• 7Aug 08

  My ps3 vs 360 rant!

  After arguing with 360 fanboys so much, I have decided to make a response with sources to give to forums when the system wars heat up. Instead of retyping things all the time I am just going to use my premade reply and edit it when needed, so here it is, here is why the 360 is sucks and the ps3 is so great! Yes I am a fanboy, but only after knowing the facts, and only after owning previous sony consoles in the past, and knowing ms for what they are: greedy ****

  The 3fixme is the worst console to ever exist imo. No other console in history has had a 33% failure rate! No other console in history has a failure rate been talked about (they are supposed to just work!) Even the NES in its heyday may have had issues with blowing in the slot, but guess what it still WORKED! That can't be said about the rrod machine. I have heard countless people on multiple formums talk about sending their box back 2,3,4 and even 5 times for repair. Is that great? HOW can you people support crap like that? That is unacceptable, It doesn't matter if they fix them or not, it shouldn't happen in the first place. Its crappy cheap production and cost cutting tactics that is its cause.
  
  Then you got the fact that most devs that are working on the ps3 account that only 30% of the ps3's power has even been tapped, this is from the devs of one of the greatest looking games, uncharted, from Naughty Dog, here is a link, http://www.videogamer.com/news/06-08-2008-9010.html and here: http://www.destructoid.com/naughty-dog-using-only-30-or-40-percent-of-the-ps3-s-power-98283.phtml The problem is that devs are lazy! Most programmers are!(I am one so believe me I know, it was a famous quote by one of my professors too). 3rd party devs have a hard time learning new techniques. That is why when the ps3 was first out the devs spoke about the 360 being easier to dev for. The fact is though with the right tools the ps3 brings out power! The devs are working together, and first party devs are freely sharing source code and tools like a community, to even 3rd party devs working on the ps3 games! Something you would never see in ms world, as everything must be charged for!
  
  
  Thats right MS charges for everything, want to play online, $50 a year, want wallpapers, and themes? They charge for that too! Everything they can charge for they do, Wifi- $100 Hd-dvd(now defunct) - $200 Meanwhile all that stuff is included with the ps3, which you can get for $399 now for 80gb model. Sony allows mods for games like pc(pc is still the best imo) that Ms won't allow because they can't .... CHARGE FOR THEM....unless they can make cash on something ms won't allow it. They won't allow free games on their indy dev platform. The psn games are innovative and fresh.. Sony has got 90% more first party power then MS. MS sold their 1st parties off, so all they have is 1 or 2 studios, they just steal pc devs. Sony has beefed up 1st party that knows how the ps3 works and make extraordinary games! The list of games coming out for ps3 is crazy! Nearly 75% of games coming to xbox are also coming to ps3.
  
  Lastly people forget that the xbox had 1 year head start on ps3, so of course the install base is more, but not by much..20mil -xbox, 15 mil ps3, 1 year difference. The fact is though that ps3 has been outselling xbox since winter 2007. Then there is the fact that ea made 139 million with ps3 games 86mil for pc games , and 81 with xbox. From ex financial papers...here is one source.. http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=202826 So what is ea doing? They are making all their games on ps3 first, and porting to xbox(opposite of what they used to do), using the ps3 as the platform to show off their games. I guess Peter Moore wasn't a MS fanboy after all!
  
  
  As far as FFXIII, the only thing that pisses me off about the 360 development is the fact that us ps3 owners have to wait for the game now! It sucks we have to wait only because of the xbox...I wish they would release the ps3 version and then the xbox when it was done..but no...Japan gets that.. At least they aren't going to dumb the game down for xbox, which is reassuring! The only reason i brought this stuff on is all the 360 fanboys spotting their crap.

  • Posted Aug 7, 2008 7:05 pm GMT
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• 21Jul 08

  My new console the ps3 and Metal Gear solid 4 rocks!

  Metal Gear solid 4 is a masterpiece! Ok I've said it. I love MGS4, and am so gald I got PS3! The game is fantastic, its even better then gta4 which was the last big ps3 release. How did i get here in the firstplace, when a lot of my posts are pro pc gaming and anti cosole? Well the psp had me dipping my feet in and the lack of new pc games, and the release of gta4 had me. Yes gta brought me over to the other side, but mgs4 has me staying here, but don't think for a second i am giving up on pc gaming! i used to have consoles in the past too. Here is my list of previously owned consoles and computers starting from 1984+

  Atari

  Intellivsion

  Apple iic

  Nes

  IBM clone 8088 8mhz cga, 256k pc

  Game boy original

  Turbo Graphics-16

  Genesis

  Game Gear

  Snes

  Laser 80386sx 20mhz svga 1meg video card and 2x cd-rom drive, (ultima underworld and wing commander + gold box games ftw!)

