[PS3] Is it worth it?

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I have played both the 360 and ps3. Personally, i liek the 360 more because of the quality from the box to the tv and the games. Im not knocking the ps3 because there are alot of good things that come with it, but i feel liek the 360 is way better. For right now, i think that bioshock and the release of halo 3 will make the 360 the superior system. But when grand turismo 5 comes out, ps3 will shoot through the roof. Its all what you like.

And Universal Studios, currently an exclusive HD-DVD supporter may go Blu-ray.

http://www.psu.com/Universal-May-Go-...--a1000-p0.php

Personally I think that whoever made the decision at Paramount is daft. Blu-ray sales far outweigh HD-DVD sales... yet they've dropped Blu-ray to save money by using the slightly cheaper HD-DVD format?

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I have played both the 360 and ps3. Personally, i liek the 360 more because of the quality from the box to the tv and the games. Im not knocking the ps3 because there are alot of good things that come with it, but i feel liek the 360 is way better. For right now, i think that bioshock and the release of halo 3 will make the 360 the superior system. But when grand turismo 5 comes out, ps3 will shoot through the roof. Its all what you like.

It's always a question of games, exactly.

Which nicely brings us back around to my original question to HoH - which genre do you play?

Just give it some time, the PS3 will be worth it eventually.

There's a chance this is the last great burnable storage medium "war" we'll see, with a lot of the world coming into cheap access of reliable and fast internet connections. I guess the main obstacle now is just the amount of HD space you'd need to have.

I'm surprised the upscaling capabilities of the PS3 haven't been mentioned as a benefit (or the full backward compatibility, for that matter). Both PS2 games and DVDs look considerably better on the PS3 due to upscaling.

In that case, then, I shall mention them now!

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After the 1.8 firmware update, the PS3 can now output EVERYTHING at 1080p, 24Hz - DVDs and PS2 games being the ones most affected by this as Blu-ray is already outputted at that resolution.

I don't quite fully understand how the PS3 allows a 24Hz output, but I do know it's important for films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_image_formats) - films are iflmed at 24fps. However, TVs operate at 50Hz, 75Hz 100Hz, etc, numbers which it takes no genius to recognise are not divisible by 24. To solve this problem, every twelth frame of film is held on slightly longer, to make it 25fps. With such high quality film as Blu-ray, this can cause a stutter, which is sometimes quite noticeable. As the PS3 can output 24Hz, this allows film to be played as it should.

As for backwards compatibility... get the 60gb PS3 while you can. It's $100 cheaper than the 80gb version, and it contains the PS2 Emotion Engine and GPU, which allows for almost 100% backwards compatibility. PS3s in the rest of the world do not have the EE or GPU, and so rely on software emulation, much the same as the 360 (except that the PS3 software emulation is being constantly updated, and works for a hugely extensive games library).

Sorry to dig, but I'm contemplating getting a PS3 for Christmas, just need to make sure and get Gran Turismo 5 and i'll be set

Any updates on the game's release?

There's no set release date as far as I know, although I can tell you that it will probably be sometime in 2008.

Prologue is out soon, though, but it's only a sort of demo version of the full game. I think the same has been done with all GT games.

Which version of the console are you thinking of getting?

If you want to play PS2 games, then DO NOT get the 40gb, for the sole reason that it has no backwards compatibility at all.

Even if you don't want to play PS2 games, the 80gb console is still the better deal. At least, I think it is - I'm not too up to date on the American bundles, though I can guess that the 80gb will be better value for money.