PS3's wonderful downscaling..

I also have a PS3 and have been a tad disappointed with the way Sony is handling their system. In itself the system is beautiful, and it's laid out in a nice way. Plus 90% of their games are excellent, mainly exclusives. It's just little things (little to me at least) that keep picking away at their system.

One thing, for example, is that I can never get my headsets to sync with my system. No matter what I do I can't get my Socom headset to link up. It's making me furious. I have an HDTV with 1080p also. I hope the future games that come out in the coming months will be better.

(From the way it's looking, I'm thinking 2009 will be PS3's time.)

Rhyme not intended.

And you do not want to upconvert your games

not all xbox games are at 1080p either.

ps3 is also great for movies I had mine for two years and it upscales dvds near 720p or as close as it can get it and blu-ray movies are great to. My reason for buying my ps3 seems to be the black sheep, I mainly use mine as movie player 

netflix+ps3=Winz 7

my first ps3 died a week after teh one year warranty was up, but sony said they would cover me anyways and send me a new one.

now this one is a year and a half and so far so good.

I have to mention tho my ps3 is working 24/7, cause if I'm not gaming on it, then its folding, and ya it gets hot.

Try owning an old 1080i only HDTV.  Unless the game is written for 1080i (many PS3 games are 720p), the resolution is downscaled to a last-gen 480p.  This is one of the big reasons I buy most of my games for the 360 - it is able to scale just fine.

I have to disagree, I love the PS3's Blu-ray capability.  Works great for me. 
On the other hand, I seem to only use my PS3 for the Blu Ray.  I play all my games on the 360.

/Sigh...

Many people in here are PC fanatics and don't understand the PS3.

First: The "Cell" processor is the most powerful processor to ever be created.

Second: The "video card" which is actually a graphics chip is also the best one to ever be created, and took a chunk of millions of dollars out of Sony's pockets to make it.

Third: The best looking game, most highly award winning game, and best story mode game to ever hit a NextGEN console was Uncharted 2, and it runs in 720P.

What people don't understand is, when it has lower pixels, the objects could be made bigger so it doesn't look like it has a thousand pixels in it, which is why most of the good-looking games are on PS3 and use 720P.

But as I said before, PC people just don't understand the concept of it. :l

Originally posted by Dragoonseal What in the world are you going on about? You do realize 720p means a resolution of 1280x720, right?Modern PCs are vastly more powerful than either the Xbox 360 or the PS3.

Yes I do, and as I said before you don't understand.

And I all-out lol'd at your second comment, the worlds fastest super computer is POWERED BY PS3'S LOLOL.

Face it, PS3 is stronger. PC just has more customization, but it won't out-run a PS3.

Show me a PC that can run Uncharted 2, oh yeah I forgot, only the PS3 could handle it. x))

Originally posted by Dragoonseal Originally posted by Infinity Yes I do, and as I said before you don't understand. And I all-out lol'd at your second comment, the worlds fastest super computer is POWERED BY PS3'S LOLOL. Face it, PS3 is stronger. PC just has more customization, but it won't out-run a PS3. Show me a PC that can run Uncharted 2, oh yeah I forgot, only the PS3 could handle it. x)) Wow. So exactly what alternate reality are you from? You do realize the PS3 is close to 4 years old now, right?Here's a list of the current top 10 most powerful supercomputers. No PS3 clusters to be found.Uncharted 2 was never released on the PC, or anything other than the PS3 for that matter. The developers got huge funding to keep it an exclusive title so don't expect to see a port. I could turn around and ask something similar, lets see a PS3 that could run Crysis, but that never had a console port so we'd be going in circles.So here's a better idea. The burden of proof is upon you my friend, why don't you humor us and tell us what the specifications of the PS3 hardware are?

I expected a Crysis thing coming up, and it's funny cause you do realize they are making a 2nd version for all ports right?

And it was only dumbed-down because of the XBox hardware, the PS3 handled the game better then anything, just face the fact that PS3 is the strongest computer that can be bought by a computer.

I also hope you know the PS3 has a 10 year life span since release, it is now at 6 years until they start working on a new one. :)

CPU: Cell Processor

PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU: RSX @550MHz

1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)

Memory:

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth:

Main RAM: 25.6GB/s
VRAM: 22.4GB/s
RSX: 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB: 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance: 2 TFLOPS

Storage:

HDD
Detachable 2.5” HDD slot x 1
I/O:

USB: Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD: standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1
Communication: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x3 (input x 1 + output x 2)

Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g

Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
CD Disc media (read only):

PlayStation CD-ROM
PlayStation 2 CD-ROM
CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW
SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD
DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD Disc media (read only):

PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM
PLAYSTATION 3 DVD-ROM
DVD-Video: DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc media (read only):

PLAYSTATION 3 BD-ROM
BD-Video: BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE



Are you liking that 25.6GB's of RAM? I know I am. :)

How about the most powerful processor to be created? I know I am.

You are getting yourself into a battle you cannot win. :)

/Highfive and stop while you can.

In other words, I won, nothing here you can say besides rage and try to prove how Crysis was not ported to PS3.

Besides the point, their new engine has new stuff to add to the game that are ground breaking and WILL be on the PS3.

/Argumentover

ok where did you get your data for 25.6 gigs of RAM. i've looked all over and everything is saying 256MB of RAM. so please cite the source because you are beginning to look like an idiot.

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Originally posted by Infinity Third: The best looking game, most highly award winning game, and best story mode game to ever hit a NextGEN console was Uncharted 2, and it runs in 720P. What people don't understand is, when it has lower pixels, the objects could be made bigger so it doesn't look like it has a thousand pixels in it, which is why most of the good-looking games are on PS3 and use 720P. But as I said before, PC people just don't understand the concept of it. :l

Back to basics for the deluded:

1) The number depicting resolution. yes 720P is an example. That means the NUMBER of pixels. you are talking about the SIZE of the pixels, which will vary depending on the TV you have. The more pixels the more detail you can fit one one screen.

sorry to the majority of people who have used a computer before and know all of this already.

Thanks for the nice full lists,its giving more information about 3D games.....

If you need any details about:Online 3D Adventure games

Sony ps3 have the best graphic comparing to x-box and wii.guys the games themselves need to be in 1080P, Sony has no control over that, if you get a movie that is 720P, ps3 can't upscale it and show it to you at 1080P you need a receiver that up converts.

I hate when people compare a console to a pc. If im not mistakened, all consoles doesn't even use a traditional gpu. O.o so much for being better. When consoles start using a traditinal gpu, we'll be on the next generation of graphical power, sorry.

Edited by Lous55 - 26 Nov 2011 at 7:56pm

They said (well rumors, we all know where that can lead to). That a ps4 will use an actual traditional GPU to compete with computers. They use ATI/Nvidia, but not as traditional in a sense. (They will use an actual series rumors take it) That being said, we will probably be way ahead of generation before than. I'm personally sick and tired of ported content to PC, even though i love Skyrim.