Hot off the press, Gamepro presents their view of the PS3 and Xbox 360’s upcomming releases. Sure to ignite debate between the fanboys, the list does look good for both systems. I have to say, especially after the PS3 outselling the Xbox 360 in the United States this week, that I think things are really going to change.
Here are the games:
Xbox 360:
1. Ninja Gaiden 2
2. Left 4 Dead
3. Too Human
4. Gears of War 2 (SYSTEM SELLER)
5. Fable 2 (SYSTEM SELLER)
6. Halo Wars
7. Splinter Cell Conviction
8. Alan Wake
9. Banjo Kazooie
10. Halo Chronicles
PS3:
1. Gran Turismo 5 (SYSTEM SELLER)
2. Haze
3. Metal Gear Solid 4 (SYSTEM SELLER)
4. Metal Gear Online
5. Singstar
6. LittleBigPlanet
7. Resistance 2 (SYSTEM SELLER)
8. Killzone 2
9. Motorstorm 2
10. SOCOM Confrontation
11. InFamous
12. The Agency
13. Final Fantasy XIII (SYSTEM SELLER)
14. God of War III (SYSTEM SELLER)
15. Tekken 6
16. Twisted Metal
What do you think?
I just learned the hard way that once you install a new hard drive into a Playstation 3 that the old one will no longer be accepted and will need to be formatted to be used again.
I own an AOC Envision L32W461 and for a value priced HDTV (I paid $699 CDN in Nov 2006) it has been a great purchase. Aside from the usual not so black black’s found in lower priced HDTV’s this unit works quite well. It wasn’t until I started playing time sensitive rhythm games like Rockband and Guitar Hero that I realised there was a problem. The latency on this TV is quite high and without proper tweaking it can make playing certain types of games impossible.
I came across a great article over at AnandTech dating back to 2005 that talks about the technology behind the Cell processor. Its very tech heavy but is quite interesting if you are into the technology aspect of the PS3. It talks about the differences between single and multicore processing and the difficulties, advantages and disadvantages in programming for these types of chips. It’s interesting to note how poorly this chip performs when computing standard desktopy type instructions (not unlike the PS2 Emotion Engine) compared to video game and media type code.
