Oh, when it comes to insanity. The PS3 launch does win the cake though. Despite the $599 price tag, that few weeks after launch was ka ching for Ebay royalties. I know there was a couple of auctions that eventually went for $4k+. I don't think there will be a repeat of that however. So many people got burned.
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Crazy rumours and hype of prior system launches
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Chet Rippo
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-Pyromaniac- said:
OldJadedGamer
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This picture someone here drew right before the 360 launched sums it up:
Buckethead
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RustyNails said:
The PS3 will render all games at 1080p (true HD, unlike 360) and games will run at 120fps for all games. It will have dual HDMI ports for LAN play with only one console. It will have 3 Ethernet ports so it can be used as a network hub. It will have 100% backwards compatibility with PS2 games, and the graphics will be significantly better than 360 because of the bluray capacity and the power of the cell. It will have flash card slots and 6 USB ports.
jeremy1456
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bhlaab said:
Until an Xbox 360/PS3 emulator hits the market the best games will still be console.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
You have been able to do this with Forza since the original Xbox. You can hook up 3 Xbox 360's and have 3 screens rendering the game.brain_stew said:
davonaytor
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I remember before the Wii launched, evryone was speculating what was behind the SD Card/Sync cover, since nobody had seen it uncovered.
Some people thought it was a 3D projector or something.
When a dodgy photo was finally put on the internet, and all we could see was a red thing, it only got worse.
Mega disappointment when it was revealed to just be the SD card slot/sync button.
Some people thought it was a 3D projector or something.
When a dodgy photo was finally put on the internet, and all we could see was a red thing, it only got worse.
Mega disappointment when it was revealed to just be the SD card slot/sync button.
viciouskillersquirrel
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So are the Xboxs rendering the one instance of the game or are they each just synched up rendering three instances of the game?godhandiscen said:
The way you put it is a little confusing.
NEOPARADIGM
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KAL2006 said:
:lol :lol :lol
:lol :lol :lol
Supervlieg
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Emotion engine
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DaBuddaDa said:
I think this turned out to be true though. Albeit belatedly, once Sony's teams started to get to grips with it and moved beyond 'compensating' for RSX relative weaknesses. I remember a lot of people scoffing at the notion of Cell doing graphics work, but it's turning out to be one of its best uses, and probably still has a ways to go.
DonMigs85
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I remember Matt Cassamassasoo pushing a rumor that Revolution's tech was very similar to the 360, just downscaled a bit (like using a dual-core CPU instead of tri-core).
Also early 360 games really did look bad, basically average Xbox 1 games in 720p, so Shoe was right at the time to castigate Moore.
Also early 360 games really did look bad, basically average Xbox 1 games in 720p, so Shoe was right at the time to castigate Moore.
BigJonsson
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Console hype led me to old-gaf, so console hype is good!
Opus Angelorum
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:lol
Ninja Moomin
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Surely M2 wins?
It was a graphical beast after all.
It was a graphical beast after all.
jufonuk
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I heard that sony used to offer to pay games stores more to increase shelf space for PS1 games and shrink down all the competition, this was told to us by a guy we knew in college who worked at EB/Game at the time, whether it's bs or not I think I fell for it..
back in the day man, back in the day :lol :lol
back in the day man, back in the day :lol :lol
sixteen-bit
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people on gamefaqs were saying xbox could play DC and or PS2 games
DonMigs85 said:
To be fair, Revolution and Wii isn't the exact same thing. Revolution's specs were leaked from two separate sources (NEC and IBM) and were said to include a 1.8Ghz dual-core CPU and 256 MB of RAM. Apparently it was meant to render and output all graphics at 720p. Wii is actually closer to the leaked Dolphin specs than the system above.
Project Reality and Nintendo 64 also had different specs. And the same goes for Dolphin and Gamecube. We know that Nintendo are always working on many different prototypes. Clearly with all of the above situations they ended up with one cheap option and one more expensive option. Being a dedicated gaming company they always went with the one that made the most financial sense.
Combichristoffersen
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cvxfreak said:
Well, that would be sort of based on reality. IIRC Sega approached Microsoft with a proposal of the original Xbox including DC support. I think they, at one time, actually had PS1 games up and running on the Xbox too?
Earl Cazone
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Combichristoffersen said:
yeah its too bad that didnt work out. i would have loved a dreamcast compatible console
Nuclear Muffin
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The reason why you're not hearing any 3DS rumours right now is because the device has already been unveiled. All that's left to speculate about the hardware is its price/release date (of which there is plenty of discussion) and its online service and operating system/user interface (of which most people are either not interested in or not expecting much)
There were plenty of rumours surrounding the device prior to launch (funnily enough with most of them being true in a roundabout way!)
No console will ever get the crazy hype, rumours and mystery that surrounded the Revolution/Wii ever again (Nintendo ON. Never forget :lol)
There were plenty of rumours surrounding the device prior to launch (funnily enough with most of them being true in a roundabout way!)
