Wii>PS3

[sonikaccord]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnxEnoosh4Q
Watch then discuss

[JDM_EJ]

As compared to this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyFrekxy7wg&NR

I dunno...

[ACC0RD22]

the quality of the games will define the system, not the wow factor of the hardware. This goes both ways, PS3 has a graphical wow factor, and the Wii has a technological wow factor. These pretty much cancel each other out, and the games offered on each system will decide which is better. Price will be a factor, but no more than it was a factor in the PS2 - gamecube comparison. The gamecube had a few good games, but overall . . . was pretty terrible. The PS2 on the other hand, was more expensive (by quite a bit) and still sold FAR better, because it had the games to back it up.

I see this turning out the same. The PS3 will eventually get the better games, although so far the Wii is making a fairly convincing argument for itself.

[eriemoto.]

i agree, i will be getting a Wii once i start working again

[cp[mike]]

*>ps3

[accordaffair]

With the release of the new 8800 card from nvidia, and its new g80 engine they have obsoleted the ps3's g70 based rsx engine.

I love sony and its first 2 gifts, the ps1 and ps2, but I'm very unenthused about ps3 right now.

Then again, I've kind of shifted to PC only in the past few years, so I'm not hyped about any of them, although the Wii looks like a winner to me.

[sonikaccord]

*>ps3

Yes. The gamecube was a flop but if nintendo comes hard with the games and online service they may redeem themselves from the last gen. Graphics aren't everything, just an added bonus. Hell I still play super mario. THE greatest game ever made.

[ACC0RD22]

Yes. The gamecube was a flop but if nintendo comes hard with the games and online service they may redeem themselves from the last gen. Graphics aren't everything, just an added bonus. Hell I still play super mario. THE greatest game ever made.

I wasnt trying to act like graphics were everything, but neither is a nifty controller. Novelties, thats all they are. That controller could make gameplay amazing, but terrific graphics could do the same.

and accordaffair, if you expect the same graphics out of a console as you expect from a PC, then you would be looking at prices that dwarf the $600 pricetag of the PS3. 8000 series video cards are going for around $500 on newegg, and even with the hefty price cut they would get from wholesale . . . it would hike the price up at least $200.

Nothing like comparing a $1500 high end (homebuilt) PC to a $600 console.

[h22sparkle]

$600 bucks heh i rather throw that towards my car.

$600 with no game likely chances if you in the hood on your way coming out the store youll get robbed either way


you gonna get raped

[accordaffair]

Of course not, but with the introduction of the PS3, I thought pc's would be behind for some time. The hype about the cell processor and rsx graphics engine led me to believe pc's would take at a while to catch up.

You're right about the price, if you build your computer only to play games available on a console, you are wasting your money, but then again after seeing PS3 prices on ebay maybe thats not so. I don't know if you can actually get a PS3 for 5-600 dollars right now

I'm building my pc anew, it will include an 8800, a C2D 6600, 2 gigs of pc8500, among others, it should cost me about 1500, how much are PS3's right now?

Plus the PC can do more than a PS3, although people have been 'hacking' them, I'm just not terribly impressed. If it hadn't been for its introduction, with people acting like nuts, and buying them just to resell them, I would hold the PS3 much dearer. I don't think Sony should be blamed for it turning out that way, necessarily...but it still affected my view of them.

[ACC0RD22]

Honestly, I wasnt trying to say that your point of view was invalid, since a PC is far more capable than a PS3, for, right now, the same price. However, when prices do come down to normal, and they will (just like the 360's price did), and the development time is taken to fit modern OS's on, the arguement may become less valid. Since it uses a cell processor based on the PPC architecture, OS X and Linux shouldnt be more than a few months away from being installed on them. Then, with a larger HDD (the PS3 can handle and 3.5in HD IIRC), you could have a fairly capable, multi-function machine for under 1k.

Its only speculation, but . . . its not too far off.

[wed3k]

ps3 all the way, this coming from a PC gamer POV

[accordaffair]

Actually, you can install fedora 5, I believe, on the ps3 right away without any trouble. Once installed you just boot it from the menu, but you have to soft-reset the PS3 to boot back to the ps3's menu. Also, another guy ran a virtual instance of windows xp from within fedora, although it ran slow as balls, but that was partly because it was not optimized at all. Much like OSX was trying to install on a PC when the image first got leaked. Man, I spent so many hours trying to get that to work....good times

It looks very open to hacks, which makes me gleeful.

I just wished it blew me away, but maybe I'm just being harsh.

here's fedora, narrator is not very knowledgeable..."compiling the kernel"? No, its booting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXcuhJkwx4

here's windows xp on the ps3
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...running-on-ps3

the vids can be boring if you're not geeky

[d112crzy]

they have rsx engines?

[accordaffair]

indeed, and you can put it in your accord for only $600!!

(the back seat of your accord)