Sony Pre-E3 Presentation
Well then, what a let down. A few surprises but nothing hugely shocking to be honest. Tilt sensing in the pad is nice, though it’s clearly a last minute (and inferior) response to the new Nintendo controller. They showed a pretty cool demo of a game with the new Eye Toy which senses real-world cards and places corresponding 3D characters on screen to fight it out. It’s like paying for a computer game and a Magic the Gathering addiction all at once.
The Eight Days trailer was Kill Zone all over again (blatantly pre-rendered) though the Naughty Dog game and Heavenly Sword looked fun. The quick demo of the PSP as a rear view mirror in an F1 game was neat too. Ish.
€499 just for the 20GB model though? €100 more for the 60GB one? Yeah, good luck with that Sony.
Update: More interesting controller news. It also senses acceleration in each direction which is neat (though still not as complete as the new Nintendo controller) and they have finally added analog triggers (welcome to 1999 Sony). They’ve dropped rumble though - apparently it interferes with the motion sensing, and is probably a battery drain too. Definitely nothing to do with the Immersion lawsuit then.
It’s also nice to hear that it’ll be as quiet as the slim line PS2 - the vent holes on practically every surface but the top one probably help though.
May 9th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
I own a PS1, PS2 and PSP. I had planned to get a PS3 as well, but I think I’ll wait until it comes down in price. I’d definitely want the WiFi/HDMI version.
I was going to wait for PES6 to come out before deciding on whether to get an Xbox 360, but I might as well buy one now if this is want the competition will be come Christmas.
May 9th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Pete, one thing to add from the news sites I’ve been reading. The high end box will have a number of extra items not found on the basic system. These are HDMI outputs (No idea what they will be replaced with maybe this will actually be one instead of two on the basic version), the memory card reader, wifi and a few other bits I cannot remember. Its basically similar to the trick with the 360 but it looks like they will actually produce two slightly different systems unlike the 360 which hardly varies between versions and uses addons instead.
I’m going to try to get these details confirmed and I’ll update my post with any details I find.
Nick