No console will ever get the crazy hype, rumours and mystery that surrounded the Revolution/Wii ever again (Nintendo ON. Never forget :lol)
There's a huge difference between the PS2 and PS3 unveiling.GillianSeed79 said:
Nearly every PS2 tech demo (including the FF8 scene and the Tekken footage) was 100% realtime. They did not resort to faking their demos using CG target renders. All of those demos ran at full 60 frames per second even. The PS2 was definitely a step above the Dreamcast, technically. It's true that many of its earliest titles were pretty awful, though, which resulted in some backlash, but by 2001, the system started living up to its promises and delivered visuals well beyond what we had seen on Dreamcast. All of those tech demos were bested by retail games in the long run as well. The only real issue with the PS2 visual quality was its image quality in many games. Field rendering was very common out of the gate, but it resulted in serious jaggies. The upside to this is that it made 60 fps a very common framerate. No other console to date has had as large a percentage of 60 fps 3D games in its library as the PS2.
Sony didn't really pull any punches with PSP either. In fact, their early demos sold the system short as it became clear that it was even more powerful than first expected.
Unfortunately, they totally dropped the ball with PS3 and went crazy with target renders that could not be met. They attempted to fool everyone and it only resulted in backlash. They've been delivering some incredible things for a while now, but it took some time to get there and we still aren't at target render quality. PS3 is really the only system Sony has launched where they straight up lied about their tech demos.
This has actually become a reality, however. It is not common, of course, but running a game at an apparent 60 fps in 3D actually requires the system to render the left and right images both at 60 fps. You must produce 120 fps to pull this off. Super Stardust HD does this. Again, very rare, but it IS possible.
IrishNinja
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NekoFever said:
i never got this...why would i have wanted 2 HDMIs, much less 3 ethernets?! i get that it's going for a hub, but that pic makes me think it has a PC and/or receiver in it:lol
NekoFever
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I think the dual HDMIs was to do with the mysteriously vanished feature of running two TVs at once. Ironically now that 3D Blu-ray is out, dual HDMI outputs are actually useful and some standalone players are shipping with them.IrishNinja said:
And yeah, the ethernet was because it was going to be a network hub as well. I can't see many applications for that.
plagiarize
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Kameo was at launch on 360 and it was absolutely a next gen looking game. sure, some areas looked worse than others, but you could absolutely throw in that game and blow people away with the graphics.
Kameo 2 i want you
Kameo 2 i want you
The Technomancer
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Yeah, pretty much.Drkirby said:
Stumpokapow
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Shurs said:
Both of those things are true, though. It's no problem for any 360 game to render in 720p and to use the "free" AA provided by the system. Developers, on the other hand, chose to sacrifice both resolution and AA to incorporate additional effects (as in Halo's lighting system). The same is true for the PS3.
Now claims like 120fps or 1080p or lucid dreams or whatever are clearly ridiculous.
Ninja Moomin
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Stumpokapow said:
Anyone will tell you that PS3 cross game chat is, like, the most lucid dream ever.
Oh crap. I just remembered the wiimote has an inbuilt speaker! How come that didn't get used outside twilight princess? Surely it could have some pretty nifty uses. Plus the wiimote having storage space to load miis onto it to bring around to a friends place.
2006-7 was a pretty exciting for the wii... So much hope
2006-7 was a pretty exciting for the wii... So much hope
poppabk
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We had similar rumors with kinect just recently, with people adamant that the $149 price was a tactic, so that when they dropped it to $50 at launch people would feel like they were getting an awesome deal.Chrange said:
In fact the move and kinect launches have both involved mass speculation and over hype, maybe people are just more grounded when it comes to handhelds (or just don't care as much).
Clearly no system has ever had crazier pre-release rumor mongering than the PS3.
Shit, that thing had insane rumor mongering after it came out. When the launch titles didn't look like the CG, some of the faithful were absolutely convinced that was just a fluke and the real PS3 games were being developed in some secret Nipponese bunker.
Shit, that thing had insane rumor mongering after it came out. When the launch titles didn't look like the CG, some of the faithful were absolutely convinced that was just a fluke and the real PS3 games were being developed in some secret Nipponese bunker.
I know they're minigame compliations but Rabbids 1 and 2 had some pretty neat uses for it. In 1 you're taking pig through a minefield and his squeals (which only play through the wiimote) alert you to any danger you're about to step on. Later on the game is repeated with a different course and the rabbids will use an airhorn on occasion to drown out the squeals.mandiller said:
In the second rabbids game theres a minigame where youre instructed to talk in a movie theater by holding the wiimote to your ear like a cell phone. When you hold it upright, rabbid gibberish starts playing through the speaker.
Rapping Granny
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The Technomancer
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No More Heroes and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories both used it for a "cell phone" effect where you had to hold it up to your ear to hear stuff. I thought they both did it really well.mandiller said:
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