::::::OFFICIAL PLAYSTATION 3 THREAD::::::

Nl5H · Post by **Nl5H** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:10 pm

WOOW, THE XBOX AINT GOT SHIT ON THIS!

curiouscharles · Post by **curiouscharles** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:35 pm

Nl5H wrote:WOOW, THE XBOX AINT GOT SHIT ON THIS!

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/615/615152p1.html

This is an interview with Epic's Mark Rein about the PS3 demos shown the other day...

read that

In addition to the Sony demos being shown by Phil Harrison, the Epic and EA presentations were the only third party portions actually running on the PS3 in real-time. But most of those movies, which I probably watched 3 or 4 during rehearsals for the event, look very achievable and some were probably rendered on the actual box but in non-real-time. When a system is year away, heck even with a system is 6 months away, it is reasonable to expect the power of the dev kits would still only be a fraction of the power of the final system.

and to finish off...

I should add that we're in a similar position for XBOX360. It's also made up of parts we're intimately familiar with.

Useff · Post by **Useff** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:03 pm

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:34 pm

^^^

UH, is that Metal Gear Solid 4?!??!!!!

Jabba Dabba · Post by **Jabba Dabba** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:38 pm

StormShadow wrote:Does anybody else remember that one issue of gamefan where they had a 'last minute addition before going to the presses' picture of a new Squaresoft fighting game? It was called like Chocobo fighter and it had crazy stats and like 128 million polygons per character.

Reading this brought back memories, so I decided to dig that issue up and scan that article.

This was in the August 1997 issue. We're finally there!!

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Wed May 18, 2005 12:23 am

Useff wrote:awesomeness

Damn, Snake looks old and grimy. I love it. MGS3 was too experimental for me. I hope they go back to the roots on this one.

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Wed May 18, 2005 1:41 am

Here is the MGS 4 trailer:

http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/714/714044/vids_1.html

I guess Kojima is on board after all

P.S. the trailer fucking rules. I won't ruin it.

SeaTownBlues · Post by **SeaTownBlues** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:43 am

Kind of a cool trailer, mostly just frustrating though.

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:49 am

SeaTownBlues wrote:Kind of a cool trailer, mostly just frustrating though.

Not sure what you mean. Because there is no gameplay? They had a similar one for MGS3 too.

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Wed May 18, 2005 5:27 am

Jabba Dabba wrote:
StormShadow wrote:Does anybody else remember that one issue of gamefan where they had a 'last minute addition before going to the presses' picture of a new Squaresoft fighting game? It was called like Chocobo fighter and it had crazy stats and like 128 million polygons per character.
Reading this brought back memories, so I decided to dig that issue up and scan that article.

This was in the August 1997 issue. We're finally there!!

Holy fucking shit Jabba Dabba, thank you!

bmurf75 · Post by **bmurf75** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:20 am

SeaTownBlues wrote:What's the point of having connectivity for SEVEN controllers?

The PS3 will be able to connect to two HDTVs simutanously. Which means that you should be able to play a split screen game with four split screens on one HDTV and three on another. Bananas.

Useff · Post by **Useff** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:56 am

ANOTHER RUMOR FOR THE USE OF SEVEN CONTROLLERS

It has been revealed behind closed doors at E3 that Sony is planning on supporting the caching of legacy (PS1/PS2) games on the PS3, requiring game discs to be inserted at game start for verification of ownership/availability. The system would be able to support simultaneous emulation of multiple titles with each title getting a proportional amout of screen space (and thanks to the high resolution output supported on the PS3, games will still look great in partitioned screen space). This technology will be great for social gatherings, as finding party games that everyone is excited about playing is no longer a requirement. This is also possible due to the system's support for 7 controllers.

squ1d · Post by **squ1d** » Wed May 18, 2005 8:34 am

That's pretty sweet......

