IS THE PC GONNA DIE WHEN THE NEXT Gen Consoles arrive? (PS3 and XBox360)

[tolstoi]

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haha this has got to be the 12379870960736405 time i've read this "PC die thing".

yes, it will die...and then your di<k will fall off..and the world will end. hahaha

[pnoize]

die! die! die!

[Otagoth]

I only use my PC when it comes to music games and porn....But Graphicswise...i think the PC lag behind a Bit..
AND!!!...The PRice range when it comes to upgrading your pc costs a small fortune compared to the consoles dont you think?

[akari]

Consoles are kiddie stuff.

[wendellmb]

But Graphicswise...i think the PC lag behind a Bit..

nope... dependi sa imo system...

[shejulfa]

dili gyud na ma wala ang PC kay GAMES ra imong hunahuna imo sad nah... pero kung computer geeks ka ganahan mag developed ug software o mga online games... so PC were very much alive... talking about GRAPHICS depende na sa imong budget ug unsay imong gusto na PC..

[joel oporto]

Graphics-wise ang consoles dependent ra sa imong TV, nya ang tv pila ra may resolution makaya, nga 720x468 ra man gani ang DVD, unless mag HDTV ka. mura lag nindot ang graphics sa console kay ang TV imong usually gamiton, more than 23". Basin bayabas ra sab na imong vid card maong lupigon ang pc ug graphics??!!! Animation cannot yet attain the clarity, detail and color separation of film or video, nya ang pc/mac man gani ang gamiton to edit and produce those multimedia film and video resources, unsaon nimo pag ingon nga mas maayo na hinuon ug graphics ang consoles? pag suway lang ug gamit ug sakto nga pc with even just a mid-range vid card nya ipaslak ug mga least 40+" plasma HDTV, di ba makalimot ka sa gaming console

[wendellmb]

mao... naka suway man gani ko nga 64mb/bit.. ako gi tv out.. mas nindot pa man gani ang labas kay sa ps2.. ataya lagi..
na shock gud ko kay medyo smooooth kaau tanawn... kulang lang sa color....

[joel oporto]

when I started really using computers in mga 1988, cga/ega pa ang mga monitors. RCA plugs pa ang gamit from isa vidcard to monitor. If I'm not wrong mga 720 x 525 max ang scanlines per inch resolution sa NTSC TV nya sa pal/secam 720 x 576. However, sa analog types of video, (vhs, beta sp, s-video or s-vhs), strictly speaking, there are no fixed resolution/scan lines kay progressive man just as analog audio does not have bit rates or bits sa amplitude. Anyway, we used TVs as an alternate monitor kay rca plug ra man ang needed nya it was easier to get a 21" TV rather than a 21" PC monitor. The max resolution sa PC then was 640 x 480 which was the effective resolution of NTSC after taking out interlacing and fields. In the introduction of SVGA and VGA, wala na gigamit ang RCA plugs kay 15 pin connectors na man. With it came resolutions of 640x480, 800x600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, 1280 x 1024 etc. up to 3000something x something! The lowest resolution used in todays' PC monitors are 800x600 and typically 1024x768. Ang maximum sa NTSC TV nato is 720 x 525 but effectively mga 640x480 kay the rest of that is used to store technical video information like interlacing, fields, smpte etc.

At its most basic, the PC today already has much better resolutions than TV!!!

So do you think that playing Frozen throne or NFSU2 at 800x600 resolution is much better than at 1280x1024?
What you are getting at lower res is a zoomed-in version where objects are larger so your eyes get fooled that you are getting a better picture when in fact your are getting an enlarged portion of a big picture but with lesser details and sharpness and a lot of sections that will not fit on the screen(usually in analog video sources like movies). Ever noticed that letters in the PC are smaller in higher resolutions?
ergo more details.
Only with the advent of LCD and plasma and HDTV has television been able to catch up to the pc in resolution and we all know how much they cost.
Anyway, if you want to really test it, try playing PS2 games on a 20" plasma tv and physically measure the size of objects (say length of legs, height of letters) and with a pc running at 1280x1024, effectively you will get the same measurements of lengths with a 30" TV. this means you have effectively between 1.6 to 2 times more data depending on the original size of the video.
think of it as an impressionist painting, where a picture is composed of dots, when you are farther from the picture, the lesser detail you will see but the picture is more formed. The closer you are to the picture, the more you see the dots and the picture is less formed. With a higher resolution the dots are smaller so that you can get closer to the picture and still the image is better formed. Then you have a bigger image for the same type of clarity at a constant distance.

That is why unless everybody uses a plasma TV LCD or PC monitor when they play the next gen consoles(PS2 will still be lower res as they were designed for 720x525), you cannot get better/clearer graphics from a nextgen console than when you use a PC.

And there's still processor speeds to contend with, which is an entirely different matter altogether.

[darkwing]

err console = gaming/multimedia/entertainment, PC = multi-purpose