And we are supposed to be impressed by this? If my consoles with wired controllers needed new batteries every 24 hours, I would of sent a truckload of AA batteries to the landfill by now.
Does the word rechargeable mean anything to you? It doesn't need a new battery after 24 hours, it needs to be recharged.
Around my parts, you could also buy around 50 cases of 24 beers. That's 1200 beers, enough to make your SNES look like the best machine ever for the next 100 days. You'll even get 8X AA/AF at no cost, and tons of gaussian blur.
Quick search made me come up with this press release. Right now a 52" DLP 720p/1080i television from toshiba runs about 3500$CAN, altough I've seen them as low as 3200$CAN. By april of next year I'd wager you'd be able to pick up a 52" 1080p DLP for less then 4000$CAN (roughly 3200$US).
Not exactly cheap, but you probably won't have to sell one of your kids to get one if you want it. Right now I'm using a 26" 720p/1080i CRT from toshiba, should be good enough to enjoy the new system at first, especially since I've read that most games probably will run at 720p instead of 1080p (I'd assume for the first generation at least).
I would much rather some type of storage included so I don't have to mess around with memory cards.
Then you have the option of buying the HD for the PS3, which is what most people will probably do anyway. Carrying a big box and a small box home from best buy won't be much more work then carrying one big box home.
I'm not expecting budget price at all, I'm expecting them to price for people with too much income and not enough dependents (enough of them around to take care of the first few shipments before they drop the price).
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Well, you're pretty lucky because logitech says the controller you have lasts 50 hours with 2 AA batteries. That's pretty good, but the info I've read about the PS3 controller mentionned inductive recharging, meaning you could play from 6AM to 11PM, put your controller on a pad without plugging anything in, wake up the next morning, pick it up for another 17 hours, every day of the week, for months. 50 hours seems about right for 2 AA batteries on your controller, my i-river 790 lasts about 40 hours on a AA battery.
Worst case scenario if you gotta play for 40 hours in a row, you'd probably plug in your controller to charge it via USB for hour 24 to 28 and then unplug it. Like I said, I'm unclear about how these will recharge.
Actually there is a plant in Churchill Falls right now, it produces 5500 MW, so it's a pretty big one, but LG-1 through LG-4 by themselves produce 8800 MW, and there's 6 more plants in the James Bay alone, and that's just one of 13 regions where HQ produces power.
So Churchill Fall does produce a good amount of power, but saying that Quebec is getting rich because we're screwing Newfoundlanders is totally fallacious. Besides, if they hadn't taken the deal there would be 0 MW being produced there because Newfoundland would not have been crazy enough to dump tons of money into buying a huge dam by themselves and then hope the people they turned down would buy the power from them.
And even then, Backwards compatibility will be on select games (as opposed to the combined 13000 games library of the PS and PS2).
And it's Final Fantasy XI we're talking about. I played that game for a year, it was like paying to have a violent illness inflicted on you. They better be starting up fresh servers for the Xbox version with a lot of tweaking on the game itself to stand a chance.
Now I'm gonna board a plane, go down to E3, and then put the Square-Enix chairman into a figure-four lock until he agrees to devote all resources necessary to have FFVII redone in time for the launch of the PS3.
Where is the beef? How do we know that Sony is not lying like they did with the PS2?
Cheap reference to the Toy Story 2 comment from PS2 pre-launch? The PS2 didn't become the best-selling console of the generation because people thought it would eventually play Toy Story 2, whatever that means.
For my money, after playing GT4 for a while after buying it recently, I think the PS2 lived up to its expectations.
Don't forget the hard drive: included on the 360, an expansion item for the PS3. You didn't overlook it on purpose, did you?
That's a non-consequential detail when not taking into account the price of the hard drive. Basically if the PS3 + HD is the same cost as the Xbox, who cares?
Anyhow, I wouldn't put a dinky 20 gig HD in there, if they let me put anything it will be the best performance 80+ gig 2.5" HD I can find.
XDR is a Rambus technology. This doesn't make the PS3 evil by association imho, Sony chose the technology, they weren't forced by patent lawyers to use it.
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I watched the whole press conference on gamespot. The battery life of the controllers was stated as 24 hours many time by the presentators.
Listen "Buddy", at the end of the day the developpers in montreal where asked to do games and they did EXTREMELY well with the Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell series. And by extremely well I mean smashing successes. Keep singing that you could have done it as good, we all know the tune.
