If your post isn't worth reading, you're just spamming. Make a worthwhile post and you won't piss people off. Besides, was the traffic worth it in spite of some foes?
Can you confirm your specs on the Wii from a source that hasn't been discredited as making shit up? The site that first gave those specs has made stuff up in the past and isn't considered reliable. Note that neither gamespot nor wikipedia speculate on the actual chips inside.
The PC is like a restaurant that also helps you do your taxes, write messages and books, cut an album, and brings you your news and information.
I agree with the original post that the PS3 is an overpriced restaurant. I'd say the 360 is a less pricy place but has food equal to or almost as good as the overpriced one. Meanwhile the Wii offers three star dining at two "$" prices.
Interesting that all the top search results are from September, back when I remember the announcements from MS and Sony on keyboard and mouse support. So yes it looks like the PS3 will allow it, but the developers have to support it. Hopefully MS will change their stance to keep PC ports going to their machine and not just the PS3.
My point with FPS', RTS', and strategy is that when gaming at 1280x1024 on a PC, the user is sitting two feet away from the 19" screen and can see every pixel clearly. Small text and details are easy to see. Not always the case with rear-projection HDTVs. I expect developers will make icons and objects larger for clarity, negating some of the benefit from 1280x720. And don't kid yourself, most PS3 games are going to be 1280x720 to have the most polygons and effects while keeping a good framerate. Besides, what's the point of doing 1080i when the overwhelming majority of HDTVs resize 1080i to 720p because they don't have the resolution.
Actually my suggestion for the component devices would be to get a switchbox for the HTPC. Basically instead of flipping through inputs 1, 2, 3... with the TV remote, the TV is always set to the computer input, and you switch using the computer, and the switchbox. Not elegant, but it has the advantages of being a computer, and can also Tivo those inputs for you.
I would still bother, because RTS', FPS', and strategy games play best on PCs. Which systems let you play their games with a keyboard and mouse? AFAIK, Halo 3 on 360 isn't going to work with a mouse, even if the system supports it as an input. I believe Sony and MS have made statements that the gamepad will remain the only way to control games.
I hadn't thought about that. The box will need an HDTV tuner card for each input you want. Consumer cards for component are of course available, I doubt they have HDMI with HDCP though. So I should revise my price to $1000.
No no no no no no no. It's up to the content providers (studios) if they want to allow players like the PS3 to output 960x540 double-sized into a standard 1080i signal over component cables. I expect all studios to grudgingly go along with this, considering how many HDTVs there are without HDMI connectors.
960x540 is still 1.5 times as much detail as a 720x480 DVD properly upscaled to HDTV. For people who have been watching their DVDs on SDTV resized to 640x360 (16:9 aspect ratio) they'll get 2.25 times as much detail when they buy an HDTV. For anamorphic movies resized to 640x272 (~2.35:1) they'll get 3 times as much, though admittedly they could put that DVD in a PS3 and get twice as much just by upscaling it for HDTV.
I don't even have an HDTV yet, but for when I do, I was under the impression that the Faroudja boxes are $2000. Or instead I could build an HTPC with a Geforce 7600 for $600 and get the same video quality plus a nice PC.
I'm guessing in the long version Snake still speaks in a comically over-the-top grave and dramatic voice? That seems to pass as normal in Japan for voice acting. Over here I think audiences would be laughing out loud if we heard James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman do voice-work like that.
I don't believe you (yet). If computer gaming cost $299 for the hardware on a five year upgrade cycle, but you still had to deal with the installs and updating drivers, you're saying you still wouldn't do it? You'd get all the great games that are only on PCs at nice high res', and played with the pin-point control of a keyboard and mouse. If you still say no, maybe you're just not all that into the styles of games that are best on a PC?
Production capabilities will be important too. If Nintendo can't manufacture console's fast enough, there's not as much reason to price them at $199. I can see the Wii at $249 for a year, or maybe even just 6 months until E3 2007. I don't think the early adopters will mind too much.
The deficit is not quickly made up. Every 360 is already sold at a loss. Losing an additional $50 per machine means MS needs the buyer to purchase an additional two to five games on top of the five+ already, just to break even.
If MS spent $500,000,000 to get exclusives, that alone would get 360s to fly off the shelves, but just as importantly, make the PS3 look terrible with pathetic software support. Besides, the 360 can't compete on price if the Wii costs $200 or 250. The best way to sell consoles is having the better game support.
The GP guessed $250. As far as I know, nobody thinks it will cost more than that. If Nintendo can ship enough units by December 31st, say 5 million, the price could even be $199.
If MS cuts the price from $399 to $349, that's $50,000,000 additional loss per one-million 360s sold. That's how much it costs to produce two AAA games. Maybe GTA 4 will cost 35 or 40 million, but you see where I'm going with this?
It would be stupid to cut the price by $50, because that's $500,000,000 in losses per ten-million 360s sold. For that much money, MS could buy a large game studio outright, or pay to get 5 to 15 exclusive games that are currently going to be PS3 exclusives, or on both platforms.
