Analysts Pick Sony PS3 to Win Current Console War

[techguy911]

[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]lol. 1/4th of the power? Is it fun to pull numbers out of your ass? Must be. And I'm laughing at your main arguments here that the Xbox 360 is slower because 1. It doesn't do folding@home, 2. The military isn't buying Xboxs, and 3. That "crackers" use the PS3.First, Microsoft doesn't allow folding@home. The Xbxo 360 has plenty of horsepower and an almost equal amount to the PS3. Anyone claiming the PS3 is significantly more powerful is completely blinded by fanboyism.Secondly, the military TRIED to buy consoles from Microsoft and Microsoft told them flat out "no." They wouldn't make money from selling them so they declined to sell them to the military. And lastly, "crackers", as you so eloquently called them, don't use the Xbox 360 because, once again, it isn't anywhere nearly as easy as to use a PS3. Microsoft hasn't and never will allow third party OS downloads and runs a very tight ship. Sony doesn't. Duh.[/citation]

Fact:

Ps3: 51 billion dot product operations per second.
360: 33.6. billion dot product operations per second.

Also atm most games only use 40% max of the ps3 potential
I can post a dozen links to this technical info.

 

[matt87_50]

[citation][nom]hakesterman[/nom]This was a given, it wasn't a matter of if, but a matter of When. The PS3 is far superior to all theother consoles. If it doesn't play Bluray it's garbage, once you have Bluray you don't care about anything else. The Controller on the PS3 is hands down better too![/citation]

take it outside!

 

[b23h]

"Oddly, the press release did not detail estimates for the Xbox 360"

Yes, that is odd. What's the point of looking at total sold over X period of time, and not make an estimate or release figures on the numbers of Xbox 360. It smells fishy to me.

 

[SethEffect]

So yea... the PS3 will be hitting full stride right as the next gen is starting... gg Sony.

 

[shakari]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]The Wii youve got to be kidding. Not even in my vocabulary. Idiots buying that along with the crapbox. High End PC gaming is where its at and the PS3 is the best Blu ray player period. If you dont have either you just need to crawl under a rock.[/citation]

Nintendo have done an amazing job with the wii. If you cant recognise that then your the one who needs to get out from under the rock. The wii is the most technicaly inferior to both the ps3 and xbox360, yet it is on top at the moment. The wii is basicly running on 10year old technology, sure you might think that the control is a gimic, but its a really really fun gimic that 10's of millions of people really enjoy.

Hard core gaming isnt were its at, as nintendo have proved that this generation. There is of course one other platform which everyone so far has over looked, and thats the PC, its still going strong after how many years?!

 

[Parsian]

[citation][nom]techguy911[/nom]Fact😛s3: 51 billion dot product operations per second.360: 33.6. billion dot product operations per second.Also atm most games only use 40% max of the ps3 potential I can post a dozen links to this technical info.[/citation]

The problem is, while PS3 is better on parallel processing of mathematical operations, the problem is the system is bounded by its graphic card and memory and hard programming.

 

[ricardok]

[citation][nom]Parsian[/nom]ALSO, you have to consider a release of xbox360 blu ray[/citation]
If MS releases an BD enabled XBox360 than that would mean a NEW console. Why? What would be of the older 360's?? Collect dust for all eternity because MS has a history of killing the support for older hardware (See the original XBox)..

A slim 360 would mean A LOT OF HEAT so, yes, it's possible, but if you take that the PS3 PSU is inside the unit than you can see that the PS3 is really smaller than the 360..

BTW, I own a 360 and PS3.. But with Heavy Rain being played now on my PS3 I can really say: The 360 won't outlast the PS3.

On other news: UNCHARTED 2
http://www.destructoid.com/uncharted-2-wouldn-t-work-on-xbox-360-apparently-146336.phtml
Quote of that article:
"The quality of the depth of field we have, you can't do that on the Xbox."

Also, there's Final Fantasy XIII..

I still love my 360, but I'm playing my PS3 a lot more.. I'm done with the "FPS centric" console for the time being.

 

[lorddrake]

I hate these dumb 360 vs wii vs PS3 arguments. Each one of these systems wins in certain areas. Anyone who says "this ONE is the best..." and all that is just some overly loyal person to what? A console?

The Wii has sold the most consoles, and has rejuvinated a lot of game playing by all kinds of people who never would have played games before. Their games are bar none the best for family and children.

The Xbox 360 sells the most games, more games then PS3 and Wii combined. Whats that mean? It means its a damn fine gaming system. And the Xbox Live system is soooo awesome (if you love playing lots of games and getting rewards and stuff, and love a huge online network of gamers) and 50 bucks a year aint bad for that.

