Current Events > Holy moly at how Sony hyped up the PS3 during their announcement

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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstation-3-announced-for-2006/1100-6124681/

Sony also unveiled the PS3's graphics chip, the RSX "Reality Synthesizer," which is based on Nvidia technology. The GPU will be capable of 128bit pixel precision and 1080p resolution--some of the highest HD resolution around. The RSX also has 512MB of graphics render memory and is capable of 100 billion shader operations and 51 billion dot products per second. It also has more than 300 million transistors, larger than any processor commercially available today. It will be manufactured using the 90nm process, with eight layers of metal. The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 Ultra video cards, which would cost roughly $1,000 total if purchased today.

The PlayStation 3 will also sport some hefty multimedia features, such as video chat, Internet access, digital photo viewing, and digital audio and video. Speaking of video, Sony Computer Entertainment's chief technical officer Masa Chatani was on hand to show off the PS3's panoramic video functions. Since the console has two HD outputs, it is can be hooked up to two side-by-side HDTVs to projecting video in a 32:9 extra-widescreen format (think Cinemascope in your living room). Like a gigantic version of the Nintendo DS, the dual digital outputs also allow for an extended game display, with the action on one screen and either game information or video chat on the second.
Out of the box, the PS3 will have the capability to support seven Bluetooth controllers, which can be used for nearly 24 hours before they require charging. Later, pictures of the controllers themselves were released, showing their almost boomerang-like shape. It will also have six USB slots for peripherals: four up front and two in the back. As rumored, it will also have Wi-Fi connectivity to the PSP, which can be used as a remote screen and/or controller.

Dr. Richard Marx, the inventor of EyeToy, was on hand to show off the PS3's wireless HD IP Camera. The demo recalled rumors that the machine will have Minority Report-esque motion-sensing capabilities. Marx held two small cup-like objects in his hands, which moved the cups on the screen in real time.

To show off the PlayStation 3's graphical brawn, Sony showed several game demos, including an Unreal 3 engine show-off of what appeared to be Unreal Tournament 2007. In what must come as a relief to developers, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney was on hand to vouch for the PS3, saying it was "easy to program for" and that Epic had received its first PS3 hardware two months ago. He proved the tech demo was real-time by showing it again and by manipulating the camera and zooming in.

Wow sounds amazing!

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Darmik posted...

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney was on hand to vouch for the PS3, saying it was "easy to program for"

youre a fucking liar and a fraud, tim

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I also like how quaint Playstation Network's pitch was

Sony also emphasized that the PlayStation 3 would have similar online connectivity and services as the next generation of Xbox Live. Calling it "an always on, always connected device," Chatani said the PS3 would be constantly in touch with a "PlayStation World" network "fundamentally based on a on community, communication commerce, and content." He said that subscribers could "exchange unique characters and items through the network," much like Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace.

Aww being able to trade those items between other players for free? Sounds nice.

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Darmik posted...

saying it was "easy to program for"

https://media.tenor.com/images/2d338c91d6db5a65eca5d993ef2656d2/tenor.gif

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Sweeney is still the developer they use to hype up console hardware. Don't think I realized it went back that far.

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gamers are so fucking easy. even an elderly person with alzheimers is harder to con than a gamer.

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Ps3 looks great

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five

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You morons buy Sony's bullshit every fucking time though.

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Fony posted...

Sony's bullshit

its not limited to sony

literally anything the game industry shits out is gobbeled up by gamers EVERY TIME


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Out of curiosity here is the 360 one
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-announces-the-xbox-360-confirms-worldwide-2005-launch/1100-6124231/

The 360's unified memory architecture will rival that of a high-end PC, with 512MB GDDR3 RAM and 700MHz DDR. Overall, the console will be capable of a whopping teraflop of overall system floating-point performance.

(Sony actually claims two teraflop performance in their announcement which implies it's twice as powerful I think?)

