Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony

Which of the home consoles do you like best?

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache


CPU Game Math Performance
9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
500 MHz
10 MB embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance
500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate
16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA

Shader Performance
48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
512 MB GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz DDR
Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth
22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance1 TFLOP

Storage
Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
3 USB 2.0 ports
2 memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
Built in Ethernet Port
Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
Video Camera Ready


Digital Media Support
Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Windows Media Center Extender built in
Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers

HD Game Support
All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard definition and high definition video output supported

Audio
Multichannel surround sound output
Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation
Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates
Interchangeable to personalize the console

Dont click this if your a PS3 fanboy..

Spoiler:

Sorted. Also notice the RRP. of the PS3 against the 360.
Xbox 360 Premium Console + Grand Theft Auto = 199.99... Free delivery...
Sony Playstation 3 PS3 Console with 40GB HDD + Grand Theft Auto IV = 299.99...



You may have noticed that the Nintendo "Wii" doesn't rate highly with me, dont get me wrong, its a great idea and some good fun but its a bit of a novelty

can you simplify that a bit for the people who dont use that jargon?

Kamatari wrote:can you simplify that a bit for the people who dont use that jargon?

i agree...

I prefer sony, they constantly made good consoles unlike Microsoft (the Xbox was so bad!!! i mean black and white buttons in the way of red and green! Crazy)
Nintendo, well they were near bankrupt till the DS came out in which so many bought it that their parents bought them and some people bought 2 so they can do the special multi player stuff!!! The gamecube stunk though it had some good games but was not a strong enough competetor with the PS2 and Xbox.
The PS1 was good and it had some great games on it. The PS2 was awesome and even more sweetass games, PSP... nah... Sony should stick to consoles and let Nintendo deal with the hand helds. And the PS3, well it is only just getting started so don't judge an entire company on their most recent product.

wii fit coming this friday!

looking foreward to it!

SkitzoTamz wrote:Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache


CPU Game Math Performance
9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
500 MHz
10 MB embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance
500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate
16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA

Shader Performance
48 billion shader operations per second

Memory
512 MB GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz DDR
Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth
22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance1 TFLOP

Storage
Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O
Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
3 USB 2.0 ports
2 memory unit slots

Optimized for Online
Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
Built in Ethernet Port
Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
Video Camera Ready


Digital Media Support
Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
Custom playlists in every game
Windows Media Center Extender built in
Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers

HD Game Support
All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard definition and high definition video output supported

Audio
Multichannel surround sound output
Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels

System Orientation
Stands vertically or horizontally

Customizable Face Plates
Interchangeable to personalize the console

Dont click this if your a PS3 fanboy..

Spoiler:

Sorted. Also notice the RRP. of the PS3 against the 360.
Xbox 360 Premium Console + Grand Theft Auto = 199.99... Free delivery...
Sony Playstation 3 PS3 Console with 40GB HDD + Grand Theft Auto IV = 299.99...



You may have noticed that the Nintendo "Wii" doesn't rate highly with me, dont get me wrong, its a great idea and some good fun but its a bit of a novelty

Ds specs

IT HAS 2 GODDAM MOTHERF***ING SCREENS.

ahem.

therefore ds is the best?

Hmm I won't vote, can't decide between sony and nintendo, I mean I loved nintendo ever since I knew what a game was (about 4 years old) and I sticked to it for always rlly... till now, I felt the wii didn't fit me so I bought a PS3 which fit's be better, and I also have the PSP which is just generally fun to take apart and mod... Both are great company's with great idea's, and I still think, with all due respect for the xbox360 which has it's good sides, that Microsoft should have sticked to computer software... because the computer software quality only went down since they started building consoles...

yes DS is the best. Dual screen is so much fun to play

although im not using mine to it's fullest potential (i have no freaking clue how to use that stupid download play thingy)

bump

Solent wrote:wii fit coming this friday!

looking foreward to it!

OH NOES!!! Rob has been drawn in by Nintendo and hasn't realised Nintendo's OBVIOUS plan, this being they will release a whole load of crap which no one needs (wii wheel the thing that comes with wii fit) and by selling the controller in seperate bits... All of which cost WAY too much. Then they say, "Oh, using the wii means you can burn callories and become fit" What a load of bullshit!!!! if you want to lose weight go run around for some time, it is cheaper and is better for the planet. Yeah Wii fit, now that is gonna help...not it is a load of crap. From what i know of it you stand on something and move about with the minimal amount of movement possible meaning you don't lose anything apart from your dignity (trust me it will go). Then they now get all the fat retarded gamers thinking, "Maybe i can become thinner without going outside where i haven't been for 10 years or something whilst still gaming, it is a win win situation" This then meaning that you get them spending crap loads for a Wii and everything else BUT you also get older people (or just larger people who aren't teens/kids) buying a wii and this crapola in a box compressed into a disc thinking they will get money. It is a load of utter BULL CRAP!!!! I understand some of the wii stuff but, with the main controller WHY do you need to buy the 2 parts seperately?!?!?! SERiOUSLY! As far as i know most games need the Nun-chuk part but to get that you needed to pay like an extra £20 or more!!! It is the greatest thing Nintendo have ever come up with for making money but it is soooo god damned annoying!

^What he said^

Mozillo wrote:

Solent wrote:wii fit coming this friday!

looking foreward to it!

