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The
PS3 console takes center stage in the gaming arena.
by Vaughn Smith
May
8, 2006 - Los
Angeles, CA - Sony unveiled the final version
of the PS3 at their E3 Press Conference today in Los
Angeles, CA and to the delight of fans everywhere,
answered many of the questions gamers have had regarding
the new system.
Launch
Date:
- November
11, 2006 - Japan
- November
17, 2006 - North America
Price:
- 20GB
PlayStation 3 System - $499
- 60GB
PlayStation 3 System - $599
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PS3 Packages:
Unfortunately
the system is higher than originally anticipated ($300
was mentioned last year) and it came as a surprise
that the specs of the 20GB machine will actually be
different than the 60GB machine; it's not just the
drop in size of the hard drive.
Last
year Sony stated the PS3 would come with: 6 USB ports,
3 Ethernet ports, 2 HDMI outputs. This has changed
as of yesterday:
The
20GB PS3 package will NOT come with:
- Memory
Stick, SD or Compact Flash support
- Wi-Fi
Capabilities
- HDMI
Output - this means this model will NOT support
HD output.
The
60GB Model WILL come with:
- 4
USB ports (also available on the 20GB version)
- Memory
card reader (Memory stick, SD and Compact Flash)
- 802.11b/g
wireless
- Bluetooth
2.0
- Support
1080i and 1080p
- HDMI
Output
- AV
Output
- Digitial
Optical Output
PS3
Dualshock Controller
The
controller is now wireless and features 6 degress
of motion sensing allowing players to control onscreen
characters by moving the controller up, down, side,
and rolling. The rumble feature has been removed due
to interference with the motion sensing, but this
could also have something to do with the lawsuit between
Immersion and Sony over the use of the rumble feature
technology.
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 The
Sony Press Conference is underway as I type this
and we're getting bits and pieces of info. Here's
what we know as fact thus far:
Please
scroll down for screenshots. Please note Sony said
the design is subject to change, which means that
horrific controller will be sent back to hell from
whence it came!
- Officially
called The PlayStation 3, so we can all immediately
commence calling it the PS3....as per usual.
- Launch:
Spring 2006
- Price:
$300 (Subject to change)
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Blu-Ray
disc format
-
Will
have a 2.5" removable HDD (160 GB)
-
Supports
many media formats, including CD-ROM, CDR+W, DVD,
DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R
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Media
slots for Memory Stick Duo, SD and Compact Flash
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6
USB ports
-
GB
Ethernet and wireless support
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PSP
to interface with PS3, wirelessly
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Will
be backwards compatible with the PS1 and PS2
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Can
support up to 7 Bluetooth wireless controllers
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CPU
is Cell Processor running at 3.2 Ghz, with 2.18
teraflops of performance
The nVidia powered graphics called the RSX ("Reality
Synthesizer"), which will support a HD display
up to 1080p
-
512
MB of combined RAM, broken into 256 MB XDR main
RAM at 3.2 Ghz and
-
256MB
of GDDR VRAM at 700mhz
-
Will
support digital audio, video, photos, internet
access, video chat
-
Launch
titles include Metal Gear Solid 4, a new Grand
Theft Auto
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Overview:
- Backwards
compatible with all PS1 and PS2 games
- Supports
7 Bluetooth controllers out of the box
- Six
USB slots for peripherals - 4 in front and 2 in
back
- Blu-ray
discs as its media format (holds up to 6 times as
much data as current DVDs)
- Will
launch in spring of 2006
- Detachable
2.5-inch HDD
- Memory
Stick Duo, SD slot, compact flash memory slot
- PSPs
can be used as controllers
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
GPU:
RSX
@550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader
pipelines
Sound:
Dolby
5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB
XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System
Bandwidth:
Main
RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System
Floating Point Performance:
2
TFLOPS
Storage:
Detachable
2.5" HDD slot x 1
I/O:
USB
Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1
Communication:
Ethernet
(10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1
+ output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller:
Bluetooth
(up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)
AV
Output:
Screen
size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Disc
Media:
CD
PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA
(ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer),
SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc
(DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM,
DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM,
BD-R, BD-RE
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