Official Sony E3 2005 press conference thread

Endagadget;

The presentation started with a little game history. “PlayStation 2 defined digital enterainment…. PlayStation Portable, the next revolution!” The chest thumping was accompanied by thumping speakers.

First up: Kaz Hirai. “Are you guys excited about E3?” The audience barely cheered, so he had to try again. C’mon, show us the goods, then we’ll be excited… maybe.

He does the numbers: 90 million units of hardware, 2 billion units of software. He does the backwards compatibility thing. These are the Sony strengths, so he reminds the audience that these are the goods that Microsoft can’t match.
 
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Queue pointless interlude of flashy CGI graphics (not sure what that was for).

Ken Kutaragi introduced, and he proceeds to give the audience another lesson on the history of the PlayStation consoles. From “Real-time 3D-CG” to “Emotion Engine.” He confirms backwards compatibility of the PlayStation 3, eliciting the first audience applause since he took the stage.
 
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/metalgearsolid4/news_6124681.html
Sony confirms the name and release window of its next-generation console in Los Angeles, will use Blu-Ray disc format.

LOS ANGELES--Today saw the second of the big three console makers announce their next-generation platform. At its pre-E3 press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment gave the world its first look at the PlayStation 3, as it now is officially called. It also confirmed that the console will arrive in 2006 and will use Blu-Ray discs as its media.

Sony confirms the name and release window of its next-generation console in Los Angeles, will use Blu-Ray disc format.

LOS ANGELES--Today saw the second of the big three console makers announce their next-generation platform. At its pre-E3 press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment gave the world its first look at the PlayStation 3, as it now is officially called. It also confirmed that the console will arrive in 2006 and will use Blu-Ray discs as its media.
 
golem said:
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Queue pointless interlude of flashy CGI graphics (not sure what that was for).

Ken Kutaragi introduced, and he proceeds to give the audience another lesson on the history of the PlayStation consoles. From “Real-time 3D-CG” to “Emotion Engine.” He confirms backwards compatibility of the PlayStation 3, eliciting the first audience applause since he took the stage.
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The first shot at MS has been made. MS cannot afford the 360 to go without BC now.
 
Ken Kutaragi introduced, and he proceeds to give the audience another lesson on the history of the PlayStation consoles. From “Real-time 3D-CG” to “Emotion Engine.” He confirms backwards compatibility of the PlayStation 3, eliciting the first audience applause since he took the stage
 
LOS ANGELES--Today saw the second of the big three console makers announce their next-generation platform. At its pre-E3 press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment gave the world its first look at the PlayStation 3, as it now is officially called. It also confirmed that the console will arrive in 2006 and will use Blu-Ray discs as its media.
 
The presentation started with a little game history. “PlayStation 2 defined digital enterainment…. PlayStation Portable, the next revolution!” The chest thumping was accompanied by thumping speakers.

First up: Kaz Hirai. “Are you guys excited about E3?” The audience barely cheered, so he had to try again. C’mon, show us the goods, then we’ll be excited… maybe.

He does the numbers: 190 million units of hardware, 2 billion units of software. He does the backwards compatibility thing. These are the Sony strengths, so he reminds the audience that these are the goods that Microsoft can’t match.

Queue pointless interlude of flashy CGI graphics (not sure what that was for).

Ken Kutaragi introduced, and he proceeds to give the audience another lesson on the history of the PlayStation consoles. From “Real-time 3D-CG” to “Emotion Engine.” He confirms backwards compatibility of the PlayStation 3, eliciting the first audience applause since he took the stage.

From here

Live updates.

Damn, late :)
 
Timen said:
Endagadget;
He does the numbers: 90 million units of hardware, 2 billion units of software. He does the backwards compatibility thing. These are the Sony strengths, so he reminds the audience that these are the goods that Microsoft can’t match.
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:lol

I can imagine Hirai pointing at the powerpoint presentation

Crowd barely cheered? Typical of sony conferences
 
[15:43:37] <Drakken> backwards compatibility with ps2 and ps1!!!!!

[15:44:36] <Drakken> 90 mm on cell
[15:44:38] <Drakken> whatever that means
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[15:44:56] <EviLore> 90 mm fab, SONY DOMED!
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[15:45:02] <EviLore> haha, 90 nm I'm sure

[15:45:56] <Drakken> yes blueray
[15:45:57] <Drakken> 103 more gigaflops of processiong power than xbox 360

[15:48:57] <Drakken> hopefully some of this makes sense:
[15:48:57] <Drakken> 3.2 ghz cell
[15:48:57] <Drakken> 7xspe 3.2 gb
[15:48:57] <Drakken> nvdiai 550 mhz gpu
[15:48:57] <Drakken> 512 levle 2 mesh
[15:48:57] <Drakken> 7x256 MB sram
 
103 GIGAFLOPS more powerful!

What does that mean?! :lol


Looks like Xbox 360 needs more orders of magnitude to compete.
 
PS3 said:
Drakken> 3.2 ghz cell
<Drakken> 7xspe 3.2 gb
<Drakken> nvdiai 550 mhz gpu
<Drakken> 512 levle 2 mesh
<Drakken> 7x256 MB sram
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running at 2 teraflops

103 gflops more than xbox 360
 
I guess the rumors in EGM and the like, about it being much more powerful than the Xbox 360, are true. They also said they same thing about Revolution. THINGS ARE HEATING UP IN MY PANTS.
 
Some tech PowerPoint presentation:

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Backwards compatible how far? If it's running on blu-ray but still PS2 capable it doesnt seem hard to go compatible all the way back to PS1 again.
 
