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yeah its like comparing a P4 @3.8Ghz to a single core of my Core i5-2400 @3.1Ghz, of course, the i5-2400 will wipe the floor with the p4. I don't think we will find out for sure until a year or two into the console, when people figure out how to program for it and we really see what its capable of.

besides all of them? the fact you can have a pc that is powerful enough to run console games at resolutions higher than 720p makes pc games graphically superior, not to mention anti aliasing . Crysis was is one. it wasn't matched on the console until around last year, even that port has lower draw distance, less effects such as smoke, and lower resolution textures. Linus Tech Tips puts it in perspective a bit more.

I don't know why console designers have to go with these unique architectures. why not make a console thats more like a traditional PC, like the xbox and the xbox 360. I think that those have had more success in the multiplatform games because the console itself is more like the pc they're programming it on, so its easier to make better looking games. then they port it to consoles they don't know how to program as well, like the ps3 and its weird Cell processor. by doing this kind of thing I think they are shooting themselves in the foot in some aspects.

From what I've heard, the Wii U's memory is all DDR3, which runs around 12GB/s, while the ps3 and xbox 360's memory usually gets around 20-25GB/s. that might be an issue.

I have a PSP. I don't see a need for a handheld like this. These things are usually cheezy, don't work well, and are expensive. I'd say go out and get a PSP for $60 with higher build quality and hack it. and then just wait for the Vita to get hacked, that will be cool.

Not very many games kill screen like that, sometimes there are games where you roll the score or the level counter and cause a buffer overflow, causing the next byte to increase by one, often ruining some game mechanics, graphics and all that. most of these games have an 8 bit architecture, so each unit of memory is stored clumps of 8 bits, or a byte. each one can store a number up to 255. when counts up to 256, that bit resets to 0 and 1 is added to the next byte. That's my understanding of it.

Have you tried a different cable? it might be an open circuit. Maybe check your tv/receiver's input/output settings? Just throwing out the obvious stuff first.

This^ I vote this to be the best forum post of yesterday >.>

This would be to be expected with the cd-rom drives, but the PSP just dying isn't. I need to get a new gamecube, my old one just won't read some disks now, no matter how pristine.

good grief, with the posts I've seen, you guys might as well be arguing about religion or politics. geez. you like what you like. don't get butthurt that people don't agree with you. there is no right answer.

Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal have very good songs in it. this one is really catchy to me.

They're definitely not on that level of horribleness, but they are bad. YOU DARE BRING LIGHT INTO MY LAIR? YOU MUST DIE!

That screen looks horrid up close... I can stare at my 17" Mag from a mm away and it looks pristine. CRT will always look crisper, from up close, and from farther away. LCD and Plasma is meh compared to CRT up close... sucks I'm kind of jealous that you have seen it in person. I have only seen it on Youtube. Where did you see it at? ? They zoomed in, in the video. TVs don't look that good through cameras anyway, since the pixels on the camera and tv aren't 1:1 and the tv's resolution is much higher than the cameras. Also, its an 85" tv, you're not supposed to sit 2 feet away from it. The only way to tell if it looks good or not is to see it in person I'd guess.

Why do these idiots who review/play VCS games on yT never know how to play a VCS game? You're supposed to eat the food, moron. Read the manual for gods sake I'm pretty sure that if you "Review" a game on YouTube, you should know how to play the game at least. Good Grief. This video is horrible.

While progressive scan and component (VGA in the case of the Dreamcast) helps the situation, it hardly means they were designed for use on modern tv's. Something like a Playstation 2 is best enjoyed on a SD CRT just like a N64. Even better if the CRT has component connections. You'll never get performance out of a last gen console on a HD LCD and such that would match the picture quality you'd get via a nice SD CRT hooked up via component cables. That goes for the Wii as well. Yeah, I guess the ps2 would benefit from a crt, but the gamecube, I would play metroid prime, super mario sunshine, and all that on a lcd all day. It doesn't have the resolution, but it still looks good enough for me to play it on a lcd.