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A PS3 Hands-On Report?
Via a Joystiq post, a story on the site Kikizo which claims to have hands-on experience with the PS3. From the article: "Firstly however, the box. The stylish PlayStation 3 casing design that SCEI boss Ken Kutaragi revealed last year is, and always has been, empty - and no signs of a final, tangible casing solution appear to be in sight. 'I think to fit everything that Sony wants in there AND leave space for a 2.5 inch hard drive,' explains one senior developer working on a final kit, who will be our guide for much of this report, 'the machine would have to grow. The models they're showing off are way too small for what they want.'" Please view this with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
"but but MGS4 trailer seems realistic to be ran in realtime"
Could that be because it ACTUALLY was running in realtime on early PS3 devkits. There is no 'seems'.
"Dual 1080p output is a joke at this point."
Where exactly did Sony ever talk about games running on two screens in 1080p?
"Developers aren't really expecting games to run at 1080p because the system isn't powerful enough to do 1080p"
Really? And how exactly does this website know this?
"it will probably be a fairly marginal difference."
Yes, that is the 360 fan damage control mantra. Too bad already existing realtime graphics on early PS3 devkits destroys anything released on the 360.
"The case we've seen for the PS3 is empty, and many developers are not convinced that sony will actually be able to fit everything into the case they've designed."
Developers outside of Sony know as little as the public about the final design of the PS3 outside of the requirements to get their games running and through the lot check.
Basically this article is nothing more than a website interviewing some middling developers and throwing in a bunch of unsubstantiated rubbish to pad the article out to generate traffic for their site.
Looks like it worked and people are falling for it.
This seems to hold up with my experiences.
I picked up a 37" CRT monitor at Salvation Army for $25(I love bringing that up).
I can tell the video quality difference between 800x600 and 1024x768 pretty easily from ~7ft, but telling the difference between 1024x768 and 1280x1024 is nearly impossible. The only true high-def content I've played to it has been from trailers on Apple's site, but I think it's enough to make a fair judgment.
If I was ordering a LCD/Plasma screen TV today I'd probably get one that does 720p natively. Not only are they going to be cheaper, but the picture will look better for any 720p native stuff.
Sony doesnt need to protect the disks, the blu-ray disk is designed with a special coating that protects the disk. You can literally take a screwdriver to the disk and it will still play. Which is another reason why blu-ray is such a better standard than dvd.