OH NOES!!! Rob has been drawn in by Nintendo and hasn't realised Nintendo's OBVIOUS plan, this being they will release a whole load of crap which no one needs (wii wheel the thing that comes with wii fit) and by selling the controller in seperate bits... All of which cost WAY too much. Then they say, "Oh, using the wii means you can burn callories and become fit" What a load of bullshit!!!! if you want to lose weight go run around for some time, it is cheaper and is better for the planet. Yeah Wii fit, now that is gonna help...not it is a load of crap. From what i know of it you stand on something and move about with the minimal amount of movement possible meaning you don't lose anything apart from your dignity (trust me it will go). Then they now get all the fat retarded gamers thinking, "Maybe i can become thinner without going outside where i haven't been for 10 years or something whilst still gaming, it is a win win situation" This then meaning that you get them spending crap loads for a Wii and everything else BUT you also get older people (or just larger people who aren't teens/kids) buying a wii and this crapola in a box compressed into a disc thinking they will get money. It is a load of utter BULL CRAP!!!! I understand some of the wii stuff but, with the main controller WHY do you need to buy the 2 parts seperately?!?!?! SERiOUSLY! As far as i know most games need the Nun-chuk part but to get that you needed to pay like an extra £20 or more!!! It is the greatest thing Nintendo have ever come up with for making money but it is soooo god damned annoying!

haha i know what you mean mate, but i guess i've been a bit of a nintendo fanboy with max since i was younger, especially since i'm halp japanese where nintendo are the game company of choice!
Fitness wise i reckon i'm pretty trim, i eat well, and train appropriately, well i have to if i'm serious about my sport! So really i'm only buying the board for entertainment value, though actually because it promotes balance and flexibility, it'd actually compliment my training programme quite well!
I know you mean like for the fat bloaters who really ought go for a run instead, but then again, for alota people running isn't fun, and if you can get anyform of exercise, if it's fun, then at least they'll do it! So there is a plus point there!
As for all the sub parts, yea it's expensive (unless you consider the technology involved), but i guess thats why it's awesome for me to bring kit like that home from japan itself! (where it's a BUGGER load cheaper )

I must say I do agree there too, I mean I have bad balance, and you need good balance with capoeira, always had bad balance tho, so such a board would really help me I guess oO I mean i'v tried standing on poles and stuff, it doesn't really help

can people really lose weight by playing wii? i hope so cuz i walk a lot (around my house xP) and i dont lose anything

BlastedS wrote:I must say I do agree there too, I mean I have bad balance, and you need good balance with capoeira, always had bad balance tho, so such a board would really help me I guess oO I mean i'v tried standing on poles and stuff, it doesn't really help

defo take up parkour mate, it does wonders for physical strength, and balance!

you ought go running too jen!

i read an article about a mother who lost 50 pounds or so (22.679954 kilograms according to my unit converter) by playing DDR for 5 mins a day for like 6 months or so. She had 2 young kids at the time, so all she could play for was 5 mins.

lol that goes with what Chris was saying...

this has a minimal amount to do with what Chris and this thread was saying, but here goes.
We (my family) used to think my neighbor (my age) was allergic to the sun cuz over a period of 5 or 6 years, we had only seen him outside maybe 3 times. He's a serious gamer
the truly sad part about that is, he was still tanner than i was (and still is). i used to be whiter than paper, but i might be tanner now though (not much though).

Jen: I used to not get out much, I'm still skinny but pale, but that's just because of my unhealthy way of living


Rob: Hmm I don't like it on my own, and besides I train like 4-5 hours a week capoeira (and do some at home in the garden too) so the physical strength is not such a big problem, it's just always been the balance with evreything, skateboarding, capoeira, simply balancing stuff...

sounds fair enough marv, admittedly when me and max started we did it around nighttime to begin with!

So you gonna start running jen?

...maybe

Not to make an excuse, but it's always to humid here and my homework takes forever to finish (one full page, depending on whats in it, takes about an hour cuz i have to comb through the paragraphs to find the answer, and then i have to contemplate the answer and make something up when i dont understand it or the question is about something that isnt directly stated in the book.) I have to post a picture of the book so you guys can understand my pain.

Kamatari wrote:...maybe

Not to make an excuse, but it's always to humid here and my homework takes forever to finish (one full page, depending on whats in it, takes about an hour cuz i have to comb through the paragraphs to find the answer, and then i have to contemplate the answer and make something up when i dont understand it or the question is about something that isnt directly stated in the book.) I have to post a picture of the book so you guys can understand my pain.

You mean more like YES I AM GOING RUNNING NOW INFACT!

yeah to the bus stop to go to school

Solent wrote:

Kamatari wrote:...maybe

Not to make an excuse, but it's always to humid here and my homework takes forever to finish (one full page, depending on whats in it, takes about an hour cuz i have to comb through the paragraphs to find the answer, and then i have to contemplate the answer and make something up when i dont understand it or the question is about something that isnt directly stated in the book.) I have to post a picture of the book so you guys can understand my pain.

You mean more like YES I AM GOING RUNNING NOW INFACT!

Hehe I'm currently trying to learn how to walk on my hands, I can run quite fast just not for a long time... I need balance more than running

ah yea one of my many spastic talents.

I did gymnastics when i was really young, but i can still do good old handstands, foreward flips, and it even resulted in my elbows being double jointed 0.0;
I've been pretty flexible ever since!

Awesome! today we measures some time, with a stop watch, and I was able to stand on my hands for a full minute! that's my personal record atm xD I want it to be like It's standing on 2 feet so I can walk and stuff

i wanna do that!!! but i recently went to a handstand but jumped into it, so nothing was touching the ground for a small amount fo time and then when i landed on my hands my spine kinda some what crumpled and bent so i quickly jumped back onto my feet
In pain