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PS3 GPU Less Powerful Than GeForce 7800?
dividedsky319 writes "The Inquirer (as well as a more biased Team Xbox) is reporting that the PlayStation 3's GPU will be a little less powerful than a GeForce 7800, which would also mean it's less powerful than the Xbox360. If true, what could this mean for the release of the PS3, a year later than the Xbox360 is released?" From the article: "It's all awfully confusing we know, though it is an interesting tech mystery to try and get to the bottom of. Of course Microsoft and Sony engineers all know exactly what's in the difference between the two consoles, but the marketing people want to tell us that their console is twenty times better than everyone elses, so we must wait until someone rips the two boxes open and benchmarks them..."
The PS3 will be released for the same price as one expansion card and have (guessing) ten times the technology in it and people are bitching? Get a life. Does the 7800 have a cell processor behind it? Or any of the other advanced features?
Damien
How many times do we need to say it - its not the hardware that makes great games - its the gameplay! The graphics chips will help make a more immersive environment - but other than that, who cares?
The only thing these statistics help is the pissing contest between Sony and Microsoft.
I'm buying an Xbox 360. Its not because of the fact that its graphics chip is "bigger" than the PS3's.
BTW, don't even bother reading the Team Xbox article. It extremely biased, and sounds like it was written by the PR department.
I know fanboys love to brag about the specs for their boxes, but it really doesn't mean that much.
Take for example the way developers make their games. Japanese developers prefer to prerender their cinematics as opposed to rendering them in real time. The XBOX 360 is designed to render these cinematics in real time. Japanese developers have to change the way they build their games, and that is a speedbump when it comes to garnering the powerful Japanese 3rd party support.Yeah, but you still won't be able to play Gran Turismo 5 on your PC.
Neither can you play Super Smash Bros. Revolution on your Xbox 360 or PS3.
"How many times do we need to say it - its not the hardware that makes great games - its the gameplay!"
We have to keep saying it until people stop buying crap. Which they will not for awhile. Games are still new to the overwhelming majority. They still see shiny and cannot avoid the instinct to buy. Just like every other technology at it's beginnings, most people are uneducated about what to look for. So the market droids dumb things down and drawn in people who do not realize an informed decision is beneficial.
Add to this the PS3 and XBox 360 are almost exactly identical in feature sets. Before you flame me, think about the consumer.
When you look at these, it's obvious that the only major difference will be in those rare blockbuster exclusives. The key is you have to do the math, and most people would rather just whip out the cash card.
Exercise to the reader:Does what we know about the Nintendo Revolution fit into this?
-- I have fans? Wow.
I am glad you got 1st post on this. Expect alot more xbox false propaganda to come on slashdot and beyond. This is hurting M$ xbox reputation more than helping.
They said "faster", not "more powerful". If you look at the clock speeds, the RSX is 550MHz and the 7800GTX is 430MHz. They do share some similarities, but since they seem to be two seperate architectures, faster doesn't necessarily mean more powerful. Gotta watch that market speak.
That doesn't sound like much of a profit to me.
And did you even read the links you posted? They're both articles about how weak the Xbox 360's backward compatibility feature is. Yes, it's there...but as the last line in the second link tells us, just barely so. "[B]etween five and twenty" working titles at launch isn't very impressive.
Goo goo g'joob.