Nicely written, objective and thoughtful. Actually surprised it came from Australia. I was under the impression people down there favored the Xbox 360 over the ps3. Nice to see a fair article.
BTW, the trailer these screens were pulled from is on IGN.
http://media.ps3.ign.com/me...
Frankly, the game doesn't look as good in motion (that's usually the case, screens usually look better than a game in motion). Maybe its my computer but the video looks kind of choppy.
Yeah the graphics are nice but I hope they have some exciting sh!t in this game. Like Lions chasing down and killing gazel, Lions vs hyenas, Buffalo sex (hey it happens), etc.....stuff you see on Discovery and PBS.
Who wants to play a game where all you see is Lions sleeping and panting?
Great post, probably the best, most intelligent post I've seen on n4g (and I've seen some fairly good ones).
The US does have the largest economy in the world.
But astute observation about the USA refusing to trade with other countries. The US won't trade with North Korea and Cuba and both their economies are in the crapper. Not coincidence. The US ***used*** to not trade with Vietnam and their economy was in the crapper as well. But the US and Vietnam started bilateral trade back in 2001 and since then Vietnam has been one of the fastest growing economies in Asia (last year Vietn...
I love how after the fact, its all of the sudden a great idea. This is just a spin article from an Xbot. And also, she's butt ugly.
Geez, n4g users absolutely jump on even the slightest hint of rumor.
You guys know that picture is from E3 a couple of years back right? I think the PR rep just mispoke. If it was going to be silver, then don't you think they would have said so on Friday?
More importantly why is the Australian 40gb black? Sony wouldn't make a silver one for Europe and a Black one for Australia, that would just be dumb.
See here, the Australian 40gb is black (not...
Come on, lets be honest. Most of those games suck or are just medicre. Frankly, I would rather play Mario Kart 64 on an SDTV than most of those games in 1080p.
1080p is nice but gameplay and fun factor rule.
EDIT: @1.2- I agree. After reading a little bit more about this rumor, it seems like bullcrap. Too many things in the article seem too fishy:
#1- giving Rockstar a blank check? Executives never say that.
#2- If this statement was given to the press, why was an Xbox only magazine be the only one with the scope?
RTFA.
The 40gb ps3 will NOT have ps2 BC (ps1 BC is a given; hell the PSP has ps1 BC).
Quote from the article:
"It adds that the backwards compatibility was dropped because there is a ‘reduced emphasis placed on this feature amongst later purchasers of PS3.’ "
And also, you are 100% completely WRONG about Euro ps3's (I owned others on this point and I will own you on this point as well). Euro ps3's dropped the EE (ps2's c...
You just have to fork over an extra $100 or so. But BC is still there if you want it (and are willing to spend extra).
Haha, I told you the 40gb would not have BC. If you were smart enough to read the tea leaves, you could figure it out.
I just owned so many other people in the previous thread who were in denial about the 40gb ps3 not having BC.
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News...
Hahaha....IN YOUR FACE Sony girls!
Gamespot must be hating this news.
A few days ago, GS wrote a nasty article trying so hard to discredit this rumor. The Xbots at GS were in such a state of denial, now they just have egg all over their face.
http://www.gamespot.com/new...
I will be laughing SO HARD at you girls when the 40gb will have no ps2 BC.
see link, sony themselves says the euro ps3 has the GS.
http://www.pcmag.com/articl...
and these people on this forum, oh yeah, i almost forgot to tell you, some of them have actually seen the motherboard of the 80gb ps3 and have seen the GS themselves.
so many sony girls in here are ...
Sorry about the outburst but its a very common misconception for people to think 80gb BC is total software emulation. A dude from the thread I posted had the same misconception:
Originally Posted by Synless:
I thought that all the newer ps3's had no BC HW anyways, I thought it was all emulated so how wouldn't the 40 have it if it has a harddrive?
Reply:
jesus... you are 1000000th to think so and you are wrong. Can you at least read few pa...
Read the fvcking thread i posted, they explain it. Graphics synthesizer....aka GS...that's all i'm going to say. if ur too lazy to read and educate urself then i don't give a sh!t, but ur wrong.
EE is the fvcking ps2's cpu, GS is the fvcking ps2's gpu. EE is emulated by software on 80gb ps3, but the GS is still fvcking there.
i'm mad b/c dumb fvckers like urself are too damn lazy to find out the actual truth. its only when someone shoves it down ur throat th...
See the link below. The guys in this thread explain it.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
Quote from link:
'Again (times 20?), the European and American 80 gig PS3s *do* have hardware for PS2 compatibility, in the form of a Graphics Synthesizer (GS) chip on board. All the European/US 80 gig units do in software is the Emotion Engine emulation, which they do on Ce...
False, inaccurate, wishful thinking. There will be no BC in the 40GB ps3.
See link. This is a forum full of industry insiders (1up and EGM editors are members of this forum; Greg Kasavin sometimes posts here).
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
I totally agree.
It figures, once there's some real bad news about Assassin's Creed, Jade Raymond is nowhere to be found. I told you she was just a damn puppet, just a pretty face to put out in the public. BTW, isn't she the 'producer' of this game?