Xbox 360 Zephyr Needs Hitachi’s 1-Terabyte HDD

ps3 is a better system hands down i had both systems and ended out trashin the 360 it blew the ps3 is AMAZING i cant say enough about it the internet the free playstation network the insane graphics on my 52 inch flat screen 1080p hdtv. i have purchased nothing better in the last 5 years of my life than the ps3.

The PS3 is better in the long run, and believe it or not..... SPACE. i have a really small bedroom and my tv takes up most of its stand (My PS2 Simline struggles to stand up on it and the compartment below is filled with that old crummy moon. errrrrrr xbox) i had once a 360 in my room and it fitted where my slimline PS2 was because vertically its the same size as a slimline with a base. i thought brilliant i will get a 360! no. i then found out about the wireless adapter. and the HDD drive off the top. the power supply. the HD-DVD player. I thought Oh, crap. i more recently had a ps3 in my room. i found the size size to be bigger than the xbox instantly but when all the add ons for the 360 made it more awkward to store and use. plus buyin all the extras bumps it up to the same price as the ps3 anyway. Anyway longevity. the ps3 uses blueray, rock on. the 360 uses DVD9 which will become obselete in 2010-2011 wen the world goes digital. will blueray?? nope. then the 360 will struggle with old technology while the PS3 moves forward with blueray. GPU?? not a problem. apparently the PS3 is a fit together console thus making the graphics card easier to find. and change. when one is released which is better than the ps3, slam it in. better graphics. chuffed user :D. my freind has already tried rippin his *BROKEN* 360 apart and using its graphics card in his and it worked to an extent but his PC was too slow. anyway when the 2nd gen of PS3 titles comes around watch the 360 crumble with its low storage capacity and crappy disks. it has by the way been proven that it would take 6-7 360 disks to make MGS 4 which takes up 1 blueray disk. Hail to the PS3 for me, despite it weighing more than my house.....


I dont care that sony has had problems with blueray, it was a year and a half late out in my country or the fact that it cant be customized with faceplates. its the better system and when its potential is reached the 360 fans who will flame me for this will sit down, shaddap, and watch the ps3 climb to the peak it did with its predecessor. and can you guess which of the next gen consoles beat the PS2 selling record???

the PS3 did.

Fact is the PS3 is by far better than the xbox360, and I'll tell you why.
After 20 minutes of gaming on the PS3, it does not brick like the xbox.
Yes, I own both. I've had the 360 for over a year, and enjoyed a couple of games on it, when it worked. But now that the PS3 is out, why should I even bother to keep paying M$ to repair a console that will do nothing but continue to break?

You want to know why PS3 will win this, someone out there is gonna get pissed enough at M$ for their broken xbox, that they'll start looking into lawyers. What do you think its going to do to xbox360 market image if they have to recall every 360? Maybe next time they'll wait till they get the bugs worked out before going to market with technology that they know would break.

Everyone knocks Sony for the delay with the PS3 release, but can you really complain that your PS3 never breaks, and keeps working. Hell, I've got a 6 year old ps2 that works great, but a 3 month old xbox360 that breaks. then a second one 6 months later.


yeah, I know... "but we have Gears fof War", great... I wish I could play it, but for some reason M$ decided to sell a bunch of trash.

MB good JOb..
I have all three systems, 360 is getting the most play since it has live, games for ps3 are kinda of an eh to me, I think ive exausted the Wii until the new games arrive... shoot, i bought a psp just so i can have 8 systems on the go with emmu's. But like a gamer I do it for the games and entertainment, So every other fanboy STFU and Play

Thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard...only a towel would say something like that

PS3 vs. Xbox360

Who cares about the graphics? Why does everyone give so much weight to that versus what actually shows up for the system? Gears looks better than Halo 2, but if the game sucked, would I or you care? Games will decide the system war as it did with PS2 and original Xbox. Xbox 1 had to catch up in terms of good titles with Halo saving MS the first time around.

Going back to the article, Tera HDD is kind of dumb at this point, especially if its bigger (3.5 vs 2.5). However, a larger HDD is needed ASAP. 250 would be nice. If I can download often played games to the HDD to decrease load times or games like Oblivion, that would be cool and then the larger size would be of use.

HDMI port is for people who can actually tell the difference between 1080 and 720 on a 60 inch screen sitting at a "reasonable" distance away. People with 20/20 vision have a hard time figuring out so I find the 1080 campaign to be quite a gimmick to make you spend more. The jump from 480 to 720 was noticeable, but not this time around unless you focus on certain spots of the picture, but when I'm playing a game or watching a movie, I don't spend that much time analyzing the graphics versus actually enjoying the content. So once again, content not graphics.

