Since we are talking about controller here.
Anyone can confirm? Would be sweet if true!
Anyone can confirm? Would be sweet if true!
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As long as the rectangular base is hidden/minimally viewable, PS3 is a sexy beast.
They're on a flap that opens up to actually reveal the memory card readers. They're hidden behind that part of the case that opens up, the 'dots' are little nubs to give you grip.
Not the forums you silly boy, but the "news" sites that were reporting what the "editors" read on the forums, and that filtered even to the more reputable real news pages.
Where then do you think they got the feedback on the controller design? They themselves said it was changed much due to the bad feedback it got after they first showed it.
Did people e-mail them? phone them telling teh bananacontroller sucks!? From the relatively fev E3 visitors that went to the booth babes and told them "yo Sony boothbabe, I tell you I don't like it curvy!!"
From polls that were sent to selected registered folk by e-mail??
You think these companies turn a blind eye to what is talked about in the free internet about their product? Peter Moore of MS had told he personally visits a certain gaming forum and learns a lot there (eurogamer I think it was)
Why does the cheapo PS3 have these grip nubs then as it doesn't have the memorycard reader slots, thus shouldn't need the flap?
Edit: Ok, I believe the cheaper SKU does have at least the Sony Memorystick slot(s), that's why the flap.
Or does it?
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I thought the secret feature would be Location Free base station capabilities, with the PSP being able to play games remotely from the PS3. If any game used this feature fully it would be GT:HD, a game that has mysteriously disappeared from the PSP radar and has unexpectedly popped up as a PS3 game.
That is a good question. AFAIK the 500 dollar ps3 does not have any memory card formats (you have to use usb to transfer data). I wonder what's under that flap. if it even opens on the lower model.
It's an interesting point how much influence the web does or doesn't have. A reference to the film 'Snakes on a Plane' shows that internet noise can totally shape a product, so the origianl creates give up on their initial idea in order to pander to the vocal fans. There have also been games that have changed a lot to fit fan comments on the game forums too. Whether it influenced Sony or not in their controller decision I don't know, but I'm sure all feedback is considered and nothing is ignored, adding web noise to their own research in deciding what form to go with.
The Official PlayStation 3 specs from here (click the black PS3 New Era zone on the bottom) list MS, CF and SD for 60 GB model, and none of those for 20 GB model. Hence no memory stick port, unless that's changed.
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A little compartment for keeping that $100 wad of cash you saved from not buying the deluxe version.
I know, this is pretty much what I said lol. It still makes it interesting as of what that flap would contain, if it even opens in the first place.
You make it sound like the extra 100 isnt worth 40 gigs extra space, wifi, memory card readers, and hdmi. Not to mention the chrome finishes on the case that makes it look extra spiffy IMO. I suppose I'll be out of 100 extra dollars though, as I'm getting the 600 dollar version. Poor me.
Looks that way from pictures, not that I really care about such things. I tend to use the remote control with my 360 more than its face buttons, and wether it's a touch control or not could barely interest me less.
Captain Obvious to the rescue! Heh.
You might want to note however that the 100Gflop figure stems from the folding@home PS3 client announcement, and cannot be used as any kind of a general rule on how the hardware performs in a real-life situation. It may be worth noting however that 100Gflops out of a theoretical 220-ish is pretty good all things considered; there was a project in the past that attempted to use networked and harddrive-equipped PS2 consoles for other distributed computing tasks, and performance was a lot less, relatively speaking. As I recall, considerably less than 2Gflop out of a theoretical 6.4, on whatever tasks that were attempted. This was a long time ago though, maybe things improved, or the person responsible lost interest, I'm not sure.
A video from GC. The controller was functional.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=12742&type=wmv
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=12742&type=wmv
Seems the ps3 is actually semi-transparent, and has been all along.
From BlimBlim quoting another that goes by the name of fishie
So thats what kaz meant by "Clear Black"
From BlimBlim quoting another that goes by the name of fishie
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5083/dsc05021mf1ve8.jpg
So thats what kaz meant by "Clear Black"
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Seems the ps3 is actually semi-transparent, and has been all along.
From BlimBlim quoting another that goes by the name of fishie
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5083/dsc05021mf1ve8.jpg
So thats what kaz meant by "Clear Black"
Interesting, can't help wondering what that would look like if there was some form of internal lighting, Guess you would need to switch it on find out whether it was some form of "special feature" tho.
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