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I prefer the xbox, but bought the ps3!

MacRumorUser said:
That's a HDMI thing. My Philip's Ambilight 42" occasionally does that too with the PS3 so I wouldn't worry about it.

All I can suggest is lock the PS3 at 720p by setting up HDMI via custom settings, and unticking 1080p & 1080i altogether.

This means the PS3 will be in 1 resolution only and will not be changing at any point.

If that still doesn't work. try a new hdmi cable and pray :eek:
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thanks for the advice. I have now checked the console on my old tube tv (PAL) with the standard av cables that came with the ps3 and found almost no tearing in uncharted. Does this mean...

1) that the ps3 is fine and its my HDTV that is causing the problems or
2) it wouldn't tear at 576i because of having such a low resolution anyway? and as such it is the ps3 at fault.

Furthermore on both tv's GTA4 is very choppy when the camera or nico turn around in any way. I don't remember this at all playing it on my friends ps3/hdtv or on the 360 with the same hdtv a few days ago.

essentially i want to rule out the ps3 having any problems.


[EDIT] seems like the tv is cable of 1080p input, has a 60hz refresh and 5ms response time.
 
just an update guys, after watching some vids online (cheers raggedjimmi) of gta 4 in particular it seems that whether it was my tv or my console, something just wasn't right with what i was seeing, and i found that after a while i was suffereing some nasty eye-strain that i had never experienced before. So...

I took the thing back:(:(:(

Was really quite dissapointed, especially as little big planet is one of the best games i have played in a long while (especially co-op with my girlfriend). The new plan is to make do with the wii for a while longer, and then to pick up a ps3 and new tv probably in the summer when i have saved some more.

Thanks for all the help guys, strange to think that after all of this i'm in the same position as when i started...i.e. sitting here wanting another console coz ive completed all the decent games i know of that are on the wii.

So, the final question... could you guys reccomend any new wii games? so far i have finished:

Mario Kart
Super Mario Galaxy
Twilight Princess
Okami
Red Steel
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Lego indy
wario ware smooth moves
excite truck
resident evil 4
metal slug

Got bored of (at least for single player)

wii sports
wii fit

And just didn't like mario smash football (loved the cube version though so that was very dissapointing.

any great single players missing here? I figure that metroid prime wouldn't be quite right as i got bored of hunters on the ds quite quickly. Anything to look forward to in 2009?
 
We just sold our Wii to my fiancee's sister. It was fun the few times we played it, but I rarely ever used the thing. My fiancee, who clamored for the Wii, rarely ever used it either. I almost picked up the balance board for Shaun White, but decided I didn't want to invest so much $$$ into a rarely used system.

Over Christmas, my family gave me a Sony Blu Ray player and I decided to exchange it and pay the difference for a PS3. I prefer the Xbox 360 in terms of games, but fear it's lack of reliability and the fact that it only plays DVDs.

I love watching Blu-Ray movies as I have a nice tv, and figured that an extra $100 isn't too crazy for the convenience of having a game console too. I'll probably only buy a few games: LBP, Time Crisis 4, TW:2009, Ratchet & Clank, but I won't feel so bad since it serves it's main purpose as a blu-ray player quite well.
(I just hope they don't lop another $100 off the price too soon.)

I wish they still had backward compatibility, but that feature's gone. The only other negative is that my Sony bd-350 was tiny, and the PS3 is pretty large. Not a real big deal though. Now I need to set my stuff up so I can stream music to my ps3 from my old iMac.
 
Have you tried Dead Space Patriks7? It borrows some elements from the Shock series. Also, if you haven't already played the previous Shocks, they're worth playing. Besides dated visuals, they are much better games overall. ;)
 
student_trap said:
any great single players missing here? I figure that metroid prime wouldn't be quite right as i got bored of hunters on the ds quite quickly. Anything to look forward to in 2009?
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Hunters was a terrible, awful awful game. Nothing at all like the GC/Wii series - those are fantastic games, and Metroid Prime 3's control scheme is the model which all Wii shooters should be based on. Absolutely recommend them especially if you like the 2D Metroid games or any Castlevania since Symphony of the Night. :)

The Conduit, a FPS, is one of the (unfortunately) few upcoming Wii games I'm watching. It has really nice graphics for a Wii game. Mad World also looks interesting if you care for the ultraviolence.
 
Just a quick update:
I picked up the 4 games I mentioned: TW09, R&C, LBP, & Time Crisis4. Haven't played R&C yet, but I do enjoy LBP very much, and Tiger Woods is always fun. I've been trying COD: Modern Warfare which is fun, but hard for me.

The console is a very nice Blu-Ray player, and we love watching movies in HD on our TV. So much so, that our regular dvds haven't seen any action since, much like we prefer to watch HD channels on cable rather than the regular channels.

Occasionally, I do glance at the Wii section of games, and every so often I see one I might like to try. Mostly I just wish more FPS were designed with a light gun and a joystick attachment.
 
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