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Poll Question: What is the best overall next-gen console?

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Xbox 360

(4 votes, 80%)

Nintendo Revolution

(0 votes, 0%)

Playstation 3

(1 vote, 20%)

Poll Totals:
Total Votes: 5
Total Voters: 5

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Best console?
« Thread Started on May 18, 2005, 9:41pm »

360's stats:

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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 Performance

* 1 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

PS3's stats:

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CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU

RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound

Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth

Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance

2 TFLOPS

Storage

Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O

USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller

Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output

Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media

CD
PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)

DVD
PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW

Blu-ray Disc
PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

Nintendo Revolution: (Too little revealed)

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Re: Best console?
« Reply #1 on May 21, 2005, 12:37pm »

PS3 is looking AMAZING right now.

Xbox isn't showing too much other than Gears of War and a few others.

The Killzone video just blew me away and the creator says its made with the in-game engine.

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Re: Best console?
« Reply #2 on May 21, 2005, 1:14pm »

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PS3 is looking AMAZING right now.

Xbox isn't showing too much other than Gears of War and a few others.

The Killzone video just blew me away and the creator says its made with the in-game engine.

Yeah, they said that the first time they showed it, but after everyone doubted it and called it pre-rendered, they said it was partially pre-rendered. They couldn't have done that entirely in-engine because the technology to make that type of thing doesn't exist yet. I'm pissed off at Sony for lying, they just lost a potential PS3 customer over that. A little dishonesty one place could mean anything for everything else. Personally, I think Sony inflated the PS3's numbers above and beyond what they originally planned to compensate for what Microsoft is offering. Seven controllers? How are seven people gonna play at the same time? Split the screen seven ways? And 6 USB ports is also way over-the-top. I have a PC with 6 USB ports and other than my mouse and sometimes FlashRAM drive, they're almost all unused. And I'm an FPS fan. Sony has the WORST FPS controllers ever made. Everything Sony did with the PS3's stats are just one-upping the 360 for the sake of one-upping the 360. Microsoft says 9 billion point operations per second using the CPU, Sony says 51 billion, then compared that to the 360's 9 billion. Sony added the CPU and GPU together to get that 51 billion, if you include the 360's GPU it gets up to 33 billion, which is already more than is neccesary. MS holds press conference at E3, Sony holds one immediately before, and then starts late, making it harder for people to get to MS's conference on time.

I am not a Sony customer anymore. If they're being just a little dishonest there, there's no telling about the other aspects of their show. They could be throwing out 100% grade A lies for all we know but people wanna believe it. They haven't even worked all the bugs out of their "Cell" processor yet.

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Re: Best console?
« Reply #3 on Jun 24, 2005, 1:51pm »

I didn't see "Backwards capatable" (sp?) On the 360 anywhere, Or is there another term for it. That sucks though, I can't play Morrowind on the new Xbox >_<

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Re: Best console?
« Reply #4 on Jun 25, 2005, 10:09am »

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I didn't see "Backwards capatable" (sp?) On the 360 anywhere, Or is there another term for it. That sucks though, I can't play Morrowind on the new Xbox >_<

I think they said with Xbox's Greatest games you can.

I'm guessing they are going to limit it to certian games