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  1. Wii is cheapest in which country? by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo's Miyamoto On Innovation, Wii Ambitions

    Go in a store and look at the prices of the consoles.

    I looked in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA:

    • Xbox 360 Arcade with 256 MB internal memory unit: $199
    • Wii with 512 MB internal memory unit: sold out in retail stores; $305.00 on an online trading site

    You will see that the Wii is the cheapest by a good margin

    In what country?

  2. Re:First Undead Post! by Raiden30 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation"

    Please take zombies SERIOUSLY! Like this guy and his anti-zombie/lancer gun

  3. Re:No new games, please by LordNimon · · Score: 1 · on Rock Band Licenses The Beatles

    I am complaining about the price because I don't want 18 AC/DC songs. I only want a few of them, and that's not worth $40 to me. AC/DC says they sell albums, not songs, and that's their right. It's also my right to complain about it and not purchase any of their stuff.

    Fortunately, I don't care enough about AC/DC or the Beatles to really care that I'm not getting their songs, so I'm not going to make a big deal about this.

    By the way, I just noticed this update to the news. Apparently, this Beatles "thing" is not going to be a Rock Band-branded game. So there's a possibility that the songs won't even be transferable to Rock Band.

  4. Re:Ooooh, factsies by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 0, Troll · on The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall

    The optical drive speed dropped 14% from 42 Mbit (PS2 4X DVD) to 36 Mbit (PS3 1x BD), but the system gained a harddrive for caching. Sorry, it's not "significantly slower".

    Ya that is so cool of them to make a kludge for their design error, so it only affect 90% of the games, hoping the caching will do it part for the 10% designed to deal with it.

    >>in addition the 'cell' processor that 'didn't need' a GPU
    Are you a fucking retard?

    Why are you looking for a date in your league?

    Here are a couple links, since Google might be too hard for you. Next time just google it yourself, especialy before you post and make yourself look like an ass by being an ass.

    The Sony CELL/PS3 plans were all around the web, no GPU needed, etc. It is mentioned in virtually every technical article from before the PS3, during its development, and even is noted when Sony gave up on PS3's CELL doing graphical rendering and called in NVidia late in the game.

    The GPU in the PS3 (RSX) is actually slower than a vanilla off the shelf NVidia 7800 GPU, as it doesnt have the 7800 full bandwidth, and performance is between a 7600 GPU and a 7800 GPU.

    But this is better than Sony sticking with trying to cut corners and suck marginal GPU performance out of the CELL as they planned all along.

    http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/01/11/gates-ps3-will-never-have-graphics-advantage/

    http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/playstation3.ars

  5. Found a cult! by VirusEqualsVeryYes · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion?

    Here ya go.

    True, it's not for Windows, but you take what you can get.

  6. Xbox 360 Hypervisor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Longhorn Server Will Stress Virtualization

    "I'm fairly sure the hypervisor part of the virtualization-stack will become a commodity..."

    In a way it already is.

  7. Re: 360 not relevant... in Japan. by twistedsymphony · · Score: 1 · on Gates Pegs Nintendo, Not Sony, as Toughest Competition
    XBox 360 is still of relatively little interest to anyone who doesn't care about FPS games (at least that's how I feel about it, being in that category myself).
    Or Racing titles seeing as the Xbox 360 has exclusivity to PGR3 and Test Drive Unlimited which are arguably the best NextGen racing titles availble right now, lets not forget that Forza 2 and GTR (the PC's killer racing sim) are both coming to the 360 later this year. Not to mention that the Xbox 360 is, and will continue to be the only next gen console that support force feedback in the racing wheels (not possible on the PS3)

    Ok so what about sandbox action titles like GTA? Well the 360 has already got SaintsRow, and Dead Rising, which are both highly liked titles, Crackdown is releasing later this month and is made by the same guy who pioneered the GTA series, and of course it's also got GTA4 coming out for it. AFAIK there's nothing like this coming out for the PS3 that isn't also arriving on the 360... and as of right now the PS3 doesn't have any of this type of title.

