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I can't believe it, another Playstation has been announced! The playstation 3 is supposed to be 1000 times more powerful than the Super-Console the PS2. Sony, who have set a 2 year dead-line on the new console say it was done to compete with Microsofts X-Box. I can't think straight, People say Sega are done for what about Nintendo!!!
The PS3 will not be just a Videogames console but it will be a 'in-home, outside life station'and 'an all round entertainment centre' You will be able to download games, music and movies, search the net, access on-line banking and much more.
Sony are relying on people having faster internet connections and I hope we do! I am not a Sony fan but this news is exciting! I can't see how Nintendo will be able to keep up, if the PS3 can do all this and the NGC can only play games I don't think Nintendo can win with their current Console war strategy!!!
I can't type fast enough, I was reading in the Metro today this is fantastic! 1000 times as powerful as the PS2, I can't even imagine it! The PS2 is supposed to cut Sony's financial profits in half and so we can only hope that the PS3 doesn't do the same! And that we see good progress for the PS3, I don't think that with news like this, Nintendo Vs Sony comes in to it, I think that videogaming on the whole will become a lot more recognised and a lot more fun!
Microsoft have put a whopping 340 million into the X-Box advertisements in an attempt to block out the news of Sony's Next Super-Console.
Ohhh...this is getting exciting, I can't wait for all this to unfold....
More as I get it....
Post your comments....forget winning....go wild......WHAT DO YOU THINK?
...The Game
The PS3 will not be just a Videogames console but it will be a 'in-home, outside life station'and 'an all round entertainment centre' You will be able to download games, music and movies, search the net, access on-line banking and much more.
Sony are relying on people having faster internet connections and I hope we do! I am not a Sony fan but this news is exciting! I can't see how Nintendo will be able to keep up, if the PS3 can do all this and the NGC can only play games I don't think Nintendo can win with their current Console war strategy!!!
I can't type fast enough, I was reading in the Metro today this is fantastic! 1000 times as powerful as the PS2, I can't even imagine it! The PS2 is supposed to cut Sony's financial profits in half and so we can only hope that the PS3 doesn't do the same! And that we see good progress for the PS3, I don't think that with news like this, Nintendo Vs Sony comes in to it, I think that videogaming on the whole will become a lot more recognised and a lot more fun!
Microsoft have put a whopping 340 million into the X-Box advertisements in an attempt to block out the news of Sony's Next Super-Console.
Ohhh...this is getting exciting, I can't wait for all this to unfold....
More as I get it....
Post your comments....forget winning....go wild......WHAT DO YOU THINK?
...The Game
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SNIPER wrote :
"Use your gaming brain! It put's you off your PS2! Your not some poshy are you"
Ahhh... A poshy? no, but I dont know that much 1940's slang either :)... I though you might have ment that it was a console you put off untlil later or something... I duuno?!?! :)
Sony appear to be using a cutom processor, et al. ... however given the upredicable rate of growth for computers esp. PC's it seems a touch dodgy to over define the PS2 alredy? ... Although I suppose Sony know what there up to?
But, as I said before... I cant see how telling the mags about it can be wise?
"Use your gaming brain! It put's you off your PS2! Your not some poshy are you"
Ahhh... A poshy? no, but I dont know that much 1940's slang either :)... I though you might have ment that it was a console you put off untlil later or something... I duuno?!?! :)
Sony appear to be using a cutom processor, et al. ... however given the upredicable rate of growth for computers esp. PC's it seems a touch dodgy to over define the PS2 alredy? ... Although I suppose Sony know what there up to?
But, as I said before... I cant see how telling the mags about it can be wise?
The PS3 no plans yet, if technology steps up a gear we will have all these GameCube 10's and whatever, get a new name!
Sony have been working towards PS3 for some time, and they have said that they want/expect it to be at least 1000 times more powerful than PS2. This was in PS2 mags at the back end of last year - where have you guys been?! :-)
The first step on the road to PS2 is the GScube - a unit with 64 Emotion Engine chips (it started out at 16, but Sony upped the spec) linked to run in parallel, giving outstanding broadcast-quality CGI in real-time. The purpose of this unit is simply to provide an extremely powerful CGI system for the film and TV industry.
However, IMHO, only a fool would suggest that Sony wouldn't be considering the system as - at the very least - some form of prototype for the potential spec of PS3.
As much as I look forward to seeing such a machine, I would be incredibly surprised if it appeared on the market before 2005/6.
The first step on the road to PS2 is the GScube - a unit with 64 Emotion Engine chips (it started out at 16, but Sony upped the spec) linked to run in parallel, giving outstanding broadcast-quality CGI in real-time. The purpose of this unit is simply to provide an extremely powerful CGI system for the film and TV industry.
However, IMHO, only a fool would suggest that Sony wouldn't be considering the system as - at the very least - some form of prototype for the potential spec of PS3.
As much as I look forward to seeing such a machine, I would be incredibly surprised if it appeared on the market before 2005/6.
Sega have been working on the DC 2 for ages, Sony on the PS3 since the PS2 was finnalised, Nintendo will work on the GC2 early next year. It's the way companies work.... except sony who rushed the PS2 and sega who rushed the Saturn.
The PS3 is different as it is made to compete with a market the PS2 is meant for. However, it won't be much better than the GC... firstly, the processors won't be invented for 3 years that Sony need for the 100 time better PS3. Second it will be another set top box, and these cannot compete properly with real consoles. Just look at the PS2's poor sales figures in japan, and even here! In my mind the PS3 will not come out before 3 years time.
SonicRav
The PS3 is different as it is made to compete with a market the PS2 is meant for. However, it won't be much better than the GC... firstly, the processors won't be invented for 3 years that Sony need for the 100 time better PS3. Second it will be another set top box, and these cannot compete properly with real consoles. Just look at the PS2's poor sales figures in japan, and even here! In my mind the PS3 will not come out before 3 years time.
SonicRav
You don't want to know in a few years time a more powerful machine is coming out!
I agree, it's not good to talk about a sequel to something you are trying to sell.
Use your gaming brain! It put's you off your PS2! Your not some poshy are you?
Sniper... another put off?
Maybe not but the PS3 is just another put off.
Naaa.... PS3 isnt comming out for another 5+ years yet...
But your right... Sony could have been a litle wiser than to have brought the subject up...
But your right... Sony could have been a litle wiser than to have brought the subject up...
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