Microsoft won't make a mistake by redoing the Xbox 360..
I remeber when people said this and this will happen to the Xbox, did it? Of course not! The only thing that DID happen is that the S Controller became the standard, globally, not just in Japan
When Microsoft produces something, they will stand behind it untill they replace it with something better (Windows Me to Windows XP to Windows Vista, etc.). So they are not going to simply say that they need to redo the console, inside and out in a matter of only 2 short years.
The off white color (officially called "Chill") was picked to blend in with you entertainment center, not stand out.

Also what if they installed HD-DVD drives and it fails? They would have official made the biggest mistake they could have, but if they leave the HD-DVD drive as a add-on, they could simply stop making it.

I won't go into bashing any other console, this is only about what people speculate about what will happen to Xbox 360. All console's are great, but they do of course have their weaknesses (Wii- Low graphical quality, Playstation 3- It's price point makes consumers speculate, Xbox 360- To some, a small storage capacity).

360 pwns the ps3.

the xbox 360 has a general purpose triple core processor in its powerpc cpu. each core runs at 3.2 ghz and they are all dual threaded. This simple architexture is very easy to take advantage of, and look at gears of war. its running on only 1 of the 360's cores. its an amazing processor, however, the ps3's cell is more powerful, but the architexture is a bitch to work with. game developers have to design with 7 spes and 7 spus, and while they do run at 3.2 ghz each, they are only single threaded and inferior to cores. think about how complicated that would be to work with. think about!!! and one big thing, the xbox 360 cpu has 10 times the memory bandwidth of the ps3's cpu. thats pretty sad. especially when you have a pixeled monster on the screen, that extra memory bandwidth is going to help with all that computing a lot.

the gpu in the 360 blows the ps3 gpu out of the water. its called the ati r600 and its a monster. it has so many backups and for anti-aliazing and anistrophic filtering and such, so the xbox 360 will pwn in image quality. plus the unified pixel architexture is a monster. i believe that card is capable of directx 10 graphics and beyond. now your ps3 gpu is basically your average 7900 gto with extra pipelines nicknamed the rsx, and its pretty weak compared to the 360's gpu. the same operation on the ps3 would take so much less to do on a 360 to compute. plus all the pixel buffers and higher pixel per second rate really does help. do you notice how most ps3 games have blurry far-away textures??? thats the ps3's gpu problem. it just can't get the 360 quality. in fact, look at call of duty 3 for both systems. the 360 one looks so much sharper, and so much more crisp, that the first time i saw it i nearly fell out of my chair i was so happy!!! ps3 can't do anthing about it because its the gpu, and the picture quality, anti-aliazing, and all that beautiful jazz is so much better on 360.

i am not a fanboy i just prefer the 360 and seperate the fact from the fiction. besides, the blu-ray loading times are terrible. and i love how 360 gives you the option of getting hd-dvd or not :-D

Hi

Let's clear this up ONCE AND FOR ALL


- The X360 has an advantage over the PS3 by having 512mb of UNIFIED RAM. it has a DVD capable of streaming @ 15MBPS
- The PS3 is seriously underpowered in the RAM area by allocating 256mb for the GPU and about 50mb for OS overhead. This makes it a juggling act for memory operations. It's like building a ferrari and putting a 5 litre fuel tank in it. the bluray x2 drive reads @ 72MBPS

I know for a FACT that the PS3 is a bitch to code on. i

we will have a level playing field this time round. Sony won't dominate - and it won't have anything to do with POWER - it has everything to with MONEY.

Producing a game these days costs upwards of 20 million dollars. producing for one platform only when you could port across to another to cover your operating and production costs makes BUSINESS sense. until that killer app (and there will be no mainstream 1st party exclusive killer app such as GTA this time round) appears for the PS3, the average consumer will choose the cheapest.

fanboys on both sides, shut your mouths. just play the f*cking games and enjoy them.

I agree i would be sweet if they added a hd-dvd, hdmi and a terabyte drive that
would make the system a much better system to me. As to the console war
comentary I Have Each of the "Next Gen" consoles and i personaly like the
graphix of the Ps3 better the only thing i have seen on the 360 that looked
even close was the Capcom Game "Lost Planet" Which is awsome I should add.
As for load times I have had a bigger problem with 360 load times then
on the Ps3 also the ps3 bacwards compatability is much smother.
best to all three sides in the continuation of the console war.


Realy would like one of those terabyte drives on my 360 :)

GEARS OF WAR....thats all i have to say.

