PS3 Release Confirmed!

**thetieger** · 03-15-2006,02:17 AM

Ken Kutaragi Just announced the Playstation 3 launch will be done November world wide, for North America, Asia, and Europe. Once The PS3 is released Sony will release 1 million units per month with a total of 6 million units in 2006 alone.

Thread Updated as News comes!

Update #1: it is now confirmed that PS3 will be 100% backwards compatible, all the PS2 games will be displayed in High resolution. The result will be a sharper image for older games, the 360 already has this feature. It is also now confirmed that the HDD for the PS3 will be REQUIRED, it will be a 60GB HDD and will support Linux OS, and act as a home server where users can store various forms of media to be pulled up from elsewhere. One thing that is not confirmed is whether the PS3 ships with the HDD or not.

Update #2: Sony today announced that not only is the PlayStation 3 to be 100% backwards compatible, but all legacy titles played on the system will be displayed at high-definition resolutions. The Xbox 360 currently does the same thing and the result on that end is much sharper image quality for older games.

Update #3: All PlayStation 3 games will ship on Blu-ray to help prevent piracy. In other words, no ?cheap? DVD releases; Blu-ray only. Of course, it?ll still play PS2 and movies on DVD, but all PS3 releases will be on Blu-ray. The company expects initial BD-ROM production to reach 2.5 million in Japan and Europe and 5 million in the US.

Update #4: As part of the PlayStation Business Brief today in Tokyo, Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will require the hard drive peripheral. In total, it will be 60GB big, be completely upgradeable, and support Linux OS. Additionally, the peripheral will act as a home server and allow users to store various forms of media to be pulled up elsewhere. Interestingly, Kutaragi didn?t confirm if the system will actually ship with a hard drive or not ? just that it?s required. It?s semantics, we know, but we thought that it was worth pointing out.

Update #5: SCE president Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the final PS3 development kits will be shipping out to production houses in June. Additionally, there are 15 different companies making tools and middleware for the SDK. IGN Entertainment (aka GameSpy Technologies) are contributing to the network solution.

Update #6: Ken Kutaragi has just added another infamous quote to his belt, this time stating that PS3 games are ?live? and that the PS3 concept is ?4D?. He claims that games have gone from 8-bit to 16-bit planes, to the ?space? that you saw on the PS1/PS2, and now PS3 will be ?live?.

Update #7: The PlayStation Business Briefing 2006 has just wrapped up over in Tokyo, and surprisingly, there were no new software announcements made. Sony basically kept this to a hardware-only event, speaking about PS3, PSP and PS2 hardware news, but failed to bring up any software-related topics, aside from a few details about its online plans.

Source: IGN Live Update Coverage

**xiaNaix** · 03-15-2006,02:24 AM

Stupid move. They wouldn't even be able to meet the demand in one territory, not to mention three. Six million consoles spread over all those territories isn't shit!!! This is going to be worse than the 360 launch.

**** 'em. Viva le Revolution!

**barf** · 03-15-2006,02:42 AM

thetieger -> Why don't you state you source?

**thetieger** · 03-15-2006,02:50 AM

the source is IGN! they are following the conference live. I'm scrambling to get the jist of everything.

-Thetieger

**ronetoneps2** · 03-15-2006,02:59 AM

better be prepared to camp folks, this is going to be madness hope they can keep it under $400 with harddrive but i doubt it

**xiaNaix** · 03-15-2006,03:01 AM

No way. One million units at launch spread over all those territories means most stores be lucky to see a dozen units. This puts the PS3 launch numbers at about the same or even less than the 360. They won't even be able to fill their pre-orders. This is the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard.

Hey, Sony! Bite it, you scum!!!

**crans** · 03-15-2006,03:05 AM

this suck big fat elefant ass x1,000

. Nows a good time to make freinds with the people at game shops unless ther $$ hungry e-bay whores.. We shuld know come May at e3. Il talk to the IBM insder and see howmany prosseors sony has orderd

**xiaNaix** · 03-15-2006,03:18 AM

final PS3 development kits will be shipping out to production houses in June.

So the developer's won't have the full dev kit until June and they are expected to launch in November? That should make for some wonderful launch titles, no?

**Snoop** · 03-15-2006,03:21 AM

I'd love to see the initial eBay prices

**crans** · 03-15-2006,03:32 AM

Originally Posted by Snoop

I'd love to see the initial eBay prices

1's day launch of PS2 in japan local shops had PS2 for $2500 with free demo game.. Now all the shops are gone as they wher doing bad things..

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