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Raven
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Posted: 17th May 2005 21:13
Sony Playstation 3

.. eww.
without the NVIDIA GPU that console would be nothing.
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Posted: 17th May 2005 21:21
My god.... When I saw the Xbox 360 I thought that it was ugly...

Now I have to clean my keyboard for vomit

Look at the controllers... Horrible...

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Skeletor
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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:32
I think it looks pretty cool, same for the Xbox 360.


Raven
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Posted: 17th May 2005 23:38
heh.. it looks like a BetaMax player
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Posted: 18th May 2005 00:13
I dont like it.. It looks like a friggin printer.



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Posted: 18th May 2005 00:41
betamax, the better of the 2 standards.

smaller tapes, better quality, preferred by professionals over the poor quality VHS standard. Failed due to the VHS name (initials are preffered when refering to AV standards by the general public) and the premise some people had that you could get more on a VHS tape because it was bigger. and back in the day, big and heavy meant quality. Most professional 'videotape' archives in the world are held on betamax. but of couse VHS was teh better standaaahrd.

a common view held by those not in the know.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 00:45
Little kids dont look!

God that is ugly!

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Raven
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Posted: 18th May 2005 01:07
true greece.. the main thing that helped VHS to become used over Betamax was the fact a deal was struct with Video Rental shops to only supply VHS tapes.

Given most people rented thier TV/Video, it was all about business tactics. Sony just couldn't provide that across europe and the US at that time.

Amusing how times change, eh?
Still doesn't stop it being ugly heh

X-Box 360

in-case anyone wanted to see it as well. personally I find the X-Box 360 quite beautiful.. very sleak. it'll look perfect in my living room.
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Posted: 18th May 2005 02:20
I wonder if you threw one of the controllers it would come back to you, at the moment the PS3 wins in terms of looks, but the XBox wins because you can link it with your pc via wifi and do more things than with the PS3.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 03:20
I will check out the links too see what they look like. Any news on the Nintendo "Revolution"?

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Posted: 18th May 2005 03:25
It look ace, you lot are crazy foo's. The controller is slightly dodgy but eh who cares? I'll be buying one, just not straight away.....They are always so damn expensive when first released?

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Posted: 18th May 2005 03:34
I'll stick with my trusty PSX and Xbox1 thank you!

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DBAlex
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Posted: 18th May 2005 03:44 Edited at: 18th May 2005 03:44
I buy sony things coz they makes the bestest ones!11 lolz...

Seriously...Sony sucks and you all know it...

Im still mourning the Dreamcast...




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Posted: 18th May 2005 03:57 Edited at: 18th May 2005 03:58
they payed people to design it - they must have got completely rat-arsed

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Posted: 18th May 2005 04:29
So it looks a bit funny, 2 Terraflops of goodness brings be right back over!!

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Posted: 18th May 2005 04:33 Edited at: 18th May 2005 09:36
[href]javascript:launchGSL("/live/streamer_new2.html?title=Killzone+2+%28working+title%29+Gameplay+Footage+1&path=killzone2_ot_ps3_051605.asx&pid=928377&ppath=ps3%2Faction%2Fkillzone2&ksubmoid=&urdate=1151650800", "", 718, 500)[/href]

Say what you want... I think the console itself looks amazingly ugly.
But under the hood... Whew! Look at Killzone 2! It looks unrealisticly nice.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 04:38
*Killswitch agrees completely with KLU 007*

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Posted: 18th May 2005 04:53
The controler looks like a cheapo 3rd party PS1 pad..

eww...


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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th May 2005 04:56
i like it, even the controls, they arent much different than PS2, except their handles are longer. It look more..."slick". I like it. Besides im sure the controllers are going to feel fine, after all they spend millions of dollars researching and getting them just right.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 04:57
Yeah it does, what's wrong with the old PS1/2 controller?

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Ian T
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:01
PS3 is ugly as crap, but a scary powerful monster. Xbox 360 has a lot of small advantages though. This round of the console wars looks to be a fun one.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:07
Sorry, I'll just post the link this way :

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/killzone2/media.html

This looks more impressive than any Xbox 360 movie yet...

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:21 Edited at: 18th May 2005 05:25
wow, thats awesome!!, the PS3 is definetly the next big step in video games , no matter how bad the console looks.

EDIT: By the time i have a job as a video game producer, the graphics are gonna be awesome! Some of these look almost like movies!

EDIT2: i cant imagine how much video games are going to change! When i was little i remember watching my dad play top-down shooters on the SEGA! Now we have this, lol! And that wasnt even 10 years ago!