    How about fighting games? Well the 360 has got a number of classic 2D fighters like Street Fighter 2, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, And there are some SNK fighters scheduled to hit the XBLA soon. It's got Dead or Alive 4 and it had Fight Night Round 3 months before the PS3 was even released, not to mention less popular wrestling titles like Rumble Roses XX (formerly a PSX exclusive) and a WWE title. Segas also announced that Virtua Fighter 5 will be hitting the Xbox 360 (which was exclusive to Sony after Sega stopped making consoles). Soul Calibur IV and Tekken 6 are both rumored to be going cross platform. Regardless... right now the Wii has no fighting titles and the PS3 just has Fight Night.

    Horror Titles? Well the Xbox 360 has Condemned, FEAR, Dead Rising, with Alan Wake, Resident Evil 5, and Alone in the dark coming. Once again a couple exclusives and nothing scheduled for Sony that isn't cross platform.

    Sports titles maybe? Well the exception of the Sony brand NBA title pretty much everything is cross platform, well with the exception of the 2 premiere Soccer titles that MS bought exclusivity of for a year (FIFA and PES).

    About the only thing that PS3 trumps the Xbox 360 on is JRPGs... but that's not even the current situation... that's a "down the road" situation. Even still the 360 is stronger then the Xbox 1 was with FFXI, Enchanted Arms, Ninty Nine Nights, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey coming. Western Style RPGs are a whole lot stronger on the 360 though with Oblivion out months before the PS3 release and games like Fable 2, and MassEffect and Bioshock coming.

    I'm not saying the PS3 is a bad platform, it certainly has a lot of potential and I'm interested to see what comes of it, but I'm quite tired of the stigma that the Xbox consoles are only for Shooters. I myself am not a big shooter fan, and I've found much to like on the Xbox 360. I'd honestly like to know: if there's nothing on the 360 that interests you, exactly what games do you like to play?
  8. Re:PS3 Exclusives - Volume 1 by Saige · · Score: 1 · on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3

    Oh, and BTW, Virtual Fighter 5?

    NOT a PS3 exclusive.

    Wow, Sony's losing their promised "exclusive" games left and right. Not a good sign, is it?

  9. Great idea, urine-poor sync by tepples · · Score: 1 · on The Xbox Live Arcade - One Year Later

    The XBLA classic titles, on the other hand, support [...] online multipler

    If by "multipler" you mean "multiplayer", then avoid Konami's multiplayer games. XBLA Contra in 2-player cooperative mode is notorious for desynchronizing.

  10. Re:It's called Marketing by fithmo · · Score: 1 · on Sony Behind Fake YouTube Viral Campaign
    If Nintendo or Apple did this, it would be called genius.

    Well, Microsoft did the same thing, how do we feel about them?

  11. The obvious answer by imbaczek · · Score: 1 · on Wired's Very Short Stories

    Boobies boobies boobies. Boobies? Boobies boobies!

    (This story is sponsored by booobieees!)

  12. Re:Surprised it took this long by gabebear · · Score: 2, Informative · on Xbox 360 Backup Discs Bootable

    Embedding the firmware makes it impossible to inject your own firmware and makes it MUCH MUCH harder to tell how the chip works. So, yes, Microsoft could stop people from reflashing their DVD drives.

    Unlike the CPU, the chip that drives the DVD rom can be completely re-implemented with a relatively cheap FPGA. You can reverse engineer chips with electron microscopes, although it is really expensive. Mod chips could still be produced even if Microsoft decided to start making their DVD-ROMs with an embedded firmware.

    I doubt embedding the firmware into the DVD controller is really an option for Microsoft since that would drive the cost of the DVD-ROM way up. Microsoft currently just reflashes standard Samsung and Hitachi Serial ATA parts with their proprietary firmware.

    Unless Microsoft radically changes the way they make the 360, this attack should work.