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[Bobs_Hardware]

I knew it!

I just hope PS3 uses Memory Stick Pro Duo för Memory cards, now when I have bought a 512MB I want to be able to use it with my PS3.

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Wow, opinions are a funny thing, eh Knotter?

I couldn\'t read through IGN\'s drivel if I was forced to at gunpoint.

You know IGN is a website for homos! I heard somewhere that the G stands for Gay! Not sure what the other letters stand for but it\'s probably something equally gay!

Hey, i never said IGN\'s stuff is great but Gamespot\'s Kasavin recently scored MGS3 and SplinterCell 3 a 8.7 and a 8.6 respectively. EA drivel gets into 9\'s on that Gamespot website. :rolleyes:

Yes, IGN have become money driven mainstream crap, but Gamespot (Kasavin) thinks it\'s the God of all gaming review sites.

Ontopic : I really urge you guys to read this extensive Cell article ;

@ anandtech

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Newflash: All gaming sites suck now\'a\'days.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Hey, i never said IGN\'s stuff is great but Gamespot\'s Kasavin recently scored MGS3 and SplinterCell 3 a 8.7 and a 8.6 respectively. EA drivel gets into 9\'s on that Gamespot website.

Opinions are a funny thing, eh?

Ok, go and play mgs3 and sc3, then read Kasavin\'s reviews ;

This is not about opinions anymore. His arguments just aren\'t very good and he omits various keyfactors of those games\' gameplay which are key to their innovation.

A member of the SC board emailed him in reply to his SC3 review. That guy made a very decent and well argumented email with precise critiques why Kasavin\'s review didn\'t hold any ground. THAT is why Kasavin\'s reviews are beyond the excuse of opinion. His MGS3 review was fairly positive but that 8.7 score was a complete and utter mismatch to his reviewtext.

Want me to copy paste all the evidence ? It\'s quite a list, so don\'t hesitate to ask if you wanna do so.

Also, i thought the ground rule of gamesite reviews was to make well informed and well argumented articles about games. The whole essence of a \'review\' is being something more than just an opinion. If reviews were mere opinions than they wouldn\'t have to adhere to rules like \'gameplay\', \'graphics\', \'sound\' etc. These are all videogame trademark parameters which should be used with care in a review. As a Head Chief Editor of Gamespot, Kasavin\'s review do quite bad at those.

[Bobs_Hardware]

They adhere to those paramenters to make it easier on the reader. It is impossible for it to be any more than an opinion. Just a highly publicised opinion.

And I\'m sure every reviewer has inconsistancies. btw, an 8.7 from Kasavin means he thoroughly enjoyed the game. Perhaps you\'re just used to IGN giving every mediocre game a 9.2.

I hope that is not the real design.

Originally posted by Knotter8
An impressive Cell article which makes more sense than any of IGN\'s babble :

@ anandtech

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The article is well written, however it doesn\'t give us any more insight than we had before concerning the PS3.

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The GPU isn\'t even finished yet, so any PS3 "tech" will suck ass at this point. And anandtech pwns IGN. IGN will be the LAST place I go to when official specifications are released.

Well, if you read carefully, the coding for the PPE should be simple at high order level while the SPE\'s can be assigned to dedicated tasks.

I see lotsa guys raving about how XNA will outdo the PS3 dev libraries so much, but they\'re forgetting this core high order simplified Cell architecture and Nvidia\'s expertise at graphics development.

Of course, I\'ll never say Xbox2 won\'t be a great machine..

Originally posted by Knotter8
Hey, i never said IGN\'s stuff is great but Gamespot\'s Kasavin recently scored MGS3 and SplinterCell 3 a 8.7 and a 8.6 respectively. EA drivel gets into 9\'s on that Gamespot website. :rolleyes:

An 8.7 for MGS3 sounds about right.

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Just because games are overly hyped doesn\'t mean they should all get perfect scores...

Originally posted by Knotter8
Well, if you read carefully, the coding for the PPE should be simple at high order level while the SPE\'s can be assigned to dedicated tasks.

I see lotsa guys raving about how XNA will outdo the PS3 dev libraries so much, but they\'re forgetting this core high order simplified Cell architecture and Nvidia\'s expertise at graphics development.

I have a bridge to sell you.  I don\'t have anything to show you, but I can tell you it should be a really good bridge.

Of course, I\'ll never say Xbox2 won\'t be a great machine..

Of course not, because that would be silly.

Originally posted by Rikku
I have a bridge to sell you.  I don\'t have anything to show you, but I can tell you it should be a really good bridge.

Of course not, because that would be silly.

Well, in modern society ppl think they\'re all  evolved and sophisticated, but where it comes down to is that to most of them still applies the primal rule of \'seeing is believing\'.

The Anandtech article arguments show that the design philosophy is doing right now what Intel has on the roadmap 5 years in the future. In-order compile coding with a marginally simple to code for multitask cpu (PPE) and a boatload of SPE\'s which one can assign to dedicated tasks.

It makes sense. Of course, maybe I\'m the kind of person who lives to much in his head. :nerd: