Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Robert_Swan@scee.net (Robert Swan) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Is the PS2 Really that bad?... Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:40:28 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 60 Message-ID: <38ce2355.7468968@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <38CD5436.EAA1629C@which.net> Reply-To: Robert_Swan@scee.net NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:48:54 +0000, Max wrote: Just to confuse matters I will freely intersperse my own opinions with some small facts :) >I've heard things about the new PS2 and word is it aint good. Supposedly >the amount of RAM is a little on the thin side for such a hyped console >and there is no hardware anti-ailising, is this true? The supposed only >decent game is Ridge Racer 5 and even that failed to cause a rucus. Definately my opinion here - the launch software wasnt that great - RR5 is the best looking by a long way - the first track is rubbish (to be honest) but the second onwards starts looking pretty amazing. If you compare it to the Dreamcast launch racing titles it craps all over them for look. Mind you the two player mode is awful looking. >Whats all this stuff about a VU0 and VU1 maths co-processors? sounds >cool >whatever it is, cut this maybe what all the stuff about PS2 being hard >to program for is all about. Yep - thats one reason it could be hard to code. Once everyone sorts out how they want to work with it it will be pretty cool. >Call it sceptisism or just blatant lies but this is what the press has >been reporting. Mind you I'd love to see Nintendo kick arse again like >they used to. The Dreamcast might not fair as badly as most have thought >due to the press saying that the PS2 is really not that much more >powerful....... PS2 has sold more units in two days (just under a million) in Japan than Dreamcast has sold in total in Japan. In Uk it hasnt reached a million yet, and I think it has over America. My opinion - I hate interlace so Im a bit annoyed at the PS2 - but then again TVs are interlace anyway (mumble mumble). First titles arent too amazing (RR5 takes a while before it looks nice) and I wasnt initially impressed. Now though I think it looks amazing. Dreamcast is much less powerful - but the PS2 is being used properly at the moment. Dolphin doesn't interest me - by the fact that Nintendo weren't screaming their system would be 100 times better than PS2 it means they have something comparable - yet 2 years later (latest news is wont be out in japan until 2001 or later (2002 for europe since they scrapped the idea of timed worldwide launch?)) Computer Exchange have demos and are selling them (although technically illegal :)). Its worth a look. I will definately buy one at launch - Ive only just got a dreamcast though. Rob Disclaimer: Anything I say has no direct relation to where I work (Sony), is not an official voice of where I work (Sony) and Sony doesn't even exist as far as I'm concerned.