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Playstation 3 Pre-E3 Unveiling
Just as a reminder, the Playstation 3 is going to take it's bow before E3 proper as well. The Guardian has the story that the PS3 will debut four days after the Xbox360's introduction on MTV, at Sony Pictures Studio in LA. From the article: "Sony spokesfolks have hinted in the past that PS3 - or whatever it will be called - will be launched ahead of E3. Past product roadmaps have pointed to an early to mid-2005 launch. The company gave the PowerPC-derived 'Cell' processor on which the new console will be based its first public outing in February." Penny Arcade, as always, has the best grasp of the situation.
Really? Everything I've seen pointed to 2006.Besides, isn't right now early 2005?
Wait, what year is it?Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.
Remember when /. was covering PA's christmas series of comics? Why not do that here, instead of linking directly to them and beating the everliving fuck out of their servers?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
My mind has issues realizing that Launch does not mean "I can buy now".
I guess I'm just not good with the marketing speak. I would call this a "Preview" or a "Product Announcement." Launch means to me that there is product going to stores.
Grr.
IMarv
Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
that article hurt
sony currently plans on launching the ps3 3-4Q 2006, a full year after microsoft, and right with nintendo's next console. i have no clue where they got the idea about a Q1/Q2 launch for the ps3...heck, the ps3 and revolution most likely (revolution confirmed) not be playable at this years e3 for the general e3 public. microsoft has all but confirmed launching the next xbox end of 2005...and they are unveiling it, as everyone knows, may 12th, not at 6pm may 16th. itll be shown on the 16th, but it won't be unveiled.
How about ps720?
twice as many degrees as microsoft.
"Something's wrong with you...and I hope we never do meet again." - Deftones When Girls Telephone Boys
In fact, anytime they include Jesus in a comic it's fscking funny.
Slashdot is kind of like Playboy; we aren't here to read the articles.
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Troll? I'd mod funny, in keeping with the Penny-Arcade jokes.
Penny-Arcade is probably one of the best web comics i have seen in a long time. also judas is a dick.
It seems wrong for Sony to show up Microsoft by creating thier buzz just 3 hours before the new XBOX is unveiled, but that's buisness I suppose.
Regardless, I wonder what it was that drove Microsoft to unveil thier new system on MTV? It isn't the teen magnet that it used to be, and even if it were, the user base thier targeting (ie. those who could actually afford the new console) are probably in the 20+ age frame and would not likely be watching MTV in the first place. You want to maximize the amount of press you can receive, but I would think that a public press conference with a large chunk of the media in attendence would of seemed sufficient (and alot cheaper). It's getting the message out to the retailers, print press and net that will sell the console in the long run. Not short-lived promotional show that (if history is any indication) will mirror those god-awful Spike TV Game Award Shows in at least a few respects.
Sounds enticing, but I'm going to wait for the post-E3 launch. Really if you think about it that's probably the best time to check this out. If you're in the pre-launch there's just going to be so many crowds and so much hype it's going to ruin this, and the pandering won't be totally honed in. Wait a few weeks for the post-E3 launch and you can finally start seeing some of the more mature games and what developers will be involved and they'll have more information on the future of the PS3. Plus early adopters always get screwed on this, I say wait till they iron out the kinks and get a better marketing product BS.
the only thing we care about is: which one of those new systems will be capable of rendering Toy Story in real-time??
The video has already been pulled (I guess due to traffic), but I'm getting pretty good speeds from hxxp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~coates/video/. There seemed to be plenty of mirros available, here
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Curse you Nintendo! Curse you for focusing on quality versus quantity!
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
PS3 and XBox 2 (I refuse to use '360') are having events separate from the E3 so that they can have the big news out of the way when it comes time to show off the new software at the show. How will 3 hours before or after make a difference? It would make a difference if the system was released 3 hours before the other, but that's not the case here. We will hear one. We will hear the other. We will wait 7-19 months for the systems to be released. The news items are different, therefore there is no "scooping" going on.
If they wanted to take a risk, they could announce they are revealing them at exactly the same date and time, but then it'd be exactly like the E3. Remember, in a list of items, you're most likely to remember the last item.
It took me a while to figure out Sony's strategy here, as I thought it would be best for them to wait till after MS shows what the XBox 2 can do in order to tweak their demo. I believe Sony's strategy here (and before when they scheduled their news confrence 3 hours before Microsofts) is to have a direct comparison between the two consoles, hence robbing MS of any advantage of launching early. More or less the same strategy they took with the Sega Dreamcast. IF (notice thats a big if) the PS3 is a 1Thz machine, then that would make it about an order of magnitude more powerful then the XBox2/next/360, meaning people would wait for it to be released and not buy the Xbox. Then again, Sony could just hype it that way and get the same result.
The end result will be instead of the XBox2 getting a couple of dedicated pages in gaming mags and websites, and then showcasing the PS3 a month later, those mags and websites will instead print comparison pictures of each system side by side. This helps Sony much more then it helps Microsoft.
We don't need new systems! There's nothing wrong with the ones we have already!
By the end of the NES's lifecycle, we needed something new, the games all started looking the same. SNES died out 3D games started coming out. N64 started getting to be pretty tired, so we got the GameCube.
My point is that games are still coming out for these systems that look spectacular. Most notably, God of War on PS2, Resident Evil 4 on the Cube, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Xbox. I can still pull out my Dreamcast (from 1999!) and be impressed by the graphics in Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Ikaruga, and Crazy Taxi.
I spent around $200 for each of my consoles, I want some more god damn milage with them!