June 30, 2005

Sony PlayStation 3 or PS3 to cost $400?

Japanese Magazine, Toyo Keizai, predicts that Sony will sell the PlayStation 3 for 44,800 yen ($399). The console will cost 54,000 yen ($494) to manufacture in its initial year of release.

Killzone military first person shooter for PlayStation 3

Killzone PlayStation 3 is a military first person shooter that builds upon the graphical and gaming excellence seen on PlayStation 2. A non-linear, intense cinematic gameplay experience that combines elements from multiple gaming genres, Killzone PlayStation 3 thrusts players deeper into the conflict between the ISA and Helghast.

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June 28, 2005

Sony CEO talks Playstation 3 CELL technology

Sony's new CEO Howard Stringer said that Sony will cut back on some of its research and development programs in an effort to put more focus on products that the company believes will allow it dominate once again. Stringer emphasized two items that will be key to Sony's business for many years to come: the Cell processor, will be used to power the PlayStation 3 and many Sony's electronics, -- Cell delivers improved, real-time response for entertainment and rich media applications, in many cases 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors. It is expected the Cell microprocessor will become the broadband processor used for industrial applications to the new digital home.

Cell also supports multiple operating systems, such as conventional operating systems (including Linux), real-time operating systems for computer entertainment and consumer electronics applications as well as guest operating systems for specific applications, simultaneously. -- and the Blu-ray disc, hi-def standard format for the PS3. (Sony hopes this will eventually replaces DVD in the marketplace)

"PlayStation is the largest chip eater. Leveraging game applications, we've got the most advanced [Cell] technology, which will give us high competitiveness. The next step is determining what applications we can develop on the Cell processor, for which we are launching a project," said Sony president Ryoji Chubachi

June 27, 2005

Xbox 360 more powerful than PlayStation 3 'update'

Last week we published a comment from ATI's Richard Huddy claiming the Xbox 360 would have the edge over the PlayStation 3 thanks to the ATI Xenos chipset used in the 360. At the time we just had one quote, here is the remainder of Huddy's comments. On paper the RSX inside the PlayStation 3 is 50MHz faster than the Xenos. Huddy claims that the unified shader architecture of the Xenos will give Xbox 360 a graphical edge over the PlayStation 3.

June 26, 2005

New old Final Fantasy for PS3 or PlayStation 3

US magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly is claiming that there is a new Final Fantasy VII in the works at Square Enix for PlayStation 3 or PS3

EGM offers no source for its rumour claim, though this would seem an easy fix to the dual problem of delivering an early-lifecycle RPG ( Role-Playing games) to the PlayStation 3 and desire more FFVII writes Spong

June 23, 2005

PlayStation 3 Euro launch timing still to be decided

Sony Computer Entertainment has not yet reached a decision on when the PlayStation 3 next-generation console will launch in Europe, with SCEE president David Reeves commenting that "you could be in for a surprise."

Reeves was speaking at the first day of the ELSPA International Games Summit in London, where he focused largely on issues affecting the current generation PS2 and the forthcoming PSP handheld. Read More

Final PS3 more powerful than E3 demo?

Japanese site ITmedia says the final Sony PlayStation 3 Cell CPU will run 25 percent faster than demo machine previewed at E3 reports GameSpot. One major complaint from Gamers is that Sony never follows through with all the speed talk, so this is pretty major if it turns out to be true.

Itmedia revealed that the Cell chip used in Sony's current PS3 developer machine is running at only 2.4GHz, which is just 75 percent of the actual speed of the machine's final spec of 3.2GHz. The report also re-confirms that the graphics processor unit used in the E3 machine was not the RSX chip that will be used in the final product, but another Nvidia GPU, possibly the just-announced GeForce 7800 GTX.

NVidia GeForce 7800 GTX

Wednesday, NVidia announced the GeForce 7800 GTX, made from the same technology that's going into Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles is already available to users in markets around the world.

At E3 gamers convention in Los Angeles last month NVidia previewed the graphics power behind the 7800 GTX during PlayStation 3 previews. NVidia officials were careful to point out that only its graphics technology is being used in the chip for PlayStation 3, dubbed RSX, while the rest of the chip will be made by Sony reports DigiMag.

"The gaming enthusiasts really are the most demanding of all for computer graphics, more so even than movie studios," said Adam Foat, a product public relations manager at Nvidia, during an interview ahead of the new GPU's launch.

June 22, 2005

PlayStation 3 SDK Revealed?

The first pictures purporting to be of the current self development kit for the PlayStation 3 are making the Internet rounds. If these actually are real pictures of the PS3 SDK, it seems that Sony has now won the crown for biggest, bulkiest hardware ever writes teamxbox.com

June 21, 2005

PlayStation 3 To Launch Q3 2006

Ubisoft (Third-party video game publisher) is estimating the Sony PlayStation 3 will launch in the third-quarter 2006. According to gameshout Ubisoft was among the first to know specifics related to hardware production schedules in order to coordinate development time for future games. Ubisoft's estimation will have the PS3 launching close to one year after Microsoft's Xbox 360.

Microsoft Xbox 360 is scheduled to release in November 2005.