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Offline Darklight

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Re: PS3 - X-Box 360 - Nintendo Revolution
« on: May 19, 2005, 02:55:26 AM »
Seriously, there's quite a bit wrong with that post, but I'm not going to go into all of it.  Basically - You're right, the PS2 is the hardest to program for, and it is often not utilised fully.  However, looking at the specs, it's extremely underpowered compared to GC/Xbox, even just in pure CPU speed.  Its texturing capabilities are much lower, its audio output is nowhere near Xbox quality.  If the PS2 is so powerful, then why, even with all these brilliant programmers (Rockstar, SquareEnix etc) are 'Jaggies' so prevalent in many PS2 games?  And as for Halo 2 looking like PS1 graphics, well.....I think you need your eyes tested.  Halo 2 may not be up to the standard of HL2 or Doom 3, but I think it's safe to say it's in the top 10% of graphic quality for games released in the last 12 months on all platforms.  
Oh, btw, another point with the PS2 - why if it is so powerful are the Resident Evil 4 team having to practically halve the framerate, and drop all textures down to 16 bit instead of 24 as well as dropping the number of polys in the main character model to even get it to run on the PS2?  Obviously there are some great games on the PS2, but it was released a full year ahead of the Xbox or GC, and it's clear that it's simply not as powerful as the competition.  That may all change with the PS3 though  :lol:
 

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Re: PS3 - X-Box 360 - Nintendo Revolution
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2005, 06:39:44 AM »
@ Mikrucio

You're right, looking at the specs is a bad idea.  The Amiga 500 was capable (and still is) of more than most people would give it credit for, hence its popularity during its short lifespan.  However, if you look at the capabilities of the PS2 compared to the GC or the Xbox, it's simply not up to snuff.  I'm not an Xbox fanboy, I own both the GC and the Xbox, and have quite often considered buying a PS2, if only for the FF and GT series.  But simply stating the PS2 is the most powerful is quite ignorant and 'fanboyish' if I may say so.  The PS2 was released a full year (if not more, not sure of the dates, I think it was August 2001?) ahead of the GC and Xbox.  This lead, and its backwards compatibility with the PS1 games and hardware (controllers etc) led to the 80 million to 20 million figures you speak of.  Nobody in their right mind goes out to buy a PS2 for its hardware, they buy it for its games, and Sony has brilliant 3rd party support.  PS2 games look good, but take a look at a multi-platform game, and the PS2 will always come out worst, even though most of the time its developed on PS2 hardware and ported using Renderware, so your argument about the Xbox being easy to develop for is pretty much rendered (excuse the pun  :-D ) useless there.
The point is, all three consoles have their positives and negatives, so there's no point looking at hard evidence and swearing that exactly the opposite is true.
(BTW, your comments about Halo MUST be purely to start a flame war, because nobody is that blind.)

Anyway, go back to your trolling if you must  :lol: