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PREMATURE EJACULA-TON: PS3 delayed until November 2006 in Japan?
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Pedigree Chum
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Reilly said:
Exactly, the fact that I can pick up the system this year is awesome. It looks to be shaping up great.
Gamespot article is up... they say Kutargi said 6 million units BY MARCH 2007.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6145972.html
2 million at Nov launch worldwide? One million each month thereafter?
If true, massive shortages GET!
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6145972.html
2 million at Nov launch worldwide? One million each month thereafter?
If true, massive shortages GET!
Reilly said:
and if that's the case, then for those people who it was not delayed for, means this was a non-event(regarding launch)
and i agree if you are EU you are happy, but i'd be skeptical that i'd get the screw if they need more units for US/JPN
off to bed for me, fun times for GAF - just like the old days
Red Blaster
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I chuckled a bit at some of the culprits who were all like HUAHUAHUAHUA HAVE FUN WAITING A YEAR BEETCHES doing the good ol' DC.
MightyHedgehog
Member
aaaaa0 said:
Indeed. Considering it's Playstation 'n all...it's gonna be worse than it's ever been trying to get any console at launch.
Gaia Theory
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That's great! I was looking for that particular 'added' effect.Reilly said:
If they sell it for $400 they are pretty much set. I'm sure they are aiming to match MS's best offer with something better for the same price.
$400 had me a little wtf'd at first, but you have to consider what the console has. I thought that the possibility of a $300 console could come true if they took out the hdd, but it is very clear that they want it being a media hub to be standard, so it only makes sense to include the hdd obviously. Plus no more memory cards, and this will help loading times for sure if devs know every single PS3 owner will have a hard drive.
I am surprised we did not hear BR-ROM drive speed information. I guess that will come later, along with finalized price and game info. GDC? E3?
$400 had me a little wtf'd at first, but you have to consider what the console has. I thought that the possibility of a $300 console could come true if they took out the hdd, but it is very clear that they want it being a media hub to be standard, so it only makes sense to include the hdd obviously. Plus no more memory cards, and this will help loading times for sure if devs know every single PS3 owner will have a hard drive.
I am surprised we did not hear BR-ROM drive speed information. I guess that will come later, along with finalized price and game info. GDC? E3?
Jonnyram said:It can, and from what I've heard, it will. Mac OS X is Linux-based so you're already sorted on that front
Hardly. =(
Mac OS X is based on Darwin, which is Apple's special brand of BSD. BSD is part of the Unix family, but more or less the second cousin twice removed from Linux proper.
The difference being that Linux is open source and that there's an entire world of engineers trying to get that kernel to run on every device with a microchip. Of course, kernel optimization of the CELL processor is probably going to be the most daunting task since the Human Genome Project (except involving more creativity).
For that reason, don't expect Linux to be working (well) at launch, and don't expect anything but a single type of distribution that can even run on the PS3 (whether Sony selects to work off an existing distro or start their own from the kernel and work their way up is yet to be seen, but likely).
So yeah, getting OS X working on a PS3 would be such a monumental effort, and probably ultimately cockblocked by the closed-source kernel-level parts of the OSX system that it never could happen.
Still, the most important thing is that Sony is embracing open source while Microsoft is trying to snuff it out. No matter how much Sony tries to restrict piracy avenues, having Linux installable on there is going to give users infinitely more freedom over their PS3 than Microsoft with Xbox 360. On moral grounds alone, I'm all for an OSS-friendly console (and all for the destruction of one that could perpetuate Windows' marketshare).
ThunderEmperor
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marc^o^ said:
yep nintendo was smart
Yes there will be shortages, but at one million a month Sony will be able to fill up demand much quicker than MS ever accomplished. Remember MS only shipped about 2.5 million units in the same time span Sony will be shipping 6 million. Kuturagi also said one million a month is the minimum target.
I hesitate to call what 360 is doing "emulation" - at least not emulation of hardware. It's more like running various game profiles.Jonnyram said:
Anyway what's so special about running FFXI? I can think of a dozen PS2 titles right away that should be more complicated to run (if running in software emulator that is).
Blackie{BA}
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VAPORSTATION3 anyone?
