Playstation 3 announced
Sony officially announced the Playstation 3 tonight and specs, details, and images abound. Rather than just collect images and extraneous details and then spout them back at you, I figured it would be more useful to link you to pretty much every resource I can find:
- IGN details
- Gamespot on the announcement
- Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Sony's PlayStation 3 launch
- Engadget: More Playstation 3 Pics
- Kotaku's full coverage of PS3 press conference
- Kotaku: Killzone screenshot
- Kotaku: Warhawk screenshot
- Gamespot: Devil May Cry 4
- Gamespot: PS3 vs Xbox 360 Tech head-to-head
- Trailers for PS3 and Xbox 360
- Spectacular Killzone trailer
- Sony to launch the PS3 outside Japan first?
- Live Playstation 3 shots!
- Free Playstation 3!
Here's the official stats from Kotaku:
- 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 edundancy
- 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-based 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: HDD - Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
- I/O:
- USB: Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB 2.0)
- Memory Stick: standard/Duo, PRO x 1
- SD: standard/mini x 1
- CompactFlash: (Type I, II) x 1
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
- Communication:
- Ethernet - 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
- Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 b/g
- Controller:
- Bluetooth (up to 7)
- USB 2.0 (wired)
- Wi-Fi (PSP)
- Network (over IP)
- AV Output:
- Resolutions: 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, PlayStation2 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), PlayStation2 DVD-ROM, PLAYSTATION3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
- Blu-ray Disc: PLAYSTATION3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
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2 mihaela said...
ola es mejor juego de mi vida que e visto y espero que veo mas de lo que imajinais deuuuuu
Posted on November 17, 2005 at 12:35 PM
1 Kevin Dube said...
Hi all you PS3 fans.
I have just started a new forum devoted to the new playstation 3.
Please register and join in on the discussions.
http://www.ps3ps3.com/ps3forum
Thanks, Kevin
See you there!
Posted on June 12, 2005 at 12:05 AM