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People Swapping PS3s for Wiis?
An anonymous reader writes "To add to Sony's problems with the PS3 launch, it now appears that some Playstation 3 owners are trying to trade their PS3s for Wiis. The author writes: 'There's also speculation that people want the Wii because the PS3s best game is Resistance: Fall of Man. This, of course, forget that there are plenty of cool PS3 games on the way, and the PS3 has its own motion sensing technology, which, while not as good as the Wii, is still pretty cool and opens up Sony to emulate some of the Wii's successes.'"
I agree. I mean, I know Slashdotters are supposed to all shuffle slack-jawed and knuckle-dragging into every Sony bash-fest any fanboy can find, but this is lame even by the usual low standards of the phenomenon.
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This I think will be their downfall. The inability to go to the video store and rent a game because each game is encoded to the first console it is played on. I have already heard several being told at the local video store that they will not be able to rent games for the PS3 they just bought.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
R:FOM, ridge racer and that genji? game. I didn't open a single one, and plan on returning them. It took me hours of trial and error trying to update the firmware so i could connect to the ps store and get the gt hd and motorstorm demos, which i finally did. They're great demos, and i'll enjoy those for a while and start renting brd's through netflix, but aside from that i'll continue playing guitar hero 2 on my ps2 until some good ps3 games come out. Guess i won't get that Wii i really wanted.
If I were you, I'd go for the portly girl on the left.
Not only is she probably more intelligent and well-rounded, she won't bitch and cheat on you. And your family bliss is a McDonnalds away!
(sorry sorry)
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
intentions 4nd
Oh come on now. I get a sick pleasure out of all of the Sony FUD (the word is Schadenfreude) but this is just stupid. If 1000 people trade their PS3 for a Wii, guess how many people are trading their Wii for a PS3? Hmm...1000?
Gyros can detect motion, so I'd say your post is incorrect. After all, if it can detect tilt - then it can detect varying degrees of tilt over time. Varying degrees of tilt over time equals motion.
... and then they built the supercollider.
No, the GP said it did not detect motion if he was complaining about the lack of linear motion sensing, he would have said that it did not sense linear motion. Does rotational movement somehow not count as motion? Why are you reading things into the GP post that weren't actually written?
... and then they built the supercollider.
Your parents have way too much money. I had to buy my Wii myself since it's too expensive to be a christmas present.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
So why did he say it lacked motion sensing ability? That is what is known as a lie (if deliberate) or being wrong (if accidental or out of ignorance).
The PS3 can only detect rotation, while the Wii detects rotation, linear acceleration and can detect position using the sensor bar.Sure, but they both detect motion. They can both detect acceleration. The difference is that the Wii can detect position. So, why did he say the PS3 could not detect motion, when it can? What he should have said is that it does not detect position.
The PS3 can only detect rotation, while the Wii detects rotation, linear acceleration and can detect position using the sensor bar. That is the difference the (now) GGP was trying to make about how the PS3 controller isn't as neat as the Wii.So, why did he say the PS3 didn't detect motion? And why are you defending an innacurate post? I agree that the Wii's controller is cooler - but that does not make "The PS3 can't detect motion" a true statement. I'm not sure why a totally inaccurate post was upmodded, when it is most likely intended to be deceptive FUD.
... and then they built the supercollider.
No, he's not clearly drawing a distinction between anything. He's deliberately obfuscating the truth. Remember, the title he gave the thread is "wrong, wrong wrong" - and the statement that he is calling wrong is that the PS3 has motion-sensing technology. Which it clearly does.
If he was drawing a clear distinction, he would say "The PS3 detects rotational movement, but not linear position."
Yes, you're right, the controller detects rotation, but a lot of the cool uses of these controllers comes from detecting linear accelearations and getting spatial information.Which I agree with. but why did the AC have to lie to make this point? Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with the "idiot Sony fanboys" comment?
This argument is dumb. We're arguing about what an AC said. Good day to you, sir!Indeed. but the fact that the AC was modded up for misinformation is reason enough to refute his post. Especially as non-ACs defended the post. It's pretty clear it was a troll from some other sort of fanboy.
I don't like Sony, I don't really care about consoles, I certainly won't be buying a PS3. But misinformation being treated as informative insight annoys the hell out of me.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Do you have any cites for this "common parlance" in which "rocking" does not involve movement? Or in which rotation doesn't involve movement? I don't know of anyone who would subscribe to this "common" parlance. They'd have to be pretty damn stupid to say that something which is rocking or rotating is not moving.
Well I'd argue that its not undergoing motion since its position isn't changing as it's rotating about its local axes... Hence it would be rotating but not moving.That's just fucking retarded. Motion does not just involve a displacement of the co-ordinates of the center-of-gravity of an object, it involves any part of it moving, or it moving about a rotational axis.
Personally I don't know anything about the sixaxis, but if it only detects changes in orientation it's not a motion sensor per se.Once again, fucking retarded, as changes of orientation are - by definition - movement.
Another poster has also suggested that the sixaxis does in fact detect linear motion. I don't know if this is true or not, but it is beside the point, as rotation is motion. How else does the videogame respond with movement when you change the rotation of the device?
... and then they built the supercollider.
Are they stupid mathematicians or computer scientists? And why would a computer scientist know about motion from their studies, anyway? Most computer components don't move, apart from cooling fans and hard drive platters. but then again, in electronics, a rotating hard drive platter is known as a "moving part" rather than a solid-state component.
So I'll offer up some references: motion (m'shn) n. 1. The act or process of changing position or place.Right. A rotating element changes its place. Therefore it is moving. Q.E Fucking D!
... and then they built the supercollider.
Actually morbidly obese people generally have huge mental problems. And living off junk food isn't particularly condusive to intelligence. They're also really bitchy.