Psychotext
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I'm starting to wonder if you're for real.ksamedi said:
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Phife Dawg
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Well PS3 sure is huge (at least to my eyes). Noise can be a factor if you want to mainly watch movies on it (be the media hub Sony wants it to be). Haven't watched a BR on PS3 yet, is the fan running during movie playback?Psychotext said:
Of course it was later revised - it still made me laugh.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
charlequin
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kswiston said:
The GBA was killed prematurely to combat the PSP, though, and the GBC was really as much an extension of the ancient GB hardware as it was its own platform. It seems unlikely to me that any handheld competition could pop up that would force Nintendo to launch a successor early, and I would expect Sony to keep the PSP alive at this point given its sales renaissance and its position as their current most successful platform.
I think the most likely situation at this point is for Nintendo and Sony to both launch followup platforms at a point that's longer than anyone would have previously expected -- 2010-11, maybe.
Segata Sanshiro
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The PS3 is really, really quiet. Unbelievably quiet, actually. My Wii is certainly louder.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Segata Sanshiro said:
Yeah, my PS3 fan almost never comes on. I think it's come on... twice. Ever.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
Redd said:
60GB here.
Minsc
Gold Member
D.Lo said:
Could it be due to the larger size of the Wii disc? I definetly agree the Wii is significantly louder than the gamecube when it spins up a disc, but I don't ever recall hearing it be so noisy with gamecube games. I'll have to pay more attention.
Do Gamecube games really load any slower in a Wii than they did in a gamecube? I haven't noticed this, so I'm not sure your loading comparison is valid.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Case said:
i've noticed some galaxy loading issues here and there, but definitely not anything that random n00bs would ever care about.
D.Lo
Member
Just generally longer load times on the Wii, particularly (surprise surprise) third party games.
It's mostly to do with the chunk of 'useless' slow DRAM the GameCube had, which was used by most devs as a disc cache, giving the GCN by far the best load times of last gen. With the Wii all RAM is now useable, so is used for graphics etc. GameCube ports still run fast so are obviously just using the extra Wii RAM as the cache as before.
Of course, it could also just be that Ps2 ports and rush jobs have been shoved on Wii discs in a disorganised manner to cash in on sales. But Metroid Corruption, Super Paper Mario and Brawl all have much longer load times then their GCN versions did too.
It's mostly to do with the chunk of 'useless' slow DRAM the GameCube had, which was used by most devs as a disc cache, giving the GCN by far the best load times of last gen. With the Wii all RAM is now useable, so is used for graphics etc. GameCube ports still run fast so are obviously just using the extra Wii RAM as the cache as before.
Of course, it could also just be that Ps2 ports and rush jobs have been shoved on Wii discs in a disorganised manner to cash in on sales. But Metroid Corruption, Super Paper Mario and Brawl all have much longer load times then their GCN versions did too.
I'm not sure what you're saying. They're both wake-on-LAN low power modes in which you can download/receive messages, etc..ksamedi said:
And neither have any relevance to the sales of the consoles. You can't actually believe that..
Of PS3's many big problems that is certainly not one.
(Or to have my hopes crushed and the game to disappear off the list ;-; )GCN drive was quiet because it was low-speed rotation, like the BR drive in PS3, it only had 2x spin. IIRC Wii DVD is 5x or 6x, which would definately be noiser.D.Lo said:
But unfortunately Load-times, as I have said many times, are rarely a function of optical drive speed, especially with last generation of games.
IIRC Nintendo was enforcing load-time policies with GCN(something MS and Sony should TRY one of these das), and they probably just care less with Wii (and obviously the market doesn't mind).
I certainly hate loadtimes, and some of Wii's games definitely push it, but its still shorter than Ps2 from the games Ive seen. However, Ive pretty much accepted loadtimes as a mainstay of disc based gaming. I also dont see installing games on a console HDD as a viable alternative.Fafalada said: