Has the console forum been axed?

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/discussions.php

Their "PlayStation Paradise" forum is dominated by Xbox fans cutting down Sony and the PS3.

 

I think this has more to do with it than GA itself.

unfortunately by closing the console forum B3D staff has played right into their hands.

 

I think the reason sites are able to thrive on PC tech news is because there's always a steady stream of it coming out. But console tech is the tech that really fires up the imagination, and the console industry is the one with the crazy characters. I build my own PC's so I definitely follow PC-related news, but it can't make me feel the same way as I did when I first heard about Cell or Xenos, know what I mean?

I just think that there is something truly romantic and elegant about console arhcitectures and the make-or-break five year cycles on which they operate.

BUT, that's just me. 8)

 

I agree actually. I was around during the black forum days, and things really don't seem any worse to me now than they were back then. Remember all of the old Voodoo flamefests? It's easy to forget about them because we had things like the great Anti Aliasing articles, but I honestly don't get why people think things are worse now than they were back then. We still have great discussion too, and from some very knowledgable sources!

It's just really that things are different now. Instead of having trolls constantly bombard the 3D Technology and hardware forum we have them in console forum. Now that the console forum is gone, assuming another forum becomes as popular it will also attract the trolls. Maybe they will move back to the 3D Technology and Hardware forum where they were a couple of years ago.

Nite_Hawk

 

I dont agree, because till the game dev really use those features (once that at the end of the year only a very few ones will have that).

For a good time inovation should be presented in consoles, IMO.

For that I think that it would be better to have thinghs separated.

BTW I has intent to make a question about AI, based mostly in next gen consoles, in which forum should I post it

 

Was I talking about you?

 

As long as it applys to coding on pcs also then 3d coding would be a good spot

Remember these features are already there . Dx 9 has been on pcs for 3-4 years now and you can get a decent dx 9 card for 50$ usd . PPus will use the middle ware physics engines can would be supported by a patch. x86-64 has been out for 2 years or so now and intel has a solution for a few months already . Dual cores will take a bit longer but they will come and dedicated sound cards have allways been supported

 

I think it is only a matter of time, till PC get it.

Yes but even one of the most powerfull engines (UE3) will need to run on a P43Ghz and a 9700, no gameplay feature will need more than this in 2006, that is why I stand in my opinion (for example Halo when it cames out it has a lot of good things(AI, physics, large environments) that does not exist in PC).

 

Opa: 1

B3D: 0

Sad but true, your right...now its time to get some missinformation from sites other B3D..it was MY semi reliable source for console information. I believe your doing your members a disjustice by doing this especially when a majority of us are interested in consoles at this point in time... I mean..this can be likend to the March Madness of console information!.

 

Heh, but how will it be when it turns out this forced Dave to open up an entirely new site for consoles to compete/devastate the oopa-looopa kiddies?

When Dave opens up BeyondConsoles I'm pretty sure it'll quickly become the premiere console site on the web, fair enough payback to the oopa fanboys.

 

Hell Yeah!!! I just hate that....like seismic said...there mission was to disrupt this community and polarize it....but yeah...if we come out with a better and stronger console forum than maybe this is for the better.

 

First my net girlfriend doesn't reply to my msn messages, now console forums is closed....

SORROW!!

 

Wait, what? Are you saying there was a concerted effort by Opa members to take down the B3D console forum? And not only is this some sort of weird joke, but it was real?

(you guys are starting to lose me - I'm pretty confused)

 

you guys have failed the purpose of the internet by closing console forum

 

I'm really disappointed in this move, Dave (or whoever did it). I appreciate you didn't care about the Console Forum, but a lot of us did.

When raising children, you can't let them take a cookie from the cookie jar, watch them and not do anything. Watch them take it a second time, third time, fourth time. Then at the fifth time, you can't just belt them across the face, saying "what you did was wrong!".

Measured steps. Displayed measured steps.

I also appreciate this is not a democratic forum, and you are boss. But there was a lot of positive discussion about consoles on B3d. Probably the best on the internet. It will be sad to see it gone. I just hope it doesn't bite you in the butt, with the console-folk overflowing into General Hardware, Games, and 3D Architecture/Companies. At least it was roped in being at CT.

 

What i find pretty idiotic is that it's apperently easier to shut the entire forum down than it is to ban the specific people causing trouble. Like cutting off your leg because there's a mosquito bite on your toe.

 

I just want to chime in that the B3d console forum has been one of the best places on the net to get intelligent points of view. If the console forum is not coming back, can anyone recommend a forum that is as good as the B3d console forum was?

AR

 

naot many places like this around , if any.

Console forums here were/(are?) best resource for console tech and not just 3D but architecure , etc. In forums there always is some trouble and always be. Wherever people express their views theres bound to be conflicts .

I dont know if its possible to get a temp. forums running to fill the gap while the mgmt here can decide.

 

It's no joke. If you go to the opa-ages website, you'll find a post with them gloating about it.

I find it ironic, too, that gosh would complain about the console forum closing, given that a) "gosh" is an anonymous account from bugmenot and b) half the posts from that account were trollish.

.Sis