Leaked PS3 info!

[London Geezer]

I'm still waiting on hey69 to make an appearence. I want to hear what HE has to say (or she, but I think he is a he).

what if hey69 is a e?

 

[Gholbine]

Heh, the Xbox supporters are all over this rumour.

 

[Tap In]

So Tap In why is this a big selling point for the Nintendo Revolution? Nintendo is bragging stating that you can play Nintendo games dated back to the NES. If people didn't care, then why were people happy when they heard this?

that's what I'm saying... I'll never understand.


I like the "updated retro" theme, but just don't see why it's so important to have last gen's games available on a system that will most likely make superior sequels to the most popular games.

I would buy either PS3 or X360 without any BC, no problem.

 

[hey69]

ok guys you all have been owned !

 

[Brimstone]

No DVD playback to cut costs is slightly plausible, but then only allowing for single layer discs just seems too whacky. Of course no DVD playback would also mean no backwards compatibility which I really doubt Sony would forsake.

 

[Xenus]

ok guys you all have been owned !

Bum. So that explains the comment about being banned.

 

[Edge]

I love the owls. Bring the owls here.

That Wednesdayton thread they had on GAF, was hilarious with all the owl pictures.

 

[Carl B]

No no - DON'T make the owls standard! I mean I love them, but it just robs completely the seriousness associated with any thread they enter. And for the most part, I do prefer the serious threads afterall...

 

[Kb-Smoker]

okay....

Did you guys hear that the PS3 harddrive will cause cancer?



Source

 

[mckmas8808]

No no - DON'T make the owls standard! I mean I love them, but it just robs completely the seriousness associated with any thread they enter. And for the most part, I do prefer the serious threads afterall...

Yeah the owls are funny, definetly when they make the owls asian, latino, or black. (i.e. a specific race) But it does make the threads less serious.

 

[fastasleep]

Well, not sure how much relevance this has but bluray may have its share of teething problems before its ready. The following excerpt is from a video business article dated oct. 19th.

Industry observers believe Warner and Paramount are hedging their bets with their moves on the chance that Sony will not be able to deliver as robust a product as they say in the timeframe they promise -- mid-2006 either slightly before or after the introduction of Sony's PlayStation 3, which will incorporate Blu-ray as well.

If Sony delivers, many studio execs say that Warner and Paramount will likely abandon the HD DVD platform. If not, media companies are under such pressure to deliver a new product to revive double-digit growth of pre-recorded movies, that they will go ahead with Toshiba's format.

One studio exec says that engineers re-evaluated the Blu-ray technology as recently as this week and concluded that it will not be ready to offer everything Sony promises for two more years.

Reading this doesn't make me comfortable with sony rushing bluray into the ps3. Not when a studio's own engineers are re-evaluating bluray and concluding that sony is not going to be able to deliver on all the things they said anytime soon, which is something that MS echoed earlier on.

 

[Nesh]

Btw is BR a Sony only patent?If not what other companies were involved and invested on the BR?

 

[mckmas8808]

Btw is BR a Sony only patent?If not what other companies were involved and invested on the BR?

Honestly too many to name. Go to Blu-raydisc.com and find out yourself.

And to fastasleep it's pretty funny that Time-Warner officially announced their Blu-ray honors today being that they found out that information last week.

 

[Nesh]

Whoah thats too many.Watching at all these companies having plans behind BR-Disc I kind of doubt it will fail easily.The amount of companies is huge and not to mention the amount of capital that should be backing it up because of that

What about HD-DVD?Only Toshiba?

 

[Azrael]

The consumer will be the deciding factor in whether blu-ray fails or not.

 

[scooby_dooby]

The consumers decision will depend on price and availability.

THe movie companies will support whatever the consumer supports, not vice versa.

 

[MechanizedDeath]

The consumers decision will depend on price and availability.

THe movie companies will support whatever the consumer supports, not vice versa.

The studios propel consumers to one format over another through compelling content. Hence, BD is the early favorite b/c they have all the studios except Universal. Plus more hardware backers to boot. Is this point even debateable anymore? The needle has been swinging further and further in BD's direction with each new announcement. It's fairly open and shut at this point, no? PEACE.

 

[seismologist]

BD Rom. The name has a nice ring to it

 

[fastasleep]

Well, congrats are in order, this thread just made it into www.joystiq.com.

PS3 to jettison backwards compatibility in order to launch this decade? Taking a tilt at the rumor mill. [update1]

Related entries: Nintendo Revolution, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Here’s the full text of an Xbox rumor ******tasy that Sony is ready to ditch backwards-compatibility in order to get the PS3 out the door in the spring (Japan) and fall (USA, Europe) of next year.

Nice stuff leaked right into my drive: In order to meet launch in spring the ps3 will feature a drive that will only be able to read single layer BD disks and will not be compatible with DVD and CDROM’s This means that backwards compatibility is sacrificed in order to reach launch date Another problem sony is facing now is a backlash from the movie industry who want multilayer disks for additional content, these disks will not be playable on the ps3 PS3 lauch spring : only Japan (so the strange drives with no backward comp would only affect these machines! Probably not even all of them!) autumn /summer: USA, october november: PAL

Really, this is just hogwash, but even if it’s fabricated there are still some nuggets of truth in it. As a general product development strategy, dropping features can accelerate launch timelines assuming that it doesn’t take longer to yank a feature out than it would take to finish shoehorning it in.
It’s not just Sony, either. We’ve actually heard numerous indications that Microsoft was really leaning on developers to cut game features in order to have a broad list of launch titles available for the release of the Xbox 360. That’s why some fans and critics have noticed that some upcoming games for the Xbox 360 aren’t all that visually impressive.

Update: it’s fake. There will be surprises unveiled about both the Xbox and PS3, to be sure. The best we can do is keep our eyes open.

 

[rabidrabbit]

This is the best rumour thread EVER!!!!!!!
I'm sure some of those Analysts catched this and already started changing their forecasts for the next gen Expect some new analyst predictions in coming days...