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An Interactive World

The defining thing about video games is that you are interacting with the world which the game takes place in. So far, games have mostly had a 'scripted interaction' to them; you can interact with them as long as you are interacting a specific way. However, with this next generation, games can and should be moving more and more towards an open-ended interaction experience. Sleep at the inn... it might be raining tomorrow. Come back to another part of the game in May... that's when the flowers in that area bloom. Stick around in one city too long carjacking and cop-killing... the feds will eventually start setting up stings and making life more difficult.

With both the 360 and the PS3 utilizing mature on-line models, it should be possible for games to change and interact with gamers in many of the same ways that the world does when you walk out your front door.

Ken Kutaragi talked about this to a certain extent, calling it '4D Gaming'. Obviously this isn't the sort of interaction needed in every game. No one needs to sit and watch the flowers grow in Devil May Cry. But many games and types of games stand to benefit from a user experience of immersion instead of playing.

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I suppose sony can call it whatever they want, but, no, there is no such thing as 4D gaming.

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1st Dimention- A straight line.
2nd Dimension- Image of something, a shape. It is not tangibile.
3rd Dimension- Someting real and solid.
4th Dimension- Time.

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rabbity u dont count cause u are byassed (u have a xbox 360 it is natural for u to say the ps3 is shit even though it will rain supreme over the xbox)but dont get me wrong if i was born a xbox player i would love the xbox but you know sony has been around (well making consoles since the very beggining and revolutionising the 20th century with the ps1 and the arrival of metal gear solid kinda helped it along a bit as well.So it is not fair for bill gates to take a bit of another industry and try and make it his own.Even though he has enough money staying in developing software programs(and hell probably make another 100 billion with windows vista coming out this year)

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Persoanlly i think sony is just trying to hide something major from the public and keep them off guard then suddenly unveil it just before the realese that will blow us all away!(including microsoft.Do not underestimate sony on this one!Sony know what they are doing.

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Razengan clock frequency doesn't automatically make a processor better.

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"Faster" can be directly related to clock speed but don't make the mistake of thinking that INTEL's higher clock speeds make it "faster" than AMD.


...with a shorter pipeline, the data gets through it faster thus balancing the equation. This is one of the reasons why an AMD processor can compete with higher clocked INTEL processors.

A dual core processor won't be twice as fast as a single core processor nor will it be as fast as a dual processor system.

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Ideally, a dual core processor is nearly twice as powerful as a single core processor. In practice, performance gains are said to be about fifty percent: a dual core processor is likely to be about one-and-a-half times as powerful as a single core processor.

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Unfortunately, there is no sign of the flux-capacitor that makes "4D" gaming possible on PS3, but surely it's contained somewhere within these gi-normous units.

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see the obvious reference to the "Back to the Future" movies.

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