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Thu 25/07/02 at 11:00
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Hats off to Sony unlike MS and Ninty they are there to make gaming affordable unlike the others who are only interested in profit.

Sony scored a big hit with the PS1 and platinum games, which were affordable quality games that had to sell a certain amount to turn platinum, while N64 was still trying to sell cartridges for £64.99 Sony's platinum range came in at £19.99 and proved a big hit.

I am glad to see they are carryiing on the tradition with there PS2 platinum range. I mean lets face it GT3 is a far superior game to Project Gotham and yet it is have the price. They say you have to pay for quality but on this evidence you don't.
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Mon 29/07/02 at 19:09
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Maybe people should follow Twirly's advice and stop posting in this topic. All you're doing by trying to say that "one console is better than another" is look like an idiot. People in these forums actually have brains, and realise that all three consoles are great- it's one of the best times for gaming in years. Any intelligent gamer would be wanting all three consoles.

Oh, and one console always has highers sales than another. If you think that makes it better then you really ought to get your head out of the sand.
Mon 29/07/02 at 19:21
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Great post SolidSnakeXXI. Just a few tiny points (well not bad considering everything you said)...

DVD movie quality in terms of picture is virtually identical to my mid range Pioneer DVD player. In terms of use, the PS2 does work on the game controller, but the convenient remote does cost more - whereas my DVD player has one as standard of course. I would say the PS2 is a bit noisier compared with my DVD player.

Yes Sony are tight with the number of controller ports! You need to pay extra for a PS2 Multi-tap thing to bring it up to GC level. But, you can put 2 PS2 Multi-taps on both controller ports providing 8 game controller ports total. I don’t think Nintendo make a GC "multi-tap", so the maximum is 4 controller ports - but I may well be wrong on this detail. In any case, it's not very often you see an 8 player game on any machine, so it's no biggy.
Mon 29/07/02 at 19:27
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Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Grow up kiddy winks, let's leave this crap topic to the 2 annoying
> fanboys.
>
> From now on NOBODY post in here, whatever the 2 children say, however
> much it annoys you, just ignore it and let this crap drop to the
> bottom.


No-one seems to have understood what the master Tilty said so I'll help him out here....


"SHUTUP ABOUT IT!!!"

Oh yeah ... and Sony rule!

:D
Mon 29/07/02 at 19:36
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The fact still remains that, while it is 'convenient' having a PS2 as a DVD player, only little boys are likely to use it. I mean, do you really buy DVDs to watch on your PS2, which neither letterbox's the screen for widescreen DVDs (which are pretty much standard), nor is it by default compatible with widescreen. When I buy DVDs, I go to the living room and use our DVD player in there, with a proper remote, proper DVD functions which doesn't feel as though it's an add on.

Plus, the Xbox DVD system has got a much more user friendly remote and toolbar. Look at the PS2's. It absolutely sucks.
Mon 29/07/02 at 21:32
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½pint wrote:
> The fact still remains that, while it is 'convenient' having a PS2 as
> a DVD player, only little boys are likely to use it. I mean, do you
> really buy DVDs to watch on your PS2, which neither letterbox's the
> screen for widescreen DVDs (which are pretty much standard), nor is it
> by default compatible with widescreen. When I buy DVDs, I go to the
> living room and use our DVD player in there, with a proper remote,
> proper DVD functions which doesn't feel as though it's an add on.
>
> Plus, the Xbox DVD system has got a much more user friendly remote and
> toolbar. Look at the PS2's. It absolutely sucks.

No, this is not right...
PS2 is fully Widescreen compliant. I have a PS2, and a DVD player, with a Widescreen tv. The PS2 setup screen needs setting to Wide mode if u have a widescreen tv. Or select 4:3 if you have a normal tv. This is not difficult and i have a similar function on my normal dvd player anyway. This tells the PS2 or DVD player what shape tv you have connected it to. When looking at a Widescreen film or game, you must set the tv to Wide 16:9 mode. Also note that with all the Widescreen games i have seen, there is a software switch in the games options. Now Auto switching in which your tv is automatically put into 16:9 Wide mode is also possible with some DVD's. But i have seen some that don't have the trigger signal, so i have to change the tv setting manually. Widescreen movie discs without the auto trigger behave in the same way on my normal dvd player as well. The only thing, which might cause a problem, is the optional RF Aerial link. I think you can only get Widescreen via a SCART cable or the SCART adaptor which ships with the PS2. I don't have the RF Aerial adaptor, so i can't compare.
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