* From Matthew Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> getting into musicbar territory >> all its cracked up to be. This is segas last attempt at getting it right. > Specs not all that impressive? > The specs are plenty- and really all you need to do is play (or watch being played) Soul calibur. Specs no Specs who the fuck cares? The game is beautiful to watch. almost worth being the entire platform alone. > 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. actually there is no consumer hardware chip that draws curves straight to screen anyway. Everything in the end is tessalated down to triangles. And you can do some mighty fine things with just 2000-3000 triangles per character. >> 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. If you want i could take a digital shot of one of the PSx2 development stations we have here, just to prove the untruth. (my nda might tell me i cant though :). >>.......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- once again what the hell does it matter? SPecs are Specs. basically a white piece of paper or some HTML code telling you how fast it may be in the end. Does the product look good? does it play well? Thats all it really matters. If you could hook a joystick up to a spec and play it then this would be an entirely different story. > I can buy a Dreamcast in 19 days or I can wait at least a year and a > half for something better. and that is the bottom line right there. amen. m. ___________________________________________________________________________ The Yamaha Hardware Sequencer (qy/rm1x) Mailing List is a free service provided by TekLab and is open to all members of the Internet community. For more information about this list and other TekLab Mailing lists visit our web site: http://www.teklab.com/services/mailinglists/ **> NEW: TekLab Music Technology Forums: http://www.teklab.com/forums/ <**
