What's Known About the PS3

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2006-03-04 05:50pm

Really Fucking Long Article, table of contents:

1UP.com wrote:It's easy to understand why many gamers still don't know what to make of the PlayStation 3. To this day, Sony still swears up and down that the PS3 will be released this spring, and yet here we are in March, and much about Sony's next-generation console remains a mystery. What will the system cost? How powerful will it be? What kind of online structure will it have? Some of the answers are still elusive, but little by little the picture is becoming clearer, and as the console's release approaches, it seems like a good time to regroup and look over what we know, what we can speculate, and what we can only guess about the PlayStation 3.

What follows is a summary of everything we know about Sony's machine, and our best guess at what we can expect to hear more about later this year.

The System | The Speculation | The Games

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2006-03-04 06:29pm

Gradius VI is on "indefinite hold"?!? SHIT!!!

Sharpshooter · Post by **Sharpshooter** » 2006-03-04 06:58pm

Dirty Harry? Oh, boy...

EDIT: Went and scanned through for possible interesting titles.

Alone in the Dark 5
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Eden Studios

After a failed attempt to revive the franchise in 2000 with Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (and an infamously terrible attempt by Uwe Boll to turn the games into a film), the series largely credited with birthing the survival horror genre is back.

Hmm...I'll be keeping my eye on this one.

Bomberman
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Hudson Soft

Bomberman makes its way to the PS3, and will undoubtedly feature a bunch of cartoony little men blowing the crap out of each other. If ever there was a game to justify the ability to use seven wireless controllers on one console, this is it.

For the love of God, I hope this is a traditional version as opposed to that gritty, styalized monstrosity that I posted about a week or two back.

Mahjong-Oh
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Warashi

Of course every time a new videogame console comes along, developers ask themselves the question, "What do we do with the most advanced videogame machine on the planet?" and naturally many come up with the answer "mahjong!" Such is the logic of the Japanese.

Oh, for the love of - it's not that I don't like the base game or anything like that, but how many friggin' titles are they going to squeeze out of this franchise? It's like one every two-three months or something...

Possession
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Volatile Games/Blitz Games

Blitz Games has developed everything from Bad Boys: Miami Takedown to Barbie's Horse Adventures, is creating an action-RTS that puts you in the role of a zombie looking to infect the populace to ultimately command a massive zombie horde. Stubbs is preparing a lawsuit as we speak.

Oh, SHIT.

Shin Megami Tensei
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Atlus

Atlus' mature apocalyptic RPG series has become something of a cult hit (with titles like Digital Devil Saga coming here), and Atlus has already announced its intentions to bring the series to the PS3.[/quote

YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!

Sunrise Eiyuutan
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Sunrise

This game is the latest in Sunrise's series of robot RPGs that brought together characters from multiple Sunrise animes to fight side-by-side. Of course, not one of these games has ever made it to America, so don't get your hopes up.

Damn, sorta looks interesting.

Super Robot Wars
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Banpresto

The latest title in Banpresto's long-running Japan-only Super Robot Wars series of turn-based strategy games featuring giant robots from popular anime shows, which has been around in Japan since 1991. It's not coming here.

Aw, c'mon, dammit!

Online Train Simulator
Publisher: TBA
Developer: Ongakukan

As one might expect, Online Train Simulator is an online train simulator, and few companies have had as much experience with train simulators as Ongakukan, who has developed dozens of online train simulators and nothing else.

Actually, this could be sort of cool in a macerabe sort of way. "I'm sorry, I didn't see how my tracks were intersecting with yours when our two trains met..."

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2006-03-04 07:33pm

Well I'm not holding out that much hope for the system.

I can't help but thinking *somehow* a custom designed and manufactured multi-core multi-thread architecture will be expensive as hell compared to a more conventional system like the 360 and an order of magnitude harder to program for.

I can't help but think the 360 is going to get a solid lead in the market, the PS3 will have initial strong sales from the hardcore Sony fans...then drop dead.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2006-03-04 07:39pm

I'm sort of looking forward to Project: New Jersey after they introduced it. An RPG, made by Obsidian, with the Unreal III engine?

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-03-04 09:51pm

Well, Sony has one thing going for them. Expectations about their product can hardly get any more negative.

Davis 51 · Post by **Davis 51** » 2006-03-04 10:20pm

"Were still on track for a spring release" my ass. It'll be available in spring the same way FFVII Advent Children was supposed to be available last year November 28th.

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2006-03-04 11:06pm

I think I will wait for the smaller, redesigned PSThree.

Given Sony's attitude to release dates, I am giving the PS3 a new one. By the power investing in my by my ass, I declare the PS3 release date to be September 30th 2003. Get your pre-orders ready.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-03-05 01:44am

Nice. I knew there was a Half-Life 2 reference in there somewhere, but I couldn't find the right words.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2006-03-06 05:21pm

Davis 51 wrote:"Were still on track for a spring release" my ass. It'll be available in spring the same way FFVII Advent Children was supposed to be available last year November 28th.

Ah, but you're a bit off. The first English trailer announced "Summer 2004" if you'll remember.