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#1 klactose
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[QUOTE="BPoole96"]

[QUOTE="drakekratos"]Xbox is winning? PS3 has outsold 360 since 2009kingtito

They most likely only care about USA, just like the Lems here on SW

Actually the 360 has more than just the US. It also has the UK which is the 2nd biggest market. THe PS3 got outsold last year which is why the gab got BIGGER not smaller. Let's not forget the 360 doesn't sell at all in Japan which is lucky for the PS3 or the gap would insurmountable. The PS3 is destined for 3rd this gen, its time cows just accept it and move along.

I actually think that all the talk about which console sold the most is missing the point. The reality is that the Wii sold the most. OK, case closed on that. But winning the living room war is also about innovating to the point where the console is the most important component in the living room! Which at this point mine has honestly become. It was gradual, but like I mentioned I use my console for the majority of my interactions with my TV. If Xbox get's Spotify on it, then the percentage would jump even higher.
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The question is does a gaming machine wanna be synonmous with "winning the living room"?

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I think convergence is very appealing. I'm tired of having multiple devices when one is all you really need. So if I'm going to be playing games anyway, and if I'm going to be watching movies, or checking videos on YouTube... then why shouldn't I do them all on one box in my living room? I think this is actually what Sony had in mind too, that's why they pushed for blu-ray (so people could watch HD movies on the PS3). So winning the living room war seems to be an aspiration of more than just Microsoft.
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#3 klactose
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Here's the link to the article.

What do you all think of the article?

I certainly use my Xbox for about 70% of my television experience, whether gaming or utilizing one of the apps.

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unfortunately simply having a higher sales tie ratio alone does not prove the points you were trying to make. It's the same as a hypothetical console A having a user base of 10 and console B having a user base of 30; even if console A has a sales tie of 100%, and console B has a sales tie of 40% for a game, the game maker actually has made more money from console B even though console A has a 60% higher sales tie ratio. The profit equation will further be impacted by the cost to create a game on each individual console. At any rate, I'm sure that once rockstar goes over their financials they will have numerical proof of which version of the game was more profitable for them, and it will be much more involved than this post would indicate.
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I used to feel a little nauseous every now and then in the Duke Nuke'm days, but I think I have adapted to the visual stimulus. My buddy who is newer to video games always gets that feeling after playing FPS for any long amount of time.

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I know it has great games but come on do uns not care that it can break easily, would you not feel angry at themPaddy345

Actually MS allegedly has fixxed the problems with the faulty Hardware, and even if yours breaks the warranty will cover the system for 1 year, andRRoD for 3 years so no one has to pay to replace it anymore.

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- All titles have been checked as being 1080p compatible firsthand by the back of the game box and/or by owning/playing the game at 1080p resolution. Unlike what is happening on the Xbox 360 game boxes, Sony doesn't advertise 1080p on the back of game boxes unless it is a truly native 1080p title. A good example of this is the game Warhawk where in the Playstation Store they say it scales "up to 1080p" not that it is native 1080p. The Xbox 360 list of games advertised on game boxes is longer, but there are a small few number of native 1080p titles on the Xbox 360. farsendor

I normally wouldn't nit-pick but it's interesting that you'd say this right after i read the review of COD4 here on gamespot. They say something slightly different.

Despite claiming 1080p support on the back of the box, COD 4 appears to run in 720p on the PlayStation 3.Jeff Gerstmann

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#8 klactose
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Killzone 2 February 2008.

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If you point to a game that isn't even released yet,what are you saying differently than whatBooth said? Booth admits that there may be sporadic games developed that will be well done. But what he is saying is that in general, the design choices made when developing the PS3 do not lend themselves to being a superior gaming console. This may or may not be true, but simply showing a game or two that you THINK MIGHT be superior whenever it gets releasedis no way to contradict what Booth states. I'd like to hear some independant devs that have a different opinion if they are out there, anyone have anything like that?

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Hello,

When I make posts on the message boards, I am unable to edit them. When I try, I get an error message, either saying that I only the original poster can edit the post, or that I do not have access to post to the board.

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"Getting data off the blue ray drive takes about twice as long as it does to get the same data off the 360's DVD drive."

Afaik the average speed on SL DVD´s is more or less the same as Blu-Ray. On dual layer DVD´s Blu-Ray has a slight advantage.

"Basically, they take the data they would normally send to the graphics chip, send it to an SPU which optimizes it in some manner, then send it to the graphics chip."

They take advantage of the Cell CPU, this is a good thing not a badt thing.

"The code needed to make the PS3 work is most likely only useful to you on the PS3, as the types of tricks you need to do to make the thing perform are very unique to the platform and unlikely to be useful on any other architecture now or in the future."

Yes and No, if you "thread" carefully you will gain speed on the 3 core cpu in the 360.

"but thats unlikely to be realized in any useful way".

Drakes fortune and Rachet and Clank takes up way more space than the 7GB you can store on a 360 DVD.
Maybe you shouldn´t use a launch game as evidence :-)

"The fill rate on the PS3 is significantly slower than on the 360"
If you want to take advantage of the "fill rate" on the 360 you have to reduce the resolution on your games. Hello Halo 3, hello Grand Turismo HD 4 real :-)-Renegade

Are you serious? Are you attempting to use an anonymous reply to his original posting as some kind of evidence? That doesn't tell me anything because I don't havethe persons credentials who made those remarksto place against Booth's. Also, Booth doesn't seem to be speaking generically, he specifically says that the dvd-drive in the 360 is almost twice as fast as at reading data than theblu-ray drive in the PS3. Do you see the difference between speaking about dvd/blu-ray read rates in general? If you don't, then I'mnot sure that I will be able to provide you with the comprehension skills necessary to continue this discussion.