While some of this content will be free, as Allard outlined in his GDC keynote, most will cost a small amount of money via microtransactions of less than one dollar. But rather than charging their credit cards for every five-cent Project Gotham Racing III decal, Xbox Live subscribers will have to prepurchase blocks of credit, either directly from Microsoft or via prepaid cards from retailers like GameStop.

Aww less than one dollar how quaint

Besides facilitating online play, XBL Gold will also feature the video chat functionality Allard demonstrated at E3 in 2004, although it will require the purchase of an EyeToy-like peripheral for the "video camera ready" console. Gold members will also be able to enter multiplayer online tournaments that Microsoft plans on staging, as well as participate in "Xbox Live online programming" such as celebrity gaming sessions and contests.

Don't think any of that happened

Doesn't seem as ridiculous as the PS3 article but it was also a lot smaller of a gap between announcement and release. Most of the stuff there was a thing at launch from what I can remember.

But then Kinect happened a few years later anyway and that's when full Xbox tomfuckery was on display.

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Go watch Digital Foundry go over the E3 press conferences of the 360 and PS3. Really good watch

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I'm still waiting for a game as good as that 'gameplay' trailer of Motorstorm looked when they first announced the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABJ5sYB_Ws

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ModLogic posted...

its not limited to sony

literally anything the game industry shits out is gobbeled up by gamers EVERY TIME

No one has ever lied to the degree Sony does since the first Playstation. PS5 is the first time EVER that anything shown at announcement was EVEN REAL. And it was massively underwhelming. And somehow they still lied about the PS5's capabilities and in reality you get lower graphics settings than series x, worse frame rates and slower loading despite the most hyped hard drive known to man.

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People still fall for console marketing. Not too long ago people were acting like Sony invented SSD's with the PS5.

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Darmik posted...

Don't think any of that happened

The celebrity game sessions and tournaments were actually things tbf

Maybe I'm remembering the tournaments wrong

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Darmik posted...

Dr. Richard Marx, the inventor of EyeToy, was on hand to show off the PS3's wireless HD IP Camera. The demo recalled rumors that the machine will have Minority Report-esque motion-sensing capabilities. Marx held two small cup-like objects in his hands, which moved the cups on the screen in real time.

https://youtu.be/S_E2EHVxNAE


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TheoryzC posted...

The celebrity game sessions and tournaments were actually things tbf

Maybe I'm remembering the tournaments wrong

this

and I recall doing video chat with the Xbox 360 webcam

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Fony posted...

You morons buy Sony's bullshit every fucking time though.

Not really, the PS4 was specifically hyped up to be at mid range PC level at an affordable price. This has always been the smart approach, the console itself is small sized and easthetic too!

Those words got me way more hyped than "ultra stronk ultra expensive, has problems even cooling down" bullshit the PS3 and PS5 did

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ZombiePelican posted...

Go watch Digital Foundry go over the E3 press conferences of the 360 and PS3. Really good watch

I like Giant Bomb's Game Tape series, though it's premium only.

Listening to old Giant Bomb podcasts is really weird, but also funny to realize how much stuff Jeff predicted.

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YoungMutual posted...

Not really, the PS4 was specifically hyped up to be at mid range PC level at an affordable price. This has always been the smart approach, the console itself is small sized and easthetic too!

Those words got me way more hyped than "ultra stronk ultra expensive, has problems even cooling down" bullshit the PS3 and PS5 did

It was overhyped as a 4K60 machine and it runs every game at lower settings than the Xbox One X. It was slightly better at launch vs the vanilla Xbox One but Sony hyped the capabilities more as always. PS4 has an especially terrible(for its time)CPU compared to any console in the whole history of consoles.

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TheoryzC posted...

The celebrity game sessions and tournaments were actually things tbf

Maybe I'm remembering the tournaments wrong

Ah wow must have missed all of this being in Australia. I thought maybe it would just be 1 vs 100 or something.

Maybe this is an example of why it's better to reveal a console a few months before launch instead of over a year like they used to.

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