If I could bold the "Rumours" in the title, I would. I'd take all this with a very large pinch of salt. But since it's pretty much inevitable these will end up here, I may as well post them..
The September issue of PSM has an article with some "revelations" about PS3, apparently from discussions with developers (from http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=4433). The main points are:
1) "Developers have begun to tell us about actual improvements being made to the system's specifications, including more system memory and other low-level upgrades that we won't physically notice, but are making the people producing the games simply giddy."
(talking about the greater amount of memory in the dev kit and confusing that with the retail box?)
2) Old memory cards (PS2/PS) won't work, but you'll be able to play PS2 and PS games and save to memory sticks. Transfer of saves via PC might be possible.
3) Devs are being told that HDD will not be used for games - purely storage (movies, photos, music etc.)
4) PSP will act as a PS3 remote over Wifi (PS3 in sleep mode, use PSP to manage media on it, start movie playback from another room etc.)
5) A USB video-in accessory is planned for Tivo-like functionality. Recording movies/tv and transferring to PSP for on the go watching is part of the plan
6) Most games will be 720p
7) Developers, if they so wish, will be able to offer faster framerates at lower resolutions (e.g. 30/60fps at 720p, 60/120fps at 480p or whatever). Presumably some minimum framerate is required at higher resolutions, but you could switch to lower for faster framerates still.
Some of this seems obvious/reasonable, but some seems rather..dubious (memory upgrade, the point about the HDD, the last point too).
I suppose my main reason for posting this here is that I guess all it'd take would be for some of the devs here to say yay or nay on this stuff to confirm or rubbish these claims..which might be useful
The September issue of PSM has an article with some "revelations" about PS3, apparently from discussions with developers (from http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=4433). The main points are:
1) "Developers have begun to tell us about actual improvements being made to the system's specifications, including more system memory and other low-level upgrades that we won't physically notice, but are making the people producing the games simply giddy."
(talking about the greater amount of memory in the dev kit and confusing that with the retail box?)
2) Old memory cards (PS2/PS) won't work, but you'll be able to play PS2 and PS games and save to memory sticks. Transfer of saves via PC might be possible.
3) Devs are being told that HDD will not be used for games - purely storage (movies, photos, music etc.)
4) PSP will act as a PS3 remote over Wifi (PS3 in sleep mode, use PSP to manage media on it, start movie playback from another room etc.)
5) A USB video-in accessory is planned for Tivo-like functionality. Recording movies/tv and transferring to PSP for on the go watching is part of the plan
6) Most games will be 720p
7) Developers, if they so wish, will be able to offer faster framerates at lower resolutions (e.g. 30/60fps at 720p, 60/120fps at 480p or whatever). Presumably some minimum framerate is required at higher resolutions, but you could switch to lower for faster framerates still.
Some of this seems obvious/reasonable, but some seems rather..dubious (memory upgrade, the point about the HDD, the last point too).
I suppose my main reason for posting this here is that I guess all it'd take would be for some of the devs here to say yay or nay on this stuff to confirm or rubbish these claims..which might be useful
