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Well we in europe HAVE TO wait till March 07, but i think it wont even come out in march.
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Not me. I didn't even try. It's not worth it for me at the moment, because there isn't a single game I really want for it out yet. There are some games that have my interest but nothing is out yet. I would wait to clear out my backlog of games before I considering buying a new console.
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I didn’t go through your links yet, but one thing that makes the XBox 360 appealing is the fact that you can develop and publish your own games using XNA.
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Yeah, lol kinda forgot about that :D
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Would any of you be willing to pay over $600 (CAD) for PS 3? Is it really worth spending over $600 (CAD)?
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So how many of you nhave bought this overpriced gizmo?
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I heard many were lining up with the intention to resell it on ebay and make a profit that way.
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Interesting article. I always wondered what happened to Sega. It seems to have faded away after the Saturn and Dreamcast.
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Seriously I don't get it why people would wait in line for hours just to buy that console when they can wait 6 months and buy it cheaper. I understand the people who buy it to make profit, good for them!
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Why not, if u have the money :D. I hope March 07 is deadline, cuz i read it could be late.
PS3 rocks my dear, I only say Blue Ray Drive :)
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Sega left the console war after discontinuing the Dreamcast. They are a third party now, they make games for all the consoles.
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Definitely not me. There's nothing for it that interests me at the moment. By the time they release something that I actually care about, chances are that it would probably drop in price by then anyway. That's what happend with the PS2. I got it for less than 1/2 the launch price, and by then a lot of the games were cheaper.
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Interestingly I see a large number of customers purchasing Xbox 360 these days. Is there a particular reason behind it other than the seasonal shopping?
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^^ Microsoft was smart and cashed in on the disappointed customers who couldn’t get a PS3 or a Wii console due to the limited quantities - MS introduced some great offers just in time 
My bro actually got an Xbox 360 as well when he couldn’t get his hands on a PS3 
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^ Now that you mentioned good deals, I do recall a game being offered for free with the console. I believe there was another deal that was on the week before.
Microsoft's smart. :p
Btw... is Xbox 360 just as good as PS 3, in terms of technology and other key factors?
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^ Its called angoor khattay hain.
As for technology, PS3 is years ahead of XBOX 360, however the games being created are roughly the same. You can create a really great piece of hardware but it will only work as good as the software that comes with it.
Games are produced by independent software houses and they are having a tough time keeping up with the leaps of technological advancements in the PS3. According to some analysts it will be years before the PS3 can be actually used to its full potential.
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It makes sense if the games are more or less of the same standard. I recall hearing about PS 3 having bluray (sp?) technology and being better, but then the amount of individuals I've seen purchasing Xbox 360 is a little intriguing. If PS 3 is really all that great and only costs a few extra hundred dollars then might as well wait for it. However, what you're saying makes sense.
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Hey its the season of giving.. and going broke. These people are so brainwashed they will gladly spend $500 on a Commodore 64 if everything else runs out.
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Microsoft's smart. :p
Btw... is Xbox 360 just as good as PS 3, in terms of technology and other key factors?
PS3 is more advanced technically. From what I've, it's also more complicated to develop for. In the end, I would use the games as the criteria for selecting a console to invest in.
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Sony’s CPU is ideal for an environment where 12.5% of the work is general-purpose computing and 87.5% of the work is DSP calculations. That sort of mix makes sense for video playback or networked waveform analysis, but not for games.
Based on measurements of running next generation games, only ~10-30% of the instructions executed are floating point. The remainders of the instructions are load, store, integer, branch, etc. Even fewer of the instructions executed are streaming floating point—probably ~5-10%. Cell is optimized for streaming floating-point, with 87.5% of its cores good for streaming floating-point and nothing else.
Even ignoring the bandwidth limitations the PS3's GPU is not as powerful as the Xbox 360's GPU.
The PS3 does have the additional 7 DSPs on the Cell to add more floating point ops for graphics rendering, but the Xbox 360's three general purpose cores with custom D3D and dot product instructions are more customized for true graphics related calculations.
The PS3 has 22.4 GB/s of GDDR3 bandwidth and 25.6 GB/s of RDRAM bandwidth for a total system bandwidth of 48 GB/s.
The Xbox 360 has 22.4 GB/s of GDDR3 bandwidth and a 256 GB/s of EDRAM bandwidth for a total of 278.4 GB/s total system bandwidth.
Why does the Xbox 360 have such an extreme amount of bandwidth? Even the simplest calculations show that a large amount of bandwidth is consumed by the frame buffer. For example, with simple color rendering and Z testing at 550 MHz the frame buffer alone requires 52.8 GB/s at 8 pixels per clock. The PS3's memory bandwidth is insufficient to maintain its GPU's peak rendering speed, even without texture and vertex fetches.
When you break down the numbers, Xbox 360 has provably more performance than PS3. Keep in mind that Sony has a track record of over promising and under delivering on technical performance. The truth is that both systems pack a lot of power for high definition games and entertainment.
However, hardware performance, while important, is only a third of the puzzle. Xbox 360 is a fusion of hardware, software and services. Without the software and services to power it, even the most powerful hardware becomes inconsequential. Xbox 360 games—by leveraging cutting-edge hardware, software, and services—will outperform the PlayStation 3.
