Topic: PS3

[*<JO>*Rando Tantra]

Metal Gear online? wtf you talking about

Uh, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Online

-Rando

[|E|Luster]

I hear ps3 is full of alot of phail.  It's like the vista of game consoles.  Lol is that fiasco with their servers still happening?

loooooooooool  360 & pcs ftw!

[*<JO>*Foxen,Mert]

meh, i'll survive w/o ps3

[*<JO>*Menelaos]

No issues playing online with our PS3.

Regards,
Menelaos

[*<JO>*Alpha]

There was an issue recently with the PS3, a really stupid one which made EVERY ps3 stop working for abit.. But that's just a blip on the radar. All in all I really do wish I waited for a PS3 slimline, you made the right choice.

[*<JO>*Yanto]

It mainly effected the older PS3's not all of them but a fair amount, with only a very small amount of cases with the PS3 slim. It stoped in under 24 hours. The way I look at it, it does everything the 360 does, but ten times more as well. And what it does it's great at all of it, and it continues to expand all the time. It's far more future proof, and the exclusives are all great. I've had a 360, I bought it the day it was released, as I did the PS3. I'm wondering what the new FF online will be like that is coming out for PS3 and PC.

Yanto

[*<JO>*Menelaos]

YEAH!!

what Yanto said....


Regards,
Menelaos

[*<JO>*Rando Tantra]

Except that it doesn't really do 10 times more. Regardless of what most people think, the 360 has more processing power than the PS3 does, even though the PS3 is employing the cell processor. The GPU in the PS3 is basically a scaled down version of a Geforce 7800GS. There's this and there's that. To be honest, if the next gen playstation still has free multiplayer, I'll probably pick that up as by that time maybe console games would be worth paying for. The only platform that I feel has the right to my money is the PC, my xbox games come at $25 for 20 of them.

-Rando

[*<JO>*Yanto]

The thing is, it does. I can do many things on my PS3 that is not possible on the 360. I can't surf the web if I want, I can't watch Blu Ray, I can't get downloads without having to buy pooints or such. I can't use the Vid Zone services, I won't be able to use the Firstplay services, I can't use the Video store. Nor can I use anything like Home. Among other things currently on the PS3 as well as many more things coming soon and in the furture.

And without looking at specs and numbers, I use my eyes to tell me what system produces the great looking games, that have good gameplay and acting in them. I can put tons of hardrive space in my PS3, I can watch freeview TV, pause rewind and record tv. I don't have to go out and buy a wifi adator, I don't have to worry about buying rechargable batteries, or have a huge battery pack hanging around from the console. I can plug my usb or blue tooth mouse or keyboard in for use, I can even install linux on my PS3 to use it as a PC and switch between using it as a console and a PC.

Theres many other things I can talk about but I can't really be bothered to say anymore at least not at the moment hah. I will say I did enjoy my tiime on my 360 when I got it, and until I bought the PS3. It's just I;#'d prefer to use something that is capable of almost all home entertainment capabilities than use something that is still in my opinion stuck in the past. Both are good but for me, the PS3 is the future, not by looking at specs, but by seeing the results and capabilites for myself first hand.

Everyone has their own tastes, so it's down to what you want to be able to get out of a system. If you just want a gaming system, online play, and dvd's, then 360 is ideal for just that.

Yanto

[*<JO>*Alpha]

PROJECT NATAL!

[*<JO>*Rando Tantra]

The thing is, it does. I can do many things on my PS3 that is not possible on the 360. I can't surf the web if I want, I can't watch Blu Ray, I can't get downloads without having to buy pooints or such. I can't use the Vid Zone services, I won't be able to use the Firstplay services, I can't use the Video store. Nor can I use anything like Home. Among other things currently on the PS3 as well as many more things coming soon and in the furture.

And without looking at specs and numbers, I use my eyes to tell me what system produces the great looking games, that have good gameplay and acting in them. I can put tons of hardrive space in my PS3, I can watch freeview TV, pause rewind and record tv. I don't have to go out and buy a wifi adator, I don't have to worry about buying rechargable batteries, or have a huge battery pack hanging around from the console. I can plug my usb or blue tooth mouse or keyboard in for use, I can even install linux on my PS3 to use it as a PC and switch between using it as a console and a PC.

Theres many other things I can talk about but I can't really be bothered to say anymore at least not at the moment hah. I will say I did enjoy my tiime on my 360 when I got it, and until I bought the PS3. It's just I;#'d prefer to use something that is capable of almost all home entertainment capabilities than use something that is still in my opinion stuck in the past. Both are good but for me, the PS3 is the future, not by looking at specs, but by seeing the results and capabilites for myself first hand.

Everyone has their own tastes, so it's down to what you want to be able to get out of a system. If you just want a gaming system, online play, and dvd's, then 360 is ideal for just that.

Yanto

Almost everything you said is available on the 360 minus web surfing, blu ray, and linux installation. It's not like a linux installation running with only 256MB of available RAM would be particularly useful, and you can't even install linux on the slim consoles.

