Monday, May 16, 2005

Hot off the press Playstation 3 information | Nintendo Revolution also revealed today

05/17/05 8:43AM - DMC4 and DOA4 images on Geocities server instead of Imageshack.ws and are able to be viewed.

Look what I've found! This is Sony's new renderings from the showcase of pre-E3 conference. AT least we know the successor to Playstation 2 is Playstation 3.

Launch Date - Spring 2006 in North America and Japan.


Nice, a slot in drive. Sony's thinking.


Why is the controller so futuristic, everyone?


Nice, it's white. I love it.


Looks like PS2's back with more USB ports

Known Specs
CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU

RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound

Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)

Memory

256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz

System Bandwidth

Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

System Floating Point Performance

2 TFLOPS

Storage

Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1

I/O

USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

Communication

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Controller

Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output

Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1

Disc Media

CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

Sourced from SONY CORP.

What’s in development for Playstation 3?

# Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
# Eyedentify (SCEJ)
# Fifth Phantom Saga (SEGA)
# Fight Night Round 3 (EA Sports)
# Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix) – Isn’t this a Playstation 2 game as well?
# Formula 1 (Liverpool Studio)
# The Getaway "Screen Test" (Team Soho)
# Heavenly Sword (Ninja Theory)
# I-8 (Insomniac)
# Killing Day (Ubisoft)
# KillZone (Guerrilla)
# Metal Gear Solid 4 (Konami)
# Mobile Suit Gundum (Bandai)
# MotorStorm (Evolution Studio)
# NioH (KOEI)
# Oni (KOEI)
# Tekken (Namco)
# Vision Gran Turismo (Polyphony Digital)
# WarHawk (Incognito)

Screenshot galore! Hot links for your viewing pleasure. Just comment on this post please. That’s all I ask of you.



Dante’s gun has a lot more detail than was possible in DMC3. The polygon rate is outrageous!

Screenshot of WarHawk

Screenshot of Vision Gran Turismo



This is an Xbox 360 title and Tecmo’s launch title.

The new Nintendo Revolution Specs

Launch Date: Summer 2006

Megagames got an insider of the latest Nintendo Revolution prototype and it's 700 MHz slower than Xbox 360. MoSys, the Gamecube memory manufacture is adding memory to Revolution.

Another slot in drive. Gosh. We’re getting high tech now. Serious business.

The real next generation Nintendo console? Internet says it is.

In its final form, Revolution will be about the thickness of three standard DVD cases and only slightly longer. The versatile Revolution will play either horizontally or vertically, allowing the user total flexibility in setting up a gaming session wherever they have a television.

The controller isn’t revealed because that’s the most revolutionary part of the Revolution. Nintendo wishes not to show the controller at E3 2005.



Specs of IBM Hollywood, the Revolution CPU.

Four 2.5Ghz IBM G5 Custom cores with 128KB of level 1 cache and a 512KB shared level 2 cache.

ATI "Broadway"

GPU will offer a dual core RN520 chipset with a 16 MB on-board eDRAM frame buffer.

Other Known Specs

• 802.11B WiFi connectivity with Dual Screen and/or another Revolution with 10 meters away
• Wireless controllers
• backwards compatible with Gamecube software meaning it has a Gecko 485 MHz co-Processor
• Gyroscope controllers with handle rubbing and grip abilities.

More information at

Playstation 3
Xbox 360

These games are already added to my IGN collection list and that blog entry with the videogame list.

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