Just finished watching Sony's E3 PS3 show. Here are the highlights:
PS3 will come in two models-- one with a 20GBHD for $499.00 US and a 60 GBHD for $599. Unit will launch on November 11 with 2 million units worldwide with another 2 million units by the end of 2006 and another 2 million units by March of 2007.
The PS3 controller will look much like the PS2 controller with two major addtions. The PS3 controller will be bluetooth wireless and will have motion control so that you can have fluid movements in games. A demo with Warhawk running on a PS3 was used and the flight mechanics were all initiated by movement of the controller without use of any of the anlog buttons. Very impressive and very smooth.
Last, the unit will read CD, DVD and Blu-Ray. While they did meantion the use of 1080p HD output and full Dolby Digital sound they did not meantion the words True Dolby Digital, HD-Dolby Digital nor HD-DTS or DTS++. They just said that the PS3 would support all Dolby Digital codecs. This might mean no HD-DTS!
The games shown looked very smooth and were shown in HD. However, since I was using DSL my link was at 312kb for video and so my picture was not very good. However, watching Grand Turisimo being show in 1080p you could still see alot of detail and movement was very smooth. Most games shown were very smooth in their animation and there seemed to be alot of action going on on the screen at the same time with no slowdown noticable. Some of the demos were prerendered but some were shown actually running on PS3 hardware or PS3 development kits and you could watch the presenters actually playing the games.
No meantion of game prices but I am guessing that to be in the $49 to $69 range. There will be several playable games at E3 for the PS3 and I am sure that those in attendance will right about the use of the controller and how the games looked and played. Also for those naysayers about load times, the developer for GT-HD stated that from the setup for a race to the actually race can be done in less then 5 seconds then he proceeded to do just that. Picked a track, car and style of drive and started racing. Took about 5 seconds! He stated reason for this was the Hard Drive. Makes sense.
Start saving your money -- this unit is going to be HOT!!!:devil:
PS3 will come in two models-- one with a 20GBHD for $499.00 US and a 60 GBHD for $599. Unit will launch on November 11 with 2 million units worldwide with another 2 million units by the end of 2006 and another 2 million units by March of 2007.
The PS3 controller will look much like the PS2 controller with two major addtions. The PS3 controller will be bluetooth wireless and will have motion control so that you can have fluid movements in games. A demo with Warhawk running on a PS3 was used and the flight mechanics were all initiated by movement of the controller without use of any of the anlog buttons. Very impressive and very smooth.
Last, the unit will read CD, DVD and Blu-Ray. While they did meantion the use of 1080p HD output and full Dolby Digital sound they did not meantion the words True Dolby Digital, HD-Dolby Digital nor HD-DTS or DTS++. They just said that the PS3 would support all Dolby Digital codecs. This might mean no HD-DTS!
The games shown looked very smooth and were shown in HD. However, since I was using DSL my link was at 312kb for video and so my picture was not very good. However, watching Grand Turisimo being show in 1080p you could still see alot of detail and movement was very smooth. Most games shown were very smooth in their animation and there seemed to be alot of action going on on the screen at the same time with no slowdown noticable. Some of the demos were prerendered but some were shown actually running on PS3 hardware or PS3 development kits and you could watch the presenters actually playing the games.
No meantion of game prices but I am guessing that to be in the $49 to $69 range. There will be several playable games at E3 for the PS3 and I am sure that those in attendance will right about the use of the controller and how the games looked and played. Also for those naysayers about load times, the developer for GT-HD stated that from the setup for a race to the actually race can be done in less then 5 seconds then he proceeded to do just that. Picked a track, car and style of drive and started racing. Took about 5 seconds! He stated reason for this was the Hard Drive. Makes sense.
Start saving your money -- this unit is going to be HOT!!!:devil:
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