I've been on the receiving end of a lot of abuse from Wester lately, he's trying my patience.

False information Wester has posted publicly as fact on the sites:

This also means that it will be mandatory to purchase new, recompiled versions of Xbox 1 titles in order for them to run on an Xbox 360, which is indeed a disappointment. And infact, Sony and Nintendo themselves have already confirmed that their next-generation gaming consoles (PlayStation 3 and The Revolution) will be perfectly backwards compatible with their older PlayStation 2 and GameCube titles. It's unfortunate to be true for both Microsoft fans and Microsoft themself, only time will tell.

The Xbox 360 GPU is based on the R520.

The Xbox 360 GPU is based on the R500.

Possible indications of insanity?

I think the Xbox 360 looks like an N64 controller.

New MTV Quake 4 mini-teaser-trailer-video

With all the Xbox 360 buzz roaming around the net, FilePlanet have thrown up a special Quake IV segment of the Xbox 360 MTV video wrapped up in a short, mini-teaser-trailer-video with never before seen, real-time gameplay featuring footage. Be sure to check it out!

I warned him a few months ago the quality of his posts was slipping a lot, he was repeating words, and double-enforcing obvious meanings (see above "mini-teaser-trailer-video with never before seen, real-time gameplay featuring footage"). He took it personally. Now he's been posting things that are simply untrue (see above "mandatory to purchase new, recompiled versions of Xbox 1 titles in order for them to run on an Xbox 360"), he takes my corrections as being personal. And he spews abuse back at me and everyone, including my girlfriend (see below) for no reason at all, and worse yet in public.

Is there some sort of known mental condition that explains this?

This is him snapping at Catherine:

god what hte hell is wrong with the gamespot server

Cat:

people wanting 2 know about e3

Wester:

I need bloody video stream feed

Cat:

yeah well itll be like that for a few days

Wester:

*rolls eyes*

Cat:

your probably not the only person wanting it, so u shouldnt roll ur eyes

Wester:

I can roll my eyes as much as I want thank you very fucking much don't tick me off

Cat:

yeah well u know what ur not the only person who has problems in the bloody world u know

Wester:

I'm bloody aware of that but you don't have to bitch and moan about me being pizt why don't you just go fuck off if you're gonna be so snappy and such a bitch like that if you don't give a fuck good for you, want a cookie? it doesn't matter to me

Sorry Wester you've got no excuse to talk to Catherine like that.

MajorNelson:

When you break down the numbers, Xbox 360 has provably more performance than PS3. Keep in mind that Sony has a track record of over promising and under delivering on technical performance. The truth is that both systems pack a lot of power for high definition games and entertainment.

However, hardware performance, while important, is only a third of the puzzle. Xbox 360 is a fusion of hardware, software and services. Without the software and services to power it, even the most powerful hardware becomes inconsequential. Xbox 360 games—by leveraging cutting-edge hardware, software, and services—will outperform the PlayStation 3.

...At Google.

Microsoft's new multimedia hub goes down a storm on Google with it being the top searched for query. Microsoft's main competitor - Darth Vader is way down in 10th place, while their other competitor Sony's PlayStation 3 is struggling in 3rd behind country singer Kenny Chesney.

Xbox 360 Degrees:

It's now emerged that most of the demonstrations that Sony have been showing of the PlayStation 3 are fake. This won't strike anyone as being very surprising with Sony's past record (the PS2 announcement, lots of fancy demos and "Toy Story graphics in real-time" look at what we actually got).

Earlier Epic's Mark Rein had confirmed that only their Unreal 3 engine demo was being rendered on early PS3 hardware and a few other less then spectacular titles, it even emerged that the Fight Night demonstration that EA showed had been put together on an Xbox 360 and then ported over to the PS3 as Sony had been so late in delivering their development kits to EA, despite the advanced graphics chip the PS3 had it still suffered from slow down and aliasing.

The most astonishing demonstration was definitely the Killzone video - Guerrilla's Jan-Bart Van Beek finally let it slip that it was all pre-rendered.

Is the Killzone sequence a fair example of what people can expect from realtime gameplay on Playstation 3?

Jan-Bart: It's basically a representation of the look and feel of the game we're trying to make.

It represents what you're trying to do with the game? Well where's the actual game then? Stop showing us videos and show us the game.

While Microsoft have their own surprises:

On the Microsoft front, after several people came out speaking about the hardware their demonstrations were actually running on - not being anywhere near the final machine... Dual core 2Ghz CPU and a Radeon 9800 Pro (in comparison the PC I'm writing this on is about even) shocked a lot of people. Microsoft's Robbie Bach finally confirmed them to be true, stating that they were only using the alpha development kits and that the final kits won't be ready until about July.

AnandTech found out more.

	Xbox 360	PS3	PC
Processors	3	1	1
Core architecture	PowerPC	PowerPC	P4 Prescott EE
Clock frequency	3.2Ghz	3.2Ghz	3.2Ghz
Concurrent threads	6	8	2
Vector units	3	8
Cache	1MB	512KB	1MB
Overall FLOPs	1 Tflops	218 Gflops	3 Gflops

Advantage Xbox.

Wow.