No need to get offended friend. I too am a comp sci major and have been coding for the better part of 5 years. The technology has been around for offloading processes for quite some time. Of course this is seen all the time in the scientific world, but that's not really what we're talking...

Quote: I submit that rendering was a poor choice in wording - of course all rendering happens on the client side. I was more speaking to the fact it can do positional calculations and give results back to the client.

Quote: I'm not saying service offerings are better for the consumer, my claim is that additional computing power through the use of offloading processes is not outlandish. It's certainly better from a technical standpoint and I completely believe we have the technology to do so today. As...

Quote: I don't see why that wouldn't be possible...   You've in the next gen RPG running through a sandbox world. While you're box is computing all of the near field stuff like action sequences and immediate physics, the MS/Sony/whoever's server clusters could be rendering background...

Quote: That's unfortunate, I was seriously considering grabbing it :/   Any reason in particular it's a disappointment?

Quote: It's only seen that was because and noted above, E3 hasn't happened yet - of course there are no games. This was an unveiling for the CONSOLE not GAMES. Cross platform games will look and play the exact same on both platforms! Regardless of differences in hardware, games will look...

Quote: How does having additional functionality detract from being able to use it as a gaming console? I don't understand this iGeneration where less features is a good thing.

Quote: I think it's a matter of preference really. I programmed for 4 years solely in Visual Studio (c#) and found the entire .net framework extraordinarily convenient. Of course when I worked for that company, the target platform was other Windows boxes so that made sense. For past year...

Quote: Not to make this a rage inducing fanboy thread, but I would probably reserve judgement at the very least until E3 when Sony/MS announce some launch titles. Also, price plays a very large roll as well which also has not yet been announced. The sensible thing to do would be to see...

Quote: Any time you opt in to a beta release of a game you also use the beta release Steam if I'm not mistaken (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Quote: I would bet $10 you've opted into the beta candidate. Just turn it off. Non-beta Steam only gets updates once a month (maybe).

Quote: Better tools and capabilities in what way? Honestly curious.

Quote: I actually didn't know falcon nw was still in business, thought they went under when HP bought voodoo. Anyways yes I'd build a computer before thinking twice about buying an off-the-shelf solution.   To the point of course the computers cost twice as much. They offer many times...

Quote: You mean like the hundreds of independant titles that go through the xbox live store all the time? I own neither the xbox nor ps3 (pc gamer here) but I go over to my buddys house all the time and browse the marketplace. There are tons of indie titles to choose from on both platforms...