Crikey guvna, I ain't never felt more excited about the Wii U in me life!

Far out, listening to the yanks go on about it, the overall opinion of the console is a mixed bag of ambiguity. Which is it? Awesome ... or PS3?:cool:

Well, I get to find out in a couple of days, and make up my own mind. Money's tight, I was planning on 3 games but I reckon at a stretch I can only make 2 (excluding Nint. Land). Either way, launch day I'm just gonna grab New SMB U. I'll play the first two games for a couple of days before I bother getting something else.

By the time i found this it was locked:

the GPU (Graphics Processing unit). The 360's Xenos GPU is also slightly more powerful for running current graphics engines and, in terms of complying with Windows Graphic Foundation 2.0 (compatible with future versions of Direct X, shader models, etc.) is a full-generation ahead of the RSX. "One of the key ideas behind a unified architecture is to move the GPU from a rendering only processor to a complete compute processor. Right now all the GPU does is render 3D and displays it on your screen (yes it does more like 2D, video etc... but for the point of this article we are talking about 3D). With a unified architecture the GPU becomes more. It becomes a processor that can do almost anything that needs code processed. This means the GPU can take on more functions like physics, AI, animation and many other processes that can benefit the gaming experience. DirectX 10 and a unified GPU architecture helps a video card become an all-in-one Swiss army knife of game processing.

The 360's OS on the other hand uses only 3% of its CPU time on Cores 1 and 2, while Core 0 is free altogether, and 6.25% (32mb) of its 512mb RAM, this means that the 360 has more processing power available for in-game graphics and physics. Meanwhile, the ps3's OS
"In the case of the PS3 this equates to 12.5% of the available Cores on the CPU always reserved, an additional 12.5% sometimes taken by the OS, 12.5% of the available RSX memory and 25% of XDR Cell memory. Balancing these out, one could argue that Sony has removed up to 25% of the available CPU power and 18.75% of RAM for these features as well as others that are not mentioned here or will be added in future updates to the PS3 Operation System."
Wow, 18.75% (96mb) of the ps3's 512mb of total RAM, vs. 6.25% (32mb) of the 360's 512mb RAM, say, that means the ps3 has 416mb RAM left vs. the 360's leftover 490mb RAM for graphics
I could be wrong, but isn't 490mb greater than 416mb???

The 360's Xenos GPU is slightly more powerful for running current graphics engines and, in terms of complying with Windows Graphic Foundation 2.0 (compatible with future versions of Direct X, shader models, etc.) is a full-generation ahead of the RSX. "One of the key ideas behind a unified architecture is to move the GPU from a rendering only processor to a complete compute processor. Right now all the GPU does is render 3D and displays it on your screen (yes it does more like 2D, video etc... but for the point of this article we are talking about 3D). With a unified architecture the GPU becomes more. It becomes a processor that can do almost anything that needs code processed. This means the GPU can take on more functions like physics, AI, animation and many other processes that can benefit the gaming experience. DirectX 10 and a unified GPU architecture helps a video card become an all-in-one Swiss army knife of game processing. Those are the ideas at least, how it all works out is up to the game content developers

ps3 GPU stands at 228.8 GFLOPS
360 GPU stands at 240.0 GFLOPS

I thought it was about time that people realised this. As with the PS2, Sony have duped everybody into believing the PS3 was more powerful with FAKE pre-rendered 'target render' footage before E3 and clever wording.

Most people are convinced that the PS3 is more powerful and will produce better graphics and performance in games. I looked into this, I read about the specs. It turns out that the hardware is almost identical, however, whilst the Xbox 360 makes good use of it, the PS3 doesn't even have the power to use half of it's hardware properly. The way the cores are designed make it really difficult and non flexible for developers, and then I saw a graph...

Turns out the Xbox 360 has more of what's called "System Memory Bandwith". In fact, it has SIX TIMES what the PS3 has. So you're probably wondering what that means. Well, it's for actually USING the hardware and memory to render the game. You see how on the Xbox 360 all the textures look so nice and 3D and shiny? How everything has that extra photo realism to it rather than just looking painted on? Turns out the PS3 doesn't even have HALF of the system memory bandwith required to pull that off decently (you'll notice a lot of their E3 videos have very flat, last-gen looking textures).