MS is out to win the race, but if they wanted to 'fucking kick Sony's ass', they'd already be doing it by purchasing more exclusives or just more developers. The way I see it, MS and Nintendo are going to sell about 12 million consoles between now and E3 2007, while Sony will suffer with chip yield difficulties and sell about 5 million. Unfortunately for Sony, the high price of $500 (since HDMI isn't truly needed by most) will criple the PS3 in 2007. Christmas 2007 will go to MS and Nintendo again.
If timetrials were half the fun for you, I'm sorry you didn't have enough friends for 4-person multiplayer. The designers didn't go through all that work just for you to do the same level over and over again trying to shave off seconds.
Yeah the grandparent is asking for unreasonable possibilities. I am though looking forward to games where many objects can break apart. One game a year or two ago already had destructible walls. The next step is for objects to break into smaller pieces when required to. Meaning castle walls should have their physics calculated most of the time as a solid mass. No point doing the physics for 1000 pieces of stone all the time if a wall section isn't under attack. But when a cannonball is about to hit it, replace the bump-mapped object with 1000 polygonal stones, each with its own physics.
Never-the-less, depending on how the EU law is worded, it may require the battery removal to be obvious to a more casual user. After all, even a soldered-down battery can probably be removed by you or I with a flat-head screwdriver or maybe just a good hard yank.
I'm not familiar with Filehippo, but they have version 1.37 which was the last one before February's version with adware. They even note on the page that later versions have the adware and so will not be hosted by them. Sounds like a good site.
I checked out what WhenU does. According to what I read, it downloads a bunch of ads from their server, and then the program running on the user's machine decides what ads are appropriate to display. It apparently does not send browsing info back to the central server. So it's more like if your TV downloaded all the ads from a show, then only displayed the ones it thought you would be interested in.
Can you elaborate? I've had files that Windows Media Player 9 and Classic (version 6.4) could not open, but BSplayer could. Some files WMP9 could not seek through the files because of a damaged keyframe index, but BSplayer could. Currently, some filetypes are rendered with ffdshow, and other with divx 6 or xvid. BSplayer is how I control the playback though and resize, or swap audio streams.
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If your post isn't worth reading, you're just spamming. Make a worthwhile post and you won't piss people off. Besides, was the traffic worth it in spite of some foes?
Can you confirm your specs on the Wii from a source that hasn't been discredited as making shit up? The site that first gave those specs has made stuff up in the past and isn't considered reliable. Note that neither gamespot nor wikipedia speculate on the actual chips inside.
The PC is like a restaurant that also helps you do your taxes, write messages and books, cut an album, and brings you your news and information.
I agree with the original post that the PS3 is an overpriced restaurant. I'd say the 360 is a less pricy place but has food equal to or almost as good as the overpriced one. Meanwhile the Wii offers three star dining at two "$" prices.
Interesting that all the top search results are from September, back when I remember the announcements from MS and Sony on keyboard and mouse support. So yes it looks like the PS3 will allow it, but the developers have to support it. Hopefully MS will change their stance to keep PC ports going to their machine and not just the PS3.
My point with FPS', RTS', and strategy is that when gaming at 1280x1024 on a PC, the user is sitting two feet away from the 19" screen and can see every pixel clearly. Small text and details are easy to see. Not always the case with rear-projection HDTVs. I expect developers will make icons and objects larger for clarity, negating some of the benefit from 1280x720. And don't kid yourself, most PS3 games are going to be 1280x720 to have the most polygons and effects while keeping a good framerate. Besides, what's the point of doing 1080i when the overwhelming majority of HDTVs resize 1080i to 720p because they don't have the resolution.
Actually my suggestion for the component devices would be to get a switchbox for the HTPC. Basically instead of flipping through inputs 1, 2, 3... with the TV remote, the TV is always set to the computer input, and you switch using the computer, and the switchbox. Not elegant, but it has the advantages of being a computer, and can also Tivo those inputs for you.
I would still bother, because RTS', FPS', and strategy games play best on PCs. Which systems let you play their games with a keyboard and mouse? AFAIK, Halo 3 on 360 isn't going to work with a mouse, even if the system supports it as an input. I believe Sony and MS have made statements that the gamepad will remain the only way to control games.
I hadn't thought about that. The box will need an HDTV tuner card for each input you want. Consumer cards for component are of course available, I doubt they have HDMI with HDCP though. So I should revise my price to $1000.
Well, better make that a Geforce 8600, since I forgot the 7xxx line doesn't have the HDCP chip for HDMI.
No no no no no no no. It's up to the content providers (studios) if they want to allow players like the PS3 to output 960x540 double-sized into a standard 1080i signal over component cables. I expect all studios to grudgingly go along with this, considering how many HDTVs there are without HDMI connectors.
