!EVERYTHING! PS3

[greyfox]

i think i posted earlier that Sony will have rumble back sometime (maybe even this year)

Rumble fans, start the celebration. After Sony and Immersion settled their long-running legal battle over rumble technology, a new agreement between both companies indicates that the feature will be making a comeback soon. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony has entered into a new agreement that will see Immersion's rumble technology included in future PlayStation products.

"Our new business agreement with Sony is specifically intended to enable advanced vibration capability for the benefit of the PlayStation community," Victor Viegas, CEO of Immersion, commented. "We are happy to provide our technology in this regard and hope to make technical proposals very soon with respect to use of our technology in the PlayStation products."

"We look forward to exploring with Immersion exciting new ways to bring the largest and best range of gameplay experiences to our customers," said Kaz Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment. "We are very excited about our new partnership with Immersion and the potential for new and innovative products incorporating their technologies."

Details are still scarce about the agreement. For now, rumble fans will have to make do with third-party controllers that offer the feature

btw this news is 2 months old, surprised more people didn't hear about it.

[Crixx_Creww]

cause no one cares

[TheApprentice]

In a recent announcement, Sony has finally revealed the contents of today's weekly update on the PlayStation Store, and thankfully, the new items aren't just demos and trailers. Surprisingly, Sony is bent on making up for lost time by releasing two brand new games: a direct port of the classic arcade game Gauntlet II, and the oft-delayed Super Rub a Dub. In fact, a demo for Super Rub a Dub has been made available alongside the full version of the game.

In addition, Sony has also introduced the first wave of original PlayStation games that can be played on both PSP and PS3. Starting now, the downloadable versions of 2Xtreme, Crash Bandicoot, Destruction Derby, Jet Moto, Jumping Flash, MediEvil, Rally Cross, Syphon Filter, Tekken 2, and WipeOut can all be played on both systems. That leaves only two on the original list of twelve (CoolBoarders and Hot Shots Golf 2) that have yet to be ported over, but it will probably only be a matter of time before all the games and then some make the shift.

Lastly, Sony has also offered new trailers for three upcoming games: Super Stardust HD, Rampart, and BlackSite Area 51. In addition to that, PS3 owners can also download the new movie trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

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Goes to downloading that new ad

[TheApprentice]

In an interview posted on GamePro last week, former Sony CEO Ken Kutaragi stated that ideas for PlayStations 4, 5, and 6 have already been conceptualized. However, new, yet still unverified sources now claim that his recent retirement has enabled him to streamline plans for a PS4 prototype sooner than anybody thought.

According to a report from Smarthouse, an unnamed Sony insider has claimed that Kutaragi's proposal for the PS4 would involve the same chipset as the PS3, but would include an extensive overhaul to the system software. This would better manage streaming content from a broadband network source, and combined with the console's existing Cell processor, this upgrade would likely supplant the PlayStation as a developer for network-based gaming entertainment in the near future.

The PS3's Cell processor has, of course, become something of an Achilles' Heel in this latest bout of console wars. Although it allows for Sony to vastly increase yield on speed as well as processor manufacturing, it has made it somewhat difficult for developers to design new games as a result. Still, Sony's unwavering dedication to the processor so far has indicated their plans to use it as the engine for most of their future console endeavors.

Kutaragi has similarly hinted to the possibility of generating entirely online-based consoles in the next couple of decades. This rumored "PS4" may act as the template behind a completely internet-driven gaming experience, and may successfully kill two of Sony's birds with one stone. First, it would cut out the middleman by allowing Sony to distribute their games directly to consumers at a lower price, and second, it would eliminate Sony's other bane: the highly lucrative used games market.

[TheApprentice]

Taken from "John Davison's 1UP Blog: My PS3 just killed my 360"

I keep my PS3 and my Xbox 360 in an entertainment unit in the living room. It's a big wooden thing with glass doors, and while it looks cool, I guess it's not exactly what I'd call well ventilated.

Anyway, this morning at some ungodly hour, both my kids got up and wanted to play videogames. My older son wanted to play Cars while my little guy wanted to watch, and fiddle with another controller while pretending to play. The pretend option turned out to be the Sixaxis (this is relevant, I'll come back to it.)

Now, the 360 on it's own doesn't run so hot that it can't handle being in the entertainment unit with the door shut. I've had it on for hours and hours and hours before, and it never gets so hot that the fan goes into turbo bastard mode. The PS3, on the other hand, is another story. If I keep that sucker in a confined space for too long, I fear for the safety of my family. Hence, whenever we play PS3 games...the door to the unit stays open.

So (back to the narrative) while pretending to play along with his brother, my little guy hits the PS button, and the PS3 springs to life, inside the closed entertainment unit, unbeknown to Mrs. D and myself.

Needless to say, temperatures rise, fans kick in, then more fans kick in, then some new, untold level of nuclear reactor-grade cooling kicks in deep within the bowels of the PS3, and the first thing I know of this is when a little voice cries, "Dad, something's wrong with my game."

Conditions in the confined space had become so super-heated that the 360 red-ringed out, big time.

So. Bottom line, my PS3 killed my 360. I have learned a very valuable lesson from this.

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8093480&publicUserId=5345401

[W1nTry]

  LMAO!!! I wonder if this is a 'featire' that Sony developed for JUST such an occasion. Here is where Sony has costed a person not just the ridiculous 600USD for the unit in the first place... but an aditional 400USD for the 'other' console... imagine the PS3 runs THAT HOT??? man reffered to it as some other level of Nuclear reaction... LMAO... I not sure if to say Score 1 PS3, Owngoal PS3 or score 1 360...

[Czar]

LOL...that's freakin classic

Apprentice had me wonderin for a while there...he got kids?? Then realised it was someone else's story he had copy/pasted...

[BloodWar]

all i have to say is xbox360 got owned . I agree that must be some special new feature from sony to assassinate the xbox.

[TheApprentice]

LOL...that's freakin classic

Apprentice had me wonderin for a while there...he got kids?? Then realised it was someone else's story he had copy/pasted...

lol..I forget to put the "quotes"

[Qloxx]

I guess the ps3 is LITERALLY an Vbox 360 killer so fricking cool lol

[W1nTry]

When that damn sixaxis just isn't cutting it:

[shivadee]

The stupidity of americans is staggering :S

[Qloxx]

blasphemer which ever company do that should burn, BURN i say BURN 

[W1nTry]

LMAO!!! it was some guy, modded the controller prolly, you fanatics are really somethign else OUI!!

[BloodWar]

lol i cant understand that i always hated xbox controller i found sonys control to be most comfortable.

[W1nTry]

lol i cant understand that i always hated xbox controller i found sonys control to be most comfortable.

I used to think so too... then the 360 controller made its way to my hand... and I never looked back...

[Redlum08]

lol i cant understand that i always hated xbox controller i found sonys control to be most comfortable.

I used to think so too... then the 360 controller made its way to my hand... and I never looked back...

It's funny how Xbox controllers get a bad rap from the original Xbox and people automatically think the 360 controller is the same...boy are they wrong

[BloodWar]

Ok well ive only played one on original xbox u are right and i found it very uncomfortable but 360 one looks pretty much the same to me.

[Redlum08]

Well it's much smaller and alot more comfortable. It fits very nicely in your hand. Don't knock it until you've tried it. 

[BloodWar]

ok well the problem i had with xbox control was that it was too big lol but ps1/2/3 control fits perfectly in my hand