And as far as your further disinformation spread about my province regarding Labrador, here's a lowdown for people that want the real facts. In a nutshell, Labrador was part of Quebec (called Lower Canada back then) until 1806, when the british empire gave it to newfoundland, a separate country. The borders were never clearly established back then (hilarity ensues). When newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 part of the deal was that the constitution of Canada would give them Labrador, so the feds gave it away and ended the territory dispute.
This being said, anyone not totally ignorant like the parent knows that the majority of the power is being produced at the LG plants in James Bay, and all the different rivers leading to Lac Saint-Jean, that have NOTHING to do with Labrador. See here for a little map. Yes, the churchill falls dam produces a lot of energy that is sold to Quebec. That's been income for newfoundland for decades, and the construction was spearheaded by us. You tell me, what would they do with the power? There is no way to get power to the US or the rest of Canada except if you go through Quebec. The deal was mutually profitable, as will be the further development in Labrador that have been proposed by a joint venture from Hydro-Quebec and OPG. And also, please note that Labrador is still being disputed by the native tribes that have always live there, it's status is not set in stone yet.
To even try to undermine Hydro-Quebec's success by saying it's all because we're stealing energy from labrador is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever read off the internet.
And about your "unfair tax markets", you're gonna have to crawl out of your reality-altering bubble and see that government subsidies are also given to companies to make them invest in the GTA, and everywhere else. Hell, even RIGHT NOW, the city of London is trying to entice the Shriners Hospital to move from Montreal to London (Ontario) by using public money to entice them. These guys have been in montreal for 80 years.
And as far as distinct society, we are not the same at you, deal with it or can it. We don't share the same history, the same ancestors, the same culture, the same language. Our ancestors were given away to the British empire and then lived centuries where they were told they were inferior and expected to lose their culture. After enough was enough, we kicked the church out of the state and took control of a territory where we were the majority, you might want to read up on the quiet revolution.
So the guys that created Splinter Cell are "good but nothing special". If they were nothing special, the games wouldn't have been huge successes that prompted Ubisoft to increase their involvement in Montreal.
Your really think the auto industry that makes southern ontario rich gets no subsidies? Get real. For every Honda or Toyota sold anywhere in Canada a tariff is taken and funneled back to the companies that hasn't given a job to canadians living outside of the southern ontario peninsula for 40 years. Wait that's not true, we had a plant that was one of the most productive ones for GM, out in Boisbriand, was closed down when the F-bodies productio where stopped (camaro and firebird). The TCA was really cool with the Boisbriand plant closing, as long as all ontario plants where safe.
You think Quebec has no income other then the money given to us by the almighty Ontarians? Hydro-Quebec by itself generated 2.4 billion in profit, and gave the government a 1.4 billion dividend, not counting all the secondary benefits from being able to provide cheap electricity to companies like Alcan, Alcoa et al.
If you're from Alberta, well, sorry, we ain't pumping pure money out of the ground like you guys are, wish we where. But my experience has told me that people that go out on the web to slander quebecers are usually from southern Ontario. Which is kinda fitting, since your elite has spent the last 25 years scaring american investors into putting money into Toronto and not the evil french province, even when it costs way more to do something in the GTA then in greater Montreal.
The blaster shots emit light, this does not mean they are composed of it. Highly charged energy particles moving at a few hundred meters per second, emitthing light. You'd definetely see those moving around.
I have to admit that after reading a story about people being paid to surf web sites and promote stuff for different companies I have become very skeptical of some posters on web boards.
True, Dell isn't an option because of their no-AMD policy. Let's stack it up against an Alienware Aurora 55, plain vanilla config with a 17" NEC LCD runs 1319$.
Unfortunately I'm not up to the point of spending 2600$ US to prove a point on slashdot.
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How did you know I surfed at +5, flamebait?
(in a lot of threads the flamebaits are more funnier then the actual "funny" comments)
Let's say I'm within range of 50 access points all called 'Netgear'.
Where am I?
Utah?
But then again, you have to account some deviation for people who've read slashdot for several years before even starting up an account.
Anyone who paid US$400 for a graphics card to play Half-Life 2 is a complete sucker.
Bear in mind that for some people that doesn't even make a scratch on their monthly disposable income.
I'm an alcoholic, not a doctor Jim!
And we are supposed to be impressed by this? If my consoles with wired controllers needed new batteries every 24 hours, I would of sent a truckload of AA batteries to the landfill by now.
