Stay away from philips though.

I'm so glad I left the pissing match that is pc-gaming and the shitty games that came with it. It became a gadget obsession hobby where the actual gameplay and quality of the games were put on the backburner. Seriously why should I care about charts and fucking graphs when all that matters is that the game plays smooth enough and that there are actually good games to play with.

There are many examples of games that look just as good on consoles costing a fraction of the ideal pc configuration and if the pc version does look better it is very very hard to tell especially with hdmi and the distance that people usually sit at.

Paying more than twice the money to have something play 8% better is ludicrous and proof at how ridiculously inefficient and greedy the pc industry has become and they're wondering why it's on such a sharp decline? It was a disaster in the making when they took us pc gamers for granted. It doesn't cost a whole lot to build a decent rig, but it still costs more than a ps3 and it will have a far shorter lifecycle.

There are many examples of games that look just as good on consoles costing a fraction of the ideal pc configuration and if the pc version does look better it is very very hard to tell especially with hdmi and the distance that people usually sit at.

Paying more than twice the money to have something play 8% better is ludicrous and proof at how ridiculously inefficient and greedy the pc industry has become and they're wondering why it's on such a sharp decline? It was a disaster in the making when they took the pc gamers for granted.

I'd say from living just 2hrs from nyc and going there frequently, there is usually far more people roaming the streets but there would be so many to the point where the game would slow down to a crawl. Maybe if we were in the 3rd or 4th generation on ps3 it could be realistically done. I have the 360 version btw.

PSN in terms of functionality is great imo.

warhawk: 32 players online worldwide with voicechat in-game. This is a NETWORK ONLY game so everyone that has this in thier ps3 is playing online. I've personally yet to experience any issues.

Resistance: 40 players online worldwide with voicechat in-game. It may not be played as much now but when this game came out it seemed like everyone was playing it and then when it was released overseas people were playing it like crazy. Never had a problem.

resistance 2 will have 60 players online and the next socom will be insane as well

I have a 360 and a ps3 and till' this day I still ask myself why the hell isn't live free or at the least the core functionality of it? PSN does what matters most to gamers for free, the real gamer could care less about the shitload of extra services and features that live has and as far as I know is rarely used by most(disney movies, abc shows that you can get online officially for free?).

Lets leave the term "hardcore gamer" out and simply say that more than half of those that bought WII weren't gamers, which explains why the system has a weak software-hardware ratio especially for third party sales. The article makes a valid point because if the majority of WII owners were unlikely to spend much on software now then they are far more unlikely to spend as the economy worsens. Keep in mind many of the software sales for wii are 1st party, i'd say at the least half or more of those sales were from people that were long fans of nintendo's franchises from past consoles, people like me.

I own all three systems because they have great exclusives that shouldn't missed for silly reasons but I wanted to point out some actual facts here.

With kof games even when they added new features(tag- moves,cancels etc. .) they still managed to keep it oldschool at the core while capcom with every game release wanted to outdo itself of crazy super duper combos and flashing epileptic scrolling screen madness lol which is alright but snk games provided a great departure from that. Capcom is trying to win that oldschool audience back with sf4 by using that classic gameplay they use to have at one point.

I find it pretty amusing how xbox360 only dominates just one gaming region mainly because of timing since sony sold just as many ps3's in the same amount of time and everyone including the u.s. media declares it top console even though it's behind in every other significant market, oh wait I forgot most of the u.s. only cares about itself. . . . .

Different gaming markets require different strageties, microsoft's stragety for japan? Offer the 360 at a big discount at launch(hows your support feeling now?) while offering very little if any support for titles that appeal to the Japanese demographic. Japan is the toughest market to crack, not even it's native gaming corporations have it figured out.

I have both.

Reality is people aren't willing to pay more for a time restricted half assed compressed hd movie or show that takes longer to download than making a trip to your blockbuster or paying for on-demand where it's faster and better in quality. The media service and content they offer doesn't match with the primary xbox demographic, it matches the wii demographic well though lol!

PSN really does feel, well like it's free and at first I was like wow live blows this away but you start to realize that psn does what matters to gamers for FREE.

Some clarifications about psn:

Your psn name,voice chat,buddylist is integrated with any online game you play, it isn't an antiquated seperate login or signup like many fanboys think; everything with psn and the ps3 gui feels a lot more streamlined and quicker which isn't surprising since this is linux, not windows.

There is loads of dlc for games even for cross platform, this isn't some sort of special thing reserved for paying live members, the same content is on psn and it's in real dollar amount you're not forced into an odd currency scam that leaves you with a useless amount left that you can't use until you deposit more and since developers truly set the price(if there is a price) it's often cheaper.

You're able to voice and video chat with groups of people simultaneously even without being in-game. You don't use any proprietary peripherals for any of this, you can grab that keyboard+mouse and webcam from your pc and that bluetooth headset from your phone and you can use them on many games as well. XMB is not accessible in-game which sucks balls but your're still accessible to all your buddies from the game and adding any in the game you're playing anyway but it sucks if another buddy is playing another game.

