Sony should just have included it in the dual shock 3. View

determined by a couple factors. There has to be some compelling reason to bring out a new console. The lack of HDD and HD format is already effecting the 360 and to a lesser extent the Wii, but not the PS3. No company is going to build another console just because if all it will mean is a slight improvement of more of the same. We probably won't see new consoles until the cpu/gpu on the same chip matures. Another deciding factor is the U.S. economy. If it really tanks like it is suppose to new console might be delayed. View

I distinctly remember in the left for dead press release that it was not coming to the PS3. However if the publisher wanted it to happen it most likely would but would not be handled by valve. View

sales of new games to drop. I would buy a lot less games if I couldn't trade in my old ones. What's next they going to prevent people from renting games? View

When they first announced the ps3 the CELL was going to do everything, but once it was found out it wasn't quite that powerful the RSX was thrown in to help. View

This articles main points have been thoroughly debunked about 8 months ago.

There is no bottle neck between the CELL and Ram...the 256mb on the system side is not your typical GDDR3 Ram that is used on the graphics side or that used in the entire 360. The system ram is XDR ram it runs at 3.2ghz instead of the 700mhz of the GDDR3. In fact Sony's goal in designing the PS3 is to completely eliminate any bottlenecks...so where the article writer got this idea I have no idea.

The CELL itself can be handed off graphics processing tasks as needed. The CELL can help RSX with the heavy lifting. This what has future proofed the PS3 in terms of graphics. It was designed to be a processor that bridges the gap between specialized and general processors.

The speed of Blu-ray vs DVD difference is due to how speed is measured. Dvd drives were measured at the fastest reading point on a disk but as a dvd drive reads farther out torwards the edge it's read speed slows down. Blu-ray reads at a constant speed across the whole disk.

Blu-ray read speed has nothing to do with installing on the harddrive that is for load times. HDD are far faster than optical drives and since sony has a hdd in every system it was able to allow game developers the option of installing a portion of the game for smoother play. The two game this stand out on the most between the 360 and PS3 are Oblivion and GTA IV. View

$1 lost to piracy = $0 actually lost.....opportunity is not money.

The line of thought is asinine. I'm worth $40 an hour, so do I get to go after Microsoft because the crappy security in windows forces me to do an hour reinstall. According to Microsoft that's $200 in lost opportunity. Or how bout I go after the bank that holds my house loan....my mortgage is 2k...so since the bank takes that money off of me every month I lose the "opportunity" to invest it. So can I go after the bank for a monthly $10,000 loss of opportunity?

I like the way this works out I can claim five times the damages above and beyond the actual loss of nothing. My neighbor talked to me the other day for half an hour making me lose $100. We should lobby congress to prevent all these scum of the earth neighbors from talking to each other...we are losing trillions in lost "opportunity" here.

No wonder there are so many poor people in the world. We've all been doing regular math instead of Microsoft math. View

the case would never make it to court. The hit generations alone would pay for the lawyer and Atari might stand tough for a minute but once the Atari is acting like EA comparison was made and the internet came out in support of the underdog site they would settle. View

it's dieing. Open source is taking over much of the rest of the world. It's making great strides into business and dominates big iron. The only safe bastion for Microsoft is the desktop, but even here Microsoft has cracks in it's armor. Linux is making inroads into the desktop space and apple is consistently taking market percentage off of Microsoft. Vista is a resource hog that has been rejected by both business and consumer. As Microsoft struggles to hurry windows 7 out the door the U.S. is settling into a resseccion that will make any $200+ OS look unattractive. View

has anybody else noticed we've had quite a few games come out that are standard def View

That's like asking if it's over for the steam powered train. View

that hair line looks really photoshopped. View

where were all these highly critical reviewers when GTA IV came out?
Where were the complaints about rampant pop up, blur effects, lose resolution, and graphic gliches for that game? All we got were OMG THAT'S FREAKIN AWESOME!! View

Japan makes games that cater to japanese gamers. The characters are all androgynies, every plot line involves love, every plot line goes off on some tangent, every j-game has some insanely unrealistic unbeatable weapon/enemy, every j-game is linear and offers no character attachment , the fantasy worlds in thier RPGs are more like a bad acid trip than a well thought out developed environment.

Japan used to be the gaming mecha it's not anymore and japanese developers haven't come to terms with that yet. View

give review exclusives. Either that or they are making up for the lousy GTAIV review.

However the fact it is not even 720p should knock it down several pegs. We bought high def consoles for a reason. And that reason is not to play SD games. View

on a scale of 1-10 middle of the road is 5 so a mediocre game is a 5-6 not a 8.5 or 7.5 that would be a good game. I know haze is not a good game. It is a mediocre game I can tell that just from what I played. And it shouldn't get a higher score just because some other title got one. View

I have played the demo and it wasn't anything to make me say "ooohhhh ahhhhhh". What little I saw of the story wasn't interesting and the dialog was too much like Army of Two, overly masculine to the point of ridiculousness. View

They only said Metal Gear SOLID was ending. Next one will be Metal Gear: Link to the Past View

The xbox 360 also has all the flaws it does today due to him. Compare the 360 to the Dreamcast virtually every mistake was repeated. His ass was fired. View

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Between Nintendo going after the casual gamer and PC gaming nose diving we may see PC hardware manufacturer(s) take a crack at consoles. AMD/ATI, Nvidia or Intel teaming up with sega gives instant brand recognition and interest. View