The PlayStation 3

As many people know, the PlayStation 3 was released today in Europe, as some people are quite exited about this, I thought I would give an in depth view into the PlayStation 3.

The release was meant to be in November 2006, and problems in the normal SONY way, was delayed to MARCH 2007. SONY recently came along in the GDC (Game Developers Confrence) SONY keynote, and released the fantastic service, HOME. HOME is a kind of better looking Sims, and in a Second Life context, it lets people enable to chat, and stream live media in a virtual world.

HOME has a realistic physics engine, and was demonstrated memorially with the guy doing it at GDC by dropping a SONY BRAVIA TV down the stairs.

HOME is currently in Beta, and is being released for testing to a huge 15,000 people, and unlikely known if it will be released here for testing in the UK. But good things come with downsides, so SONY was incredibly annoying by making the backwards compatibility, dead...really that's just how to describe it, but they got rid of the service like the annoying buggers they are, in there pixie SONY offices and...urmmm, yeh.

The launch titles are interesting though, and the one that caught by beady little eye yesterday peering though the glass of a store window, and Motor Storm looks fantastic, and so does Formula 1, and the graphics for F1 are phenomenal! When I saw the trailer last year, I thought it wasn't a game, they also have damage which really is the perfect thing to go with any racing game. I mean like, Grand Turismo, Polyphony Digital has always promised, DAMAGE! But nooooo.

The PSP-to-PS3 connectivity is good with the console to, that really is the topping on the cake, use your PSP as a second screen or perhaps a second controller, which you won't get the 6-axis control, still would be good if you want to play PS3 anywhere around your house.
The 6-Axis is a Nintendo Wii idea, and yes, as normal, SONY has nicked all the ideas from Microsoft and Nintendo.

Nintendo: The Wii like control or 6-Axis
Microsoft: Same LIVE service


There was a previous version of the PS3 controller that looked like a boomerang, but was changed due to health and safety reasons, we don't want people in white coats observing you while you play do you. So a more Duleshock 2 control was re-made.

The other things that SONY has done is made no one buy the console by making it so expensive that no one will buy it. When the PS3 went on pre-order on Amazon, and when the Wii went up for pre-order it was 5 minuets before they were sold out. But the PS3's never really shifted, it was well, more than 2 weeks 3 weeks before they really where sold to a compleat extent. So alough I think I will never really by the magical wonder box, I do think that I would by a Wii.