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Pessimippopotamus
11/20/08

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Great! All I need is 16 PS3s to run GT5:P in 2160p and 240 FPS.

...That and the $114,000 projector.
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inspiredEpic
11/20/08

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Amazing!

Now...if only they would produce better games...
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ReapdaSlaughter is teh owner its just what he does
11/20/08

@Jon B.: Crysis is coming out for the ps3, and play the resistance series. The only good games for the 360 are gears and halo.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@ReapdaSlaughter is teh owner its just what he does: Listing a couple shooters does not encompass the total amount of good games on the 360.
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imTheKing
11/20/08

@ripfire: thats a bit exaggerated. You also have to account for a lot of people wanting a solid piece of hardware that will be reliable and last. There are more than just gaming reasons for buying a system today. Consoles are capable of a very large amount of tasks now.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@imTheKing: "Consoles are capable of a very large amount of tasks now."

That's a bit exaggerated. Although I could agree with you on one point that my 360 MCE extender is really handy on my home entertainment needs. But when people buy a console, chances are it's because of the games.

@TriggaHappy26: Let me ask you this: Name me the top 5 games that were ported from PS3 to 360.

From what I see, there are far more 360 games ported to PS3. Ever wonder why?
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TriggaHappy26
11/20/08

@ripfire: Because the 360 has been out longer, therefore has more games. There is no doubt that the xbox has a lot more games by a lot of 3rd party developers. Sony's best games are the ones that are made by Sony companies or franchises loyal to Sony. This is why you have Socom (sony game), Uncharted (sony game), and metal gear 4 (been on PS since PS1). There is no way Sony will allow their best games, made by them to be ported to the rival console. This is the same reason you will never find Halo or Gears of War on the PS3.
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imTheKing
11/20/08

@ripfire: The 360 is easier to build for but is capped in how complex games can be. Thats why there are more games, easier development obviously makes for that. As a system, theres no arguing the fact that the PS3 is 95% more reliable and a better machine over all. You seem like your just trolling any posts having to do with the PS3 to justify why your Xbox is better with games. To be honest, I barely have time nor the wanting to play games to such an extent. I work, come home, run a side business and watch a movie now and again. I try not to base my existence on virtual reality.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@TriggaHappy26: Oh please. Only reason they get exclusivity is because they all run under Sony's paycheck. "Franchise Loyal to Sony"? Oh you mean Metal Gear? but I clearly remember playing MGSubstance on the Xbox. Where's the loyalty then? To be fair the same could be said for MS. Even though GoW was exclusive for 360 (paid for MS most likely), the same engine was still used for UT3 which came out for both platforms.

But one thing you will rarely see is a 3rd party initially developing for PS3 and porting it to 360 and there's a reason why.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@imTheKing: "The 360 is easier to build for but is capped in how complex games can be." Is that why 3rd party developers who port their games to PS3 have to "downgrade" their titles that's I'm recently hearing about from a Sony exec?

So now I'm trolling? You're saying that I'm justifying Xbox games are better than PS3 while saying that PS3 "a better machine over all"? Feeling comfortable on your high stirrups?

I have no problem with gaming platforms when it comes to games be it on PS3 or 360 (as long as its good). PS3 as a hardware is spectacular, but it leaves software as an afterthought which pretty much sums up Sony's model.
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G-Ram
11/20/08

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Yes! A TRUE reason to finally one-up this guy.

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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/20/08

@G-Ram: He would have had 4 PS3's if someone hadn't bit his hand at the Best Buy.
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mpjohnst
11/20/08

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I give it an official "meh".

Am I the only one who is not impressed here? Seems like you could bolt for xbox's together to do the same thing (with a different game of course). There are no real technological break-throughs being displayed here other than the FED TV. That projector has been shown for over two years now and the PS3 is really just doing what a PS3 does.
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TriggaHappy26
11/20/08

@mpjohnst: I disagree, the PS3 has a far superior processor. Four xBox 360's hooked together, if possible, would maybe give you half of a single PS3's power.

xBox sucks!
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LittleJon
11/20/08

@TriggaHappy26: No you are wrong. The power of the two machines is very similar. In some areas the PS3 wins, in others the 360 wins.

Sony's original marketing claims about the machine being much faster than the 360 were basically lies.

One of my best friends is a games programmer who develops for both platforms, and he tells me that the two systems are fairly close. So I'm not just blurting out fanboisms like you seem to be.
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TriggaHappy26
11/20/08

@LittleJon: Here is a nice objective article explaining how much better the PS3 is. I exaggerated it a bit, but as you can plainly see the PS3 is much faster.

