Want to know the ins and outs of the PS3/360?

Baine

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Then take a read of this be warned its very long and goes into great depth but i think a lot of people on here wont be to put off by this.

I know i enjoyed it



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Bit of a long read, but skimming over it seems like a pretty good comparison, though a lot of the technical stuff will just go over the top of the vast majority (including me) of peoples heads, which is why console vs. console tech spec comparisons are generally usess, as where one failes in one category, the other will likely make up for it in another, giving a pretty even show of power between the consoles.
 
Damn someone had a few spare decades to write all of that.

Still doesn't mention that regardless of how powerful each console it you will still see the same games looking and pretty much playing the same on both sets of hardware.

I can pretty much sum up the whole article in a couple of lines:

It doesn't matter how powerful the console is, if it doesn't have the games I want to play it will be of no use to me.
 
From what i read of it, just some section, it seems to be a good balanced article.
thought it was going to be very biased towards the PS3 but wasnt
 
This is taking forever to read... And it's requiring concentration, curses!

Great article though! Refreshing to see, especially given the usual "360 pwnz PS3, cos I say" stuff you'll usually see...

Edit: I completely forgot about the PS3 controllers, no force feedback, that's a feature that will sorely be missed.
 
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my head hurts after reading (a Very small amount) that. But whats is it with force feedback/rumble on controllers? I never use it and a complete waste of time in my opinion.
 
McManicMan said:
pretty much a lot of it discredited and explained why over at Beyond3d's forum
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From what I read of both the article and the debate in Beyond3d. I think it is clear that the PS3 is a powerful machine (that was never in question). It is also more powerful than the X360 in a lot of ways (again never in question)

It is also clear that the guy has done a lot of research into the PS3 but not put as much research into the 360 and he has a lot of bias to the PS3, he states this in Beyond3d.

He also states that upon further research he feels like everyone else, its too close to call and that we will have to wait and see.

Beyond3d members generally agree that it was a well researched article (from a PS3 side) and well written. Had he not drawn so many inaccurate comparisons to the 360, or had he not drawn any comparisons, then it would have been an outstanding article.

He really seems to understand PS3 architecture.

The point I feel that he missed was that hardware and software designers are now at a point of diminished returns where graphics are concerned.

so having a console that can perform almost twice as many operations per second may not provide twice the graphical beauty.


Personally I would not be surprised if many of the original PS3 games look the same or worse than the 360, but over time the PS3 graphics will become superior to the 360's, I think it will however take several years for there to be a noticeable difference between the two (in PS3s favour).

Because of the ease of development I think 360 games will take several significant leaps over the next 2-3 years before levelling out. The PS3 will probably catch up in that time and overtake the 360 in 3-4 years time IMO. Obviously I can not validate this as the PS3 has not come out yet. But I am basing this assumption on the PS2 Xbox graphical development time lines.

Overall it was a good article if you want to learn about how the PS3 works, but not such a great article for comparing it against the 360, or learning about the 360.
 
yeah thats what i meant, lol, but as most people are saying that the ps3 will most probably overtake graphically what the xbox360 can do in 3/4 years and Sony are saying that they want their machine to last 10years isn't it all abit pointless as the next xbox machine will most probably be due out as MS seems to stick to 5 years console lifespan or am i missing something?
 
McManicMan said:
yeah thats what i meant, lol, but as most people are saying that the ps3 will most probably overtake graphically what the xbox360 can do in 3/4 years and Sony are saying that they want their machine to last 10years isn't it all abit pointless as the next xbox machine will most probably be due out as MS seems to stick to 5 years console lifespan or am i missing something?
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Sony are not wrong the PS3 will probably last about 10 years. Whether or not Sony bring out another console is another matter. Think about it there were (are) PS1 games still being produced well into the PS2 life.

I would imagine we will see the Xbox 1080 in 4 years time and the hardware on that will be significantly more powerful than the 360 and PS3. I doubt we will see much of an improvement in graphic detail, the improvements will come in other areas such as physics and AI.
 
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