Video games…they take you places unreachable, unfeasible. Putting you in the book...putting you in the movie...putting you in a world, that before could only be imagined. expage.com/piratesmainpage.
Peter H
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:37
Quote: "I dont like it.. It looks like a friggin printer.
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lol, that's exactly what i though when i saw it...i was going to post it also

the bananas (erm, i mean controllers) look like bananas...

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:40
It may look like a printer...but its a very cool printer

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Peter H
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:46
Yeah...maybe so...if i have the money i'll buy both PS3 and XBox 360...but the XBox 360 is first on my list

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:48
hehe, its the other way around for me...but then again i have a PS2 and not an XBOX, so i might be a bit bias towards the PS's

Video games…they take you places unreachable, unfeasible. Putting you in the book...putting you in the movie...putting you in a world, that before could only be imagined. expage.com/piratesmainpage.
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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:50 Edited at: 18th May 2005 05:50
Lol, yeah same thing except other way around here...

(though i must say this PS3 looks like a HUGE improvement over PS2...because, no offense, but PS2 really sucks...though it does have some good games)

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Posted: 18th May 2005 05:54
I agree that Killzone 2 is probably the most amazing game footage I've seen so far in all the next gen consoles... But in XBox360's favor, "Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion" doesn't look far behind Killzone in terms of graphics.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 06:25
its ugly but powerful... man those graphics are sweet

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Posted: 18th May 2005 07:16 Edited at: 18th May 2005 07:17
Eww, I agree with that. Especially on the controller, it looks harder to hold then anything I've seen before this...

I don't know what Sony was thinking...

Also, anyone else notice the fact that they're using the spider man movie font for the text on the console?

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Posted: 18th May 2005 07:20
Its cool. But sony still sucks huge bananas...




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Posted: 18th May 2005 07:46
That is exactly what I thought when I saw it, it looks like a dang printer. And the controllers are the stupidest looking controllers I have ever seen. I don't care if they are comfortable, they are ridiculous. If I every buy one of these systems, it's going to be the X-Box 360. But I wish everyone wasn't going to silver. Sure, I like silver, but what is wrong with silver and black?

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Posted: 18th May 2005 07:51
Quote: "Sure, I like silver, but what is wrong with silver and black?"


Check out the Nintendo Revolution thread... you'll be pleased!

Quote: "I wonder if you threw one of the controllers it would come back to you"


lol, i was thinking the same thing, why make a controller with the shape of a boomerang?

You guys gotta check out the size of the Nintendo Revolution, it could fit in your pocket!

Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th May 2005 09:08
For those of you upset about it being silver:

http://media.ps2.gamespy.com/articles/614/614843/img_2787271.html


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Posted: 18th May 2005 09:10
I say: HURRAH FOR BLU-RAY DISCS!

It dosen't look TOO bad BTW

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Xander
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Posted: 18th May 2005 09:22
Quote: "Check out the Nintendo Revolution thread"


Yeah, I just looked at it. I am really excited about Nintendo, I have been a Nintendo fan all my life. I can't wait to see the controllers and games...and the system actually looks cool and innovative, unlike the PS3 and X-Box 360.

Quote: "For those of you upset about it being silver:"


It still looks like a printer...

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Ian T
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Posted: 18th May 2005 09:33
Playstation 3 vs Xbox 360

Interesting article, despite some gnarly spelling errors

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 18th May 2005 09:44
Quote: "It still looks like a printer...
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If it was a printer, id want it, cause it looks cool

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Raven
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Posted: 18th May 2005 09:57
Looks more like one of the legs from my WEGA TV Stand... like someone snapped it off and said "that'll do"
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Posted: 18th May 2005 11:00 Edited at: 19th May 2005 01:12
That controller rocks. I've never in my life been able to comfortably use a playstation controller, that one looks quite comfy. Not big and hulking, but not small and constricting. I hate having my hands mashed together while playing games.


[EDIT]MGS4 for PS3, time to wet my pants.

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Posted: 19th May 2005 22:38 Edited at: 19th May 2005 22:40
Quote: "MGS4 for PS3, time to wet my pants."


lol, check this MGS E3 2K5 movie out... i never knew snake had a sense of humour!

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Posted: 19th May 2005 23:27
My favourite quote:

Quote: "But it's good to see that the new PlayStation looks like another household object: 2 looked like a fan heater and the new one looks like a George Foreman grill on its side."


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