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Does the PS3 SUCK ?

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loess:
i already have one, and plan to sell it

patrickl:
To be honest I think every console sucks. A PC is just much better suited for playing games.

On the other hand, I have a Wii and PS3 now. The Wii is nice for my kid and GF while personally I enjoy just starting a quick game of GTAIV and hopefully soon race driver GRID (for now still GT5 prologue). It's nice to be able to play games simply sitting in the living room.

I choose the PS3. The Xbox 360 and PS3 seem pretty similar. Same games, same graphics. The Xbox 360 apparently has better online options, but the PS3 has a Blu-ray player. I value the Blu-Ray player higher than online functions. Especially with the HD setup you need for these new consoles I want to be able to properly play HD content. I'm not a big fan of online playing anyway. If I want to be insulted by a bunch of crappy kids I'll just go to the mall (or post in the PnR forum  >:D )

What's really sad though is that I feel Nintendo dropped the ball on the Wii. Their controller is really great, but the console lacks the power for the PS3/Xbox360/PC games. GTAIV would have been so much better with the Wii controller. If only the Wii actually had some proper hardware inside the console. Every time I play GTAIV I feel depressed about what could have been. So sad, so sad. It would have been really easy to pick the best console if the Wii was in the same league as the PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware wise. As it is now, it's the PS3 for me and the Wii for the kid.

david656:

--- Quote from: patrickl on May 29, 2008, 03:05:08 am ---The PS3 plays multichannel SACD over HDMI.

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i gathered ! but when your using a creative sound blaster and creative speakers via optical HDMI isn't what i wanna hear ! still at least im getting DD in game  ;D

btw im trying to play the great Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds the musical !!! simply spectacular through stereo on these really nice CD's but should sound even better on 7.1 as they are SACD's too

shmokes:
Go to www.metacritic.com and check out game scores for the systems if you think the PS3 has no good games.  It's got a damned sight more than Wii.  Xbox 360, with its 1-year head-start has by far the best library so far.  But PS3 is no slouch.  In another year the difference in libraries between 360 and PS3 will be meaningless.  PS3 is a great BluRay player (and SACD player, apparently); Xbox 360 has a better online component (though PS3's is free).  I personally want a PS3, but it seems to me that both consoles ought to make their owners happy -- especially owners of the new Xbox 360's being produced this summer with the new hardware that should take care of its ridiculous failure rate.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: david656 on May 29, 2008, 10:05:18 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on May 29, 2008, 03:05:08 am ---The PS3 plays multichannel SACD over HDMI.

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i gathered ! but when your using a creative sound blaster and creative speakers via optical HDMI isn't what i wanna hear ! still at least im getting DD in game  ;D

btw im trying to play the great Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds the musical !!! simply spectacular through stereo on these really nice CD's but should sound even better on 7.1 as they are SACD's too


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From what I understand it's impossible to play multichannel SACD over optical. HDMI or using multiple optical outputs is really the only way. Multiple optical outputs is impractical and HDMI is the way of the future. If SACD is that important to you then get a modern HDMI receiver.

:edit: Was checking up on this and apparently there was a firmware version where this actually worked (2.00). The PS3 was transcoding the the DSD signal to the smaller bandwidth DTS over optical. Trouble is that this signal is unprotected and/or there might have been licensing issues. Either way, they took it awat with the next firmware release again.

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