Many games like warhawk,ut3,resistance for example have numerous "pure" or dedicated servers with very little lag if any at all for FREE.

So what am I really paying for? Buddy logged in playing another game while i'm already in a game notification? Access to tons of exclusive(exclusive to what really?) re-run network shows that are officially free on the net and movies which are nowhere near the quality of hd-cable/satellite or disc mediums?

360 is great but having to pay for a network where 99% of the crap isn't going to be used, where all you want to do is play a game online which is free with every platform except for xbox; kinda sucks imo.

Unreal tournament 3 for example, which would have already been released in form of disc+download hasn't made it to xbox because microsoft wants control of the mods and pricing of them even if they're meant to be free while sony has a very open policy to thier network where developers can pretty much do as they please. This is a windows direct-x based game that's already seen release on a difficult to develop linux system(ps3) in which sony assisted the development of. Users are able to download maps and transfer them using any storage device they please.

I believe the only thing holding many small developers back from going all out on psn is the hefty staff required to develop for the system although we'll see this change as they realize that they won't be making much on live, unless it's an mmo or fps pc users won't have it unless it's free and wii is just too technically limiting not just graphically but mainly because nintendo won't unlock the sd slots limiting what little space if any that's left on a real gamer's wii.

Sega has a history of using the hitachi sh series of risc processors. The saturn had 2 sh2's. The sh4 was the most powerful processor during it's time and being that it was a risc processor capable of highly intensive floating point calculations it was definately made for demanding graphical applications in mind and had no relation to the x86 intel or amd cpu's which were still horrible bottlenecks for systems that were made for demanding graphical apps.

The gpu was from videologic/nec, which was the first gpu to detect and only render what was visible to the player onscreen, meaning for example in a fps game if you weren't viewing the backside of a person you were shooting; it wasn't being rendered so essentially they could get away with using half the bandwidth that a tradional gpu would have to use to render the same scene. This is what made it so efficient and possible to pull off games like quake3 which at the time pc gamers laughed when it was announced but when it was launched it actually had a higher polygon count on the dc. The only way for this gpu to work well was if games were specifically coded for it, so when the card was released for pc's it didn't do well because pc game developers weren't so willing to re-code thier games for this new gpu or release hefty patches so the videocard sucked in benchmarks.

Ati then started using a similar rendering technology with thier radeon cards called hyper z-buffer depth er something.

1: cave in and buy the best hd-media player on the market which happens to be the ps3(oh the horror!)guess what people, it UP-CONVERTS EVERY VIDEO FORMAT YOU PLAY IN IT including mpegs,dvd,divx,avc etc. . . . .

2: because of their pride, refuse to move on with technology and stick with dvd while denying the obvious difference in video and sound quality

3: buy a stand-alone blu-ray player which costs more than a ps3 because they are true fanboys to a crooked coporation

being a fanboy doesn't win you anything

I love my 360 but this openess of hardware that sony(ironic isn't it) gives you with the ps3 and psp really is just freakin' sweet

I wouldn't say that coffee is a better alternative to certain energy drinks though, many energy drinks(rockstar,monster,sobe) are packed with a pretty outstanding vitamin complex.

The only reason why Microsoft even released an hd-less 360 is so that it can look that much cheaper than the fully loaded hd+wifi ready ps3 and that much closer to a wii in cheapness.

The best tasting and best long term working energy drink i've had was Rockstar Juiced(namely the guava and mango). It should be noted that the tall cans are usually labled under the nutritional facts as 2 servings so in reality you're forced to drink more to get the same energy as the smaller ones so it's a marketing ploy when they say you get more. You'll get more fluid but not necessarily more energy. But i'm alright with that since I tend to take my time with drinks but for 100% effectiveness they do have to be chugged.

The other major difference is the fact that the cell processor alone is far more powerful than the gpu itself even for graphical tasks:[www.n4g.com] but ofcourse nobody is really tapping into the cell, reportedly ratchet and clank uses 20%. Why put a gpu in ps3 if the cell is really that powerful? It's far easier to develop for something that can drive graphical effects through hardware(which is why 3rd party ports are shitty, they're trying to get away with using very little cpu processing) than to code everything from scratch like you would have to do on ps2 and because we're going to see a crucial advancement in AI which people don't realize takes a lot more power.

won't make much of a difference now as most developers are still using tradiontal means of development and rendering but as ps3 development matures you'll see the gap in visual quality widen significantly

Dx10? Ps3 is linux based, many graphical effects can be software driven and the console has the power to do it. The ps2 was actually able to provide evironmental bump mapping(splinter cell pandora), bloom(burnout 4) and 1080i resultion(gt4) which are things that it were never specified or believed to be capable of when it launched.

Currently you can't run ut3 on a pc as well as the ps3 does for cheap, ofcourse digital extremes actually worked with sony on the port otherwise it would have ran worse than orange box lol