Gryph

Yeah, Microsoft can afford to take a hit on each console just like it did in the past generation, only ONE quarter brought in profit and that was when Halo 2 was released. It began to lose money right after than again.

Ok, I read wrong. It was $299. But yeah, the price isn't a huge sticking point to me since as a PC gamer paying a lot for hardware is nothing new. But $465 will shut out a lot of people. By then I bet Microsoft will do their first price cut of the XBOX 360 along with the launch of Halo 3 to really stick it to Sony.

Didn't the PS2 launch at $500?

No, it's not a game. It seems there is a blackout at E3. I think this is hilarious! Muahahaha! Once power is restored, hopefully there will be more coverage.

Hahaha! Must have home products. In other news, could this be the price of the PS3? http://ps3.ign.com/articles/615/615745p1.html

Technically the Emotion Engine was pretty impressive considering it ran at only 300 mhz. A 300 mhz EE outperforms a 300 mhz x86 more than ten fold.

We didn't miss those. Well not at first. But are those holes it? I mean the XBOX 360 has a relatively large exhaust in the back, holes on the top and on the sides, and has water-solution cooling for the CPU. The PS3 seems to be lacking those external cooling features. Here is a better pic of the holes you are pointing us to. If the console is standing up, then those holes on the other side would be blocked. Is that really enough to cool the system? There must be some other kind of cooling inside and that's what I want to know.

Haha! That was pretty funny. Alan Smithee...hahaha!

Here is a comparison table from IGN I think:

Another pic.

How Original </pity> The Image looks neat. I never played the Metal Gear solid series before. I just wanted to diss Gryph <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh come on, you can do better than that. That's not even a diss. But here is some info from the press release:

What an awesome image. /sarcasm

You probably won't be able to play GameBoy games.

Well I'll give it the credit it deserves, it is nicely written, so I'm proud of Drake for that.

I think it's set up like some PCs where there is a switch that turns the power supply off and you also have a power button on the front. There is a power button on the front of the PS3 too...

This isn't much of a review...just a summary of the characters and a brief publisher style glaze-over of the story and a few features.

The heating solution will puzzle me till I find out exactly how it's done. In some PS3 news, Epic has chosen as a middleware provider:

Anyway, they probably have a badass passive cooling solution coupled with an active one that doesn't require much ventilation. Oh and they mentioned it was running PowerPC (Whats with this? All 3 are running a PowerPC of some kind....) and they don't run nearly as hot as our loveable x86s. Regardless of that, where have we seen any pics of the BOTTOM? My satelite recievers vents are in the bottom, so too are they on my VCR.....and my DVD player. Why not on this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yup, all 3 are using some form of the PowerPC. IBM is such a whore. But I remember reading that the CELL had heat issues but might be the reason they scaled the speed down the 3.2 ghz instead of the 4 ghz+ it was running at the unveiling. And yes, they do show the bottom.

I'll switch one day...one day! I swear! ANYWAY! Let's get back on topic. How do you think this thing is going to be cooled? This doesn't have too many holes and no exhaust in the back.

so in the end he is a fan of ms without even knowing it... I wish pc gaming was good... but tell u the truth. How often do u invite a friend over to play pc games with u? can u sit back in a lazy boy with a huge nice screen with great suround sound while downing a nice big sandwich cussing at ur friend beside u sniping at u from far away in some misc FPS... oh and what about fighting games.... man pc = no fighting games. PC gamers just miss out on what gaming is all about. Sure now and then one or two titles has to be played. But it never last. With all the console hype... pc gaming isnt gona get any better either. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How am I fan of MS just because I use Windows? I use it but I'm no fan of it. I'd switch in a heartbeat if games were widely available on any other OS. Well I'm one of the only ones in my group of friends who still plays games so that's a big reason, and even I don't play games that much. I rarely have time to sit back in a lazy boy and eat a sandwhich and play a game at the same time...I'm far too orderly for that. But when we did, we had a lot more fun playing Doom, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Tribes, StarCraft, CS, UT, Quake I, II, and III over a LAN. Hell, even the fighting games we played we did with NeoRageX, since you know, SNK makes (made) the best fighters. The only console game we ever seriously played in a group was GoldenEye and that lasted for only a few months. Different platforms are for different people who have different personalities and different tastes in gaming. The types of games I enjoy are best played on PC: FPS, RTS, turn based strategy (I'm talking about the low budget WWII sim games), God games, click and point adventures, and real RPGs. But it's not like I don't enjoy console games, some are very good but nothing recent has really caught me by the balls. Maybe something will this generation, I hope so since I'm losing interest in gaming on ALL platforms. Oh yeah, and the controller looks more like this and is quite comfortable (I've already posted it):

Because 1Emu forum doesn't use HTML, only BBCode.

Alright...here is a picture of the back of the controller (I don't think this has been posted here): I also have a very obscene GIF of the controller in action and if I were to show it here I would most likely get banned.

This is a rather old comic but I think it applies here. I'm not rooting for any of them. In fact, I think it'd be funny if all of them fail, not because I'm primarily a PC gamer, but because I like to watch entropy in action and see big things flop. As the famous quote goes, "the higher you are, the harder you fall."

Haha! Drake doesn't know how to paste links.

The convention hasn't even started so don't get all antsy. But in the PS3 press event, it seemed like they were downplaying the online functionality and the ability to share pictures and stuff which Microsoft has really been hyping.