IGN- Playstation 3: The Tech

[Paul2]

i think its fake since it said UMD because I believe ps3 may support backward compatible with ps2 and psOne games but UMD is only 6 cm....while psOne and ps2 games mostly used 12 cm disc.

i don\'t like the design either.  Looks weird...so, very likely its fake.

looks weird and cool at the same time.But not the looks I expected from a console.

[Paul2]

looks like a pencil sharpener....

Also there are no controller ports. And it says wireless on the console. Sony has never said wireless pads would be the standard on ps3

Originally posted by Paul2
i think its fake since it said UMD because I believe ps3 may support backward compatible with ps2 and psOne games but UMD is only 6 cm....while psOne and ps2 games mostly used 12 cm disc.

i don\'t like the design either.  Looks weird...so, very likely its fake.

If you didn\'t notice, it has slots for both UMD discs and regulard sized 12cm discs (blu-ray, DVD, CD).  I\'m not entirely sold on the fact that this is legit, but there is a little twinge deep down inside that tells me this may be the real deal.

time will tell

you can also see rubber feet for the option to stand it vertical like with the ps2.  And looks like a switch on the back for power, just like the ps2.

Kind of an awkward, albeit strong design.. if real.

Originally posted by QuDDus
Also there are no controller ports. And it says wireless on the console. Sony has never said wireless pads would be the standard on ps3

I d be happy if it offers the choise to the consumer to use either wireless or not

Well it looks very real and my first impression was "WTF? Its so... oddly ugly.... yet so.... interesting." Its been maybe a minute but it doesnt look too bad now.

A few things that suggest that its not real (from what i can see) are the lack of details we\'ve gotten on the link between ps3 and psp (although it makes perfect sense. I think the psp would benefit more from it than the ps3 at this point.) and the eject and power lights dont seem to have any buttons (it could be remote controlled but it seems stupid to have an eject light in that case).

Also, the scans arent the same size. If its coming from an "e3 booklet" then it would make sense that they would be the same size (though this seems more like an argument that it isnt from a booklet more than this isnt ps3).

The reflections and the copyright look real though and if this isnt what ps3 is going to look like then im pretty secure in saying that its an official mock up.

I could always be wrong though.

There is also only one memory card slot.If that\'s the size of only onememory card slot the size of the whole thing is ery small.Unless if two memory cards are fit in that hole

why would you need more than one memory card slot though?  I bet the new memory cards are gonna have a lot more storage than 8 MB (they better).

I would imagine controller ports are on the back, just like the PSX released a little bit ago.

I\'m thinking more and more that this is a fake

VF4 evo GT series and Tekken5 for example are taking advandage of the two mem card slot feature.Like taking your car/status/character over a friends house and compete with his.
 Also it lets you copy from a friends mem card to yours.
Not to mention that its safe to keep two mem cards since sometimes one of them mught get erased.Its good to have backups.
 I personally keep finished games in one mem card and unfinished in another.And sometimes I keep my saves in one mem card while my sisters saves of the same game are kept in the other.There is no fear that one might overwrite the other ones save

[Paul2]

what unicorn said,

with 2 memory cards, you can copy and paste it to the 2nd one.

and of course, with two memory card like ps2, you can insert slot 1 ps2 memory card and slot 2 psOne memory card...
But hopefully, ps3 will save games in built in hard disk drive and one can send it to external storage..shrugs...

"Well, I have to disagree with Ivan. Every developer I\'ve talked to has indicated that PlayStation 3 is considerably more powerful than the successor to Xbox. Studios say that PS3\'s CPU runs circles around the Xbox chipset. Just totally demolishes it. However, Xenon\'s GPU is supposedly marginally more powerful than PS3\'s"

IGN is full of shit as always. The PS3 GPU is not even finished and none of the current devkits has the final PS3 GPU in it. According to one developer they are developing with a beefed up 6800 Ultra in mind because they don\'t know the final specs of the PS3 GPU.

And also the Nvidia GPU will have longer development time than Xenon\'s since the PS3 is most likely to launch at least six months later. So it\'s way too early to tell anything about how powerful the GPUs will be compared to each other.

IGN don\'t know crap. They should stick to reviewing games because they know even less than me about hardware.

Well, at least IGN\'s game review scores are marginally good compared to Gamespot\'s

[Bobs_Hardware]

Wow, opinions are a funny thing, eh Knotter?

I couldn\'t read through IGN\'s drivel if I was forced to at gunpoint.

You know IGN is a website for homos! I heard somewhere that the G stands for Gay! Not sure what the other letters stand for but it\'s probably something equally gay!