So I looked at some more graphs, and although the difference is small, the Xbox 360 has more power on all of them, except for one. I looked into that remaining one to see what it was for, and it was for, surprise surprise, video playback. PS3 is a powerful blu-ray movie player which just so happens to be able to play games. Most likely built around Final Fantasy, so Square can make super ultra high definition FMVs with a few not-so-special playable bits inbetween.

Maybe a lot of that was a bit technical and boring, but my point is, it seems we were all duped. Everywhere people are talking about how the PS3 is apparently more powerful, but it's not true, at least not for gaming, and the difference is bigger than we thought. Now if only people would realise this.slarkyslark

for a long time i've wondered what it would be like to be a herm. must be pretty good cos there are heaps of games. one of my friends is a hardcore herm. he has never even played gran turismo just because it is on consoles. i think thats whack.

the best idea has to be to make one system your primary, then the others are merely secondary. with pc and herming, i guess i can see why you would make it primary, but it doesn't really make sense.

i know that you can do things like have dedicated partitions on your hard disk just for gaming etc, eg have a separate windows which doesn't have all the bloat installed so your pc goes fast. but in my opinion this is a great deal of extra effort.

another strategy could be to simply throw heaps of money at your pc, that way when you go to looad games you don't have to bother with right clicking every little thing in the system tray and closing it, because with all that extra power you can handle no problem.

cos you see the thing is you can just buy a normal workhorse pc and a cheap $100 graphics card and boom - pc gaming. it will be pretty awesome just like that, can definitely get into the big PC games like Day Z, arma, WOW, guild wars 2, rome total war - all that stuff. why spend heaps more money simply to play a bit faster when you could buy a console.

plus with console games (at the moment) if you buy the retail disc you can sell it again and get some money back. i remember how robbed i felt back in like, 2004 when i entered my half life 2 cd key into steam and that was it. no on sell, it is tied to me. and consolites today complain about the online pass, give me a break. And in other news - Still can't upload my sig :(

so i finally spent a few days making myself an awesome sig ... but for some reason I can't upload it? it says that the .php file can't be found once I click upload. sucks. maybe one day glitchspot will upgrade their servers to a pentium one, or something equivalent which can handle the awesomeness which is my new sig:

basically - sad face. On the plus side though maybe this means it will come to the wii u eventually? Release with ME3, release the ME collection later.

Hi guys. Well I didn't get to play much today because i was busy with school. I had to write a report in english class and we could choose any topic related to pop culture and its impact on society. obviously i picked video games and i had a few angles. The way the scope of games is getting bigger. how i find they're displacing movies in hollywood. how they're referenced more and more in other media like movies tv shows film books magazines etc. i mean, cliffyb was a guest on some show! anyway. My teacher always gets us to do these one page reports in size 12 font, teaching us to write succinctly. he always marks it there and then in class. he said somethin like: 'every year pupils write these articles on video games, its good to see another one that has the right ideas' when i write my blogs i ain't that vigilant with the shift key and i kind of, write how i talk? but, for school ... I use all the proper English. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and conjunctions - laugh out loud. anyway this is already too long a blog post. byeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Hi guys. Today I kept working through mass effect. what a great game, honestly. Man, if this gen you just had a PS3 or Wii, you missed out on a great game. You can get it on steam for pc but you won't get gamertag achievements (which pwn). I am being really nice to everyone and building up my paragon, I got my first blue dialog option of my own today! Spoiler alert, it made it much easier to complete a quest with a general on Noveria. I am just addicted to this game, so much fun. In other news I started reading the wii u thread but its too long. the first page makes it sounds pretty good. i don't think its gunna be that powerful, probably more powerful then 360 when it comes out. still though, dont know if i would bother to pre order cos that takes money away from microsoft points lol

I have never been on gamespot before, but today I finally decided to join. I will try to write a blog every day about the xbox 360. Today I played mass effect one which was great because I never got to play it on my ps3. Anyway catch you guys 2moro! PS - I thought I better welcome myself here cuz I'm new here and nobody else is gunna do it!