no one watches? minesweeper for example?
Yes, Halo and FIFA are not nearly as popular as Counter-Strike, Warcraft and Starcraft.
are we going to have judging scandals? are we going to have overwhelmingly nationalistic audiences? etc.
Judging scandals have already happened, in last years Counter-Strike tournament the Brazilian team was ruled to have used a bug in the map and forfeited their half, giving an easy victory to the US team. Meanwhile the Brazilians claimed the US had used other bugs without penalty. This 'double standard' prompted a barrage of inflammatory comments from Brazilians on many of the related websites. -
Should be a great tournament
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Should be a great tournament
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Re:this is a mistake
Oops, mislinked. Here is the fixed link: http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/news/2483
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Re:this is a mistake
Then I got tired of it: the weapons were -too- balanced, and it lost a good deal of the fun and challenge.
That, and the plethora of people that played it obsessively (not I) were irritating, as they were quite good and made getting killed repeatedly terribly boring/frustrating.
You just contradicted yourself. It was no longer challenging, but yet you were tired of good players running you over? That makes no sense.
CS:Source is not only just CS overhauled with new graphics, there is an entirely new PHYSICS engine (the HL2 engine). The two main rifles (AK, M4A1) feel much different from their CS 1.6 counterparts (due to new crosshair behavior), the shotgun is different (more accuracy long range), the AWP is different (no more slow zooming). All the grenades also have changed as well; the HE grenade has been replaced with the frag grenade, flashbangs have new behavior, smokes are now much more effective.
I will admit, those who play competitively will notice all the subtle differences the most, but calling it CS with only new graphics is a big mistake.
For those of you who want a better review of CS:S, there is one at http://www.gotfrag.com/news/2483. -
CPL Winter Event
The CPL (www.thecpl.com) has a winter event that is just about to begin in Dallas, TX, USA as we speak, with around $200,000 USD in winnings. Games are Counter-Strike and Halo PC. They generally have 2 events a year, of at least this caliber. There are also similar organizations holding equally large tournaments. Pro gaming is becoming a reality in the US and Europe too!
For those interested in finding out what happens, who wins, etc - the play-by-play is at www.gotfrag.com (a tiny plug)!
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Re:watching games might not be so popular.
Rooting is simple -- Go for which ever teams are from your country. I'm hoping Team3D takes CPL winter this year and really shuts up everyone that thought they went downhill because of losing CAL finals against TSG 13-4.
Gaming is much more active than something like baseball from the spectating perspective -- In baseball someone throws a ball, someone else hits it, they run around a bit, repeat.
In CounterStrike, You have a sniper watching through the middle entrance trying to see any counterterrorists running to defend bombsite b, then telling his team which side to attack based on that, then you have the perfectly layed out teamwork involving very intense situations (last round of overtime, you're the only one alive vs 3 enemies and you only have a pistol, lose this round and you're out of the running)
CS and Chess also both have something going for it -- They're both games of strategy rather than steroids. No matter how good your twitch muscle is, if the other team can predict your every move and force you to make mistakes then you have no chance.
As for whoever said gamign doesnt take years to master -- Watch any playoff match. If you ever ended up playing against one of them, You'd get shot through every wall you try to run by, if you were lucky enough to make it past a corner you'd instantly have a bullet in your head.
Even of all of the pros theres a small amount that have a chance at winning, theres a good discussion going on in the forums at GotFrag? about that right now.
Watching is much more enjoyable to from a technical standpoint -- Watching on TV is purely passive, watching a live match on HLTV lets you be the cameraman, watching whatever part you want, with the ability to go into an overview mode or watch first person and see exactly what someone else sees. Watching a pre-recorded match gives you all of that AND the ability to pause/rewind/fast forward (who needs TiVo?).
You can also learn from watching. Traditional sports have all been played so long it is very rare you'll see anything new, but with e-sports there is constantly a new change or two to throw things up, so now we have new crazes like 'the money game' (purposely losing a round after winning for X rounds in a row so that they stop getting so much money on each loss, but only after taking out 4 of their 5 teammates then have all of your team hide so that they have to buy a new gun and you dont.). Any team can take this new knowledge and apply it to their lower end matches (with varying degrees of success), but with most sports theres nothing to do but bet on a team and drink a lot of beer. -
Re:87bil for iraq or 80.4bil for this?
actually, sweeden leads the world in counter-strike, by teams like Schroet Kommando. the US is a close second with teams like 3D. (resource.) korea isnt really big at all in that game, but the most popular game there is Lineage. here in the US its actually close between counter-strike and bf1942, but i cant find a link for that.