The PS3 is awesome in the fact it has the most processing power, a built in Blu-Ray player, and it's games also benefit from the extra 10s of GBs of storage space on the game discs.
Nintendo made no mistakes with their system, they've proven that.
Xbox messed up be launching a little too early and making faulty units, and the HD-DVD drive sucked. By now, they should have made a blu ray version.
Sony shot themselves in the foot by building a way too expensive unit at launch (and the first few years) along with hardware that will never be fully used by game devs. Anyone who has heard any of the game devs that matter, talk on this issue, know its true. Sony did NOT listen to any game devs, and made their system too hard to code for.

 

[kenjiuchimura]

[citation][nom]Ubervelt[/nom]I would say the original XBOX won.....[/citation]
Worst controller ever after Gamecube's.

 

[joeman42]

Like anyone will remember by then....

 

[willisbj]

[citation][nom]kenjiuchimura[/nom]Worst controller ever after Gamecube's.[/citation]

Agreed, the original (Fat) XBOX controller was one of, if not the worst controllers ever.

The slim XBOX controller, and then the 360 controller, in my opinion simply blow the PS3 controller out of the water. The analogue sticks feel, response and placement on PS2/3 controllers were always the deal breaker for those consoles, never as accurate or comfortable as the XBOX counterparts (the slim ones).

 

[Amen2That]

Marcus, you forgot to add the prelude to the article:

"Expert" video game industry analysts makes first prediction after 3.5 years in cryogenic hibernation chamber picking PS3 as console war winner... Unfortunately, no one mentioned to him what year it was and that 2007, 2008, & 2009 had already past.

 

[bublack33]

maybe im crazy but the idea that Project Natal finish the race for the Xbox is absurd. I really have no desire to play games that the challenge is 1) move your head to the right....very good 2) lift your leg... very good 3) open your eyes and think a little....nope thats not how you do that

 

[killerb255]

Has anyone tried purchasing a PS3 recently? In many areas, they're completely sold out!

 

[gto127]

I disagree with the analyst. I just don't see Sony hanging onto the PS3 for that long. They will have new hardware out way before then to compete with Natal & whatever Nintendo comes up with for next gen.

 

[Trueno07]

Ehh. PC FTW.

 

[megamanx00]

So basically, PS3 will win simply because it will stick around after Nintendo and Microsoft have come out with new systems while the PS3 will chug along. Even if that happens it would be a rather hollow victory. Even so, considering the high cost of developing games for the PS3 I just don't see it happening. I suppose we'll see, but I sure wouldn't take any stock advice from those analysts.

 

[anonymousdude]

[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]lol. 1/4th of the power? Is it fun to pull numbers out of your ass? Must be. And I'm laughing at your main arguments here that the Xbox 360 is slower because 1. It doesn't do folding@home, 2. The military isn't buying Xboxs, and 3. That "crackers" use the PS3.First, Microsoft doesn't allow folding@home. The Xbxo 360 has plenty of horsepower and an almost equal amount to the PS3. Anyone claiming the PS3 is significantly more powerful is completely blinded by fanboyism.Secondly, the military TRIED to buy consoles from Microsoft and Microsoft told them flat out "no." They wouldn't make money from selling them so they declined to sell them to the military. And lastly, "crackers", as you so eloquently called them, don't use the Xbox 360 because, once again, it isn't anywhere nearly as easy as to use a PS3. Microsoft hasn't and never will allow third party OS downloads and runs a very tight ship. Sony doesn't. Duh.[/citation]


I hope you realize that instead of pointing out sony's flaws you pointed out M$. So why doesn't M$ allow folding@home. It doesn't hurt anything, but the power bill. M$ wouldn't sell to the military. Sony did and got some good press. It also shows that they are much less restrictive. Hacker use the old PS3 as the PS3 slim does not allow a third party OS to be installed. So the benefit of M$ being so restrictive they have control but also limit what their console can be used for.

 

[Kraynor]

Ah, the console warriors never cease to amuse.

Personally I bought all consoles this generation, own a high powered gaming PC, and keep myself amused between gaming sessions by watching console warriors arguing, all the while riding on the wave of good games that have come out on all of the consoles.

 

[ghaleon1980]

LOL! It is so hilarious what some of you jokers are saying on this website. Ridiculous statements like the PS3 is only having 25% of its potential used at this point and if something isn't blu-ray it's not worth buying. Luckily tomshardware.com is not a gaming website otherwise you uneducated wannabe gamers would get laughed right off the forum.