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PlayStation 3 To Debut at E3 2005

Posted by Hemos on from the showing-the-world dept.

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.

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  1. Too late by 110010001000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microsoft is going to win these wars. Their smooth integration of online technologies and their ability to give the developer a single API to develop to (Xbox AND desktop windows via DirectX) is going to win out eventually. Its only a matter of time.

    1. Re:Too late by BorgDrone · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Lots of games nowadays are based on off-the-shelf game engines, this won't be that much of a problem, you'll write the engine once for every platform and the game developers only have to program against the API the game engine exposes.

      Look at games like Quake and Unreal, they are no more than tech-demo's to sell the engine, that's where the real money is to be made.

  2. Oh fun by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So we're what two years away from another FF game, another DDR series with erm.. better graphics?

    Nah, I don't think I'll bother with the PS3, it won't be hugely different to the PS2 and well I'd rather support someone like Nintendo who can make a console which doesn't die after a year (I'm sure everyone has seen or heard of a bad PS2 like that).

    Sony can make fine TVs, DVDs, VHS and whatever else you wish to name. But the PS systems after the first just need alot of work.. we're on what the 10th model now and they still don't run right...

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  3. Ars Technica by strictnein · · Score: 5, Interesting

    claims that Nintendo will not be showcasing its nextgen unit next E3. It will just be discussing its "vision" for its nextgen unit.

    I couldn't find links showing official info either way. Who's right?

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    1. Re:Ars Technica by SilentChris · · Score: 4, Interesting

      "I couldn't find links showing official info either way."

      You must be new to E3. Companies often don't have a set plan until a few weeks before the show. Even price changes are often laid down spur of the moment (although people at the company generally have some idea what price they will go to, they often wait for a competitor to ante up first). Considering demos are often burned the night before the show, and hardware that arrives with a curtain sometimes stays that way (Google both), I'm not surprised there's no official info.

    2. Re:Ars Technica by strictnein · · Score: 2, Interesting

      No, I'm not new to E3. It's just that I've now seen pretty official news from Sony and Microsoft about their next-gen stuff, but not Nintendo.

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  4. New Gamecube? by artlu · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I thought Nintendo was going the same route as Sega which was not to release any more consols? What is the status on Nintendo's next gen as well. Anyone have any good rumor sites?

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    1. Re:New Gamecube? by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Nintendo is alive and well. They are keeping the specs of the Revolution close to their heart for the time being. (although there are rumors to the effect of a dual processor G5, or something like that... but I personally think those are bogus). Reports of Nintendo's death were greatly exaggerated.

      Nintendo seems to have something up their sleeve though. They are talking about it like they were before they announced the DS. I am expecting something very strange that will have people going WTF.

      I am also curious how the next Gameboy is going to factor into this. It seems to me that the DS is the perfect complement to a console, connectivity-wise but I am sure Nintendo will try to leverage the Gameboy more... Not sure how that will pan out.

      For Nintendo console news, check out these sites:
      www.planetgamecube.com
      www.gcadvanced.com
      www.gametabs.com

    2. Re:New Gamecube? by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Interesting

      "I thought Nintendo was going the same route as Sega which was not to release any more consols?"

      Somehow I doubt you heard that from a news site. Ever since the Playstation came out, everybody's tried to be the first to pass off a prediction of Nintendo's death as a sign of intelligence.

      Sega scrapped the DC when they scraped broke. Nintendo has several billion cold hard cash in the bank. This fall/winter/next spring they're releasing the Nintendo DS, which sounds pretty darned cool so far. Nintendo's 'Revolution' system is another year or two away. It's supposed to be really snazzy. Not so much in terms of processor specs, but something's supposed to be revolutionary about it. After seeing the DS, I think Nintendo will pull it off.

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  5. Well, they're on track... by ajservo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They said it was going to be like 2064 before the PS9 was coming out right? That's what the TV ads from 3 years ago told me. That and the (PS9) console was an implant... Seriously, I'm disappointed that no console outside of the portables has tried an innovation pushing on how we play games. All these consoles for the last 20 years have been tied to a TV. Only the GB/A/SP, The Nomad, and Virtual Boy have tried to innovate in these areas. I'd seriously consider buying a console that made some intelligent use of the 3D computer montior technology that's out on PC. Console manufacturers are too reticent to try something like this, but that'd be a true innovation over the current generation, without a loss on graphic capabilities.

    1. Re:Well, they're on track... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      i would wait and see what Nintendo will have to offer. They're calling their next system "Revolution" for a reason, and they've already stated that it will support PC monitors in addition to TVs.
      Another thing to keep in mind was that a few years ago Nintendo started investing in some sort of Gyro technology, that they financed under the agreement that they could use whatever it this company was working on. I'm predicting some kind of controller, myself.

