Jason Jaegers

Everyone should remember too... the PS3 has been around hardware wise for a while... its not like the developers just got their hands on it... there was a several month delay for its release because of the blue laser problem...

Also... its not like the PS3 version IS BETTER... it is newer so they had a chance to implement more things in the game in general... really they look quite alike for being a version apart!

There are some major differences between the 360 and PS3 when it comes to BC:

XBOX360

-Upscales games
-Needed to support Live structure
-As advertised only the big titles were being done
-All done with software

PS3

-Bigger deal because when the system costs so much you might not be able to afford more than 1 game if any...
-No upscaling (i'm pretty sure about that but could be wrong)
-Has a complete PS2 onboard to make it work
-Online play... do they even work the same? If you played Socom online does it just work online with the PS3?

The 2 companies really took different approaches... the 360 they said they would do what they could... the PS3 they promised everything... either way it shouldn't make too much of a difference for either camp... there are probably only a few big titles like Socom and Halo and things like they that people play ALL the time and would even bother playing on the new systems.

If anything the 360 looks better... it seems like they downgraded the texture quality, etc on the PS3 to compensate for the higher resolution... also the illumination on the 360 looks better... better use of shadows, etc... the PS3 looks like there is the same light everywhere... the 360 one looks like there is more of a realistic look to everything... like the shadows in the road on the pick with the bridge... Also... if you took the time over the last year I am sure you could have made Ridge Racer look better on the 360!!!! I wouldn't worry about graphicial power for the next gen...

Hey also... is it me or is there NO BUZZ at all about any of the PS3 games available? There are only like 3 games at launch that are not already on coming to the 360 at the same time... RFOM looks kind of ho-hum compared to something like Gears... Where is the incentive (other than blu-ray) to pickup a PS3 for $600??? I know it will still sell out but what does the PS3 have that the 360 doesn't?

Why would you want to upgrade the size of the HD???? This is where MS did the right thing... Who is going to copy their entire music and video collection to there PS3? You would still need them on your computer... to transfer songs to your player... if you use iTunes you need to use your PC to download your music, etc... it just doesn't make sense to put all your content on a drive inside the PS3... the only reason that modders upgraded the original XBOX HD was because you could copy the games to the drive... if you can't copy the actual games to the PS3 so you don't need to use the discs it doesn't really make sense to have a HUGE HD in your PS3.

Streaming from your PC is SOOOOO much easier... the 360 has it right there... now with the new update that allows you to stream HD video to your 360 there is NO reason to have a big drive in your 360! The downloadable content from the market place will be easy to manage with a 20GB drive...

Come one guys... we all know that Next Gen innovation is charging people for a preview of a tired old never innovative game like Madden... This guy has obviously never played Gears...

Hey everyone... remember the MOVIES ARE JUST RENTALS... so maybe they figure you will stream them / buffer them somehow... you probably have a window of time in which you can watch your rental and it will probably do something to stream and play from the stream so they dont have to worry about downloading a whole HD movie.

Also... why does everyone think the Zune has such a big screen!!! They said they were making a WHOLE LINE of Zune players and I would imagine if they wanted to have the Zune steal market from Apple they would have made something that went after the Nano/Shuffle market... I am sure that the 30 GB iPod is not the HUGE seller for Apple... it only makes sense... the Zune was designed to be launched with this Video feature for the XBOX!!!

What a fantastic move my Microsoft... like them or not... if you connect a DAP with a great screen like the Zune has with a service like this you hit several different markets at the same time!!!

And with HD-DVD / Blu-Ray up in the air why not take the chance to introduce the REAL FUTURE PROOF HD media format to the world!!! and if it works out the Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 is just a waste of money!!!!!!!

The key to the Zune will be 3rd Party accessory support... that is the ONLY big advantage Apple has going for it... go into any store that sells MP3 players... there is usually an entire WALL filled with iPod accessories... give people a choice and the Zune just might make up some ground!!

With the rate at which video cards for the PC are advancing the fact that they are just getting the PS3 produced and probably wont have that many of them until christmas 2007 the system hardly look FUTURE PROOF... there wont be many GOOD game for the PS3 until the end of next year... Halo 3 will hit for the XBOX at the end of 2007 and there should be a bunch of pretty good releases all year next year for the 360... by the end of middle of 2008 we should start hearing about the next XBOX and we will JUST be seeing some of the "good" games for the PS3... who cares about the Blu-Ray drive? That doesn't have anything to do with how future-proof the console is... it already has a "low" amount of ram and a video card that was designed a year and a half ago... PCs will far surpass the PS3 next year... let alone in a couple of years...

With the PS3 costing twice as much as the other "next-gen" consoles I can't imagine Sony will expect you to buy the PS4 in 3-4 years... by then MS will already be releasing a new next-next gen console that blows the PS3 away...

Really how many game developers are going to be jumping through hoops to write games for the PS3 when the install base in 2007 likely won't pass 2 million units? the 360 will have 10 million by the end of the year!! how are they going to get developers to want to make games for the PS3 when making them for the 360 could yield them 5 times the sales? Games are really what its all about and if the consoles are not out there no one is going to be jumping to develop games for the PS3...

Microsoft didn't support Blu-Ray out of the gate not because it was a Sony tech but because they weren't convinced that the technology was sound... they might have been right if Sony has know they need blue diodes and they could only come up with 400,000 of them in the past year... really... how many of them do they think they are going to have by the end of next year to put in consoles? 3 million?? 4?? 5?? at the most?? That still gives them HALF the install base of the 360!!!

Its about games not movies and the PS3 is crippled by a MOVIE techonology... that is going to effect the PS3's relation with developers and there will be fewer and fewer exclusives and if there aren't more than one or 2 good exclusives on the PS3 why pay twice as much for it?

This release still doesn't allow developers to put games on the 360... the final release at the end of the year will do that... the community is alive and going strong already though! You can checkout our website: http://www.xnaresources.com for some tutorials and links to other sites!

To everyone that thinks its hard to locate a song!!! Your way wrong... this interface is completely based on the PMC (Portable Media Center) interface and it is WAYYYYYY easy... I have a new iPod Nano and a PMC (gigabeat) and the PMC interface is much easier to use... to go through a big list of songs you just hold the button in... it FLIES through the list and overlays the big letter so you know when to slow down... and seeing the album art when looking through the songs helps A TON! It is much easier to pick an album/song at a glance than it is with the iPod I have...

The biggest problem I see MS having with this is the fact that there is no smaller player available at the same time... I know it is going to be a line of players but the BIG iPod market is people who use shuffles and nano's... people who dont carry around 100 CDs on a player but just a couple of songs... maybe they are testing what kind of market share they can get with this initial player and if everything goes well then they will bring the other devices to market.