Summation of article:

PS3 = 218 GFLOPS

Xbox 360 = 115.2 GFLOPS

So.... 4 of each is

PS3 = 872 GFLOPS

Xbox = 460.8 GFLOPS
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ripfire
11/20/08

@TriggaHappy26: The bulk of the console's workload is on the GPU not the CPU and the 360's Xenos GPU outmatch PS3's RSX.
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impliedsurprise
11/20/08

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this would make me want to go back to the arcade. i mean it was made obsolete by console tech because we could now all play tekken 5 at home for "free". I don't think anyone would buy 4 ps3's + games + projector just to play this, leaving only the larger arcades to pick this up.

does anyone remember that Ferrari driving game in the arcades about a decade ago? it was a driving simulator with 3 screens and was supposed to be super realistic? i always thought that was cool, even though i was crap at it. they need more stuff like that...
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discounteggroll
11/20/08

@impliedsurprise:

I remember this arcade game:

[en.wikipedia.org]
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/20/08

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If you hook up 5, will it go plaid?
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First
11/20/08

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: that's too fast...plus you run the risk of getting jammed
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/20/08

@winmac: You mean I'll lose the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps?
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ilves
11/20/08

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->:

Going plaid would just be ludicrously fast
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
11/20/08

@ilves: I know, you'd have to fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, and secure all animals in the zoo?
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MisterWho — The Cat Whisperer
11/20/08

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@ 240! That's faster than the human eye can see...

Except in high-speed porn mode!
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/08

@misterwho: Amazing how that works.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/20/08

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Once you get passed a certain number of frames per second, I don't suppose it matters anymore, since your mind will still see the same kind of motion because it fills in the HOLY SHIT that's fantastic!
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ripfire
11/20/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: 240FPS is misleading. If you look at the diagram, it's producing four separate quadrants each at 60FPS. They just add them together and say 240FPS.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@ripfire: The whole screen overall would still be 60fps.
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bosskev
11/20/08

@ripfire: Hate to disagree with you, but that's not how I interpret the graph at all.

It reads to me that they are interleaving each of the four separate full-image feeds to create a single 1920x1080 image. So, yes, it would be 240 full images per second.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@bosskev: Yeah, as I read more into it, you're right. Stupid me didn't realize "OR" at the headline.
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JazlynJobonomic
11/20/08

@ripfire: Actually, if you look at the document, it shows that the image produced is indeed 240FPS. Each PS3 is producing 60FPS, and each PS3 is offset by 1/240th of a frame, then the frames are combined. Thus, each PS3 calculates every fourth frame of the 240FPS. It is indeed full 240FPS.

Perhaps you didn't realize that we're talking about two different pictures here; one 4K image @60FPS, and one 1080 image @240FPS.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@JazlynJobonomic: Ok! Ok! Uncle already! :P
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b0bcat
11/20/08

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine:

Last time I checked, none of the digital interfaces go above 60Hz. Not DVI, Not HDMI, not Displayport. So that 120Hz TV you bought is really doing nothing that a well made 60Hz tv couldn't do.... and outputting anything over 60Hz is pointless.
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EBone
11/20/08

@b0bcat: Does any of it really matter to the user? We get it, the PS3 has a powerful processor. But who is going to network four PS3s together like that in a real world situation?
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cristiana
11/20/08

@b0bcat:

One main reason that 120hz tvs exist is to watch movies at their native frame rate of 24 frames per second. A 60hz tv cannot evenly display 24 frames, so (simply put) , it does what is called a 3:2 pulldown, which converts 4 frames into 5, so that every other frame will be displayed slightly longer than the previous. A 120hz tv can do a 5:5 pulldown which eliminates the every other frame being shown for too long.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@cristiana: Or you can just have a native 24p reproduction on Pioneer and Panasonic displays.
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mpar
11/20/08

@EBone: it was just a teck demo for the 10th birthday of GT just having fun man enjoy
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EBone
11/20/08

@mpar: As someone else said, just finish the damn game already. The PS3 has been out for two years now.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@EBone: Well maybe if they quit wasting their work time on giz... ;)
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gerbick
11/20/08

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How about finishing the game for the PS3 and PSP first!?
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ripfire
11/20/08

@gerbick: Ha! Couldn't have said it any better.
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novacthall
11/20/08

@gerbick: Seconded. I'm tired of Sony thinking the Urinary Olympics matters. Finish the goddamn game or shut up, Sony.
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ripfire
11/20/08

@novacthall: Well they do have GT5 Prologue. I guess you can settle with that in the meantime.
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SegamanXero
11/20/08

@gerbick: I make correction to this article....

what it reads:

"What's the team a Polyphony Digital doing besides finishing their upcoming Gran Turismo 5 racing simulator?"

What it should read:

"What's the team a Polyphony Digital doing instead of finishing their upcoming Gran Turismo 5 racing simulator?"

if it aint true, it most certainly feels like that to me... wasn't GT5 supposed to be a launch PS3 title?

lulz XD
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