Wii/PS3 taking on the Internet: performance results

 

With the release version of Opera for the Wii out, Games-Digest wanted to do a side-by-side between that and the PS3’s built-in web browser. The short version of their findings is that when it comes to surfing the Web 2.0 hallmarks, the Wii does have a slight edge compared to the PS3 in some cases (it is Opera, after all), but things can, after all, change with an update.

The more concrete results:

• Games-Digest found that Google Maps and Bloglines, for example, “didn’t work at all on the PS3 browser.” On the other hand, a comment to that article charged that is is possible to do Bloglines (“hold down the X button on a news link and the RSS feed will open in a new window”).
• The PS3 browser does have some issues formatting certain sites, or that browsing on some sites is less smooth or incomplete (e.g., Digg, Last.fm, MySpace). Both browsers also have browsing hitches with other certain sites (del.icio.us and Vox being examples, as well as Gmail).
• The PS3 seems to hold the advantage in uploading photos “and (possibly) video” vs. the Wii (Flickr).
• Both browsers performed equally well on other sites (Twitter, YouTube, eBay and Amazon).

The survey’s writer also mentioned that the sites themselves could be redesigned in the future to have PS3 or Wii-specific mirrors that the browser will be redirected to. It is also quite possible, from where we sit, that firmware updates to either console could improve the browsing experience on either with a few tweaks and updates.

Besides, this is just one comparison. People will need repeated tests to get definite results.

 

With the release version of Opera for the Wii out, Games-Digest wanted to do a side-by-side between that and the PS3’s built-in web browser. The short version of their findings is that when it comes to surfing the Web 2.0 hallmarks, the Wii does have a slight edge compared to the PS3 in some cases (it is Opera, after all), but things can, after all, change with an update.

The more concrete results:

• Games-Digest found that Google Maps and Bloglines, for example, “didn’t work at all on the PS3 browser.” On the other hand, a comment to that article charged that is is possible to do Bloglines (“hold down the X button on a news link and the RSS feed will open in a new window”).
• The PS3 browser does have some issues formatting certain sites, or that browsing on some sites is less smooth or incomplete (e.g., Digg, Last.fm, MySpace). Both browsers also have browsing hitches with other certain sites (del.icio.us and Vox being examples, as well as Gmail).
• The PS3 seems to hold the advantage in uploading photos “and (possibly) video” vs. the Wii (Flickr).
• Both browsers performed equally well on other sites (Twitter, YouTube, eBay and Amazon).

The survey’s writer also mentioned that the sites themselves could be redesigned in the future to have PS3 or Wii-specific mirrors that the browser will be redirected to. It is also quite possible, from where we sit, that firmware updates to either console could improve the browsing experience on either with a few tweaks and updates.

Besides, this is just one comparison. People will need repeated tests to get definite results.