HDMI what?
I think HDMI is some kind of cool new video cable or something. I'm not sure. And I'm not sure what a gigbit router would do to better my life. I consider myself a pretty technical person, but when it comes to a lot of consumer electronic technology, I can be pretty clueless. So my approach to the console war is more from a layman's perspective. I focus on the end product. What do I get to do with it? How fun is it? My focus is really on the basic fun factor. You don't really get points from me for technical achievements if it's not backed up by a great experience.
Gig on the other hand is very proficient in all the latest consumer eletronic technology. And he's the kind of guy who really loves watching the badest and the greatest of graphics and listening to the surround sound technology from the future. It really gets him going to see trillion triangles (or however many is impressive these days) rendered on the screen.
We've had this difference for a while. Even dating back to college years playing Half-Life. I focus on frame rate, I want to be able to play as effectively as possible. Everything else is subservient to that game play. Often my screen would look like someone threw a pizza on it and smeared it all over the screen. For Gig, he absolutely had to turn on every graphical bells and whistles even if it meant the game started looking more like a slide show.
So... Sony with ... HDMI... blue laser thingy... giga... what...? All this jazz marketting people go on and on about... hurts my head. I really don't care about any of that. What will it do for me, the end user? It all sounds like all that power is supposed to give me the baddest graphics and sound effects and most expansive and immersive gaming work. But I look at the demos to the PS3's game line up and I really don't see any evidence that they look much better than the next wave of XBOX 360 games. Why should I care about all the power when it gets me nothing new? Like Gig says, Sony has a lot of convincing to do before I shall out 600 bucks for their machine. It's going to get close to 1 grand after extra controllers and a few games.
In this way I see Wii definitely winning out over PS3. I can clearly see the benefit of owning a Wii. It will be a very different experience from XBOX 360. I really look forward to partying it up with my buddies and making it a group activity that anybody can jump into. And it will be cheap.
In a way, I see PS3 appeal being similar to that of PSP. PSP is technically superior to the Nintendo DS, but let's face it, there's not that many good games to play on the PSP after all this time. Who cares if you have Wifi, if none of your games really make good use of it? Who cares if you have amazing resolution if the artistic direction of the games are flat and uninspired? I say let's forget about all the marketting about horsepower and look at it where it counts. Which consoles will have the games I want to play? Right now it's definitely XBOX360 and looking to be Wii.
Gig on the other hand is very proficient in all the latest consumer eletronic technology. And he's the kind of guy who really loves watching the badest and the greatest of graphics and listening to the surround sound technology from the future. It really gets him going to see trillion triangles (or however many is impressive these days) rendered on the screen.
We've had this difference for a while. Even dating back to college years playing Half-Life. I focus on frame rate, I want to be able to play as effectively as possible. Everything else is subservient to that game play. Often my screen would look like someone threw a pizza on it and smeared it all over the screen. For Gig, he absolutely had to turn on every graphical bells and whistles even if it meant the game started looking more like a slide show.
So... Sony with ... HDMI... blue laser thingy... giga... what...? All this jazz marketting people go on and on about... hurts my head. I really don't care about any of that. What will it do for me, the end user? It all sounds like all that power is supposed to give me the baddest graphics and sound effects and most expansive and immersive gaming work. But I look at the demos to the PS3's game line up and I really don't see any evidence that they look much better than the next wave of XBOX 360 games. Why should I care about all the power when it gets me nothing new? Like Gig says, Sony has a lot of convincing to do before I shall out 600 bucks for their machine. It's going to get close to 1 grand after extra controllers and a few games.
In this way I see Wii definitely winning out over PS3. I can clearly see the benefit of owning a Wii. It will be a very different experience from XBOX 360. I really look forward to partying it up with my buddies and making it a group activity that anybody can jump into. And it will be cheap.
In a way, I see PS3 appeal being similar to that of PSP. PSP is technically superior to the Nintendo DS, but let's face it, there's not that many good games to play on the PSP after all this time. Who cares if you have Wifi, if none of your games really make good use of it? Who cares if you have amazing resolution if the artistic direction of the games are flat and uninspired? I say let's forget about all the marketting about horsepower and look at it where it counts. Which consoles will have the games I want to play? Right now it's definitely XBOX360 and looking to be Wii.
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