Originally posted by nO-One
Wow, it\'s odd how you want to fight with specs but mention just about 1/3rd of the PS.2 spec list, I mean you mention the I/O ports on the X-Box but sadly fail to mention the PS.2 I/O ports, and you talk about the amazing Xbox polygon power, well the PS.2 is no slouch.
And I may be wrong on this, but wasn\'t the GPU originally intended to be at 300Mhz, then it was lowered to 250Mhz and then finally to 233Mhz?
Sadly I must tell you this that horsepower wise the Xbox wins, but technoligy wise the PS.2 slaughters the Xbox the paralell design of it exists nowhere else. And the PS.2\'s teeny weeny lil\'l 128 bit slaughters the Pentium, I mean it\'s a MIPS proc SGI uses MIPS processors in their workstations and coupled with the vector units we have the most powerful cpu of all the consoles.
Ah we have someone who actualy knows a thing or two. I admit the spec\'s I posted for the PS2 were limited but that\'s all I could seem to find on line. Let\'s do a little comparing shall we......
We all know about the X-box\'s superior Graphics, Nvidia\'s NV2A GPU, and yes the PS2 does have an impressive Graphics-processing Architecture, but it doesn\'t match up to the NV2A
X-Box GPU speed 233 MHz PS2 GPU speed 147.456 Mhz
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Ah the questionable Processor...
the X-box pent lll 733 MHZ processor
The PS2 features a 294.912 MHZ central CPU
Even the Game cube has a 405 MHZ power PC which is slightly more powerfull then the PS2
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Lets talk Dolby Digital 5.1 for a bit.
The X-box has dolby digital 5.1 sound in gameplay. The PS2 proudly trumpets the fact that it supports Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, but what it doesn\'t say is that it only supports it during DVD movies and FMV sequences.
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Lets talk memory.
I bought my X-box, $299.00, and one game, $50.00 ,and brought it home and was able to play and save my game so I would not have to start it all over again. I bought my PS2, $299.00 ,and one Game$50.00 and brought it home and I realized I had to go spend another $34.00 for a memory card. then soon that memory card was full and I need another and another, but my XBOX has 50,000 blocks of memory right on the hard drive, which will never be full I think I can safely say.
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lets talk DVD, you will like a part of this one.
Yes with my X-box i had to run back to the store and spend $24.00 for the DVD kit so i could watch movies. With my PS2 I could watch them right away with no added cost. Although i had to spend a few bucks to access the DVD feature, I have to say it looks much better to be able to operate the DVD feature with a remote when company is over, you know instead of having to use a gamepad with a cable no less.
Oh yeah and the X-box is the only console with progressive DVD scan which means the X-box actually improves the output of the DVD medium by using the extra resolution afforded by HDTV sets.
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Max Resolution.......
On an HDTV the X-box max resolution of 1920x1080 is a glimpse of what is possible. X-box features like bump mapping add full scene anti-aliasing look truely incredible at those resolutions.
One key problem with the PS2 architecture is memory issues.Becuase of this it is extremely difficult for game developers to use high resolution textures in their PS2 games. Even if the PS2 could match the x-box\'s highest\'s resolutions, (which it can\'t) the texture would still look dark and grainy.
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Boy I really would like to be able to listen to some of my CD\'s while playing a game. Oh wait with the X-box CD copier I can. Sorry PS2 fans.
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Hey 3 of my friends are coming over and we all want to have a game of Madden 2002, oh that\'s right we will use the X-box insted of the PS2. The X-box allows 4 controllers to be connected at once without any adaptors.
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Want more????? OK
Polygon Throughput::::::
I know there just numbers but the X-box can push 125 million polygon per second, Almost twice as many as the PS2.
I know you will most likely say that polygons aren\'t important, hell I would to if the x-box was so out powered by it\'s competitors, but it\'s not. Look at the environments, the characters, and the objects in the game. The more polygons a console can push, the better things look.
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Pixel Shaders::::
For those of you who may not know a Pixel shader is a graphics function that calculates visual effects on a surface one pixel at a time. This means that the graphics processor must render, light, shade, and color millions of pixels for each frame, at 60 frames per second. For most graphics processors this is too much of a load, but not for the X-box. The importance of pixel shaders is that they help the game developers turn the typical, flat surfaces in video games into textured, organic, and realistically bumpy-looking surfaces. Oh you know how I mentioned how Pixel shaders are too complex for most graphic processors? Well the PS2 and Gamecube are part of that group.
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You know I could go on and on, there is much more the X-box can do that the PS2 can\'t, but i think i have made my point. Now I think it\'s time for a game of the graphicly stunning , and superior racing game, Project Gotham Racing found ONLY ON XBOX.
