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July 29, 2005
At this weeks Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Meeting in Tokyo, company president Ken Kutaragi said the PlayStation 3 will not be a cheap console, even going so far as to say that "...the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households."
ummm that is outrageous. What Ken considers a household remains a mystery.
Answers says " A domestic unit consisting of the members of a family who live together along with nonrelatives such as servants."
So there you have it people, time to get a second job, funny thing is , I want it more now.
In other news Sony is planning a lifecycle of ten years for the PS3, Sony hopes to maintain this long life-cycle by investing now in those expensive pieces of kit, saying "We're looking at a life cycle of 10 years with the PlayStation 3. We're currently shifting from standard TVs to HDTVs.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is betting on the Xbox 360's early lead to propel Microsoft's next generation console into super-stardom. At a meeting with money folk on Thursday Gates said
"Our view is basically we've got a Ferrari, they've got a Ferrari,"
"Our Ferrari is leaving the starting line substantially before their Ferrari is, and in most races that's a very nice thing."
That's way deep
Microsoft's Xbox 360 is due to go on sale this holiday season in the United States, Europe and Japan. Sony's PlayStation 3 is slated to arrive next spring.
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PlayStation 3 or PS3 Tech Specs
CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
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July 27, 2005
Sony President Ken Kutaragi believes the PlayStation 3 price tag (rumored between $399- $469 ranges will be justified when the next generation console is released
"We're looking at a life cycle of 10 years with the PlayStation 3," Sony president Ken Kutaragi said. "We're currently shifting from standard TVs to HD TVs.
"But in the next couple of years, most flat-panel TVs will be full HD.
"We're releasing the PS3 with full HD features from the start so that consumers won't have to buy another version of the console in the future.
"For the same reason, we're using Blu-ray as the PS3's disc format."
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July 25, 2005
This week at Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Meeting, company president Ken Kutaragi talked about the current status of the PlayStation 3, and gave a glimpse of some new games in development reports GameSpot.
Kutaragi started out by reconfirming that the PS3 will be backward-compatible with PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games and will support high-definition TVs. "We're looking at a life cycle of 10 years with the PlayStation 3. We're currently shifting from standard TVs to HDTVs," said Kutaragi. "But in the next couple of years, most flat-panel TVs will be full HD. We're releasing the PS3 with full HD features from the start so that consumers won't have to buy another version of the console in the future. For the same reason, we're using Blu-ray as the PS3's disc format."
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July 24, 2005
Havok last week signed a new deal with Sony to have the gaming software, known as a physics engine, included in the development kit for PlayStation 3. Developers will now be able to use Havok tools when building games for the new console, which is due to be launched next year.
Sony is promising movie-standard graphics in PlayStation 3 gaming, and Havok's selection is a big endorsement of its technology.
Havok's computer software has also been used in films such as Troy and The Matrix Reloaded.
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July 22, 2005
According to this screencap taken at a Playstation meeting, Sony's next generation console, the PlayStation 3 or PS3 will launch in Spring 2006. According to IGN, the PS3 is closing in on a March launch in Japan, just like the PlayStation 2 before it.
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Sony Corp. on Thursday unveiled a range of development tools so software companies can develop games for its next-generation PlayStation 3 video game console reports Reuters.
The company said it acquired Britain's SN Systems Ltd. and formed strategic alliances with U.S.-based Ageia Technologies Inc., Havok and Epic Games to provide more tools.
Sony is counting on PlayStation 3 to dominate in all aspects of networked home entertainment -- games, movies, music and more.
"Things that we thought were only possible in movies are now possible in games," Ken Kutaragi, Sony's game division head, told a meeting of developers, suppliers and media.
"But we're receiving calls every day from game developers who want to know how to develop games for the PS3 and how (game unit) Sony Computer Entertainment intended to support them."
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July 15, 2005
In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu , Electronic Arts Vice-President David Gardner reportedly talked briefly about how EA will focus on Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. According to reports Gardner did not Nintendo Revolution at all.
Since no specifics have been announced it's possible that EA could continue the trend of porting popular games to the Revolution, as it's been doing with the Gamecube reports GameCube Advanced.
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July 12, 2005
IGN is reporting that reports suggesting that Sony has removed router functionality from the upcoming PlayStation 3 in an effort to cut system costs are a little off. Turns out that the functionality was never included, or even announced, in the first place.
The source of the reports is a month-old article out of Japan's biweekly Nikkei Electronics. Providing some insight into the early development of the PS3, the article states that during the system's design phases, Sony considered including router functionality as part of the specifications. However, this idea was scrapped. Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi reveals to the publication that this design decision was made due to cost considerations. Sony anticipates that people will already have a router in their home and will use the PS3 with it.
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