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Post by Kanashi on Oct 19, 2004 7:43:00 GMT -5
The ps2 has a new look, if u havnt noticed the ps2 hasnt been produced for awhile, so it is starting to disapear, the reason is because they made a revised version, which is pretty much the PS1 of the PS2. Its about 1/3 the size of the PS2 and it has a flip open disk tray like the PS and it doesnt support the HDD anymore. SO if your PS2 burns out and you play a lot of online games well lets hope the stores still have a regular PS2 in stock, which isnt a problem right now because its still in stores.
I would post a link but I'm at school and they have a filter to game sites.
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Post by chibi on Oct 19, 2004 14:10:59 GMT -5
I saw that a few weeks ago. It looked so cool! But I've got a regular one in my basement that shouldn't wear down anytime soon (please no!!!) so I don't think I'd get one. I wonder what exactly they did this design for, as you said it won't support the hd for games... So, what was going through there minds? Is it the evil of low carbs once more? O.o ;D
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Post by Kanashi on Oct 20, 2004 13:14:35 GMT -5
Well I think they made it for a PS1 so u can carry a ps2 in ur car or somethin, or just probably to make money...
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Post by Lardmaster on Oct 21, 2004 2:12:28 GMT -5
Meh. Smaller things are fun sometimes .. but what would I do without my delicous hdd support. How are you supposed to run linux on a hdd less dumb brick like that. Heh.
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Post by Kanashi on Oct 21, 2004 9:15:35 GMT -5
Well thats what I'm saying the problem is you cant play onine anymore with this, and when teh ps2's first model runs out then you cant get them anymore.
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Post by Sage on Oct 21, 2004 9:45:09 GMT -5
Well thats what I'm saying the problem is you cant play onine anymore with this, and when teh ps2's first model runs out then you cant get them anymore. The smaller one comes with a built in Network Card and there is an External HDD that came out in Japan - its possible that they will release that in the US now if the new PS2 can connect with it (which more than likely it can even if its using the USB ports) |
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Post by Lardmaster on Oct 22, 2004 5:06:15 GMT -5
But usb is slow!
Wahhhhhhhh.
At least slow-er.
Revision 2 is ok .. but does the ps-2 2 support it?
Well --- no use complainin.
Just don't buy the new ps2.1
That will send a message right there.
We demand function over beauty!
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Post by Yotem on Oct 31, 2004 19:30:38 GMT -5
But usb is slow! Wahhhhhhhh. At least slow-er. Revision 2 is ok .. but does the ps-2 2 support it? Well --- no use complainin. Just don't buy the new ps2.1 That will send a message right there. We demand function over beauty! What games use the hdd? From what I hear the new PS2 get's rather hot, so an internal hd would be a bad idea. |
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Post by Lardmaster on Oct 31, 2004 22:07:37 GMT -5
But the hdd has such potential. You can partition it and run lnux, its infinite storage. It would be awesome to havea huge gta game that loads onto the hdd. So much potential. I hate that sony choose to preclude it's use by removing it from the new line.
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Post by Jim-San on Nov 2, 2004 14:37:04 GMT -5
I'll prob not get the new PS2 as I'll rather wait for the PS3, but while I'm waiting for that I still got my other consoles  |
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Post by GT1047 on Nov 2, 2004 15:19:52 GMT -5
Thers a PS3  i thouht that they where gonna make a p2p |
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Post by Lardmaster on Nov 3, 2004 13:07:26 GMT -5
THe ps3 has been on the drawing board for quite some time now. And I believe you are thinking of the psp.
The ps3 is ambiguous, but anywhere from 16 to 64 times the power is hoped for. And the ability to form computing clusters. Now that is awesome. Invite your freinds to bring their ps-3's over so you can increase the awesomeness of the game. He he he. It would be so awesome, games that would scale themselves based upon the number of players or somesuch, kind of like battlefield 2 plans to. And being able to connect it to the ps-2 for more power .. that would be sweet. So amny cool things could be done with a super computer cluster. I remmeber hearing odd ball theries that many sort of add on peripherals were planeed which were not so much gaming devices as communicating appliances, kind of a connected house where all the devices share a giant computational network. Of course the likelyhood of this happening is rather ....... small, I can still hope for the best.
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Post by Yotem on Nov 3, 2004 14:18:07 GMT -5
THe ps3 has been on the drawing board for quite some time now. And I believe you are thinking of the psp. The ps3 is ambiguous, but anywhere from 16 to 64 times the power is hoped for. And the ability to form computing clusters. Now that is awesome. Invite your freinds to bring their ps-3's over so you can increase the awesomeness of the game. He he he. It would be so awesome, games that would scale themselves based upon the number of players or somesuch, kind of like battlefield 2 plans to. And being able to connect it to the ps-2 for more power .. that would be sweet. So amny cool things could be done with a super computer cluster. I remmeber hearing odd ball theries that many sort of add on peripherals were planeed which were not so much gaming devices as communicating appliances, kind of a connected house where all the devices share a giant computational network. Of course the likelyhood of this happening is rather ....... small, I can still hope for the best. That only really works if you literally stack the things on top of each other. Otherwise the delay between sending data between the PS3s would make it useless for anything graphics related. Right now Nvidia with their SLI does something similar however that requires two video cards in the same computer. You could offload things like AI, physics calculations, etc. more easily however the game won't look better although it may scale better (doesn't the Xbox do something like this with 16 people in a game?). Keep in mind that most modern games are not coded to take advantage of parallel computing, although they probably will be in the future. |
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Post by Rai the Cheetah on Nov 3, 2004 20:45:28 GMT -5
The main feature to the PS3 isn't just about those type of abilities. Its the fact Blue-Tract, the leading compnay in CD research is helping them. They have already devolped a disk that can hold up to 80 GB of information. Currently Blue track is working with Sony to devolope a 200 GB 8 layer CD. That is really freaking impressive. You know the type of games they could store on something that big?! Look at the top graphic games of today, they range form 6-10 GB, Imagine the power from a 200 GB disk made solely for gaming.
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Post by Lardmaster on Nov 4, 2004 0:04:39 GMT -5
That only really works if you literally stack the things on top of each other. Otherwise the delay between sending data between the PS3s would make it useless for anything graphics related. Right now Nvidia with their SLI does something similar however that requires two video cards in the same computer. Erm.... you know they could just have system buses that could easily interface externally. That would give you pretty much the same result. Your bias is probably based upon knowledge of current computer interfaces. They would not just "network" blah blah blah, they would essentially become a single unit. Delays would be negligible witht hat much power behind it. Sony has millions of dollars and thousands of talented double E's at their disposal. Im sure they could build a system to do this. I can dream, can't I? Has this cruel world taken all of your imagination? On a side note: The new disks are quite beautiful, but bigger games just means lazier programers ;3 |
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i thouht that they where gonna make a p2p