Although Crysis is the clear winner (provided you are blessed with a beefy system, and DX10 - otherwise it'd be closer to call), you have to give credit to Haze, it looks like a damn fine game, and not bad for a first effort.

The PS3 hardware has to last a good 7 or so years, and shows great signs of promise, so I'll wager the same as was said a few posts up, Haze2 should look pretty great. :)

Yes... yes I am! :)

I'm sorry, did "TheInquirer" say they were going to.... "keep the faith"???? TheInquirer have never had any faith from the start.

They are running on a Fear Uncertainty & Doubt report that is based on old firmware. Sony state that the 1.6 upgrade is REQUIRED for best backward compatibility functionality, so to report on this is just poor and irresponsible journalism.

Not that I'm surprised or anything.

Oh how sad that some people still feel the need to turn this article into a PS3-bashing thread.

I'm sure your own respective consoles deserve more of your love and attention than you are clearly gratifying PS3 with. You hate cos you love, we all know that now ;)

While in my opinion the debate of which format offers the better picture quality is clearly pointless, I view this hardware manufacturer news as important and vital to secure a quicker end to the format war one way or another.

I hate that just one format couldn't have been conceived in the first place. It only serves to confuse the consumer. At least if there are plenty of big-brand devices out there supporting one format, it will make it easier to understand.

@2

The problem was, Microsoft virtually turned their back on XBox1 the moment XBox360 was launched. To hell with backwards compatibility.

Although Sony really should put some of their more mouthy executives on a leash, cos they're not doing the company any favours.

It'll take a few more years, but I think Sony are heading back on the right tracks.

Innovation is hard to come by these days, so Kihara-san deserves the respect of every tech-loving man, woman and child out there.

re: VHS/Beta - that was probably one of the early instances of Sony starting to get too cocky for it's own good, in not being more open in it's licencing permissions and encouraging more support etc. But all was not lost, because Betamax lived on in camcorders as the Digital8 (and it's Hi8 predecessor) are based on Betamax technology.

Mess it up again, Phil and your days will be numbered. We can only forgive so many times.

As a European twenty-something who actually has some patience (unlike a lot of the impetuous youth of today), I am prepared to wait a bit longer in order to get my fix. I plan to buy around June 2007 or thereabouts. Should be plenty of games about by then.

Nothing would make me want to buy an Xbox though.

@ GL

I agree.

I think Sony's problem is that its left hand still doesn't know what its right hand is doing. The management needs to pull the reigns in tighter and watch more closely what each part of the business is doing, so that we don't have the bad-PR debacles of the BMG-division's infamous "rootkit", and the Chinese manufacturing plant getting lapse on battery production causing a recall.

You can see they're trying and I think Howard Stringer has got the right idea, but they still have a long way to go.

Here's hoping PS3 will be a good step in the right direction.

@ndoerr


That's odd, you replied before I had confirmed my comment.... lol

I get what you mean though. Although can you really say that it was the Playstation that destroyed the Dreamcast? I'd say people voted with their wallets. And the Playstation wasn't the only other console on the market at the time either.

On the up-side I rather liked the Dreamcast, and it seems to have gained cult status, which is cool. Unlike things like the Atari Jaguar for example, which didn't stop Atari clinging on for dear life in the software sector until it got absorbed into Infrogrames.