You're right that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but really the vast majority of stuff that is available on the PS3 has been on the xbox for longer. Netflix, the movie store, pleanty of free downloads (the dlc that you have to pay for is the same dlc that you have to pay for on the ps3), using tversity for tv, etc etc etc. Up until the Slim, you did have to get a wifi adapter if you bought the baseline model, blah blah blah, etc etc etc.

I don't really care for consoles in general, but I do enjoy some of the console exclusives like final fantasy, which is why I own one.

-Rando

[*<JO>*Yanto]

I must of had a different 360 then, because I was unable to download free stuff unless I was paying the monthly fee. I could play online but not download anything. You'll also be amazed at how well it runs with linux, thanks to the Cell processor along with 7 cores. And no you can't on slims, which is why I said mine, which is the older verison, which are also still sold at some if not most places. I also would of liked to of used HDMI on my 360 when I was using it, but annoyingly I would of had to of paid for another one called Elite to have a HDMI port, at the time when HD DVD looked as if it might of been okay, I would of liked to of been able to watch them, but I would of had to pay even more for the external drive and find extra space to place it somewhere.

Then again, I would of had to put up with the sound of a jet plane taking off, amount of times I watched dvd's at night or even day and had to try and ignore the loud fan going at it. So 360 has released a bigger hard drive now then?, i'm able to put a 640GB hard drive in my PS3. I'd be surprised if the 360 doesn't allow this then? seeing as it can do most of the content and downloads the PS3 can? And seeing as it's been doing it for longer, I'd expect they would of had increased and made everything much more improved by now.. But seeing as you said the things the 360 can't do are surfing, Blu Ray and Linux, I'm guessing you can also use USB/Blue tooth keyboards mouses and headsets then?. The RAM is designed to work for the PS3 to make it work more so along with the Cell processor than what it normally works in a PC. All the stuff inside is built to work best and specifically for it. There's so much to be learn't about the PS3's architecture and how it all works together to make everything work so very smoothly and fast. The way the PS3 uses it's RAM is also very efficiently. There's also a total of 512MB of RAM, one runs at 3.2ghz XDR, there are two modules of 256, the other one runs at 700mhz GDDR3.

Yanto

[*<JO>*Alpha]

MORTAL KOMBAT!

[*<JO>*Menelaos]

DAAAAAANNGGGG!!

Yanto knows his shyte!!

I'm with ya bro! No clue wtf you are talking about, but I am on your side!!!

PS3! PS3! PS3!

Regards,
Menelaos

[*<JO>*Rando Tantra]

I must of had a different 360 then, because I was unable to download free stuff unless I was paying the monthly fee. I could play online but not download anything. You'll also be amazed at how well it runs with linux, thanks to the Cell processor along with 7 cores. And no you can't on slims, which is why I said mine, which is the older verison, which are also still sold at some if not most places. I also would of liked to of used HDMI on my 360 when I was using it, but annoyingly I would of had to of paid for another one called Elite to have a HDMI port, at the time when HD DVD looked as if it might of been okay, I would of liked to of been able to watch them, but I would of had to pay even more for the external drive and find extra space to place it somewhere.

Then again, I would of had to put up with the sound of a jet plane taking off, amount of times I watched dvd's at night or even day and had to try and ignore the loud fan going at it. So 360 has released a bigger hard drive now then?, i'm able to put a 640GB hard drive in my PS3. I'd be surprised if the 360 doesn't allow this then? seeing as it can do most of the content and downloads the PS3 can? And seeing as it's been doing it for longer, I'd expect they would of had increased and made everything much more improved by now.. But seeing as you said the things the 360 can't do are surfing, Blu Ray and Linux, I'm guessing you can also use USB/Blue tooth keyboards mouses and headsets then?. The RAM is designed to work for the PS3 to make it work more so along with the Cell processor than what it normally works in a PC. All the stuff inside is built to work best and specifically for it. There's so much to be learn't about the PS3's architecture and how it all works together to make everything work so very smoothly and fast. The way the PS3 uses it's RAM is also very efficiently. There's also a total of 512MB of RAM, one runs at 3.2ghz XDR, there are two modules of 256, the other one runs at 700mhz GDDR3.

Yanto

You aparently didn't know how to use the Marketplace then, there are hundreds upon hundreds of free downloads that even SILVER members can access. The first gen xbox did not have HDMI, but it was not long before they did have hdmi and could be found on the cheapest model of the 360. If you want to start complaining about the fan noise, google about the thousands and thousands of peoples that had the incredibly loud fan problems with the first few crops of ps3's. You can use any USB devices for media storage with the XBox and you will soon be able to format them for use as memory units. You can use a wireless keyboard and whatnot with the xbox, but not wireless headsets, which are kinda redundant since you get a wireless controller you can use your headset on if you like. Obviously you don't actually know what the linux has access to. Linux on the PS3 does not have access to hardware 3d acceleration nor does it have access to the RAM dedicated to the GPU.

I never once tried to say that the xbox is better than the PS3, funny how quickly people get their feathers ruffled.

-Rando