  Ps1

  Packard bell cryix m2 266mhz(pentuim 2 clone) with a 3dfx voodoo 3 32 mb gfx card, 256mb simms ram (baldur's gate ftw!)

  Home built intel pentium 3 coppermine 650mhz, oced to 800mhz,64mb voodoo 5 - geforce 3ti 64mb, 512mb sdr ram

  Home built AMd athlonxp 1.6ghz(2000+ model) - geforce fx5700 ultra, 768mb ddr ram

  Home built Amd athlon64 2.0ghz(3000+ model 3ghz inetl eqiv) geforce 6800 vanilla apg 128mb (unlocked 16 pixel pipes 8 vertex) 1gb ddr

  Home built Core2duo 2.14ghz oc;d to 2.66ghz -geforce 8800gts -640mb pci express 2gb ddr2

  sony ericcson w810i walkman phone.

  PSP slim white version 64mb ram , 4gb mem stick emualtion monster!

  PS3 40gb, 3ghz cell, RSX video, Gateway HD 24" monitor doubles with my pc.

  • Posted Jul 21, 2008 6:22 pm GMT
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• 21Jul 08

  How greedy microsoft tried to kill pc gaming and wants to monopoplize consoles.

  I will never buy a ms console, the whole reason the xbox got invented is because ms saw how much money pc gaming was making in the 90's and they weren't getting any money for it as the pc is an open system. They tried to close the system down for gaming and the pc community wouldn't go for it. So what did they do? They made their own console where they can take $10+ off the top of each game made. They play lip service to the pc, but in reality they haven't done anything innovative with windows since xp. Vista is a joke. All they care about now is xbox. It's really a shame too, pc gaming has had the most innovative best games. They have buckets of money and instead of investing in new devs for pc games; they steal all the pc devs and make them work on xbox. Bungie was a computer developers, ensemble the makers of age of empires, another ms dev studio no longer makes pc games as ms has them making a crap halo rts... it plain sucks. They didn't do crap with the games for windows initiative besides make some rules, when what they should of done is put some of their cash behind windows gaming. But why would they do that? They don't make money on it like they do the crapbox3fixme! F ms!

  Then there is games for windows live. HA there is 2 games Halo2 and shadowrun(which doesn't work anymore as they cut the servers to a 1 year old multiplayer game that was originally an rpg, but ms made it a 4 map dumbed down for xbox shooter). The games are using 4+ year old tech, but to play them online you have to have a games for windows live account. What does that mean? You have to buy xbox live gold membership for a 2 sucky games, at $50/game, $50 a year for the membership and $100+ as its vista only. Then you can play an old sucky out of date game that is light-years behind any other fps on the pc.

  MS launched games for windows and made some silly requirements to try to make a brand out of pc gaming, well that wasn't what they did, or what they wanted. They have buckets of cash. You see them spend billions on buying out devs, stealing ideas, and moving pc game makers to stop making pc games and just make crapbox games. They want to destroy pc gaming. Why would they want that, don't they own windows? Yeah they do, but they don't make money on windows 3rd party software, meaning anything without an ms sticker on the box, they don't get jack. They do with their console though as I explained earlier. Well what do they want to accomplish then?

  MS has only been successful because they are good at stealing and being ruthless. They are not innovators and they know this. Innovation goes to pc devs, Sony, and the old version pre-GameCube Nintendo. Microsoft has stolen the miis from the wii, the interface and elements of home from Sony. They throw buckets of cash on games that they know won't sell that well to begin with. Why would they do that? So the competition doesn't get them. Its sheer ruthlessness. MS has one thing in mind. Total Monopoly. Like they have with PC's. They want to be the only console maker. They want to not have to build Xboxes but have other companies license the xbox tech and build their own Xboxes just like the PC's have to license windows. Think about it for a minute and you can see this as truth. That is what they know, that is what they do. They don't want to make consoles because MS sucks at building hardware, main reason is they are cheap with it, just look at the red ring of death, which was only there because ms rushed 360 so they could get a head start on Sony. They destroyed pc gaming and now they want the console market to themselves. They have been on a spending rampage with 3rd party devs as of late. They don't want any games going to playstation.

  Do you realize what would happen if ms became the only console maker for the hardcore? They could jack the price up, and stipple innovation. They could send the same crap technology every year and barley move it along. Example internet explorer, look how long it took for it to change, it stayed the same since 95 until Firefox gained momentum and brought competition. Yes Competition is what is good for us consumers and the gaming market in general; it makes us have lower costs and better products. If you are serious about gaming, then don't buy Microsoft consoles, buy Sony, or even Nintendo (even thought the wii kind of sucks now) If Ms wins the console war we all lose!

  • Posted Jul 21, 2008 5:48 pm GMT
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