Playstation 3 revealed

[Tidus Andronicus]

Blu-ray is definitely a superior format, and certainly has more motion picture studio support at the moment.

True, it is a better format, and in all honesty I wish it would win, because I'd love to have discs with that huge storage size... (backing up my computer would be sooo easy! XD)

But from what I've heard, HD-DVD had more studio support... mainly because it was cheaper... >_> that... and the p0rn industry has choosen HD-DVD... XD which that alone is going to steal a lot of people from BluRay...

But, hey, if I'm wrong, thats good too. XD
I was really hoping for a combined format... too bad those talks failed...

I was thinking earlier about this situation though... Considering that IF Sony's PS3 is a success, which it very well could be... And if BluRay gains dominance as the next movie format... This big push for HD entertainment electronics, could be good for the electronics market... Because with HD games, more people will want HDTVs... which could eventually lead to price drops in all HD equiptment! And that would be a happy day for everyone! I'm all for cheaper HD stuff. XD
Then again... if it all remains expensive... then well, it would be very bad for the market... =/

[Samuraid]

We both stand corrected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray...porate_support

HD DVD initially received more support than Blu-ray from film studios and distributors. This early lead, however, has now faded. The two formats are now neck to neck with the amount of support they hold in the industry.

[Tidus Andronicus]

We both stand corrected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray...porate_support

HD DVD initially received more support than Blu-ray from film studios and distributors. This early lead, however, has now faded. The two formats are now neck to neck with the amount of support they hold in the industry.

ooooooOh! Thank you for that.

[Crossblades]

It seems Sony is now banning preowned games

http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/ps3/gam...sectionId=1006

High street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

We assume that the thinking behind this move will ultimately be to stop PS3 games being resold several times - which currently snatches potential sales away from Sony - and to counter the impression in consumers' minds that games are only really worth their pre-owned price and are not worth buying new.

When we contacted Sony, it issued us with the following statement: "We have made all of the official announcements at E3 and cannot make any further comments at this time. We will be announcing more news running up to PlayStation 3's launch."

[NeoCracker]

It seems Sony is now banning preowned games

http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/ps3/gam...sectionId=1006

High street games shops have been told by Sony that there will be no PS3 pre-owned sections in their stores as it will be illegal for customers to sell any next-gen PlayStation games that they've bought, retail sources have revealed to GamesRadar.

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

We assume that the thinking behind this move will ultimately be to stop PS3 games being resold several times - which currently snatches potential sales away from Sony - and to counter the impression in consumers' minds that games are only really worth their pre-owned price and are not worth buying new.

When we contacted Sony, it issued us with the following statement: "We have made all of the official announcements at E3 and cannot make any further comments at this time. We will be announcing more news running up to PlayStation 3's launch."

That would be the single stupidest move sony has ever made. May game Radar be full of crap.

[KentaRawr!]

I hope so, too. It would be one of the dumbest ideas ever.

Of course, theoretically, Sony would get more money off of it if people can only get the games brand-spanking-new and not from a friend. On the other hand, there's no gauruntee that an unsaid amount of people will want a PS3 after that. >=O

[Samuraid]

It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won't own the PS3 titles that they've paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property - meaning that the disc won't be the customer's to sell.

Gamers have never owned any games. When you "buy a game" you simply purchase a single license from the company to use it. (read the fine print :rolleyes2) Although, Sony's move seems like an overly strict enforcement of that legal stipulation in this case.

[XxSephirothxX]

That rumor's been going around for months. They just denied it again.

[Tidus Andronicus]

Yah, I just read an article about all this recently... And although Sony hasn't officially said they are banning preplayed games... they are officially trying to ban it. I doubt they will ever 'officially' announce it, as that would give them bad PR.

The sad part is, this also has the potential to loose a lot of sales, and I would think Sony knows this... even if they are trying to push more direct sales with this technique... O_o... is it just me, or is Sony getting really arrogent?

I have some friends, that have never bought a 'new' game in their lives... they always just wait until they can get the games used, since its so much cheaper. And of course, if u can deal with scratched discs, its the smart way to go. But this is going to make it very hard on resale stores, and game stores alike.
Imagine the word of mouth that could be generated, if 360 and Wii were the only systems you could buy used games for?

[NeoCracker]

That rumor's been going around for months. They just denied it again.

They only denied announcing it, notice they never said they weren't, and them having the patant gets me worried. If thats official I really dought I'll be getting a PS3 until the announcement of the Generation after it to come out.

[XxSephirothxX]

SCEE PR manger Jennie Kong blasted the rumor as " false speculation." "PlayStation 3 software will not be copy protected to a single machine but will be playable on any PlayStation 3 console," she told the Guardian.

That's enough for me. Sure, Sony could implement this anyway and make a liar out of her; we all know that companies change their positions on things and do their best to pretend they've never denied whatever it is they're doing. But given the user backlash such a system would incur, it's extremely unlikely that Sony would go forth with this program.

[Ultima Shadow]

[Samuraid]

I saw this a few days ago, but forgot to post it until now.

From: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../06/05/0933239

"Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.

Hopefully Sony can do something about this. From a hardware standpoint, this is just ludicrous. Someone would have had to try to make local memory read bandwidth that low. Hopefully, this is just an issue that Sony can resolve because if they don't, it will affect the performance of the PS3 console.

[Ultima Shadow]

Holy shi---

Sucks to be Sony.

[Mirage]

I saw this a few days ago, but forgot to post it until now.

From: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl.../06/05/0933239

"Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.

Hopefully Sony can do something about this. From a hardware standpoint, this is just ludicrous. Someone would have had to try to make local memory read bandwidth that low. Hopefully, this is just an issue that Sony can resolve because if they don't, it will affect the performance of the PS3 console.

Looking at MGS4, that thing can't be too much of an issue :p.