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:31 am

Useff wrote:ANOTHER RUMOR FOR THE USE OF SEVEN CONTROLLERS

It has been revealed behind closed doors at E3 that Sony is planning on supporting the caching of legacy (PS1/PS2) games on the PS3, requiring game discs to be inserted at game start for verification of ownership/availability. The system would be able to support simultaneous emulation of multiple titles with each title getting a proportional amout of screen space (and thanks to the high resolution output supported on the PS3, games will still look great in partitioned screen space). This technology will be great for social gatherings, as finding party games that everyone is excited about playing is no longer a requirement. This is also possible due to the system's support for 7 controllers.

Whoa. That's fuckin' crazy.

frank b · Post by **frank b** » Wed May 18, 2005 1:04 pm

^ So, would that mean that I could play, say, San Andreas with no disc spinning after the initial load?

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:30 pm

Watched the MGS4 trailer. VERY STRANGE.

Good to see Hideo is still on board.

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:55 pm

Smooth Lou wrote:Watched the MGS4 trailer. VERY STRANGE.

Good to see Hideo is still on board.

yeah, but did you notice that it was made on a playstation 2. I really didn't see the point.

Can-U · Post by **Can-U** » Wed May 18, 2005 3:49 pm

Random Sample wrote:
Smooth Lou wrote:Watched the MGS4 trailer. VERY STRANGE.

Good to see Hideo is still on board.
yeah, but did you notice that it was made on a playstation 2. I really didn't see the point.

exactly, i saw the tag that it was made on a ps2 and decided i could give a fuck about watching it.

Useff · Post by **Useff** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:34 pm

It was pretty obvious to me that it was done with the MGS3 engine and models. Still great.

SoulClap · Post by **SoulClap** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:47 pm

at the MGS4 trailor

HopeLess · Post by **HopeLess** » Wed May 18, 2005 7:17 pm

Whoa. I haven't been checkign these threads enough.

Nl5H · Post by **Nl5H** » Thu May 19, 2005 11:06 am

"seven controllers-BRILLIANT!"

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Fri May 20, 2005 2:09 pm

CHeck it out..

http://torrentspy.com/latest.asp

FIGHT NIGHT and MOTORSTORM demo vids from E3...

Jizzy · Post by **Jizzy** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:05 pm

This is going to rule all. I'll be pre-ordering this instead of the 360 fo sho.

The Bza · Post by **The Bza** » Sun May 22, 2005 6:45 pm

Jizzy wrote:This is going to rule all. I'll be pre-ordering this instead of the 360 fo sho.

Fuck it I'm getting both!

None · Post by **None** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:12 pm

Looks like a god damn bootleg madcats controller if it was designed by stevie wonder

SeaTownBlues · Post by **SeaTownBlues** » Sun May 22, 2005 11:03 pm

I just can't believe it STILL doesn't have trigger buttons. Especially with Killzone coming out for it.

SuperFeen · Post by **SuperFeen** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:58 am

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/24 ... 26423.html

The PS3 is NOT a gaming machine? He says some pretty audacious stuff in hurr.

Exec portrays the console as a home media and entertainment supercomputer, says that gaming will be only one of its many functions.
When the PlayStation 2 was released in 2000, it broke the gaming console mold by including support for playing DVDs. Now, Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, is portraying the PlayStation 3 as an all-around entertainment and media machine that will not only play games, but will also store and play back video. In a series of two interviews with Impress PC Watch, Kutaragi revealed that the PlayStation 3 will become an "entertainment supercomputer" for the home.

"The PlayStation [3] is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine," stated Kutaragi at the beginning of his latest interview.

"The PS3 is the product we have been aiming for since the establishment of SCEI," said Kutaragi. "We haven't been creating our [past] PlayStations for the sake of games. Our belief, and the motivation behind running our company, has been to [explore ways of] applying the power of computers to entertainment and enjoyment. We equipped the original PlayStation with a 3D graphics chip, and we equipped the PS2 with the Emotion engine. The PS3 isn't designed to lean towards games. It's not a computer for children. In the sense that our goal has been [to create] a computer that's meant for entertainment, you could say that the original PlayStation and PlayStation 2 had existed as steps towards the PlayStation 3."

