[QUOTE="Dust24311"]I'm a scientist at Southern Research Institute in Maryland, USA. I've written on this subject before, but I deem it necessary to show people that Folding @ Home is a tool, not a miracle program. I think it's important for me to inform everyone that Folding at Home is not for cancer research, but simply to understand how proteins fold based upon their amino acid sequences. That said, this program is limited by the programming and the application of the scientists at Stanford University's Chemistry department. The program has led to approximatelly 50 scientific research articles being published on the subject of medicinal chemistry. While this may seem impressive, none of this information has led to clinical research of any significance. It is not uncommon for average High Throughput Screening Labs to be responsible for HUNDREDS of research articles in the same amount of time. Just wanted to get the word out. This program was made to predict protein folding and that is the ONLY thing it does. It does not magically cure cancer. Sometimes things are exactly as they seem. Here's how I see it. Running this program may or may not help. Not running this program DEFINITELY does not help
You are in the unique position of affording both consoles. The PS3 is going to be around for a while. Also, it's true that most games are multi-platform and the Xbox has more exclusives out RIGHT NOW. You already have an HD-DVD player so I wouldn't get too excited about the blu-ray. This is going to contradict everything I've said on these boards for the last two days but.....you are in a unique situation. You already have a 360, so the damage is already done. For you, right now, I would say that you could afford to wait on the PS3. Resistance and Motorstorm alone are NOT worth $600. Just don't go crazy investing in a larger games library for that 360 because, mark my words, someday you will NEED a PS3
IMHO.. if $$ is no problem, today, as in, right now... X360 has to be your better bet (based on the game library currently available and to be shortly released). PS3 is just not worth the purchase right now (and I'm going to stress RIGHT NOW) unless u're looking to get into the HD movie era early with Blue Ray. Don't take me wrong, PS3 WILL get better and there will be some awesome games released for it but most are not coming till the end of '07/'08 and with the "rummored" price cut at the end of the year you'd be better off waiting a bit. Just my 2c Gimp_Shard
I will re-emphasize his point of RIGHT NOW. Soon, developers will harness to the awesomeness that is contained in that big, shiny, george-foreman grill-looking box and gamers will be frothing at the mouth hoping, praying, that they can get to the store before they run out of stock. However, if you want games RIGHT NOW, and you don't mind buying another console in 2 years because the one you have is so far obsolete it barely functions as a paperweight, go ahead and get the 360.
So what are you saying? Are you saying that Sony has a PROVEN track record of console gaming success. Are you saying that history will repeat itself? Sounds good to me. Sony's got a great machine and they have a strategy. Unfortunately for the fanboys out there, that strategy doesn't involve some crazy unrealistic goal of selling 25 million consoles a month. The strategy does include patience, and waiting for the developers ideas to catch up to the technology. When the power of the PS3 is unleashed it will absolutely smoke the competition. That will leave the competition with no choice but to come up with a NEW gaming machine that is comparable in power to the PS3. THe only problem with that is that it will be new, so developers won't have a lot of games for it right away, and it will be released witha high price, right around the time that the PS3 is having its first or second price drop.
The less exclusives the PS3 gets the less amount of buyers for the PS3. If no one buys the PS3 the more exclusives MS gets because of a larger user base. Yes at the moment alot of them are multiplat, but who is to say it will stay that way when there is hardly any PS3 owners out there. Eventually it will lead to MS exclusives .....which means, the downfall of an empire. SmokenAshes
That is SO short-sighted. Don't worry though, you're not the only one. It is an undeniable fact that the PS3 is the more powerful system and has higher storage capacity. That means that games will have better graphics, better sound, bigger worlds, more innovative gameplay, and more features. Right now the damn this is only 4 months old. Give it some time man. Once developers start REALLY using the power of the PS3 two things will start to happen. 1) Multi-platform games will absolutely SHINE on the PS3 2) Games will become PS3 exclusives simply because the 360 hardware doesn't have enough horsepower. Once that starts to happen, you will see PS3 sales absolutely skyrocket. That is the difference between the 360 and the PS3. Right now even, alot of people are wondering, "What else can the 360 do?". With the PS3 the sky is the limit. This is EXACTLY what happened two generations ago. Games started being released in exponentially greater numbers for the PS1 compared to the N64. Why? It wasn't because Sony paid the developers for the exclusive, it's because the PS1 hardware offered more flexibility, more capacity, and lower production costs than the cartridge based N64.
