Playstation 3 press conference today...

[gshock888]

i'm guessing PS4 will kick the living sh!t out of this system

 

[Skiguy411]

Originally posted by: gshock888
why do they alwyas bother to advertise next to the convention centers? i mean maybe for a car show but for a industry expo like E3? somebody bother to explain?

i understnad the PS3 ads as hyping it up, but Mortal kombat shaolin monks? wtf?

They do anything to get you to talk about it, just as you did now with the Mortal Kombat monks.

 

[gshock888]

bast@rds! i'm a victim to evil advertising?

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Skiguy411

Originally posted by: gshock888
why do they alwyas bother to advertise next to the convention centers? i mean maybe for a car show but for a industry expo like E3? somebody bother to explain?

i understnad the PS3 ads as hyping it up, but Mortal kombat shaolin monks? wtf?

They do anything to get you to talk about it, just as you did now with the Mortal Kombat monks.

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks? Wow, what is this game? Someone share some info.








(p.s. See how easy that works? )

 

[juice22]

If the ps3 supports bluray it will be over for M$

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: juice22
If the ps3 supports bluray it will be over for M$

It's pretty much a given that the PS3 will have blu-ray. I don't see why that would sink MS though.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: juice22
If the ps3 supports bluray it will be over for M$

It's pretty much a given that the PS3 will have blu-ray. I don't see why that would sink MS though.

It won't sink MS because nobody cares about blu-ray, and there's simply no need for its capacity within the near future. It may have blu ray, but then it's got a lot longer to get the PS3 on market. If Xbox was waiting so long they might have hd dvd too. At this point most people don't give a rat's ass about any blue laser technology. Take a poll of existing console gamers and the majority have never even heard of blu-ray, let alone give a care about it.

 

[Rebasxer]

I don't know why Xbox 360 is seeming so great to everyone. There's nothing to it other than beefed up graphics and "media hub functionality" that no one will ever use. If i wanna see my digital pics, ill put them on my computer. PS3 supports Blu-ray, which has already one as the next generation of media. As higher capacity games come out, and HD movies move mainstream, Xbox will fail to be able to provide. And Nintendo's system looks so intriguing that I might have to buy one . But the funniest thing comes as that Halo3 will be released on the same day as the PS3. Now Halo can pretty much out-hype any game (with the exception of maybe SC2) and is Bill Gate's silver bullet to effectivly slay any other major title. But PS3 is a huge dinosaur. A silver bullet isn't going to stop a dinosaur...

Gates already spoke of a two console race, funny he didn't know that his was the worst, Hopefully Nintendo won't pull a dreamcast and release a great system only to have no one buy it.

/end rant (btw I own only an Xbox, it was by far the best console of last round, this round microsoft has dropped the ball)

 

[cmp1223]

i agree, there is little need for plu-ray from a non-gaming standpoint. That is, most people will not have a significant blu-ray movie collection even for a few years. The PS3 wil only be good for new blu-ray releases and rentals. As far as gaming, DVD seems to suffice. ALL X360 games will be 1080i.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: cmp1223
ALL X360 games will be 1080i.

Nope. MS has set a 720p minimum on all games. I'm sure there may be some games that will be 1080i but not ALL games will be 1080i.

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: cmp1223
i agree, there is little need for plu-ray from a non-gaming standpoint. That is, most people will not have a significant blu-ray movie collection even for a few years. The PS3 wil only be good for new blu-ray releases and rentals. As far as gaming, DVD seems to suffice. ALL X360 games will be 1080i.

Wrong, all Xbox 360 games will be 720i (or is it progressive, can't remember), not 1080i.

 

[hevnsnt]

I think the first system to get a mod chip, will be the system with the most sales. (for consoles anyways)

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Rebasxer
I don't know why Xbox 360 is seeming so great to everyone. There's nothing to it other than beefed up graphics and "media hub functionality" that no one will ever use.

Ummm....with that logic, the same thing can be said of the PS3 and probably the Nintendo console.

Blu-Ray...whoppee. You really can't say anything about it because it is competing with HD-DVD. Neither are the dominant format and they can't seem to work together towards a single format. But by your logic, Nintendo will be a failed system as well since they won't support Blu-Ray.

 

[ChaoZ]

It's 720i and 5.1 surround sound requirement. I think that's gonna piss off some developers since it will bump up the development costs.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Anywho, I respect your opinions, just throwing mine in there.

Of course. That's the point of a discussion forum: discussion.

I was exaggerating a bit when I said that adding an analog stick is akin to adding more buttons. It obviously opens up some new directions in game control schemes (although it was never really used). It just seems to adding another analog stick was kind of an obvious step in controller design that wasn't even very necessary. I think that having all of the buttons on the PS2 be analog buttons is pretty innovative, although that feature isn't used very much either.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Rogue

Originally posted by: cmp1223
i agree, there is little need for plu-ray from a non-gaming standpoint. That is, most people will not have a significant blu-ray movie collection even for a few years. The PS3 wil only be good for new blu-ray releases and rentals. As far as gaming, DVD seems to suffice. ALL X360 games will be 1080i.

