PS3 Opened For Pictures

An anonymous reader writes "As all of you surely know by now, the PS3 has just been released in Japan. What you might find interesting, however, is that among those 80 000 happy PS3 owners (or self-appointed resellers) was at least one who decided it was his or her sacred mission to crack this puppy open for a peek inside. About the article, it is in Japanese. Someone who knows enough of this fabled language of wonder well enough would do well to offer some translations, although I don't really suspect that the story is the most important thing here..."

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Re:Hard drive same model as MacBook

[be-fan]

Yet they shipped the PS2 with standard ports (USB, IEEE1394) long before anybody else put standard ports in a console.

The PS3 is about the least proprietary of the three systems being released. It uses a standard media format, supports standard flash formats, uses USB and Bluetooth for the controller, standard 2.5" hard drives, etc. On the software side, it's capable of running a non-proprietary OS (Linux), and uses open, standard APIs (Collada and the Khronos Open* stack). On top of all that, Xenon is a pretty closed chip, while there is a ton of documentation about Cell on IBM's developerworks site, and the Linux/Cell port has been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.16.

Yeah, you can make fun of Sony for Memory Stick and Betamax, but it rings kind of hollow when you're talking about a market in which their primary competitor is using the most proprietary platform (Windows) still in common use. Even MemoryStick is a licensed format (Sandisk and Lexar make them). DirectX, SMB, NTFS, etc, are as proprietary as they come.