* From Ras-Sol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Miko wrote:
>
> ps.........if your wanting my personal opinion, then please dont believe the
> hype.....that your going to be seeing soon in regards to the
> dreamcast.....they are spending alot of money on advertising, but if you
> whatch the ads closely, you will only find four seconds of dreamcast gfx,
> the rest is all just tosh!
We'll see about that- remember Genesis? ;>
..........the specs of the dreamcast are not
> impressive at all, although it is a next generation games consol, it is not
> all its cracked up to be. This is segas last attempt at getting it right.
Specs not all that impressive?
The specs are plenty-
Sure the PS2 is much more powerful- but it's almost overpowered.
The Dreamcast can push so many testured polygons on to the screen that
you don't really need any more for conventional 3d programming.
What will eventually happen is you'll see curved surfaces on PS2 instead
of polygons on Dreamcast.
> but already sony has revealed the specs to its next console........which is
> a next next generation system, and is currently not allowed into the states
> because it has been classed as a supercomputer!
No it's not- that's completely untrue.
.......it has a new
> groundbreaking cpu, faster than the pentium 3, titled the emotion engine, it
Faster- as in mhz?
I seem to remember it running at 300mhz-
> can render 70 million polygons a second, rather than 5-10 of the best gfx
> cards that are availible today..........
True- the CPU is completely optimized for what it needs to do.
It does blow everything else out of the water.
if you wait a few extra months you
> will be pleased........and its backward compatible too!
Here's the problem- a few months?
I don't think so-
Sony's "official" US release date is Fall-2000.
I'm guessing it will actually be early 2001.
When PS2 comes out, Dreamcast is going to be in it's 3rd generation of
software.
Versus PS2's first gen software.
What does thins mean?
I can buy a Dreamcast in 19 days or I can wait at least a year and a
half for something better.
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