960x540 is still 1.5 times as much detail as a 720x480 DVD properly upscaled to HDTV. For people who have been watching their DVDs on SDTV resized to 640x360 (16:9 aspect ratio) they'll get 2.25 times as much detail when they buy an HDTV. For anamorphic movies resized to 640x272 (~2.35:1) they'll get 3 times as much, though admittedly they could put that DVD in a PS3 and get twice as much just by upscaling it for HDTV.
I don't even have an HDTV yet, but for when I do, I was under the impression that the Faroudja boxes are $2000. Or instead I could build an HTPC with a Geforce 7600 for $600 and get the same video quality plus a nice PC.
I'm guessing in the long version Snake still speaks in a comically over-the-top grave and dramatic voice? That seems to pass as normal in Japan for voice acting. Over here I think audiences would be laughing out loud if we heard James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman do voice-work like that.
I don't believe you (yet). If computer gaming cost $299 for the hardware on a five year upgrade cycle, but you still had to deal with the installs and updating drivers, you're saying you still wouldn't do it? You'd get all the great games that are only on PCs at nice high res', and played with the pin-point control of a keyboard and mouse. If you still say no, maybe you're just not all that into the styles of games that are best on a PC?
Production capabilities will be important too. If Nintendo can't manufacture console's fast enough, there's not as much reason to price them at $199. I can see the Wii at $249 for a year, or maybe even just 6 months until E3 2007. I don't think the early adopters will mind too much.
The deficit is not quickly made up. Every 360 is already sold at a loss. Losing an additional $50 per machine means MS needs the buyer to purchase an additional two to five games on top of the five+ already, just to break even.
If MS spent $500,000,000 to get exclusives, that alone would get 360s to fly off the shelves, but just as importantly, make the PS3 look terrible with pathetic software support. Besides, the 360 can't compete on price if the Wii costs $200 or 250. The best way to sell consoles is having the better game support.
What do you need the PS3 for if your PS2 still plays it's games? Will the PS3 be able to render PS2 games in HD? Are you going to sell the PS2?
The GP guessed $250. As far as I know, nobody thinks it will cost more than that. If Nintendo can ship enough units by December 31st, say 5 million, the price could even be $199.
If MS cuts the price from $399 to $349, that's $50,000,000 additional loss per one-million 360s sold. That's how much it costs to produce two AAA games. Maybe GTA 4 will cost 35 or 40 million, but you see where I'm going with this?
It would be stupid to cut the price by $50, because that's $500,000,000 in losses per ten-million 360s sold. For that much money, MS could buy a large game studio outright, or pay to get 5 to 15 exclusive games that are currently going to be PS3 exclusives, or on both platforms.
MS is out to win the race, but if they wanted to 'fucking kick Sony's ass', they'd already be doing it by purchasing more exclusives or just more developers. The way I see it, MS and Nintendo are going to sell about 12 million consoles between now and E3 2007, while Sony will suffer with chip yield difficulties and sell about 5 million. Unfortunately for Sony, the high price of $500 (since HDMI isn't truly needed by most) will criple the PS3 in 2007. Christmas 2007 will go to MS and Nintendo again.
Right, but the guy I was replying to thought that Dasani was better than tap water for having all the filtration processes done to it.
If timetrials were half the fun for you, I'm sorry you didn't have enough friends for 4-person multiplayer. The designers didn't go through all that work just for you to do the same level over and over again trying to shave off seconds.
Most people can't tell the difference" between Dasani and tap water, at least in San Francisco.
Now Los Angeles has some lousy water courtesy of the concrete canal that is the California Aquaduct.
Yeah the grandparent is asking for unreasonable possibilities. I am though looking forward to games where many objects can break apart. One game a year or two ago already had destructible walls. The next step is for objects to break into smaller pieces when required to. Meaning castle walls should have their physics calculated most of the time as a solid mass. No point doing the physics for 1000 pieces of stone all the time if a wall section isn't under attack. But when a cannonball is about to hit it, replace the bump-mapped object with 1000 polygonal stones, each with its own physics.
Thanks.
Never-the-less, depending on how the EU law is worded, it may require the battery removal to be obvious to a more casual user. After all, even a soldered-down battery can probably be removed by you or I with a flat-head screwdriver or maybe just a good hard yank.
Then there will be a seam on the back of iPods where the battery meets the casing and nobody will buy them anymore because they're so ugly!!!!
I'm not familiar with Filehippo, but they have version 1.37 which was the last one before February's version with adware. They even note on the page that later versions have the adware and so will not be hosted by them. Sounds like a good site.
I checked out what WhenU does. According to what I read, it downloads a bunch of ads from their server, and then the program running on the user's machine decides what ads are appropriate to display. It apparently does not send browsing info back to the central server. So it's more like if your TV downloaded all the ads from a show, then only displayed the ones it thought you would be interested in.
Can you elaborate? I've had files that Windows Media Player 9 and Classic (version 6.4) could not open, but BSplayer could. Some files WMP9 could not seek through the files because of a damaged keyframe index, but BSplayer could. Currently, some filetypes are rendered with ffdshow, and other with divx 6 or xvid. BSplayer is how I control the playback though and resize, or swap audio streams.