Now that Joel has been well medicated and the folks in the mythical city of Qeynos are well aware of his ire, here’s a round-up of some heady, breathy, exciting PS3 coverage. What will we learn? Each unit includes a free vial of chicken blood! The PS3 can vibrate in time to Where Is the Love! If placed below a television, or even near a television, the PS3 explodes into toddler-mauling shards! Did any of that appear in any of the coverage? No. But who can really be sure?
Some initial info, via FiringSquad:
CPU: Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
GPU: RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)
Memory:
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
Storage: HDD – 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: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller:
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)
Essentially, it’s an XBox killer. Sorry.
Nvidia shows off Playstation 3 features [TheInquirer]
PS3 Explosion [GameSpot]
IBM’s Cell chip hype is total junk [TheInquirer]
Sony PS3 specifications [FiringSquad]
Official Sony Playstation 3 – PS3 – Announcement [i4u]
Sony launch PlayStation 3 PLUS first images [PocketLint]
PlayStation 3 Revealed! [Gamespy]
Three key ways in which the PS3 beats the Xbox 360 [Blogcore]
