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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: astroglide on June 24, 2001, 10:10:32 PM
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this is from one of the largest and most respected tech sites on the net:
Yes, the Xbox is comparable in terms of graphics to the PlayStation 2, but so is Nintendo\'s GameCube. All three were running, side by side, Madden Football on the EA booth, and frankly, you\'d be hard pressed to tell the difference. In practice, if it came down to raw horsepower it would probably be Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, in that order, but you can derive as much pleasure from each depending on the content. In other words, if you are buying the platform for raw horsepower, you are using the wrong criterion.
full link:
http://www4.tomshardware.com/consumer/01q2/010523/e3-02.html
interesting how he lists the systems in order of horsepower...and this guy is no fanboy...
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TOM\'S HARDWARE!?!?!?!?! WTF!?!?!?!?!
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O_o; EA just used the same engine for all three versions of the game... I thought everybody knew that.
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Yeah, of course they look the same. They didn\'t bother changing it for any system.
And Ha ha Bob. He stole your name. :p
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tomshardware rulz, they have everything PC related on their website
check it out on http://www.tomshardware.com
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YOU know that is so lazy of EA that is why they fall way behind sega and visual concepts. Ea just does not care anymore:(
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he is making his judgement based on the hardware(umm tom\'s hardware?)
if he was basing it on his previous statement regarding EA\'s game he would have put them equal...
and in his article he points out that all three systems will survive(thrive?) to some point and how irrelevant it is just to look at the tech specifications...
i only mention it because it is interesting what a hardware guru thinks...i myself think the xbox is impressive(or should i say the geforce3)
and i like the gamecube too...i like...GAMES.
(still he likes sony better...naa naa na boo boo)
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This is old news, Tom did not right that article, some other guy that works for his site did. Wake me up when you have something important to say.
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the link to the article is from the front of his page...E3 was not that long ago...
perhaps because you don\'t understand the respect tom\'s hardware(and ok he didn\'t right it...valid point) gets, you think it is dismisable, however this site is a focal point for a lot of thought on the technology that comes down the pike
perhaps you are a little too sleepy to give a s*** but I(and others) find it pretty cool...
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It was Tomshardware.com opinion, nothing else :D
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Largest and most respected? I never even heard of this place LOL
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never heard of it?
i just entered the word hardware in google(you do know how google works?check it out befor you dismiss it\'s results) and tom\'s came back
as the #1 site
hahaha
sounds like you don\'t know tech review sites for sh**
LOL
(perhaps you like sold out cnet better)
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
TOM\'S HARDWARE!?!?!?!?! WTF!?!?!?!?!
Hah hah hahh.. Bob, when I first saw your name on this forum, I assumed you got it from Tom\'s Hardware. I guess it was a coincidence.
Tom\'s Hardware has been around a long time, and it\'s very well known. I\'ve been reading it forever, and it\'s awesome. Whenever I start investigating new PC components, I always start with that website. They are GREAT for motherboard evaluations and breaking news on new CPU technology. They\'re VERY impartial and they don\'t bullsh**.
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tanks coredweller, starting to doubt what i knew about tom\'s
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Originally posted by XBOX
YOU know that is so lazy of EA that is why they fall way behind sega and visual concepts. Ea just does not care anymore:(
do you really believe Visual COncepts, a company that has only developed for 1 console and now 3 or 4 is going to write seperate engines for the same game.
Do you realize how much effort goes into getting a game engine up an running 100% on 3 or 4 seperate and different platforms with in a years cycle
That would be the #1 way for Sega to discover how to lose money being a 3rd party developer.
I\'m sure both EA and Visual Concepts will tweak the engines to show off some of the strengths of each console, but to make the statement you did is being naive to reality of game developing from a financial standpoint
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I\'m don\'t like Tom\'s hardware that much.I prefer sites like
http://www.arstechnica.com
[H]ardOCP.com (http://www.hardocp.com)
http://www.anandtech.com
those are my favourite hardware sites.
http://www.firingsquad.com is also quite nice,altough they are mainly a gaming site,not a hardware site but they do have hardware reviews.They have also done a number of PS.2 articles,and game reviews.I trust them.
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Originally posted by ddaryl
do you really believe Visual COncepts, a company that has only developed for 1 console and now 3 or 4 is going to write seperate engines for the same game.
Do you realize how much effort goes into getting a game engine up an running 100% on 3 or 4 seperate and different platforms with in a years cycle
That would be the #1 way for Sega to discover how to lose money being a 3rd party developer.
I\'m sure both EA and Visual Concepts will tweak the engines to show off some of the strengths of each console, but to make the statement you did is being naive to reality of game developing from a financial standpoint
What I meant is they should at least tweak it on the next platform. I mean each console has it own streanths. And Ea has to push out 3 games on 3 different platform. So I am guessing they won\'t bother to even try. Just rush..rush to get all 3 games out and that is lazy. Look at NBA live and Madden. Look at how undeveloped those games where. Ea just seems so lazy to me now of days. The characters in madden look like these big old linebacker dorfs. I am just mad because I have been a big fan for so long and I expect more out of EA. But lately they seem lazy to me.
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Toms hardware is a well respected COMPUTER SITE, but they know fu*K-ALL about console gamming.
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Originally posted by Coredweller
Hah hah hahh.. Bob, when I first saw your name on this forum, I assumed you got it from Tom\'s Hardware. I guess it was a coincidence.
That is correct, it is a coincidence. I got the name Bobs_Hardware my first day on the internet, when the only sites i knew about were hotmail and some crappy australian game sites. And my name is much more comical, grrrrrr :rpissed: