You keep saying this majorty of the people stuff. You, I, and every person here knows that only an estimated 10% of people play Xbox Live. Thats 1 out of 10. Now for every one of those extras that the PS3 has I think you can replace them with that 1 out of 10 people for the PS3. I can easily see 1 out of 10 people using built-in wifi, bluetooth, 2 tvs for gaming and other entertainment, SD CF or MS duo slots, or utilizing 1080p.
The amount of people who use xbox live on the x360 will be greater than those using 1080p + sd , cf , ms duo , dual tvs , bluetooth combined
Please note I never mentioned wifi as a feature no one will use or few will so don't lump that in there . I think wifi is great out of the box and I'm happy both sony and nintnedo are offering it .
To me that evens it out. I don't know if you remember but 50 inch 720p TVs were damn near too high for anybody to buy. Only the pure elight had them. Prices now my be better but they were unreasonable in 2002.
Once again these aren't really price factors (Except dual screens ) for the bluetooth , sd , cf , ms duo these are features that few will use . I will wager that out of all those the ms duo will be the slot that gets the most use and what really makes me wonder is why the other standards when sony has thier own ? As a sony customer who is interested in a psp and a ps3 which flash media are you going to buy ? As I said these features will be rarely used by the large majority and I will argue that it would have benfited consumers if sony just stuck with 1 type like memory stick duo in the long run .
THe reason why I say this is simply . Less money to produce the system in the short term and long term and greater compatibility with other sony products like the psp .
Thats a pretty huge jump there. The difference between 2009 and 2011 could probably be like 20 million consoles sold. An extra 20 million consoles is an edge in my eyes.
Once again the only problem with your thinking is the amount of tittles that will take advantage of this . If sony forces 1080p as the standard res for all games (like ms did with 720p + 4x fsaa) then I will agree its an edge , but if few games support it and many more support it with reduced framerates then there might be a problem
What good is 1080p on a system if 10-30% of games don't feature it ? Esp towards the end of the consoles life when both systems will be pushed to the limits in terms of graphics ?
Anyway as i said the hype will be moving to the new systems so even if by 2009 there are enough people who have 1080p and enough ps3 games that support that res then yes it will be an advantage . If not then its no advantage .
You should know better the PS3 can hook up to one HDTV and one regular TV.
So wait lets look at it this way .
You come to my house and I have a 27inch hdtv and a 27 inch ntsc tv . Do you really think your going to be happy looking at the image off the normal tv esp when u can glance over and see the higher res game next to it ? The diffrence is huge in the quality . If you have a dual monitor video card run the 720p movies and then run the 640x480 videos and you can see a huge huge diffrence in quality .
Yes I meant voice chat. You have a good point its just the thought of me being able to do it that sikes me up.
Which still makes no sense at all. I can get a regular phone nad hook up my xbox live head phones to it and talk to my gf and then switch them back over to my xbox instead of having to hook up a second tv to chat with her through voice. Now mabye video would be cool but then again that would require my gf to have a ps3 .
What you describe really isn't practical .
Also I forgot to say on the PS3 you will be able to surf the net while playing videogames or watching movies on the second screen. So if your little sister wants to watch SpiderMan 3 in HD (Blu-ray of course ) and Dad has to finish his work on the computer you can just fire up that second screen and bam you can read and post on B3D (with your bluetooth enabled keyboad and mouse ).
Where am i going to do this ?
Unless you really think my sister would want to watch spiderman 3 on a regular tv with me with a tv near it . Remember we will be basicly bound to one room.
While it sounds nice in theory once again the practical use is going to be slim to none .
Remember where ever you are your going to need two tvs to do this . I don't really see the average family having a big screen hdtv and then next to it a standard tv or even 10 or so feet away let alone another hdtv just so that one of the family members can surf the web. I would actually see that family buying a second pc if the pc time was in such demand
As I said these are all things that go both ways and really don't add much to the primary function of the console . They are all nice to haves. So yea once in a blue moon i can see a bunch of friends coming over and us hooking up a second tv if we get into large groups . But really at the point it most likely would be much easier to hook up a second system to that tv and instead get x on x in a game where each team can have one tv and one system and play lan style .
