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Playstation 3 Not A Video Game Machine
Gamespot has coverage of a pair of interviews with Ken Kutaragi in which he states that the PS3 isn't really a gaming console. Instead, it will be an all around device that will allow the owner to experience all sorts of different types of new entertainment. From the article: "The PS3 is the product we have been aiming for since the establishment of SCEI...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."
Yes, its not a game machine... it just comes with a gamepad so you can play games :/
battery or the external car battery?
You, my friend, are absolutely WRONG!! ;)
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The emotion engine was not hype at all, it was used to full effect in Gran Turismo 3
Every AI opponent you faced had their whole life simulated before the race. Their upbringing, how they got into racing, what happened to them in previous races, etc was generated randomly and the racer would react according to this.
For example, one racer may be brought up in a poor family, only racing to make enough money to put food on the table. Once, he almost won a 50000cr race, but spun out on turn 11 of Laguna Seca, and got injured for 5 years. Now, in the race you're competing against him in, there is a turn that resembles the turn in Laguna Seca that caused his tragic injury. But he also needs this money or his parents won't be able to afford the medical care they need. Should he risk it all at the turn, or just let you pass? So many conflicting emotions!
So he just drives in a predetermined pattern completely ignoring the position of his opponents, like the AI in Pole Position.
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
Its a lean, mean, grilling machine!
If its anything like the previous playstations, its a razor-sharp jaggie factory.
What are all these types of new entertainment? What have I missed?
I don't know, but it probably starts with a "po" and ends in "rn". Yup.. popcorn, that's what I was thinking about.
Rod Taylor
It's really too bad that Sony didn't come up with a name that involved some sort of spinning. Then we'd have no problem coming up for a name for this generation of consoles.
Then again, Sony seems to be the master of spinning hype and news... maybe they figured they didn't need to add it into the console's name as well -- people figured it was assumed.