More:

-Ken has done his usual powerpoint presentation on sales and playstation lifespan.
-Kojima gave some MGS4 details (he will be writing the script)
-More MGS4 details to come later in the conference
-Ken announced blank re-writeble UMDS est. $25
-GTA Next for PS3 Launch
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It's just been confirmed that the PS3 will have a detachable hard drive, six USB ports, a memory stick slot, and seven bluetooth wireless controllers.

Kaz Hirai has taken the stage, beginning his speech with "190 million PS2s sold. 2 billion software sales" Hirai then began speaking about PlayStation 3... It features the CELL processor as previously reported, and also features a Blu-Ray Disk drive, running at 6x. Backwards compatibility with both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games has also just been confirmed. Hirai also stated that PlayStation 3 runs at twice the speed of Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 console is capable of reaching 10 Terraflops of processing information.
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7x256mb sounds like a typo. Seems to me the reporter was talking about the cache memory allocated to each SPE, in which case 7x256kb might make more sense?
 
The Gflop rating is much lower than people were expecting, with the GPU at 550Mhz as well and taking guess we won't be see a big difference between the machine if one at all. Basically the CPU on the PS3 is less that twice as fast as the 360 CPU in flop ratings. People were talking between 3-5 times as fast FOR cell. Mind you if that MB of RAM!
 
Sony also laid out the technical specs of the device. The PlayStation 3 will feature the much-vaunted Cell processor, which will run at 3.2 Ghz and feature 2.18 teraflops of performance. It will sport 256mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 Ghz, have 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700mhz, a detachable 2.5 inch HDD slot, six usb 2.0 ports, Memory Stick Duo, a SD slot, a compact flash memory slot, Compact flash slot, 2 hdmi outputs, 1 av multi out, 1 SPDIF optical output, and 1-gigabit Ethernet built in port

The PlayStation 3 will also sport some hefty multimedia features, such as video chat, internet access, digital photo viewing, digital audio and video. Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi introduced it as a "Super computer for computer entertainment."


- Gamespot
 
"Sony also confirmed the PlayStation 3, will use Blu-Ray discs as its media format. The discs can hold up to six times as much data as current-generation DVDs. It will also supporrd CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R. It also confirmed the machine would be backwards compatible all the way to the original PlayStation.

Sony also laid out the technical specs of the device. The PlayStation 3 will feature the much-vaunted Cell processor, which will run at 3.2 Ghz and feature 2.18 teraflops of performance. It will sport 256mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 Ghz, have 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700mhz, a detachable 2.5 inch HDD slot, six usb 2.0 ports, Memory Stick Duo, a SD slot, a compact flash memory slot, Compact flash slot, 2 hdmi outputs, 1 av multi out, 1 SPDIF optical output, and 1-gigabit Ethernet built in port

The PlayStation 3 will also sport some hefty multimedia features, such as video chat, internet access, digital photo viewing, digital audio and video. Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi introduced it as a "Super computer for computer entertainment."


http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/16/news_6124681.html
 
Mrbob said:
103 GIGAFLOPS more powerful!

What does that mean?! :lol


Looks like Xbox 360 needs more orders of magnitude to compete.
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it's actually downgraded. the ISSSC demo unit was running at 4GHZ w/ 8 SPEs, which was calculated to be around 250+GF, now the clockrate is lowered and so is the SPE count. assuming xenon is around 90GF, ps3 is around 193GF. not as high as predicted earlier.
i was actually assuming they'd have trouble getting yields at 4GHz. but there it is, confirmation.
 
Friend just emailed this to me (probably from some other coverage site or something)




Sony also laid out the technical specs of the device. The PlayStation 3 will feature the much-vaunted Cell processor, which will run at 3.2 Ghz and feature 2.18 teraflops of performance. It will sport 256mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 Ghz, have 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700mhz, a detachable 2.5 inch HDD slot, six usb 2.0 ports, Memory Stick Duo, a SD slot, a compact flash memory slot, Compact flash slot, 2 hdmi outputs, 1 av multi out, 1 SPDIF optical output, and 1-gigabit Ethernet built in port
 
Apparently there are three people from THIS site updating live as the conference goes, they have so far posted this:

It's just been confirmed that the PS3 will have a detachable hard drive, six USB ports, a memory stick slot, and seven bluetooth wireless controllers.

Kaz Hirai has taken the stage, beginning his speech with "190 million PS2s sold. 2 billion software sales" Hirai then began speaking about PlayStation 3... It features the CELL processor as previously reported, and also features a Blu-Ray Disk drive, running at 6x. Backwards compatibility with both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games has also just been confirmed. Hirai also stated that PlayStation 3 runs at twice the speed of Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 console is capable of reaching 10 Terraflops of processing information.
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EDIT: too slow, already posted above
 
UltraMagnanimous said:
Sony also laid out the technical specs of the device. The PlayStation 3 will feature the much-vaunted Cell processor, which will run at 3.2 Ghz and feature 2.18 teraflops of performance. It will sport 256mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 Ghz, have 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700mhz, a detachable 2.5 inch HDD slot, six usb 2.0 ports, Memory Stick Duo, a SD slot, a compact flash memory slot, Compact flash slot, 2 hdmi outputs, 1 av multi out, 1 SPDIF optical output, and 1-gigabit Ethernet built in port

The PlayStation 3 will also sport some hefty multimedia features, such as video chat, internet access, digital photo viewing, digital audio and video. Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi introduced it as a "Super computer for computer entertainment."


- Gamespot
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The ultimate multimedia center. I like splitting off the main ram and video ram than having it in one huge chunk.
 
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