Wrong, all Xbox 360 games will be 720i (or is it progressive, can't remember), not 1080i.

Xbox has set 720p as the minimum resolution. That means games can support 1080i as well.

 

[royaldank]

Here you go:

The PS3 will ship in March, 2006 in Japan (earlier than what a lot of people thought before) and there will be 2 versions of PS3, but only the first version will be shipped next March, (at a price range of $299-399) with a read only Blue-Ray, and as mentioned a 120 GB hard disk capacity. The second version of PS3 will ship some months later, ($399-599) with a writer Blue-Ray, a 400 GB hard disk, for the main purpose of recording TV digital programs. Specs and additional info:
1 CELL running at 4 GHZ, providing 256 GFLOPS power (1 PPE, L1 cache 32 KB, L2 cache 512 KB, and 8 SPE each one having 256 KB).
There is 2 I/O (input/output) on CELL, to communicate with other parts of the console, the first I/O of the CELL has the main purpose to communicate with the unified shared (between the CELL and the GPU) XDR Ram memory (from RAMBUS) at a 50 GB/s bandwidth (4 * 64 MB = 256 MB of memory)
The second I/O is called FlexIO (flexible input/output) and this allow the CELL to communicate with the next generation NVIDIA GPU at a 76.8 GB/s bandwidth (this GPU with 190 million transistors will run at a 600 MHZ, with a 32 rendering pipelines, associated with 16 MB of Toshiba Embedded DRAM of 256 GB/s bandwidth)
The CELL will help the GPU in creating advanced physics for particle effects.
retro compatibility with PS1 (emulated by the CELL) and PS2 (emulated by the CELL)
A Hard Disk of 160 GB, Ethernet port (no modem this time), wireless, USB2 port, and a flash stick memory duo-pro support.
The controllers will not so much differ from those of PS2, with the main difference that they will be WIRELESS, and with better analog buttons and more varied vibration effects.
If the first CELL IBM produced prototypes are using 90 nanometer technology, the first SDKs containing the CELL that developers will receive after 2 months will be produced with this technology, but the CELLs that will be used on PS3 (and later SDKs) will be produced with the 65 nanometer technology, allowing sony to decrease the costs of PS3, and to tackle the problems of HEAT.
Release dates of the PS3 in USA and Europe haven?t been determined yet by $ony, but it's believed that the PS3 will ship between July and October 2006 in USA and in late 2006 in Europe.

Pics

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: cmp1223
http://news.com.com/Xbox%20360%20demos%...0Apple%20tree/2100-1043_3-5706658.html

Actually, the XBOX 360 demos were running on APPLE G5s. But yes, the final specs have 3 3.2gHz chips.

wtfbbq?

3 3.2GHz symmentrical cores?

Someone need to hack this into a PC

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
It's 720i and 5.1 surround sound requirement. I think that's gonna piss off some developers since it will bump up the development costs.

Moving to a 3 core processor with multi-threading will bump the development costs more than 720p. That is why MS is pushing the XNA development suite.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: royaldank
Here you go:

The PS3 will ship in March, 2006 in Japan (earlier than what a lot of people thought before) and there will be 2 versions of PS3, but only the first version will be shipped next March, (at a price range of $299-399) with a read only Blue-Ray, and as mentioned a 120 GB hard disk capacity. The second version of PS3 will ship some months later, ($399-599) with a writer Blue-Ray, a 400 GB hard disk, for the main purpose of recording TV digital programs. Specs and additional info:

Pics

Ok, if that is real, that is pretty ugly. Seriously. That is not an attractive piece of hardware that I would expect out of Sony.

 

[Nocturnal]

Didn't the two companies solidify the standard to blu-ray?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Didn't the two companies solidify the standard to blu-ray?

No. Toshiba and others are still backing HD-DVD and Sony and others are still backing Blu-ray. There was a rumor that the two had agreed to unify but Toshiba came out the next day and squashed that rumor. Toshiba has since announced a three-layer, 45 GB HD-DVD disc. Toshiba has also said that it would be very difficult to unify the two formats.

 

[cmp1223]

256 GFLOPS? Isn't the X360 at 1 teraflop? I thought the cell was going to do better, but its all rumor for now.

 

[James3shin]

Everyone, including myself believe that Sony and Toshiba compromised and came up with an ideal situation blending HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, they are still "negotiating" accorind to here.

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: royaldank
Here you go:

The PS3 will ship in March, 2006 in Japan (earlier than what a lot of people thought before) and there will be 2 versions of PS3, but only the first version will be shipped next March, (at a price range of $299-399) with a read only Blue-Ray, and as mentioned a 120 GB hard disk capacity. The second version of PS3 will ship some months later, ($399-599) with a writer Blue-Ray, a 400 GB hard disk, for the main purpose of recording TV digital programs. Specs and additional info:

Pics

Ok, if that is real, that is pretty ugly. Seriously. That is not an attractive piece of hardware that I would expect out of Sony.

I'm inclined to agree. The controller damn near looks like an N64 controller, missing the center grasping point.