Info on the Playstation3

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Sony's next-generation home console will be revealed to the world before the E3 show in Los Angeles this May, representatives of the company have confirmed, with rumours strongly hinting at a late March unveiling.
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In the wake of the official public debut of the Cell microprocessor which will power the console earlier this week, speculation has been rife about Sony's plans for revealing more precise details of the platform itself.

Now representatives of SCEA have confirmed to US website GameSpot that the company "will have an event to premiere [its] next-generation system" ahead of the E3 show in three months time.

While Sony has revealed previously that the console will definitely be at E3 in some form, it's been widely rumoured that the unveiling would come before then - with a Sony roadmap from last year suggesting that it would come near the end of the firm's financial year in late March.

That timescale still seems very possible - the company has revealed that the unveiling will not be at GDC next month, but a special Tokyo event to show off the console's specifications in late March would be in keeping with the firm's past approach on such announcements.

However, it's important to note that a pre-E3 event to premiere the system could mean just that - since Sony, along with rival platform holders Nintendo and Microsoft, traditionally holds an event in Los Angeles in the days before E3, and used this event to premiere the PlayStation Portable.

Both Microsoft and Nintendo are expected to make announcements concerning their next-generation plans at E3.


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JohnK

There was an article on BBC News the other day about the processer in the P3

The Cell processor, which will drive Sony's PlayStation 3, will run 10-times faster than current PC chips, its designers have said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4242447.stm

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Sony Computer Entertainment has officially confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will use the Blu-Ray disc technology, an evolution of the DVD format which provides six times more storage space than conventional DVD discs.

Confirming reports which have been floating around for months, Sony officially announced its intention to build Blu-Ray into the next generation PlayStation in a statement this week.

Blu-Ray, as the name suggests, uses blue laser light to read discs, rather than the current red lasers, and achieves its higher data storage volumes because blue light has smaller wavelength than red light, and can therefore read smaller data points more accurately.

A single-sided, dual layer Blu-Ray (BD-ROM) disc can hold 54Gb of data, compared with just over 9Gb on a standard DVD-ROM, and the use of up-to-date video compression standards on BD-ROM discs allows the playback of high definition encoded video.

Sony is hoping that by including a BD-ROM drive in the PlayStation 3, it will repeat the same success that it enjoyed in the early life of the PlayStation 2 - when many people saw the console as a good way to adopt the DVD format for the first time.

The company's engineers are currently working on an optical head that will be able to read from all three disc formats - CD, DVD and BD - for inclusion in the PS3.

Interestingly, Sony still refuses to use the name PlayStation 3 in any of its literature about the forthcoming console - instead persistently referring to the system as "the next generation PlayStation," in a move which is sure to provoke speculation about a possible move away from the sequential number naming scheme.




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Whoa, 54GB DVDs :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Question being, are game manufacturers gonna bother spending that amount of time making "amazing, sureal" games ?

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All they need is better software for designing games..

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The Cell processor, which will drive Sony's PlayStation 3, will run 10-times faster than current PC chips, its designers have said.

I don't get it, it's a 4ghz processor not a 30ghz. How can it run 10 times faster

pyramuid man

popinfresh wrote:

I don't get it, it's a 4ghz processor not a 30ghz. How can it run 10 times faster

You would think that. But processors are not just Ghz's, you see there are two main types of processor architectures. Cisc (Complex instruction set computers ) and Risc (reduced instruction set computers ). Basically everything you do on a computer sends instructions to the processor. Its really down to how many instructions your computer can process simultaniously and also to how many instructions your computer makes of doing something on it. That is about as simple as I can put it. Thats why it is ten times faster, I am presuming that the cell chip technology can process 10 instructions simultaniously compared to 2 by intel and also that the hardware makes half as many instructions per process.

Kev_ps3

when should it be in irish stores??

JohnK

From the link I posted above

... The PlayStation 3 is expected in 2006 ...

So it'll probably hit Ireland about 2007

Creamy Goodness

you should all just wait til E3 i'm sure there will be a lot of infomation on it there.