  6. Too fast... by lcrypt · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was just planning on buying a ps2! Now they're releasing the 3? Why can't they just make a small chip we can buy to upgrade the console? Soon the game companies wont be able to keep up ...

  7. Could be a crapfest by grunt107 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems to be a rush to be the first and the big question is what features and quality reviews will be skipped to accomplish this feat? Plus, depending on the offering, one of those 3 seems doomed (from current momentum it seems to be Nintendo). PS3 seems to be the world fave, but the 'X' is huge in the USA, so only the backward-compatible question would cripple the successor's debut. ... Still slobberin' for Halo2

  8. Re:Development? by nkh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The official SDKs for gaming consoles have always been overpriced (like a multiple of $1000) and don't count on buying your own CD burner (more like $10,000). You'll have to wait for some kind of GNU cross compiling tools...

  9. Good for the marketplace? by lacrymology.com · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was a wee lad when the early console wars happened (8-bit, handheld, and 16-bit), and didn't give a toss about anything but the NES system. After a time I grew older and missed the most recent wars. However, now that I have some time to indulge in gameplay, it's become increasingly irrtating to keep up. Is this massive turnover killing the industry? I realize that it has been quite a while since the PS2, GC, and XBox came out, but they only recently seem to have acquired widespread acceptance. Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems that unless each company plans on making their new consoles backwards compatible they are setting themselves up for a huge fall in this mad race to get the latest greatest technology out the door. To mee it seems that gameplay is the greatest draw, and technology is secondary. As far as gameplay goes, no one can touch Nintendo (although they tend to lean far to heavily on their franchises), but perhaps I am biased. There is something to be said for developer apis as companies are more inclined to develop for a platform that allows them to create and distribute games with the least amount of overhead... and it seems that M$ wins in that arena.
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    1. Re:Good for the marketplace? by chrismcdirty · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I would like to believe that gameplay is the #1 draw, but the sad fact is graphics are pushed over gameplay. Look at a lot of Xbox games. So many of them have terrific graphics with bad gameplay. Sony has even gone as far as to not give the greenlight to 2D games because they "aren't as pretty" as 3D games. Nintendo seems to be the only one to push gameplay over graphics, but their gameplay idea is for everyone to be able to pick up and play it, which sometimes draws the more hardcore gamers away from them.

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  10. News Update? March 2005 release date by WebGangsta · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Well, now the news is that the timeline has been accelerated.

    They're saying that the PS3 is coming out in March 2005.

    If confirmed, that timeline would mean Sony's new game console will be out before the E3 convention in Los Angeles, scheduled for May. Sony and other video game makers have used E3, which draws game developers, fans and industry officials, for major product launches.

    If this isn't accurate, I'm sure it will be corrected here shortly.

  11. XBox Response by WebGangsta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And in related news, rumors are that Microsoft may introduce XBox2 at the X04 trade show in September 2004, with their launch in October 2005.

  12. Re:Games do matter, but... by unclethursday · · Score: 2, Interesting
    While DirectX may be a decent API, the fact that it takes somewhere along the lines of 3x as much code to do the same things that OpenGL does makes it bloated.

    Besides, DirectX is tied to Windows. Other methods of doing the same things exist, at the same level or maybe even superior levels, for a lot less bloat. Unreal Tournament 2004 looks and runs fantastic on a PowerMac G5, and not a hint of DirectX to be seen; it's all OpenGL.

    The reason more and more PC developers use DirectX over OpenGL and others is the simple fact that Microsoft integrated DirectX into Windows, and thus, the developers know that most of the people playing the games have the correct software to run it. Being in a monopoly position tends to do that, ya know.

  13. satisfying gameplay vs. attention to graphics? by 1ntegral · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is in no way mean to be inflammatory. I have a PS2 and an 8-bit Nintendo. I find myself having a lot more fun playing some of the old school Nintendo games, and it's not just nostalgia. A lot of people I know (nerds who also play a lot of console games) feel the same way. I think that games for the recent systems have devolved, at least in terms of the means by which they engage the player with an interesting story and puzzles that don't rely on how fast you can push a sequence of buttons within a given interval of time. Obviously the gameplay for an old school sidescroller is going to be vastly different from a complex 3d rendered PS2 game, but gameplay aside, I wish that developers would spend more time on making the games fun to play and less time on making scantily-clad women who look like omg real girls. There was a paradigm shift at some point, I don't know when, and from my perspective, gameplay suddenly became harder to for developers to make well than did graphics. Basically, I'd be happy with the current systems, if only they could make some fun games for them.