Does the word rechargeable mean anything to you? It doesn't need a new battery after 24 hours, it needs to be recharged.
Thanks for not slamming me. Nice UID btw, so close to 32768, that's gotta be worth something.
I wonder where the SED sets will fit into this, a 1080p SED would be nice if they deliver the promises at an affordable price.
Around my parts, you could also buy around 50 cases of 24 beers. That's 1200 beers, enough to make your SNES look like the best machine ever for the next 100 days. You'll even get 8X AA/AF at no cost, and tons of gaussian blur.
Then you'll need a new kidney.
Quick search made me come up with this press release. Right now a 52" DLP 720p/1080i television from toshiba runs about 3500$CAN, altough I've seen them as low as 3200$CAN. By april of next year I'd wager you'd be able to pick up a 52" 1080p DLP for less then 4000$CAN (roughly 3200$US).
Not exactly cheap, but you probably won't have to sell one of your kids to get one if you want it. Right now I'm using a 26" 720p/1080i CRT from toshiba, should be good enough to enjoy the new system at first, especially since I've read that most games probably will run at 720p instead of 1080p (I'd assume for the first generation at least).
Tim Sweeney's team got the Unreal 3 engine running pretty fn good after having the SDK for just two months, I'm not sure your worries are justified.
I would much rather some type of storage included so I don't have to mess around with memory cards.
Then you have the option of buying the HD for the PS3, which is what most people will probably do anyway. Carrying a big box and a small box home from best buy won't be much more work then carrying one big box home.
I'm not expecting budget price at all, I'm expecting them to price for people with too much income and not enough dependents (enough of them around to take care of the first few shipments before they drop the price).
Well, you're pretty lucky because logitech says the controller you have lasts 50 hours with 2 AA batteries. That's pretty good, but the info I've read about the PS3 controller mentionned inductive recharging, meaning you could play from 6AM to 11PM, put your controller on a pad without plugging anything in, wake up the next morning, pick it up for another 17 hours, every day of the week, for months. 50 hours seems about right for 2 AA batteries on your controller, my i-river 790 lasts about 40 hours on a AA battery.
Worst case scenario if you gotta play for 40 hours in a row, you'd probably plug in your controller to charge it via USB for hour 24 to 28 and then unplug it. Like I said, I'm unclear about how these will recharge.
Actually there is a plant in Churchill Falls right now, it produces 5500 MW, so it's a pretty big one, but LG-1 through LG-4 by themselves produce 8800 MW, and there's 6 more plants in the James Bay alone, and that's just one of 13 regions where HQ produces power.
So Churchill Fall does produce a good amount of power, but saying that Quebec is getting rich because we're screwing Newfoundlanders is totally fallacious. Besides, if they hadn't taken the deal there would be 0 MW being produced there because Newfoundland would not have been crazy enough to dump tons of money into buying a huge dam by themselves and then hope the people they turned down would buy the power from them.
And even then, Backwards compatibility will be on select games (as opposed to the combined 13000 games library of the PS and PS2).
And it's Final Fantasy XI we're talking about. I played that game for a year, it was like paying to have a violent illness inflicted on you. They better be starting up fresh servers for the Xbox version with a lot of tweaking on the game itself to stand a chance.
Take a look at the Final Fantasy VII tech demo at the bottom of this page, shown during the press conference at E3. I cried at first, then got strangely aroused.
Now I'm gonna board a plane, go down to E3, and then put the Square-Enix chairman into a figure-four lock until he agrees to devote all resources necessary to have FFVII redone in time for the launch of the PS3.
Where is the beef? How do we know that Sony is not lying like they did with the PS2?
Cheap reference to the Toy Story 2 comment from PS2 pre-launch? The PS2 didn't become the best-selling console of the generation because people thought it would eventually play Toy Story 2, whatever that means.
For my money, after playing GT4 for a while after buying it recently, I think the PS2 lived up to its expectations.
Don't forget the hard drive: included on the 360, an expansion item for the PS3. You didn't overlook it on purpose, did you?
That's a non-consequential detail when not taking into account the price of the hard drive. Basically if the PS3 + HD is the same cost as the Xbox, who cares?
Anyhow, I wouldn't put a dinky 20 gig HD in there, if they let me put anything it will be the best performance 80+ gig 2.5" HD I can find.
