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PS3 Showing At Taipei Game Show
Gamespot reports that Sony will be devoting a quarter of its booth to the PS3 at next week's Taipei game show. The question is, will there be anything new? From the article: "It hasn't been disclosed whether Sony is planning something similar [to 2005's E3] with the Taipei Game Show, or if the console will finally appear in a playable form. Sony's appearance at 'the other TGS' comes just one month before Microsoft launches its Xbox 360 in Taiwan on March 16."
At the rate they're going, IBM's going to be shipping their Cell blade servers sooner than Sony ships the PS3, which is ironic in that the PS3 is what the chip was originally designed for...
On the other hand, if they're devoting 1/4 of their booth to this, it's probably going to be something bigger than "Look, here's a new trailer!". Given the size of booth that a giant worldwide conglomerate like Sony will have, 1/4 of it would be ridiculous overkill for just trailers.
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
Rumours? What? The Cell was designed for the PS3
They already did, called the SmartJoy Frag ;)
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http://xbox.gamespy.com/articles/565/565000p1.htm
A miracle boon for PC gamers gone console! Not without its limits, but not bad for what it does.
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
Cell was designed by an alliance between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, to be both a process for their next-generation gaming console and to be a high-powered number crunching processor for scientific, communication, and other number-crunching intensive applications.
My gawd did I really write that? I sound like a press release...
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
But in reality it's not that fooking great and it's the same hype as the bloody 'emotion engine' of the ps2. Ugh.
In other news, the forecast for this evening is: dark, with intermittent light toward morning. Details forthcoming.
I can't imagine that Sony will want to unveil playable demos of the PS3 at the Taipei Game Show. When most gamers see TGS, they think about the Tokyo Game Show. I would imagine that Sony is better off saving any big news and demos for a larger audience, such as the upcoming GDC or even E3.
-- jchenx
Actually quite large pieces of the medical and defense industries are developing products based on Cell processors because they represent a huge leap in single processor floating point throughput (from widely available processors that is).
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
Heh, talk about dreamwalking.
They're using a mere 1/4th of their booth in a video game show (you know, a place where they're supposed to demo the future of the video industry, what else are they going to demo if not the PS3, PS2? no way. This means that they only have the PSP, half their booth for the PSP and 1/4th for some PS2 game doesn't tell "PS3 inc" to me) for their future console and you think it'll be ready to ship in 3 month?
Living in Ponyland, aren't you?
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
I'm no sort of fanboy and can't stand the xbox apart from for XBMC. I've seen no proof of any performance, just press releases.
Uhhh...who's reporting 360s sitting unsold? My friend has been regretting his decision to sleep in on launch day instead of coming out with me to brave the pre-dawn line-standing and can't find a single 360 on the shelves anywhere in the entire state of New Mexico. The fastest he can get one at retail is a three-week wait. And sites like NotifyWire.com show available 360s online having a lifetime of single-digit minutes, and that's in bundles starting at over $700.
...that all the best presentations are given by Taipei personalities.
No, I'm not sorry.
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
I thgouht the 'sitting unbid' comment was flamebait, but he's actually right.
What the hell backwater swamp do you live in? Every store around here, even Wally World, has plenty of Xbox360's in stock. And no I don't live in NYC or any other major market.
Maybe the stores in your area did something really piss Microsoft off...
Or have you just not gone shopping since launch date?
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
In the poster's defense, every game store I have been to since launch is always out of 360s. Though I haven't tried Wal-Mart (none close by), and I do live in a major metropolitan area.
Care to show any proof? I still haven't seen any Xbox 360s in West Palm Beach, FL or on Oahu, HI.
"This is considered plagiarism."
This would be the most interesting event ever. What if Sony will publish final PS3 and starts selling it? Is there any more suitable time for that?
-Seeing the problem is ½ of solution-
1) Yes. I've only seen one malfunctioning unit.
2) Still haven't seen proof for the US.
3) Sick of the stories of people getting shafted and paying $600 for a picture of an Xbox 360.
Ahh, there it is. The comparison to the Dreamcast. And to think, I almost took you seriously.
"This is considered plagiarism."
This hasn't been a problem for the existing PlayStation 2 for quite some time -- it has USB ports, and quite readily supports USB mice and keyboards.
Where the problem comes in is that not all games support them as input -- indeed, very few do. This makes sense in some areas, as many PS2 games are designed with PS2 input in mind. Games ported from the PC world to the PS2 however generally do benefit from keyboard/mouse input, and this is where games which don't support them for input are a real PITA.
So the current PlayStation 2 doesn't have any hardware limitations that make this impossible -- it's been possible since day 1, and I've had a mouse and keyboard attached to my PS2 for several years now. What is needed is more users with such a set-up, to put pressure on game developers to ensure such input options are viable in more games (where it makes sense to do so).
Yaz.
"[...] can't find a single 360 on the shelves anywhere in the entire state of New Mexico."
"What the hell backwater swamp do you live in?"
Hey, if you believe this guy, I have some swampland in New Mexico to sell you...
did people really expect Sony to go to a trade show and, what, not mention the PS3 at all?
The Register doesn't.
It's tempting to hope next week will see the first reports from gamers who've got their hands on the highly anticipated console, but we suspect Sony will hold back until next May's E3. Taiwan is unlikely to be a focus market for the PS3's launch, not like the US, Europe and Japan. Even Microsoft's Xbox 360 has yet to launch there - it's currently scheduled for a March 16 debut after the software giant was forced to delay the console's release because of "supply constraints".
Impressive. Most of them (at time of posting) were under 10 minutes left 'til close, with no bids.
Perhaps they will demo Killzone 2, allowing people to move the camera around. Or perhaps they'll admit it was a fake...
Why is this modded troll?!? Sheesh, this is probably exactly how the NextGen will play out.
the 360 was *rushed*. DEAL WITH IT. I know slashdot seems to be kind of partial to the xboxes, but c'mon....