Gran Turismo 5 3D awesome but costly
Gran Turismo 3 in 3D is supposedly awesome to play. Unfortunately, it would cost so much to buy the set-up which blew one guy’s mind that you’d need to spend the GDP of a small country to recreate it at home.
Sony is really, really keen on 3D. It believes it is the future of gaming, the future of everything, goddammit. But I’m not keen, and I’m not alone. Especially as 3D costs a small fortune to set up at home, mainly because the 3D television sets are currently only for early-adopting idiots.
Having said that, Mercury News tried out Gran Turismo 5 in 3D, complete with a Bravia 3D TV, a racing cockpit, 3D glasses, a Logitech steering wheel, and a Playstation Eye. Gieson Cacho was impressed, more so than when he played Killzone 3 and Crysis 2.
The problem is the set-up would cost around $10,000. Which is far too much to spend on a gaming experience if you ask me. As much as I love Gran Turismo and am looking forward to GT5, I won’t be paying anywhere near that to play the game. Up yours, Sony.
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July 30th, 2010
It’s like saying Street Fight IV is over $1,000 because you have to buy an arcade cabinet, TV, and System to play it. The logic here is really flawed.
July 30th, 2010
“the 3D television sets are currently only for early-adopting idiots.”
We need a lot of these idiots out there. They’re the ones who are gonna give the companies profit so that they reduce the prices for us later on.
Go IDIOTS!!! BLOW YOUR MONEY!!!!
July 30th, 2010
Shit when i hit the powerball I am totally gonna have that set up and I am gonna invite some friends over for a party lol.
Well At least dreaming is free
July 30th, 2010
Wahhhhh. Wahhhhhh. I can’t afford it. It must suck.
Well I plan on enjoying 3d while you haters can just sit around and hate. Lmao
July 30th, 2010
@phranc
3D is a bit expensive right now and not many people are going to be able to afford it. Its going to be a few years before it really becomes mainstream, if at all. I know there are alot of people who are not interested in 3D tech that involves glasses and are planning on holding off until 3D tech reaches the level of being visible with the naked eye
July 30th, 2010
If I find a good Black Friday deal on a 3DTV I’ll definitely buy it….I’ll enjoy playing games and watching movies in 3D from time to time.
I already tried the tech at a Best Buy and I was impressed with the nice HD picture quality all rendered in 3D….if 3D doesn’t end up being a success than my money will not be wasted since those TV are fully compatible with 2D as well. I was tempted to buy a 46″ Samsung 3DTV with a free 3D Bluray player and 2 free pair of 3D shutter glasses all for $1400..just $400 more than what my current TV cost me
July 30th, 2010
Roca,
Yeah me too. I went to BestBuy a few weekends ago, and finally tested out the 3D TVs. I was really impressed with just how detailed and sharp the 3D images were.
If/when the price is right, I’d buy one. My 46″ 1080P HD TV is only 3 years old, so I’m not really in a hurry though.
July 30th, 2010
“Sony is really, really keen on 3D. It believes it is the future of gaming, the future of everything, goddammit”
Then Sony should lower the cost of the TVs.
July 30th, 2010
“It’s like saying Street Fight IV is over $1,000 because you have to buy an arcade cabinet, TV, and System to play it. The logic here is really flawed.”
BJ. He said to experience it in 3D not to play the game.
July 30th, 2010
I’ll wait until you get a free 3D TV with every cereal.
July 30th, 2010
Yeah, but you can get a decent 46″ TV for about $1,400.
They added in the price of the cockpit, console, driving wheel, game, eye, glasses and probably anything else they could think of to get to $10,000.
3D TVs are expensive, but they’re not THAT expensive. Plus the TV is compatible with more games than just GT5.
July 31st, 2010
guys, give your current TVs a few more years…
wait for the AMOLED 3D TVs from Samsung & Sony to be rolled out next year.
By 1-2 like 2012 years time 3D OLED TV will be affordable just like our 46″ LCD screens.
Also by that time the kids maybe old enough for 3D TV.
July 31st, 2010
Ex-Apple ex-pat leads Samsung’s OLED TV push
GIHEUNG, South Korea — When you travel all the way here, the last thing you expect is to meet an ex-Apple engineer who has morphed into a hot shot at Samsung Electronics, committed to pushing OLED for large-size TVs.
Meet Brian Berkeley, vice president of OLED R&D Center at Samsung Mobile Display Co.
In the exclusive global circle of OLED experts, Berkeley is the closest thing to a “rock star,” according to Joe Abelson, vice president of displays research at iSuppli. Berkeley’s presence in Giheung speaks volumes about Samsung’s commitment to lead the industry by recruiting the best and the brightest from around the world, Abelson said
Berkeley, whose passion is flat-panel display technology, left Apple and a comfortable home of Saratoga, Calif., in November, 2003, and he relocated — along with his family — to South Korea for the duration.
Samsung, the world’s largest LCD panel manufacturer, is increasingly confident in the future of OLEDs — not just for smartphone displays, for which Samsung is the biggest manufacturer and supplier, but also for large-size TVs, especially 3-D TV.
OLED TV is no longer a “science fair” project. Samsung’s faith in the technology is backed by the company’s volume production experience of OLED displays over the last 18 months.
Ever since the company began OLED mass production in late 2008, “We have significantly improved yields and line efficiency,” Berkeley said. “Material development has been accelerated, backplane technology improved and a number of advancements made in color patterning.” Without divulging specifics of the “unique solutions” developed by Samsung, Berkeley said, “Large-size OLED TVs are viable.”
Berkeley originally came to Korea in 2003 for LCD research. But “the most exciting thing right now is OLED,” he noted.
Even before talking about the future of OLEDs for flexible devices that can be folded or rolled for storage, Berkeley firmly believes that “OLED 3-D TV is superior to LCD 3-D TV.” He said, “There will be no ghost images and it can offer eye-popping good quality.”
It’s mainly because fast OLED response time leads to complete separation of left and right images. Berkeley pointed out the upcoming SID’s session 51 (scheduled on May 27th) on 3-D TV and 3-D Video, in which SMD will present a “novel simultaneous emission drive scheme for crosstalk-free 3-D AMOLED TV.”
Samsung’s Berkeley noted, “We are not saying that OLEDs will replace LCDs.” However, he stressed that Active-Matrix OLED (AMOLED) “needs no backlight, no color filter and no second glass (like an LCD panel does).” That makes OLED a low cost alternative.
Further, when compared to PDPs and LCDs, AMOLED is “the only display that is both self-emissive and active matrix,” he added. “OLED is green and it is getting even greener.”