PS3 Specs

[MrHat]

If you want deep tactics, pick up Dai Senryaku VII for the xbox. It makes the NIS stuff look like a joke (Forgot to mention, Stella Deus is Final Fantasy Tactics reborn, if you have a PS2 and like Tactics, just buy it)

I'll check that out.  I have a thing for headbending game mechanics.

I'll be getting all three consoles as well and I don't want to come off as defending a console or something else asinine.  I mostly just want people to be aware of what's out there so they can make informed decisions.

From what I'm reading, the XBox 360 crew is concentrating 60/40 for games/other stuff while the PS3 crew is  more like 90/10.  I'm actually looking forward for using the 360 for stuff other than gaming (wireless movies/pics/music off my comp to my surround sound).

[Sky]

wireless movies/pics/music off my comp to my surround sound

Bah, get with the times, man. Your pc should be hooked up to your surround receiver! And that sweet, sweet hdtv/projector you know you want.

:)

[MrHat]

wireless movies/pics/music off my comp to my surround sound

Bah, get with the times, man. Your pc should be hooked up to your surround receiver! And that sweet, sweet hdtv/projector you know you want.

:)

I'll have that HD tv in a few months.  Already have the sexy surround sound.

But I also have an airplane engine for a computer and like to keep it away from the rest of my entertainment for sanity (sound) reasons.

[Yegolev]

But I also have an airplane engine for a computer and like to keep it away from the rest of my entertainment for sanity (sound) reasons.

One of several reasons my rig stays upstairs.  Been meaning to put a watercooler on it for years, but I always wimp out.  The 360 might add some nice functionality to my setup, particularly letting me watch downloaded shows on the HDTV without a load of hassle.  I'll need to see the final feature list before I start making plans, though.

[Sky]

But I also have an airplane engine for a computer and like to keep it away from the rest of my entertainment for sanity (sound) reasons.

Ayup. First thing I did after getting the tv was spec out a new pc with far quieter cooling. I didn't go liquid, just 120mm fans set up strategically, I forget if the cpu fan is 120mm or 90mm, but a big fan on a honkin huge copper finned HS. It's not /silent/, but it's certainly quiet enough to fade into the background, I watch movies on it and don't notice it in silent scenes.

My last pc almost went out the window, it was somewhere between leafblower and jet ski in intensity and pitch.

[Daydreamer]

PS3 Videos Possibly Pre-rendered
Controversy erupts over Sony press conference.
by Garnett Lee, 05/18/2005    
67 of 78 users recommended this story.
The past 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster ride for game fans anxiously waiting the PS3. At its press conference Sony thrilled the crowd with videos that definitely said "next generation". To an audience eagerly hoping to be blown away it was like a nuclear bomb went off and they ate it up. It was a powerful shot across the bow of the other contenders in the escalating console wars, but was it real?

Before sunrise today a spark of doubt was smoldering. It caught fire by the end of the day. In the midst of the storm brewing this morning a poster identifying himself as Epic's Mark Rein posted to the Voodooextreme forums talking about the videos seen at the conference. While he did preface his comments saying that everything he saw looked perfectly achievable, he clearly said that he had seen the three or four times during rehearsals and only Sony first-party, Epic and EA demos were running in real-time on the PS3.

Of course that meant that the darling of the presentation, Killzone 2, was CG. It also meant that the hardware might not be light-years beyond the competition. After all, that left the Unreal tech demo as the best looking game running real time; more or less the same as the very Gears of War Microsoft used to show off the Xbox 360. That kicked off a cascade of people reviewing what they'd seen with a more critical eye.

The consensus coming out is that the scenes are in fact pre-rendered material. Some of the signs that point to that are the extreme particle effects and tightly choreographed shots. On the other hand, our own John Davidson has it direct from Sony contacts that "just about all of it" was "real".

As our friend Fox used to be prone to saying, "the truth is out there." What we're wondering is how much it really matters at this point. Hardware is still a long way off and developers will be making the usual enormous strides in quality over the final few months -- Sony, Microsoft and when the time comes Nintendo. For now the one thing certain is they served their purpose. Sony has put the contenders on notice; it isn't coming to this generation resting on its laurels.

Sony, poor sony - where hath your integrity gone? (if you ever had any to begin with)

[Yegolev]

sony - where hath your integrity gone?

Forgot the sarcastic-green, didn't you?

[HaemishM]

Sony, poor sony - where hath your integrity gone? (if you ever had any to begin with)

They were just trying to live up to our commemorative title for the week.

[Fabricated]

Didn't the Xbox have problems like that around release? Doctored screenshots and the like?

[schild]

Didn't the Xbox have problems like that around release? Doctored screenshots and the like?

Every system had that. EVERY SYSTEM.

[Hoax]

But I also have an airplane engine for a computer and like to keep it away from the rest of my entertainment for sanity (sound) reasons.

Ayup. First thing I did after getting the tv was spec out a new pc with far quieter cooling. I didn't go liquid, just 120mm fans set up strategically, I forget if the cpu fan is 120mm or 90mm, but a big fan on a honkin huge copper finned HS. It's not /silent/, but it's certainly quiet enough to fade into the background, I watch movies on it and don't notice it in silent scenes.

My last pc almost went out the window, it was somewhere between leafblower and jet ski in intensity and pitch.

Sounds very similar to what I'm running now.

Zalman 120mm on the cpu surrounded by a giant copper flower of a heatsink, and two more 120mm's running in the antec case.

[AOFanboi]

Didn't the Xbox have problems like that around release? Doctored screenshots and the like?

Did you ever look at the "screenshots" at the back of Activision's old Atari 2600 titles? That stuff is old.

(You can get a look at them on Activision Anthology for current-gen consoles - they come with pictures of the boxes, I think also of the back.)

[OcellotJenkins]

Sounds very similar to what I'm running now.

Zalman 120mm on the cpu surrounded by a giant copper flower of a heatsink, and two more 120mm's running in the antec case.

Ditto here. 

Best resource for building super silent PCs

[Strazos]

I have a ThermalTake Volcano9...

When placed in the tower cubby in my PoS desk...the sound is amplified to Jet Engine decibal levels. I can hear it 30ft away, downstairs.


EDIT: I have really good hearing, so I may be exaggerating.