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I don't play console games very much as I don't have a console myself, but from what I've heard that's pretty much correct.

The Wii owns, It has even been declared by most mass media that the Wii has won the next gen console struggle. The Xbox 360 was the worst console of the three, it was rushed in just in order to make some profit, it ended up mass recalling it's units because they were so terribly manufactured. Not only that but it has the weakest features of the next gen consoles. The PS3 was near flawless, the only setback was the cost. The reason it failed is because the only audience it appealed to were actual gamers, and the Xbox 360 appealed to newbie gamers (which happens to be a majority). The Wii was the most innovative and well-balanced of the three. It's basically the opposite of what you say.

No.

No.

No.

Maybe he wets the bed?

@JordanN

Desperate? PROVE IT. Quote from the article, or another trustworthy source anything that shows she was desperate.

And I didn't know that you could die from that. I might've made the assumption if it was put in front of me, but its not really something I think about. Considering you had to find a wikipedia link to make a point shows that you really didn't know in the first place.

1)They aren't in stock at my local stores, now. This happened a couple of weeks ago.
2)Would you rather pay $250, or drink water and get one?
3)I don't know how much water you have to drink to die.



LOL! YOU'RE QUOTING A GAME MASCOT?


Wrong. I'll take a situation in which i've gone 8 hours without peeing.

I wake up at 6:45 and piss. I go to school. I get back home at 3:35 and don't take a piss for another hour. This happens almost daily. As you can see, I go nearly 9 hours with taking a piss. I'm still alive, aren't I?

How do you do that? I go to the bathroom on average at least once every two hours when I'm awake.

Supposedly, anything more than eight times a day is classified as "overactive bladder". When I was little, I went two days without going once (I can't do that anymore, but it was an accomplishment nonetheless ).

A little early to make those claims like that, so it doesn't really matter what the mass media says.

PS3 near flawless? The PS3, in relation to the XBOX360, is much harder to program and develop games for. The PS3, graphically, is on par with the XBOX 360. Sony is trying to push Blu Ray as the leading format against HD-DVD, jacking up the price 200 dollars more than the closest competitor when it's not neccesary, and most likely not worth the money being spent.
Only audience it appealed to was actual gamers? So because I play games on XBOX360, I am a fake gamer? You aren't making much sense.

What does that first part have to do with the consumer? Not like it would stop any games from being made if that's what you're getting at. The PS3 has superior hardware in comparison the the Xbox 360. Most of the games on the PS3 (such as Fight Night, Killzone, and Resistance) are reputed for having higher-quality graphics with a truly "next-gen" console feel, while most Xbox 360 games just seem like slight face-lifts that would otherwise have happened in the natural timeline of the original Xbox. The PS3 is statistically favorable in terms of CPU and memory for obvious reasons. Even with these, as gamers we know that flashy graphics and fast frame-rate don't make a good game. Blu-ray allows games to be much larger and have near unimaginable horizons in terms of vastness, with it you won't be seeing any overly detailed football game with 2 hours of life. In terms of price to quality ratio you will undoubtedly get your money's worth after your first few games. In fact, aside from statistics, the wealth of gaming experience that comes from the PS3 itself makes it even more profitable than the Xbox 360. The PS3 is just plain stronger than the Xbox 360, that is solid. It isn't surprising considering that it came out several months later in comparison to a certain overly ambitious company that caused the malfunction of many units and resulted in a poor quality product.

As for that last part, I was generalizing.

/end rant

i heard that they were going to be posting pictures of the contestants being sick onto their website. what mean persons.

I once went camping for a weekend and held it in because I was like, 5 years old, and had never gone in the woods before

Actually it does, and that's why PS3 is losing it's exclusives. Not only is programming on the PS3 harder, they don't have as good SDKs(I think thats what they are.), and programming on the Blu-Ray ends up taking a lot of time, and by the time the game is done the game is already out of date graphics/engine wise. It's much more expensive to program a game for the PS3, that's why programmers are shying away fron it. SPEs are much harder to program than the PPC processors the XBOX360 has.

Actually, the XBOX360's hardware is just about equal to the PS3 in some parts, and others it's just better. For example, the PS3 is very good at geometry, those SPEs can crank out the vertrices and stuff, but for textures, detail, etc, the XBOX360 wins.

Where did you get that info from.. ever see Gears of War, or Oblivion on XBOX360? Not like graphics are what makes a game fun anyway, and I would opt over the gameplay that the XBOX360 will have and the PS3 wont.

Also, the XBOX360, in terms of memory also defeats the PS3. The XBOX360 has 512mb shared between the GPU and system, which ends up being better than the PS3 which has 256mb addressed to each. If the CPUs aren't using some, and the GPU needs some, the XBOX360 can give some to the GPU, however, the PS3 cannot. Also, the XBOX360 has 10 mb of very high speed memory, eDRAM, very similar to a L2 cache on a processor. The eDRAM helps for stuff like antialiaisng, etc.

When games are much larger, they become more expensive to make, and in turn become more expensive to buy. Not only that, but there is no problem so far with the amount of space a DVD offers game developers. Have fun paying 90 dollars for games.

/ftw.

I feel really bad for her kids and everything. I mean it was her fault for the death but at the same time she was trying to get her kids a Nintendo Wii. Hope everything with the family turns out well.

The radio station should've researched ALL possible safety risks before they even thought about having a contest like that. It's such an absolutely idiotic waste of human life, she just wanted to get her kids a cool toy. Not only was this their fault, but the fact that they're making it sound like her death was "mysterious" just makes it all the more infuriating. If you are organizing a contest, one of the assumed precautions is that NONE OF YOUR CONTESTANTS WILL DIE.

And the rest of you, arguing over which console is better in a topic ABOUT A PERSON'S DEATH and the orphaning of her children, is absolutely disgusting. I see how little some of you value human life.

Lol. Moose posted and totally ignored all the flaming happening here.

Anyway, the radio station could have been more careful, but I didn't even know water intoxication was a condition. By the way: she didn't die because she didn't go to the bathroom.

With that said, it's one of those ridiculous stories that is both funny in its idiocy and sad in its loss. I personally don't think the organizers of the contest should be charged with anything unless they knew the risks (and who here knew of water intoxication before this story?). Every human life is worth a good deal, and it's sad that she died. However, if you can't laugh at the idiocy of the situation, then the terrorists win!

Actually, the Counter-Terrorists win.
I laughed at it, but not a lot. One should never messing with dead people, people might get offended.

I remember hearing about water poisoning when I was a kid (having parents in the medical industry will teach you alot about the many ways you can die), but even I wouldn't have guessed that someone could DIE if I were involved in organizing such an event. Tragic, yes. But I don't think it was really anyone's fault.

Not neccesarily. My dad works for GSK making pharmecuticals, and he doesn't talk about it much. But then again, he's working on a diabetes drug.

@Felagund:I always knew drinking too much water could kill you, but I didn't know you could really do it. Try to drink 4 glasses of water right now. After the second or third, you'll slow down and won't be able to drink as quickly. It just gets harder for some reason(atleast for me anyway).