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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.
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?
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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.
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Trusting software vendors is no smarter than trus
How about ps720?
twice as many degrees as microsoft.
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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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Penny-Arcade is probably one of the best web comics i have seen in a long time. also judas is a dick.
the only thing we care about is: which one of those new systems will be capable of rendering Toy Story in real-time??
Curse you Nintendo! Curse you for focusing on quality versus quantity!
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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!