Video Game History

[zsalinas]

speg I think you and I are the only ones who actually care about the systems. All I'm seeing is a bunch of people talkin ---- without even knowing anything about either system yet. You can't ever begin to compare 360 and the PS3 nobody knows. I don't remember one time when I had my ps2 that I played an original ps1 game. That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Who even cares if it plays old games, if you have the old games then I"m sure you have the old system ya know. People drive me crazy it's turning into the gangster east coast west coast fight lol (360 vs ps3) everybody takes sides ha ha

 

[ruaround]

Reason #4: Full Backwards Compatibility
360 will let you play Halo and whatever other games Microsoft chooses to eventually support, but Sony has the PSOne and PS2 library covered, save for a few minor exceptions. Imagine booting up Tobal No. 1 just because you feel like it or taking on Shattered Soldier because you haven't gotten your ass kicked enough lately. That's what PS3 can do for you.
The coolest part is that PS3 may also be able to enhance the older games. Much in the same way PS2 improved PSOne games with better texture filters and enhanced load times, we expect PS3 games to add even better texture filtering, quicker loads, full scene anti-aliasing graphics and goodness knows what else.
HERE ARE MORE REASONS TO WAIT...
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/668/668446p1.html

 

[the monkey]

Go ahead and dig up the Xbox specs and do a little comparison
PS3
PowerPC-based Core - 3.2GHz
7 SPEs - 3.2GHz
512KB L2 Cache
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPEs
Basically, a single Cell processor is designed to act like multiple processors working together, or even independently. A Cell processor has a single PowerPC Architecture Unit (PAU) and multiple Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A Cell's PAU dolls out instructions to its various SPEs, which can then independently work on tasks. So for instance, one SPU might be programmed to run a game's AI while another handles physics. Since each one acts independently, multiple calculations can be done simultaneously. In other words, it's very powerful. In fact, it's powerful enough to perform 218 GFLOPS.