True, they both have pro's and con's, but graphically the 360 has more pros. It's a basic hardware fact. The ps3 has a better cpu but it's harder to manage which might make it a moot point. Also if you read my post you would know that they have been toying with the ps3 for a year also. In reality the devs only had a 4 month head start with the 360. True, development may have slowed on ps3 games when they found out that it was delayed til winter 06 bet they still had the hardware in 05. On top of that 360's memory management is better too. This is not fanboyism it's just cold hard facts.

I find it funny how Xbox fans who dont own a PS3 criticize the system just as I find PS fans with the Xbox retarded in that way. PS3's Resistance is way better graphically that COD 2 which probably would be a better comparison being that Resistance is a launch title and Gears comes after a year of them toying with the system. They both will be good systems however since I own a lot of ps games and like a lot of them I bought the PS3 and I think it looks awesome on my 37in LCD 1080p tv. Resistance is an awesome FPS and the other game I own which looks good is NBA2k7 and the load times in my opinion are not too long. Even for the movies it went pretty quick and the movies look great. Maybe this summer we will start seeing some of the power with games like LAIR and Stranglehold, Final fantasy and the one I am really waiting for Assassins creed although not an exclusive you will probably be able to draw a fairer comparison than the launch port of COD3. But back to my point you cant criticize just by stats just because you like one system over the other. They both have there pros and cons.

I meant to say that ps3 would have come out in march "'06".

It's common knowledge 360 has the superior gfx card. The ps3 has almost 2 yr old tech...its a 7800gt. The 360's gpu is a hybrid 1900xt/r600(which isn't even out yet). Spencer you need to use your head. The 360 came out WAY early and devs didn't have time to build new game engines/optimize old ones. Actually, devs have been working on games nearly as long on ps3 as 360! Devs had near final ps3 hardware in dec. '05, and sept '05 for 360. The ONLY reason ps3 didn't come out in march '05 was blu-ray problems. Devs have been working on games during this whole time waiting for the blu-ray problems to be worked out. I've been saying for two years that ps3 fanboys would be disappointed their cherished would be out muscled before it even hit the starting gate. "Give the ps3 a year or two then watch it beat the 360" What a laugh, by then the 360 will be two steps ahead instead of just one now...

You guys dont know much or use your heads 1st gen xbox 360 games look so bad its not even funny you will see as time goes on. Get real people the PS3 inside the box is a better system hands down.

Wow, you really have no idea what you are talking about do you. So far the Xbox 360 has proven to be equal if not more powerful GPU wise and developers are finding it very easy to develop on. The PS3 meanwhile has yet to prove any use of the BluRay capabilities other than being a huge burden on production costs and availability. Microsoft has the upper hand and its Sony that should be re-thinking its strategy. If PS3 turns out to be more powerful, whatever, this time Xbox 360 has all the exclusive games for a reason.

I can't agree on the HD-DVD drive. The bluray is the big problem with the PS3. The load times are awful because the drive is a 2x, I'm not sure what it is on the 360 but it's over 10x. Also developers have not suggested that they need that much capacity. And if Bluray loses the format war, which it looks like it will, the ps3 owners paid a premium for a useless feature. Here in central California we have PS3's sitting on store shelves.

I do agree on the bigger HD though. Do it Bill.

Wow if ms does this, its like giving current 360 owners the middle finger...

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another article where the author obviously has no idea what they are talking about

in what way does the 360 just look like a pumped up xbox that the ps3 doesn't look like a pumped up ps2? wow its a cell processor, sounds great it must have a great future

total muppetry if you ask me

You've got to be kidding about the 360 being outdated before it was even out. THe 20GB is small but graphically the PS3 is more of a disappointment. Look at the frame rate issues with COD 3 on the PS3 vs Xbox 360. Or compare Resistance to Gears. Sure the PS3 is new and the 360 is hitting its programming stride but the PS3 is hardly impressive for being out a year later. And the Cell while being a great processor for some things is hardly an ace up Sony's sleeve. Read Ars and other tech site and you'll see that it's not an ideal gaming proc. Hell, the Cell was supposed to be so powerful that it would also act as a GPU *but* it isn't and that's why the RSX was added. Unfortunately the RSX is not as powerful as the 360's Xenos in some areas.

Both systems are good and what will determine marketshare is the combo of price/games and performance. And when it comes to price it's the value to the consumer. Not everyone wants blu-ray so to those who don't it's not added value. The same applies to wi-fi, etc.

The 360 is powerful and less expensive to produce. Due to rising game production costs more games will be multi console. The 360 doesn't need a 1TB HD. What MS needs to do is keep improving their dev tools and aggressively price the units. Adding HDMI and a 120GB hard drive is a good evolutionary thing to do.

Considering the Hitachi’s 1 terabyte hard drive is a 3.5-inch hard drive, and the 360 and PS3 both use 2.5-inch hard drives, why do you even suggest it?.