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PS3 vs X-Box 360 (specs)
Thirteen:
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--- Quote from: Needles Kane on May 19, 2005, 08:52:37 PM ---oh and add microsoft to the list of HD DVD supporters
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NO, Microsoft supports BOTH, to be on the safe side..
Toshiba's biggest supporters are WB and Universal, but don't forget Sony's position in the movie apartment.
And EA Games is looking to become the next Microsoft in game terms, their support means a lot.
The BluRay standard is set in stone, but the HD/BluRay combo might be a reality, but best believe they will add backwards compability.
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microsoft doesn't support both. blu ray uses microsoft encoding technology. there was a report that specified that Longhorn will be compatible with Toshiba and NEC's HD DVD it didn't say anything about Blu Ray even though Blu ray has been out or month in japan
Universal and WB are the two largest movie production companies in hollywood, Micrsoft is the biggest software company...these companies don't want Toshiba to back down to Sony
HD DVD has been improved to fit 50 Gb on a single disc, they are more durable than blu ray, and the industry will have a easier time making HD DVD's than Blu Rays....
so far HD DVD has the advantage
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Microsoft's Japanese Division reported that its upcoming operating system, code-named Longhorn, will support HD DVD format. HD DVD is an enhanced version of the standard DVD technology.
According to online reports, Microsoft is pushing the next-generation blue-laser DVD technology like NEC and Toshiba. Blue-light technology can read and write data much faster densities, which is needed for high-definition content.
Microsoft said it does not know if it will support Blu-Ray technology from Sony and Philips in Longhorn.
Toshiba's Senior Vice President Yoshihide Fujii plans to release the first HD DVD compatible players in 2005 while Panasonic is expected to release their Blu-Ray based products as early as this week.
Few Japanese companies said they will have HD DVD content based DVDs by next year to support the players.
Thirteen:
--- Quote from: shamihundal on May 20, 2005, 03:58:36 PM ---the only reason to get X-Box is Halo. Playstation is and always has been the overall best in my mind.
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so what must have games does only Play station get that Xbox doesn't?
can't say GTA...
the only ones i can think of are god of war
Ninja Gaiden, Halo, Halo 2, Morrowind, KOTOR 1 and 2, Jade Empire > any PS only game
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Overseer on May 19, 2005, 11:54:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: Trauma on May 19, 2005, 08:33:07 PM ---
Also, no 'highest power' system has ever won any console war and you can take that to the bank. Every generation, and there have been about 5 by now, the mid power system wins out (except for the handheld race, where the weakest system, the gameboy, has always won).
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its true.. i did think aboutr consoles like 3d0, jaguar and dreamcast.. all powerful failures.
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SNES was more powerful than the Genesis and it won that war. It was close for a while but Super won in the end because the Genesis couldn't handle games like the Super could.
Anyway, why is there even a discussion about what the better system will be. The last time round PS2 had worse graphics than X BOX and even Game Cube in some regards but it blew them both the fuck out of the water. Add the XBox and GC sales together and PS2 still nearly triples them. Sony has so many exclusive rights to so many big franchises. It has the games. It always has. Now it has the edge in the power too. I watch the videos for Kill Zone and it completely destroys anything I saw from X Box or Revolution at E3. My prediction; Sony will easily win the next round and maybe easily win the won after, by that time Nintendo will bow out will Microsoft gets closer and closer each time. XBox may beat out Sony in the distant future but not anytime soon, and Nintendo only has so many strikes left.
I haven't bought a system since the DC but I may buy the PS3 after watching the E3 presentation. To pay for it I may just do what my cousin did for PS2; pre-order 2 then sell one on Ebay for more than double the price after the first shipments sell out. This only works if the first shipments are low, which they usually are. My cousin sold his ps2 for over a grand, tripling what he paid for the first PS2. So he basically got a free PS2 and 700 bucks to spare.
Jome:
--- Quote from: Needles Kane on May 20, 2005, 06:43:18 PM ---microsoft doesn't support both.
HD DVD has been improved to fit 50 Gb on a single disc, they are more durable than blu ray, and the industry will have a easier time making HD DVD's than Blu Rays....
Microsoft said it does not know if it will support Blu-Ray technology from Sony and Philips in Longhorn.
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Must be an old or uninformed article, Microsoft support both, Longhorn will be compatible with BluRay.
TDK announced that they have made a 100GB BluRay disc recently.. ante up. :wavey:
--- Quote from: Needles Kane on May 20, 2005, 06:45:52 PM ---so what must have games does only Play station get that Xbox doesn't?
can't say GTA...
the only ones i can think of are god of war
Ninja Gaiden, Halo, Halo 2, Morrowind, KOTOR 1 and 2, Jade Empire > any PS only game
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Gran Turismo, uhh ??
If Sony can get a similar deal with Rockstar to the one they had, GTA will bring a big audience..
hisairness:
Stupid Question:
What is the big difference in the Blu-Ray and the HD-DVD?
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