:lol
By the by, I hope this piece of irony helps burn the midnight oil for you:
I have a Psyc test I have yet to study much for in just over 5 hours. It's on sleep and its deprivation. *Irony!*
Guess this'll make me an expert!
//pretends he ever gets more than 3 hours of sleep a night anyway.
I have a Psyc test I have yet to study much for in just over 5 hours. It's on sleep and its deprivation. *Irony!*
Guess this'll make me an expert!
//pretends he ever gets more than 3 hours of sleep a night anyway.
Beezy said:I fall asleep for 3 hours and this thread grows by 13 pages. As I'm browsing through those pages, it grows another 2 pages! I thought Nintedo fans were bad. You guys are fucking crazy. It was all worth it though thanks to these posts:
P.S: I guess Ninja Scooter won't do my homework now.
Jejej funny that you chose one of mine, Im actually a nintendo fan, but I like videogame news in general, so I was awaiting this announcement as everybody else.
mckmas8808
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Mrbob said:
Nice.
Thank god I finally made it to the front of the pack. Only took me 2 hours. :lol
True... it's much the same as having a multi config autoexec.bat, right?Fafalada said:
It's tied to the PS2 HDD. I really can't imagine how they'll get that running, even if they have a HDD built-in to the PS3 hardware. I guess they can put hooks in for the PCMCIA calls, but it will be pretty messy, I reckon.
Aha! So by bootable memory stick, they mean it can bootstrap and then receive all instruction from an archive server, bypassing the firmware and becoming a puppet of the PS3. (While I can't really figure out what advantages this would have other than saving RAM and kernel overhead, it at least answers that question).
"Archive Server" must mean PS3 in this case (unless they're referring to an online one or store kiosks--either of which wouldn't make sense for including bootstrapping from a memory stick in the description). In that case you'd boot up your PSP in "PS3 mode" (perhaps even reboot it remotely from the PS3) and then it becomes a streaming media device with easy access to your PS1 games and movies and what not stored on your 60GB HDD in the PS3.
Genius!
"Archive Server" must mean PS3 in this case (unless they're referring to an online one or store kiosks--either of which wouldn't make sense for including bootstrapping from a memory stick in the description). In that case you'd boot up your PSP in "PS3 mode" (perhaps even reboot it remotely from the PS3) and then it becomes a streaming media device with easy access to your PS1 games and movies and what not stored on your 60GB HDD in the PS3.
Genius!
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
lunlunqq said:
Can somebody explain the GPS PSP feature to me please? What does updates every second mean? Do I need to be in a WiFi area at all times? And how will that be possible?
Vaandaviii
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mckmas8808 said:
It's just a navigator, like the ones of the PDA's or in the cars. It doesn't need Wifi for anything, it's just GPS.
PizzaFarmer
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You're normally pretty informed about things, but you're incorrect there.Fafalada said:
Xbox 360 back-compat uses a full software emulator. There was a good talk at XFest on the challenges involved and optimization techniques that could also be applied to games.
mckmas8808 said:
GPS means that either all new PSPs would ship with it or it would occupy the USB port atop the system. It's its own technology, based on satellites floating all over the earth. The every second reference indicates that every second the GPS chip would sync with the satellite and return the approximate position of the PSP.
This can be used in games as well as mapplications.
JoshuaJSlone
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Yeah, I think most of us did at first. But here's what's said on Bungie's site:Fafalada said:
...which explained why the 1280x720 screenshots we were seeing didn't seem properly high res. At first I thought it was just a combination of the lower resolution textures and a bad capture.
Yeah... how are they basing a golf game around this? I know people around here were postulating some GPS ideas like having different Pokémon available based on your current position, but what would be fun for golf?Vaandaviii said:
All I/O on PS2 happened inside IOP - there was no way for EE to access the hw by itself, and Sony has already demonstrated replacing IOP with a completely different chip with almost no loss in compatibility (at any rate it didn't affect FFXI at all).
Even if FFXI relied on some out of spec PCMCIA behaviour it's a simple matter to include that as special case in the IOP emulation module.
I'm more concerned about weird things some of us have done on EE/GS side of PS2 games, I sincerely doubt the hw engineers envisioned some of the uses people have come up with over the years.
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Vennt
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Razoric said:
Oops, no free insult passes being given out today, come back in a week
Gaia Theory
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Ken Kutaragi said: