May 16th, 3pm PST: PS3 Launches. May 16th, 6pm PST: Xbox2 Launches

[Verto]

It certainly does have a chic, oOoOoOo look to it, but I'd be much more interested in seeing a interactive 360 view of it.

As far as the Halo 3 matching the PS3 launch time, is that news? It was the logical choice, similar to the buzz they created over Halo 2's new maps/DL content around the same time that Unreal game came out.

With Xbox, Microsoft came out a year behind Sony, and days ahead of Nintendo IIRC; with it's first entry into the market, it surpassed Nintendo and it's decade-plus history in the market.

Coming out ahead of them all, I think we'll see Microsoft sales jump significantly at the expense of the PS3 (as soon as it comes out). The Revolution will drop slightly, but overall I think it is Sony that will face the biggest drop: Nintendo now is in a niche market, almost exclusively for little kids (<12 years old), while Sony and Microsoft are fighting for older, more important demographics. Some Nintendo-age gamers(esp. those maturing into the 13-14 age range) will want to look cool by getting a Xbox, but it will probably be former PS2 owners that are more likely to get the 360.

[Asher]

But you can't stack the PS3.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Yeah, that definitely looks cooler than the X-box 360. Both are nice, though.

Only when standing up, which I suspect for many people is an impractical position.

[Asher]

The first prediction by analysts I've seen for the next generation puts the Xbox at #1 in 2010...

PS3 a fairly close 2nd, Nintendo in third.

[Nostromo]

First reaction: it looks a bit weird, especially in the horizontal position. I see they use a slot-drive system. They should have used one of those for the 360: its much more convenient in a vertical position.

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Yeah, that definitely looks cooler than the X-box 360. Both are nice, though.

The PS3 looks like a george foreman grill with the spiderman font and the X360 looks nice, but not all that spectacular.

Can't wait to see what Nintendo comes up with; apparently for the Revolution they've spent the most time on industrial design that they've ever spent on a system before.

edit: Holy jesus that's a horrible controller

[Drake Tungsten]

Nintendo's finished, in the console market at least. Sad but true...

[Verto]

Originally posted by ixnay


The PS3 looks like a george foreman grill with the spiderman font and the X360 looks nice, but not all that spectacular.

Can't wait to see what Nintendo comes up with; apparently for the Revolution they've spent the most time on industrial design that they've ever spent on a system before.

edit: Holy jesus that's a horrible controller

"That way, when your Xbox-totin' friends make fun of you for having a Nintendo, you can frisbee them in the face!"

[Asher]

LOL @ the controller.

Holy hell, that looks anything but ergonomic.

The Xbox 360 controller looks way, way, way better AND more functional.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Verto
"That way, when your Xbox-totin' friends make fun of you for having a Nintendo, you can frisbee them in the face!"

That's a PS3 controller, not a Revolution one.

[Verto]

OMG.

Sony is doomed.

[Nostromo]

I don't know, the PS3 looks pretty impressive, and also very expensive. According to Gamespot:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/16/news_6124681.html?q=1&tag=gs_hp_topslot_click

About the media supported, including Blu-Ray:

Sony also confirmed the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-ray discs as its media format. The discs can hold up to six times as much data as current-generation DVDs. It will also support CR-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R formats. Sony also confirmed the machine would be backward compatible all the way to the original PlayStation. It will also have slots for Memory Stick Duo, an SD slot, and a compact flash memory slot. It will also sport a slot for a detachable 2.5-inch HDD, somewhat similar the Xbox 360's.

It will support up to 7 bluetooth controllers:

Out of the box, the PS3 will have the capability to support seven Bluetooth controllers. It will also have six USB slots for peripherals: four up front and two in the back.

About the Cell :

Sony also laid out the technical specs of the device. The PlayStation 3 will feature the much-vaunted Cell processor, which will run at 3.2GHz, giving the whole system 2.18 teraflops of overall performance. It will sport 256MB XDR main RAM at 3.2GHz, and it will have 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700MHz.

2.18 teraflops is actually about twice what Microsoft is claiming the Xbox 360 will do.

The GPU is also quite powerful (it supports 1080p folks):

Sony also unveiled the PS3's graphics chip, the RSX "Reality Synthesizer," which is based on Nvidia technology. The GPU will be capable of 128bit pixel precision, 1080p resolution, some of the highest HD resolution around. The RSX also has 512MB of graphics render memory and is capable of 100 billion shader operations and 51 billion dot products per second. It also has more than 300 million transistors, larger than any processor commercially available today. It will be manufactured using the 90nm process, with eight layers of metal. The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards, which would cost roughly $1,000 total if purchased today.

Multimedia features:

The PlayStation 3 will also sport some hefty multimedia features, such as video chat, Internet access, digital photo viewing, and digital audio and video. Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi introduced it as a "supercomputer for computer entertainment."

More importantly, it has industry support:

To show off the PlayStation 3's graphical brawn, Sony showed several game demos, including an Unreal 3 tech demo of what appeared to be Unreal Tournament 2007. In what must come as a relief to developers, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney was on hand to vouch for the PS3, saying it was "easy to program for" and that Epic had received its first PS3 hardware two months ago. He proved the tech demo was real time by showing it again and by manipulating the camera and zooming in.

However, Sweeney's words were only the beginning. Later, Sony trotted out a whole host of publishers that are backing the PlayStation 3. And in the process, it confirmed several games for the console. Hideo Kojima introduced Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4, Capcom showed off Devil May Cry 4, Namco unveiled Tekken 6, Polyphony Digital trotted out Gran Turismo 5, SCEE showed off a brutal section of the next Killzone, and Rockstar Games mentioned that a Grand Theft Auto would be released for the console.

So if all this is true, the PS3 will be superior to the 360 on every level, except the price.

[Kuciwalker]

By bluetooth controllers, do you mean game controllers? How would you play an MP game with 7 people on one screen?

[Nostromo]

You mean, you don't have a 60" widescreen at home?

[Verto]

Xbox.com has some articles up about the 360; among them, they talk about streaming songs from your PC to the 360, or from your iPod/etc, bypassing the need to rip them into the Xbox hard drive. Very sweet.