Now would be the perfect time for someone to post a Rickroll link.....mjarantilla

Haha, so true. :lol:

[QUOTE="donalbane"][QUOTE="Chutebox"]It has ingame music fakeboy.edo-tensei

you don't need to do that in your ps3 because unlike the 360 you can store music to your harddrive through your mp3 player or any usb device

Yea, store music on your PS3's HDD and watch it fill up with all those Game installs + Music, great idea! :roll:

Seriously though, I can hook an MP3 Player or just a plain ol' flash drive to my 360 and play music / videos from them, but all of that is pointless when you can just stream it from a PC.

Custom Soundtracks have to be implemented in each game, its not like the 360 where it works with all games.

Link

"The new in-game XMB will offer a host of other new features as well, including the ability to send text messages to friends in-game and to jump to other PS3 services. However, many of said services--including Web browsing and voice chat--will force players to quit their game and then access the XMB traditionally. The rumored customizable in-game background-music feature, which will let players stream music from their hard drives while playing a game, was also confirmed. However, the feature will be game-specific, which means that it is up to developers to enable the functionality or not."

[QUOTE="ReverseCycology"]

http://kotaku.com/5021326/minority-report-designer-behind-new-motion+controlled-360-gui

gamemaster_650

That's shopped. someone just added an xbox360 interface into a pic of minority report

If you actually read the link, you would understand the story behind it.

Anyway, if this story ends up true, this could be very interesting, I want to see how they actually put this into play.

[QUOTE="ThePlothole"][QUOTE="verbtex"]

The PS1 was the original system with motion sensing controls, not the Wii. You can look it up at a bunch of sites on google. It was dropped for the Playstation 2 because too many owners had complained about the diffuculty. But when Sony heard that the "Revolution" was gonna have motion sensing controls and saw all the hype over it, Sony decided to bring that back.

verbtex

BS. The official PS1 controller never had motion sensing, period. There was a PS1 controller with a tilt sensor (which could substitute for an analog stick), but it was third party.

I never said it was an official controller. Duh.

They are just saying that the Wii had it first, and that NO OTHER CONSOLE had it before that, whether it was an option or not.

Actually, the Atari 2600 had a motion sensing controller.

EDIT: Forgot, heres the link.

[QUOTE="dabear"]A quick search on the 'Net (in I don't know, 10 seconds?) yielded me this link http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/16/ps3-faq-answers-to-your-playstation-3-questions/ . It's not a water to wine leap of faith to reaize that if you don't install the game, load times increase by 30%-50%. In soem cases, from what I have read in various snippets, the install is required because the game will be come choppy otherwise.darthogre

And why exactly do a lot of game NOT have installs yet play fine? Uncharted......I can't remember any installs for that game and I'm pretty sure the game was not choopy at all.

I think this goes back to my point.......some devs need this because they are looking for the quickest/easiest path to do something. That and the fact they are trying to port from X360 to PS3 but that is a whole nother discussion all together. Either way it's possible to have a great game without installs, it's just up to the devs to do it.

Not quite, Uncharted doesn't have large open areas like games such as GTAIV and MGS4, Uncharteds levels were pretty small and linear, there wasn't a really big need to have installs to decrease load times on Uncharted when the BD drive was able to keep up with the small enviornments.

[QUOTE="kindredmachine"][QUOTE="fluxorator"][QUOTE="kindredmachine"]

So I was playing MGS4 and finished act 1 and guess what... I was greeted with a "please wait" type screen while the game actually had to stop for several minutes and RE-INSTALL the next act of the game. I laughed from the irony since people were boasting about not having to swap disks because of Blu-ray. It would actually have been FASTER to get up and swap a disk then to sit there for 2-3 solid minutes while the game installs after every completed act... It's funny how PS3 fans don't mention this... still an incredible game though...

fluxorator

I think you might have had to install it even if there was 5 discs... Thats what people don't seem to realise.
The only reason MGS4 can look and play so smooth is because it basically runs off the HDD... you'd still have install between chapters even with 5 discs...

There's no installing at all on the 360... only the PS3. Lost Odeysey is a 4-disk game and it takes 30 seconds to swap the disk and get right back into the game.

You either can't read or just refused to.

My point was even if there were 5 standard DVD discs for MGS4, to get MGS4 to look the way it is on the PS3 now, its nearly impossible without an install. Even if they did just use the DVDs instead of BD, you'd still probably have to install the game AFTER you switch EVERY SINGLE DISC.

Thats not necessarily true, we don't know the reason for the installs on MGS4, but the main reason for any installs on the PS3 is to reduce load times, the 360 doesn't have a load time problem with most of its games because the 12x DVD drive in the 360 is faster than the 2x Blu-Ray drive in the PS3.

[QUOTE="Coyo7e"][QUOTE="Eltroz"][QUOTE="Nolan16"]

If they go to the limit as in patenting custom soundtracks and in game xmb you're really curious of Microsoft intentions are they starting to fear Sony?

excelR83

MS ( and several other company's) contributed code to blue-ray. As a result MS receives some royalty from Blue-ray sales.

lol is that so... you have a link?

Blu-Ray VC-1 Codec

Another

And another

EDIT: BTW, its Blu-Ray, not Blue-Ray.