Two down…
5:46 PM - May 16th, 2005
Sony’s press conference today was quite impressive as they showed off their new Playstation 3. The Playstation 3 will be a “Super computer for computer entertainment,” said Sony Computer Entertainment’s head Ken Kutaragi. With it’s much publicized ‘Cell’ chip, the PS3 will be running it’s chip at 3.2 Ghz, giving it roughly 2.18 teraflops of overall performance (beat that XBOX 360!). It will also have a new RSX graphics card from Nvidia, which is capable of twice the performance of their current top of the line video card (the Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra). Also, it will have some built in features like video chat, Internet access, and digital photo, audio and video viewing.
The new Blu-Ray media that the PS3 will be using can hold up to SIX times the amount of data of current DVDs, and the PS3’s media bay can read CDROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, and DVD+R. Not to mention the fact that it will be backwards compatible all the way to the original Playstation. Other features include slots for the Memory Stick Duo, an SD slot, a compact flash memory slot and six USB slots. Also, like the XBOX 360, it will have a detachable external hardrive. And let’s not forget it’s ability to support seven bluetooth controllers.
More things will be released as this week moves on but for now, Sony has done it again. Amazing…
May 16th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
When I redesign, we’ll have to redo the image layout of this post. The boxed images are supposed to be one per post. It doesn’t quite work when you stack three together.
May 16th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
Sexy. The controller (not shown) looks like a boomerang. Females could use it for a different purpose though. ;)
May 16th, 2005 at 6:07 pm
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/mistorhotshot368/050517i4cn.jpg
May 16th, 2005 at 6:27 pm
Is that really the PS3 controller?
If so, congratulations, Sony! You’ve made a worse controller than the PS2 controller!
I swear. Can’t we get some good controller changes? Like the triple prong N64 controller (huge, but very versatile) or the GC face button layout.
May 16th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
bring on the Revolution!
Nintendo Fanboys 4 Life!!!1!!111oneone1!
May 17th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
or we can have something like the SNES controller for the PS3, which would be a nice change.