Square and Konami need Sony as much as Sony needs them. If you're developing games, you need a console manufacturer to make a piece of hardware with features that appeal to consumers. Sony has done that. The PS3 is selling FASTER than the 360. The PS3 has the hardware capabilities for these games (we know that MGS can NOT be played on a 360). Sony is providing the technology that high-end innovative developers want. Microsoft isn't. Believe me, IF the 360 could play MGS4, it would be multi-platform. No developer is going to ignore 10 million xbox gamers if they can help it.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that loosing exclusivity on DMC 4 isn't a big deal is lying to themselves. Sony should do everything in there power to try to make sure that there other big third party exclusives stay exclusive.Shadowhawk2606
They already did. They created a system with superior power and capacity. And they packaged it in a completely cross-functional package that appeals to consumers and is a great value. If you are suggesting that Sony start PAYING for exclusives you are out of your mind. Development costs are too high now that the technology is so advanced. There is no way that Sony, or even Microsoft could afford to do that for more than a handful of games and still keep their gaming division profitable. Think about it, if you were developing a game for the PS3 and you could port it to the 360 relatively easily. How much money would it take for you to ignore 10 million xbox gamers?
If Sony loses MGS, would still means its the end of Sony........ and this is only one game.... will MGS decide if Sony wins the console war?aka_aj03
It may appear that way. But Konami is not stupid. They wouldn't ignore 10 million xbox gamers if they didn't have to. Unfortunately for them, Microsoft did not present them with a system that was capable of keeping up with their ideas. Sony did. That is what will win the console war.
It's a fear on the part of PS3 owners. It's a gut reaction. It appears that Sony won the last two generations of gaming wars because it had a larger and more diverse library of exclusive games. The fact is, they had those exclusives because their hardware was superior to the competition. Therefore, the console sold and created a HUGE marketplace for developers to publish their games. The Xbox didn't do as well because it came later, and it was new. It didn't play DVD's right out of the box and there was nothing for it to be backward compatible with. So even porting a game to the xbox was risky for developers. Now it's different. Sony still has the best hardware but the 360 got a 1 year head start. So that means that there is now 10 million xbox's out there that need games. It's not like last-gen when Microsoft was the new guy, this time they've succeeded in establishing themselves. But PS3 is still the better system, and developers have faith in it. That is why you haven't heard anything about a game becoming a MS exclusive. So people are upset about DMC4 because they see it as Sony losing its competitive advantage. What is puzzling to me is why people see that as MS GAINING a competitive advantage.
Once again, I'll weigh in. If the question is PS3 vs 360, I'm picking the PS3. Which isn't really suprising since this is a PS3 board but I'll elaborate anyway. Price - The PS3 is $200 more expensive. so if you're looking for a stand-alone, off-line, single purpose gaming system then the 360 has the better price point. However, when you try to match the systems feature for feature, the price difference is moot. Online, PS3 has it free. WiFi, PS3 has it right out of the box. It's another $150 for those things on a 360, and then its another $50 every year after that. Games - The PS3 is behind. But the 360 has had a 1 year headstart. Despite that, the high-profile games on the 360 are predominantly first person shooters. SO if you're into FPS, then get the 360. You might also hear about PS3 exclusives going to the 360. It's all spun in the media to make it look bad for Sony. The fact is, Sony did nothing special to make those games exclusives in the first place so its not surprising that they are going multi-platform. Also, you're not reading a single word about any multi-platform game becoming a 360 exclusive. So at the VERY worst case scenario, every single game will appear on both systems. Functionality. - The PS3 wins here because it does alot more out of the box than the 360. Free online, wifi, motion sensitive controls, PS1 and PS2 compatibility, photos, videos, and blu-ray all on one machine. Power - The PS3 is a more powerful system and the blu-ray media offers developers more capacity. That means, as developers learn to use the system more efficiently and more thoroughly, PS3 games will become FAR superior to 360 games. Better graphics, bigger games, and better sound will be the hallmarks of PS3 games. All this together ensures that the PS3 is a safer bet for the long term. Once the PS3's power is unleashed, the 360 is going to be hurting.
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