Yes, please pass the pop corn. =D

Heres theres popcorn!

Nice read there Major thanks for the link!!

All this ruckus has turned me off to both formats.

Dude you dont need to rebuy those movies.  Just buy new ones in the new format.  I plan on buying the HDDVD add on if it isnt to much and upconverts standard dvds as well.

Not sure if Ozymandias has been on your show yet, but I'd love to hear what he has to say about his job in Developer Relations.  I've been reading his blog from the beginning and it's pretty cool...of course not as cool as yours. ;)

Having done some texture work myself, I can tell you that drawing a comparison between PS2 in-ram texture sizes (in bytes) to contemporary textures with various hardware texture compressions readily available (and being used) is false.

It's like saying a DVD isnt enough for a family album of 500 photos because 50 .TIF photos already filled the whole CD 15 years ago. Welcome to the era of compression.

And this applies not only to textures but audio and video aswell. The more hardware oomph the more capacity to decode on the fly, the more bang for your megabyte. And two EXTRA cores go a long way when decoding even several overlapping streams without compromising performance.

lawl it's funny when kids fight on forums,  but in blogs?

Major who you gonna pick a fight with?

Cool a blogfight!

Where are the posts trashing the horribly low quality of the Wii visuals and its paltry online support??  And all the stories about how games cant be ported to that system because of its garbage specs?  Why do you only pick out every negative press item about sony and PS3 and let nintendo skate?

Hmmm... Game Developer PR (for both consoles) vs. Microsoft PR - and you guys are still going to side w/ Microsoft? They develop for both platforms, you know! >I have a 51" wide screen HDTV and DVD is good enough for me. >Im sure most people feel this way. If I ever do buy a HD >disc system it will not be bluray Are there any 51" HDTVs that aren't widescreen? And no, if you've spent any time watching decent HD content, upscaled DVDs (even with a GOOD scaler) are not even close. Assuming you have a projection TV, you might want to look at getting the panels aligned or cleaned... And, WHY in the WORLD would anyone write off a technology like that? Because Microsoft is making an HD DVD player for the 360? Would you be saying the same thing if Microsoft supported Bluray? Amazing. I have a 360 and plan to have a PS3 by the end of the year. On another note, I sure hope that by the time I buy my HD DVD add-on (sans HDMI), that it's less than the "more expensive" PS3.

dude wrote: >Why do you only pick out every negative press item about sony and PS3 and let nintendo skate? Actually, I wouldn't consider this a negative press item about Sony. The item written by the third party developer seems quite *pro* Sony. Of course, Major Nelson knows that the people reading this blog will take the Microsoft shill for absolute truth, so he can take that risk.

Marks defence of the Blu Ray for the PS3 really does not hold much promise. The bottom line even in his blog is the PS3 is pushed up in price due to a technology that ain't even proven to be worthy for gaming. By all accounts the load times for PS3 games will be significantly in the area of PS2/PSP loading times, if not slower. In all honesty I ain't impressed by the loading times with most of the 360 games, so any slower than that would make me think all of a sudden my gaming had dipped into dial up loading times. I think all this technology really don't mean a thing if all we get is fancy graphics with massive loading times and very little gameplay to speak of. The only game that has impressed me graphically and in gameplay is GRAW, but moreso GEO WARS and that is, as we all know, a Live Arcade game. Very little memory used for that game, but it has that all important factor, addictive gameplay. I think Nintendo have got the right idea this time around. Simple concept in design for the console, but gameplay being advanced via the controller and the least in expecting anything fancy for graphics. If the price is right you can expect the Wii to do what it promises, bring us addictive gaming at the right price and advance gaming as we know it. MS and Sony can dig themselves into HD/DVD and Blu Ray all they want. I personally don't think the time is right for either of them. Basic HD TV's are not cheap enough yet to warrant any popular reaction to the news that PS3 has advanced DVD picture quality via Blue Ray and that the 360 is getting HD/DVD! So what? Who really cares apart from those who have HD TV's. Chances are people put themselves into debt to follow the path of the Sony's and the MS's of this world. It ain't really worth that much commitment.

This is great, intelligent and informed debate across the two camps. If only this happened more often. Thanks for the links to this Major.

Listening to snything from M$ about Blu-Ray is like asking Apple about Windows. You are bound to get a childish, silly, stupid post. Way to go Major.

Hey Major here's a topic for you to write about next: "PS3 Not to have Halo" Because that's about as common sense as these other bs articles you put up.