DPAD Home: End all arguments: PS3 vs 360

Dpad ^ | November 13, 2006 at 12:38 AM EST | Michael Perry

[Sofa King]

PS3 vs 360… 360 vs PS3… is a very touchy subject as everyone is aware I’m sure. Before this article gets underway its important that everyone keep in mind that neither of these 2 consoles is weak by any stroke of the imagination. Both are very powerful and significant upgrades over their current generation counterparts such as the PS2 or Xbox and as always it’s about the games. What it TRULY boils down to for the vast majority of people out there is that they don’t care about the specs of a console. All most people care about is “How good are the games available for it?”

So I want it to be understood immediately that by no means is this article meant to be some sort of indication of which of the two consoles will end up coming out on top. Nor is this article meant to, in any shape or form, change anyone’s mind about which console they decide to purchase. This is simply an article intended to inform people about both machines and in doing so there will of course be comparisons between the 2 machines, but they will be facts. With all of that said lets get down to business shall we?

[Mad Dawgg]

"I'm still chuckling over the fools I saw camped out at retailers yesterday, just waiting for a chance to buy one of these."

If P.T. Barnum were still alive he would look upon such and smile knowingly.

[Sofa King]

The new Nvidia cards blow the Xbox 360 GPU out of the water.

Although I am interested in seeing what they can do by integrating the GPU and CPUs.

[dc27]

I have both Gears of War and F.E.A.R. for the 360. The graphics on Gears of War is amazing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OT but could have impact in gaming world:

AMD's Close To Metal technology increases processing application performance by eightfold

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AMD has released today something that will vastly increase the performance of Stream technology. Close To Metal, or CTM, is a 3D application programming interface that will give developers access to the native instruction set and memory of the "massively parallel computational elements" in AMD Stream Processors. This means that CTM will give programmers the ability to access the hardware required to make basic tools like debuggers, compilers and math libraries. Over 60 companies and research companies are working with CTM to write their programs. If you would like to try CTM out yourself, please visit AMD's site here.

Source: The Inquirer

[Trampled by Lambs]

I bought an Xbox when the came out and found that I barely used it. Being a long time PC gamer, I could never get used to those game pads. Can't aim with them at all, for example.

So except for racing games, I still looked to my PC for games and the xbox sat idle till I finally gave it to my son.

PC games are better anyway, to me. Better graphics, better controls, better content.

Though I do miss playing Gotham racing on my big ol' 46" TV...