PS3 General Discussion
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The only two titles I have the slightest interest in are Lost Planet and GOW, other than that, there's plenty out there on other systems to satisfy my gaming needs.
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I stongly dissagree. It doesnt come down to games, And only to the person(you) that wants to shut out every other system feature does that apply. I spent more time fiddlling around with the PS3 its self than playing resistance(not too overwhelmd yet)
Downloading demos surfing the web which is a lot better than I thought it would be. google videos works, havend tried youtube. but thats hours of entertainment right there. uplaod my sons photos and loading music, messing around with the card readers, testing out backwards compatiblity thats no where near as bad as people say. I share my HDTV with my pc and it has just one componet input. PS1 emulator is somthing I'll try when i update my psp. I would feel more ripped of paying $250 for a w!! than $400 for 360 or $600 for ps3. I get "my" money's worth with PS3.
And I dont know where either system flaw is(I can say this from owning both) but I'm more impressed from the overall package the PS3 offers than the 360.
360's better gpu is somehting no one can judge right now. CPU, GPU whatever doesn't really matter. Its the end result. A sinlge 7900GTX can out perform and SLI rig of the same card in some games. The software must take advantage of the hardware. thats why PS3 ports have poorer frame rates, EA admited its games use 20% of the systems power. I dont know where either system exels. Only things better with 360's GPU is the efficiency of the shaders not the perfomance and its 4:1 normalmap compression. Its shared ram has an early advantage with textures until devs learn how to use all the system ram the right way(PS3).
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Getting a bunch of friends over to watch google video on youe PS3 in the living room = awesome.
Getting a bunch of friends together to watch google videos on your 19" PC monitor in your office / bedroom = not cool.
Playing a game and then taking a break to look up some FAQ's straight from the PS3, then going right back to game = awesome.
Not to mention surfing the net for vids / images / music is pretty fun over your PS3.
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That's why I said "If you don't care about Blu-ray".
With the whole watching YouTube, uploading photo stuff, that's why we have computers. Now, if I didn't have a computer at all, the PS3s computer-like capabilities would be a genuine 👍, and would've probably made me camp out in front of Best Buy at launch. However, since I'm already watching YouTube, viewing photos, and listening/downloading music on my Mac, well, the things you mentioned would come to me as gimmicky.
I think what you're experiencing is the "newness" of the console. It happened with my 360 (tinkering with random crap) and Wii (making puzzles out of your photos, creating Miis, etc). However, I'm not doing that stuff with my consoles anymore, I'm playing games. And I'm going to guess that a month or two from now, you won't be tinkering with your system, and that you'll be playing games and watching Blu-ray movies.
Good points.
Okay...That's why you send an email to your friends with a link to the video.
I thought that you had to entirely exit your game to get to the XMB, so you go to the internet browser. So, you have to load the whole game again when you want to go "right back" to the game.
...Unless there's some obscure hotkey that they implemented for this specific thing, which they might include in the major March update.
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I sure am experincing a new console just like I did with the 360 but that expirence wasn't near the same. Its not the fact thats its a new console but it has given me a better expirence out of the box unlike the 360.
I know what you said, but you shouldn't take anything away from a system to make a point.
And like I said. I'm not confined to one place. I dont want to take my PC with me if i go to my girls(I do have one) house. I love my psp cuz i use it for what it is, portable. i'm not always at home.
I know what you said, but you shouldn't take anything away from a system to make a point.
And like I said. I'm not confined to one place. I dont want to take my PC with me if i go to my girls(I do have one) house. I love my psp cuz i use it for what it is, portable. i'm not always at home.
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That's why you send an email to your friends with a link to the video.
I thought that you had to entirely exit your game to get to the XMB, so you go to the internet browser. So, you have to load the whole game again when you want to go "right back" to the game.
...Unless there's some obscure hotkey that they implemented for this specific thing, which they might include in the major March update.
I forget you're not of the age to go out to a bar with lots of friends, drink, dance, hit on girls, bring them back to your house, and then entertain people with music, crazy videos, and pizza.
Soon, you will learn...
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Not really, but they're smooth and easily washed with a dry non abrasive scrubber that won't scratch 
My brother painted his room and some paint spots got on it, and were very very easy to wipe off with a dry pad...so who knows, lol.
My brother painted his room and some paint spots got on it, and were very very easy to wipe off with a dry pad...so who knows, lol.
Good points.
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Note: Going to google video and saving formats ala PSP to the PS3 hdd is win. Free south park is fun. I just wish the PS3 had some way to organize your videos...hopefully soon.
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Jesus, you're tall!
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Here's a question I've been meaning to ask for a while. How does the PS3 play SACD'S (multi-channel/stereo)? I'm assuming it's via HDMI. So that would mean I need an AV amp that has HDMI inputs to hear it?
I don't really need it on the PS3 as I can use what I have, but it'd be nice to know all the same.
I don't really need it on the PS3 as I can use what I have, but it'd be nice to know all the same.
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New Ninja Gaiden Sigma screens:
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/856/856529/imgs_1.html
Doesn't look *too* bad, but I'm disappointed to see that Tecmo didn't do more to improve it...
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/856/856529/imgs_1.html
Doesn't look *too* bad, but I'm disappointed to see that Tecmo didn't do more to improve it...
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Wow, I wasn't expecting it to be that long, great! Thanks for checking, SL!
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Yeah, you giant dutchmen.
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Finally got a USB FD that my PS3 recognizes, but Pako's files (PS2) still wont show up.
Here are some of mine... I have no idea what's what. Sorry, I just downloaded all that I thought people might want, but I have no idea how to identify what's what, so just download them all and try them out.
EDIT: Can't seem to upload them here.
I just downloaded one file to my MSN Users publishing site, so here's the link... http://www.msnusers.com/meq6j34s9khpoi5m26hab3rvv6/Documents/BASCUS-9710247414D4544415441.PSV
OK, by the file size, I can tell it's my GT3 ULTIMATE game save. Enjoy.
Just to see if this works, here's a MP3 file from my PC to USB FD, to PS3, back to USB FD, back to PC and posted here...
Here are some of mine... I have no idea what's what. Sorry, I just downloaded all that I thought people might want, but I have no idea how to identify what's what, so just download them all and try them out.
EDIT: Can't seem to upload them here.
I just downloaded one file to my MSN Users publishing site, so here's the link... http://www.msnusers.com/meq6j34s9khpoi5m26hab3rvv6/Documents/BASCUS-9710247414D4544415441.PSV
OK, by the file size, I can tell it's my GT3 ULTIMATE game save. Enjoy.
Just to see if this works, here's a MP3 file from my PC to USB FD, to PS3, back to USB FD, back to PC and posted here...
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Solid - You have to display all to see files, just hit triangle to display all, also note that files will NOT show up if not in the same directory. The best way to find the directory is to put a PS2 save on the PS3, and then copy it to a flash drive. Once it's copied, it will copy the file AND the directory. You can put any file there in the directory and it will show up just fine
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