XDR is a Rambus technology. This doesn't make the PS3 evil by association imho, Sony chose the technology, they weren't forced by patent lawyers to use it.
I watched the whole press conference on gamespot. The battery life of the controllers was stated as 24 hours many time by the presentators.
Listen "Buddy", at the end of the day the developpers in montreal where asked to do games and they did EXTREMELY well with the Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell series. And by extremely well I mean smashing successes. Keep singing that you could have done it as good, we all know the tune.
And as far as your further disinformation spread about my province regarding Labrador, here's a lowdown for people that want the real facts. In a nutshell, Labrador was part of Quebec (called Lower Canada back then) until 1806, when the british empire gave it to newfoundland, a separate country. The borders were never clearly established back then (hilarity ensues). When newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 part of the deal was that the constitution of Canada would give them Labrador, so the feds gave it away and ended the territory dispute.
This being said, anyone not totally ignorant like the parent knows that the majority of the power is being produced at the LG plants in James Bay, and all the different rivers leading to Lac Saint-Jean, that have NOTHING to do with Labrador. See here for a little map. Yes, the churchill falls dam produces a lot of energy that is sold to Quebec. That's been income for newfoundland for decades, and the construction was spearheaded by us. You tell me, what would they do with the power? There is no way to get power to the US or the rest of Canada except if you go through Quebec. The deal was mutually profitable, as will be the further development in Labrador that have been proposed by a joint venture from Hydro-Quebec and OPG. And also, please note that Labrador is still being disputed by the native tribes that have always live there, it's status is not set in stone yet.
To even try to undermine Hydro-Quebec's success by saying it's all because we're stealing energy from labrador is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever read off the internet.
And about your "unfair tax markets", you're gonna have to crawl out of your reality-altering bubble and see that government subsidies are also given to companies to make them invest in the GTA, and everywhere else. Hell, even RIGHT NOW, the city of London is trying to entice the Shriners Hospital to move from Montreal to London (Ontario) by using public money to entice them. These guys have been in montreal for 80 years.
And as far as distinct society, we are not the same at you, deal with it or can it. We don't share the same history, the same ancestors, the same culture, the same language. Our ancestors were given away to the British empire and then lived centuries where they were told they were inferior and expected to lose their culture. After enough was enough, we kicked the church out of the state and took control of a territory where we were the majority, you might want to read up on the quiet revolution.
Stop dissing us on the internet.
So the guys that created Splinter Cell are "good but nothing special". If they were nothing special, the games wouldn't have been huge successes that prompted Ubisoft to increase their involvement in Montreal.
Your really think the auto industry that makes southern ontario rich gets no subsidies? Get real. For every Honda or Toyota sold anywhere in Canada a tariff is taken and funneled back to the companies that hasn't given a job to canadians living outside of the southern ontario peninsula for 40 years. Wait that's not true, we had a plant that was one of the most productive ones for GM, out in Boisbriand, was closed down when the F-bodies productio where stopped (camaro and firebird). The TCA was really cool with the Boisbriand plant closing, as long as all ontario plants where safe.
You think Quebec has no income other then the money given to us by the almighty Ontarians? Hydro-Quebec by itself generated 2.4 billion in profit, and gave the government a 1.4 billion dividend, not counting all the secondary benefits from being able to provide cheap electricity to companies like Alcan, Alcoa et al.
If you're from Alberta, well, sorry, we ain't pumping pure money out of the ground like you guys are, wish we where. But my experience has told me that people that go out on the web to slander quebecers are usually from southern Ontario. Which is kinda fitting, since your elite has spent the last 25 years scaring american investors into putting money into Toronto and not the evil french province, even when it costs way more to do something in the GTA then in greater Montreal.
The blaster shots emit light, this does not mean they are composed of it. Highly charged energy particles moving at a few hundred meters per second, emitthing light. You'd definetely see those moving around.
I have to admit that after reading a story about people being paid to surf web sites and promote stuff for different companies I have become very skeptical of some posters on web boards.
True, Dell isn't an option because of their no-AMD policy. Let's stack it up against an Alienware Aurora 55, plain vanilla config with a 17" NEC LCD runs 1319$.
Unfortunately I'm not up to the point of spending 2600$ US to prove a point on slashdot.
Old school?
I'd add at least A.E. Van Vogt and Edmond Hamilton as non-crap, I thoroughly enjoyed their work even though I read them in the eighties and nineties.