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PlayStation 3 To Debut at E3 2005
Yorrike writes "According to the BBC, Sony are planning to officially reveal the PlayStation 3 at the E3 Expo in May 2005. They're obviously not wanting to be outdone by Nintendo, who announced the same plans for the GameCube successor, as well as Xbox 2's rumored debut around that time. Looks like E3 2005 is going to be a biggy." Worth noting that's not the ship date, but when people will see it.
I thought Nintendo was going the same route as Sega which was not to release any more consols?
A while back, Nintendo's Satoru Iwata declared, "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business."
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Sony is planning on announcing its new system before the end of (FY) 2004, and unveiling a playable prototype at E3. Looking forward to it!
Fraid not brother,as PS3 will use RAMBUS memory.m e=News&fi le=article&sid=122
http://www.ps3insider.com/modules.php?na
(XDR on Schedule for Mid-2005)
Well, I know 3 people with PS2s that ended up not working, and it has nothing to do with modding. It has to do with watching dvds on them. The damn lasers in the PS2 are worthless, the new models are better, but the old ones are horrible. First gen PS2 was a huge pile of crap in a lot of ways (it was noisy and the laser sucked to name a few). After a while, these PS2s quit loading DVD based PS2 games and DVD movies. The still seem to load CD based (blue backed games) without issue in most cases, even though the laser is extremely noisy when loading blue games. Enough evidence for you? Don't get me wrong - I own a PS2, and will also own a PS3. Why? Backwards compatibility. Xbox won't have it, Nintendo never has it, so PS3 it is.
Looking at Nintendo's fundamental financial position, I can with almost complete certainty guarantee _another_ console after the next. The next console, codenamed 'Revolution', will probably ship in 2006. While little is known about this machine, I have heard that you will be able to display its video output on a computer monitor. Nintendo is currently involved with IBM and ATI, and while no-one has explicitly confirmed anything about the hardware for the next console, it is safe to assume that Big Blue & Big Red are providing it. nVidia must surely be Green with envy that their competition is providing graphics for the mass-market consoles.
I think you forgot to mention that those games 90% of the time ARE the best games of their time. Of course, this is only opinion. But, if you go to gamestats and check Highest Rated top 10 list, three of them are ZeldaX and MarioX, and two are in the top three. This has to show for something. Oh and also look at Most Wanted top 10.. Is it that hard to believe that Zelda (as of reading it now) is #1?
Check your article again, PSP not PS3. They will have their new handheld out by March 2005, but I would be very suprised if we saw PS3 before mid-2006, especially in the US.
*cough* Atari 5200 *cough*, *cough* Atari 7800 *cough* *cough* both played the previous gen's games, and 7800 also played 2600 games *cough*
Sorry, something caught in my throat there.
That's exactly the point. The games make the system. The fanciest new-fangledest system in the world will fail unless it has great high-quality games in a variety of genres.
Why'd Dreamcast fail? Sega didn't have the titles it needed to succeed. The Atari Jaguar? Way ahead of its time technologically but again no decent games. The Neo-Geo was semi-successful but it was way too expensive to be within price range of the typical family.
Playstation and X-box succeed because they have a LOT of good titles available for them. Gamecube succeeds because it has many of the cross-platform titles as well as a few popular game franchises that are exclusive. (Zelda, Metroid, Mario etc)
But basically I agree with you, predicting success or failure before the system ever comes out is foolish. However, Sony does have a good trackrecord with the previous 2 Playstation systems.
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