Re:Not So Sure (Score 1)

Well, I'm one of those early adopters of video game machines (proud to say that I'm only missing 3, a Vectrex, a Colecovision and the Apple Pippin), and I do have an Xbox360 and a PS3 to which I have to say, there are a few things that I might imply might need a fair amount of streamlining on the PS3 (note: this is a commentary on the PS3 - I'm not getting into what I don't like about the X360). 1) The downloading is ghastly slow. The X360 downloaded a 1gb demo in 20-25 minutes, where the PS3 took 3.5 hours to download 900 mb. 2) The heat...oh man. I thought the X360 spit out heat. I fell asleep in my tech room, with nothing but the TV and the PS3 on (I was downloading the Gran Turismo HD demo), and when I came to, the room was at 33 degrees celsius. To wit, when both my power pig of a computer and the X360 was on, the temperature never increased past 24 degrees in that room. Outside the room, the hallway was at 17 degrees. I also know that the system is capable of higher temperatures (I tested the exhaust temperature, and gave up when I saw +40 degrees C) 3) You cannot use the machine if you are downloading demos, videos, etc. This might not seem like a big deal, except that as I mentioned, downloading takes an exceedingly long time, which prevents you from being able to do anything else with the machine. Background downloading would be a very good idea. 4) The charging cable for the controller is bloody short! 5) The machine is not exactly flexible when it comes to which cable you're using at the time. I use HDMI at home, but component, S-video or composite when I take the machine elsewhere to show off. It is a fairly minor thing to reset what cable it'll use, but it's confused more than one of my friends. 6) I was a bit disappointed when I realized that my digital camera's xD memory card wasn't supported in the formats that the PS3 has. I haven't tried plugging in the camera directly yet, so... 7) I realize that this might not be the fault of the PS3, but NFS: Carbon on the PS3 stutters a bit more than it does on the X360. Specifically, I noticed this when I saw the airplane flying in the background at the start of the game. I could go on, but I'm not trying to badmouth the machine, just kinda point out some of my thoughts on it. Frankly, it seems like Sony forgot some of the lessons that they were teaching everyone else with their older consoles. Here's hoping they remember soon. (Also, I haven't used the Blu-ray for a movie yet.)