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Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 vs. Nintendo Wii
Written by Stewart Smith   
Sunday, 26 November 2006 12:20

Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 vs. Nintendo Wii: A Technical Comparison

wannabegeek As the festive season is almost upon us, many will be thinking or dreaming of the new games console or games to play, whilst scooting round my rss feeds Paul Thurrotts Super site for Windows has come up with a very interesting technical comparrison of the three major palyers in gamming world, that being Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo

   All of the following factors are assessed and compared

Pricing, Microprocessor, Graphics processor, Video, Audio, System memory, Storage, Networking, Multimedia features, Controllers, Compatibility

He even requests updates correstions and comments to ensure the comparisons remain acurate and objective

Graphics processor
Feature Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Wii
GPU Type ATI-based custom processor NVIDIA-based RSX "Reality Synthesizer" ATI Hollywood processor
Clock speed 500 MHz 550 MHz 243 MHz
Video RAM Up to 512 MB GDDR3 system RAM (700 MHz) plus 10 MB embedded DRAM (eDRAM) frame buffer 256MB GDDR3 (700MHz) 24 MB of system RAM (486 MHz) plus 3 MB of embedded DRAM (eDRAM)
Video memory bandwidth 21.6 GBps to system RAM
256 GBps to eDRAM		 22.4 GBps 3.9 GBps

Above is just a sample of the comparion charts and style thats offered

I think its a well researched article and worth a good read

This is haow he introduces the article

It's the battle of the ages, played out with a new generation of hardware that, for the first time, appears to leave all but the most high-end gaming PCs in the dust. Opinions about Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 vary, but it's pretty clear that both devices kick serious butt from a technical perspective. Looking over the specifications, and listening to representatives of both companies, however, I've come away with a few general thoughts.

From a pure processing standpoint, the PS3 appears to beat the Xbox 360, but the first generation PS3 games are not graphically superior to anything that's available on the Xbox 360. The PS3 has a few advantages, however. For example, it's mostly compatible with the millions of existing PlayStation (PS1) and PlayStation 2 (PS2) titles, which is a huge plus.

Xbox 360, however, drops the bomb on the PS3 in a few important categories as well. It's HD Media Center Extender experience blows away anything Sony offers on the PS3, and it supports live and recorded HDTV over your home network, along with TV show and movie downlaods. Its device connectivity--including direct support for Apple iPod and Sony PSP devices--is top notch. And the hugely compelling Xbox Live service gets even better with Xbox 360. Sony has nothing like it: On the PS3, games are isolated islands of connectivity, allowing gamers only to communicate with others in the same games. Finally, Microsoft took away one of Sony's biggest advantages when it announced a free 1080p upgrade for all existing Xbox 360 units.

 

Read full article  HERE

Thanks Paul for a very interesting article

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