"With the original PlayStation, our intentions were to bring SGI-quality graphics into households. With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment. That's why we teamed up with IBM, which is known for its supercomputers, and codeveloped the Cell together with them and Toshiba," said Kutaragi.

"PCs that are currently available have been created as work tools. They've begun selling computers with media playback capabilities, such as the Media Center PC, but those just imitate the functions of home electronics. It's not like those machines have been created solely for entertainment. On the other hand, the PS3 has been created [specifically] as a computer for entertainment. Entertainment refers to a lot of things, and not just to games. The PS3 will be able to provide powerful functions for all of the [imaginable] forms of entertainment," commented Kutaragi.

When asked about the difference in concept between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, Kutaragi commented, "I can understand the [Xbox 360's] approach of adopting multiple, all-purpose processors. However, that will just raise integer calculation capabilities, and it will only benefit general applications. It will increase the machine's capabilities as an all-purpose computer, but it won't change the types of entertainment. On the other hand, the Cell (which is said to specialize in floating point calculations in comparison to normal CPUs) was created to 'generate,' or, in other words, to produce virtual objects and phenomenons inside the computer."

"We want to realize a new future in entertainment with the use of computers. For example, we showed the demo with the ducks moving in a physics simulation during the press conference. That was a virtual world that was being 'generated' inside the PS3 [using the Cell's processing power]. Just raising the graphics capabilities and output resolution won't change anything from the current world of video game consoles," said Kutaragi. He went on to say that Microsoft's new game console is more of an "Xbox 1.5" than a new console, in the sense that it seems like an extension of the original Xbox.

Kutaragi gave one example of how the PS3's powerful calculation abilities and broadband network connection could be used for new and original entertainment endeavors.

"Users will be able to store their content in an online storage server called the 'Cell Storage.' And the Cell processor, when it's not being used, can refine the content's quality. We call it the 'aging' process. For example, users can 'age' their Standard Definition (SD) video and up-convert it to High Definition (HD) video. We have many plans [for the PS3], but this 'Cell Storage' service is something that we definitely intend to launch. By using the Cell's security feature, users will be able to rip DVDs that include copyright protection and lay it in the storage area to refine its video quality."

As the company revealed during E3, it's teamed up with leading PC graphics card maker Nvidia to create a new graphics chip, called the RSX, for the PS3.

"Our new GPU has been cocreated with Nvidia. I drew a road map for the future together with [Nvidia president] Jen-Hsun, and the starting point of that road map is the RSX. Many people seem to think that the PS3's GPU is an upgraded model of GPUs for the PC, but it actually has a completely different architecture," explained Kutaragi, whose comments seemed to indicate that the two companies might work together again on the inevitable PlayStation 4.

When asked about the decision to add an SD memory slot to the PS3, Kutaragi commented, "SCEI and PlayStation will openly adopt world standards that have a good reputation amongst technicians. So SD Cards and Memory Sticks are the same to us. We will treat them equally, and we won't follow an independent path."

"In terms of codecs, the Cell has the power to easily transcode high-quality [pictures and audio] in real-time. So [file] formats won't really be too important," added Kutaragi.

Sony officially announced its next-generation gaming console just before the opening of last week's E3 in Los Angeles. Check out GameSpot's previous PS3 coverage for more information and specifications on the

sounds expensive

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:06 am

De Seven Free · Post by **De Seven Free** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:27 am

Ken Kutaragi wrote:"We want to realize a new future in entertainment with the use of computers. For example, we showed the demo with the ducks moving in a physics simulation during the press conference. That was a virtual world that was being 'generated' inside the PS3 [using the Cell's processing power].

Sounds just like what he said the 'Emotion Engine' was capable of. Ken Kutaragi is full of shit.

And while I could see the appeal of the PS2's DVD capabilities that no fucker uses anymore, I really don't like Sony's and MS's attempts at jack of all trades machines, doing shit we already have devices doing a much better job of.