And what happens when someone wants to do homework while someone is playing a game. This is why some of us think more numerous cheaper special purpose devices are better than ONE expensive versatile device.

It can, but it has fewer compute units than the PS4's GPU does. There were also 750 variants that DO require a 6 pin power connection. Households with basic retail models are probably not going to have the knowledge of choosing or even installing such a card. Slashdot, is not the masses.

Not really, since most of the GoG games are Win95+ vintage, not 256K DOS vintage. The oldest game in GoG's top 20 is from 1999.

Nope, but SCEA will repair it. The only thing I worry about in the thing is the blu-ray drive, since the hard drive is user replaceable (and in fact, I've upgraded that). I've got a functional SCPH 50001 model PS2 sitting around too, those things are built like tanks.

The same price as games for other platforms?

I don't know, mine came with my PS3/PS4.

Never had to replace controller batteries.

PS+ 49.95 a year. Gets you a ton of games in the "Instant Game Library. It's why it was popular on the PS3.

What is this you speak of, the PS3 and PS4 do not need such things.

As a matter of fact..... I have used OO Calc and Audacity on a PS3.

I have. Kmail, Thunderbird, claws-mail. On both the PS2 and PS3. I could now if I stuck to webmail, thanks to the PS3 and PS4's web browser. The vita has an e-mail app already. There is nothing stopping Sony from slapping up versions of OO or Audacity compiled for the standard PS4 OS on PSN. Hell, their video editing app is based on ffmpeg!

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/L...

That was entirely due to mouse-aiming being easy-mode. That's what the old-timer FPS's called the first mouse-aiming FPS's..."easy mode". That was also due to the platform involved, (Dreamcast) which wasn't one of the consoles that support mutliple input methods. Also...Gabe isn't entirely neutral on the issue since his company is tied to the PC.

That's right and PSN+ too, but you get something for that besides online gaming...you get freebies tossed in.

No, they aren't. Same price, at least here in the US. Dragon Age Inquisition, the game this entire discussion is about, is the exact same price on EVERY platform, PC/PS4/XboxOne/PS3/360

If you're wondering the reason why the PC version of many games is an afterthought...it's guys like you. The "I only buy games for $5 at steam sales"...cheapskates who then complain when the PC version comes out later or isn't optimized. It's the people paying $59 who subsidize the development, not you.

Who says?

Six. the seventh is reserved for the hypervisor. (Actualy it's 8, but one is disabled for yield)

ONE PPU, but it's hyperthreaded, with an Altivec unit.

[CronoCloud@mideel ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported
clock : 3192.000000MHz
revision : 5.1 (pvr 0070 0501)
 
processor : 1
cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported
clock : 3192.000000MHz
revision : 5.1 (pvr 0070 0501)
 
timebase : 79800000
platform : PS3

That was from back when I still had Linux on my PS3.

Do you actually play games that old, or is that just something you brag about as a member of the supposed "Master Race".

Hell, I've got a CECHE PS3, I could play everything back to 1995. As much as I liked PSone Diablo and FFVII, most of my time spent on the PS3 was spent playing PS3 games.

Yeah, if you pirate them, you can install emulators on consoles with custom firmware too, but really how many NES games on your PC do you actually play?

That's $322 dollars right there, without storage, without power supply, without RAM, without motherboard.

Nothing is stopping you from playing the old games on the old console. You buy the newer stuff for the newer console.

Or, if you had one of the nice CECHA/CECHB/CECHE PS3's, you just used all your PSOne/PS2 discs in it as well.

But really, how many older games do you actually play. Yeah you may say "I install LOOM on my Win8 machine" but do you actually play the older stuff, but only do that to brag about your library.

Yes, we speak it. We've spoken it ever since the PS2. However, WASD is an inferior control method for movement.

The guy after me recommends the G13, that's not a bad idea, that gives you hybrid controls. Which as any PS2/PS3/PS4 owner can tell you, work well for some games. You use the stick to move, but the mouse to aim.

That's not quite true, the PS3 and PS4 support 7.1 and yes there are games with true 7.1 audio on the PS3. It's why Skyrim is 3.6GB on the 360 and 10GB on the PS3, it supports Dolby Digital, DTS, 5.1 LPCM and 7.1 LPCM

UK gamers are notoriously anti-console thanks to the UK governments protectionism to favor Sinclair and keep the Americans and Japanese out.

Considering the Steam hardware survey...more like high-range. Take a look at the most common graphics cards, CPU's and whatnot. Dual-core is the most common with the most common graphics card being an Intel integrated one.

Vauge requirements and design are par for the course.

Knowing programmers the most inconsequential thing will cause a 'Holy War' to break out. Also there will be trawling, grammer nazi-ism, heavy sarcasm, and an in- ability to empathize.

PDF is an open standard, has been since 2008. Didn't you get the memo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

The fact that they used a Mac to create the PDF is a slightly more valid complaint. Note I said slightly.

[CronoCloud ~]$ pdfinfo Linux-Voice-Issue-001.pdf
Creator: Adobe InDesign CC (Macintosh)
Producer: Adobe PDF Library 11.0
CreationDate: Mon Feb 24 09:37:35 2014
ModDate: Mon Feb 24 09:38:21 2014
Syntax Error: Invalid object stream
Tagged: no
Form: none
Pages: 116
Encrypted: no
Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
Page rot: 0
File size: 63849602 bytes
Optimized: yes
PDF version: 1.4