PlayStation 3 Slimmer?

[EnigmaXtreme]

If this version is PS2 compatiable im gonna be furious

 

[indask8]

If this version is PS2 compatiable im gonna be furious

PSThree: Now with OtherOS, PS2 compatibility, built in UMD drive, and pancakes!

More seriously, not going to happen, they want to reduce costs, putting back a GS chip (since the PS3 can emulate only the EE) will cost some money, and I don't think they want another class action.
EDIT: also they started releasing some PS2 games ports on the PSN they'll certainly continue that way.

 

[Deleted member 158512]

Is this going to affect the cost? I might actually pay like, US$200 for one (whatever size)

 

[Bladexdsl]

I wanted a PS4, sony.

their waiting for the wiiu to be released 1st

 

[FireGrey]

Hmm, still holding out for the XBOX361 and since i already have a PS3, I see no point of this, since most people that are going to buy a ps3 have already bought one.

 

[Deleted User]

I wanted a PS4, sony.

their waiting for the wiiu to be released 1st

So they can steal another feature.

ZING!

 

[Rock Raiyu]

Hmm, still holding out for the XBOX361 and since i already have a PS3, I see no point of this, since most people that are going to buy a ps3 have already bought one.

Xbox 361? Is that suppose to be a joke or something?

 

[Deleted_171835]

Meh, not even really a confirmed rumour. Plus, you spelt "their" wrong - it's annoying me. :L

>confirmed
>rumour

What would be interesting is if this had anything to do with Sony's acquisition of Gaikai. No disc tray, no hard drive, just streaming PS3 games.

That ain't even possible.

All of Gaikai's image quality and latency optimisation efforts have been built around PC technology, which in the short term may cause issues for Sony, because cloud servers aim to provide tolerable controller response by running games at twice the frame-rate of a typical console title. Local latency on a 30FPS game (defined by the time taken between button press and the resulting action on-screen) is around 100ms at best, typically dropping to 50-66ms when run at 60FPS. Gaikai and OnLive aim to use that latency "saving" to offset the cost of encoding, transmitting and decoding video. The result is streaming gameplay with ballpark console response levels - in theory, at least.

There's nothing to stop Sony simply installing a big bunch of PlayStation 3s in each datacentre, but the result would be highly sub-optimal as there would be no 60FPS vs. 30FPS latency off-setting at all - all the 'cloud stuff' would simply be added to the existing lag. Sony's Remote Play isn't particularly effective for this exact reason, and that's running on a local connection.

http://www.eurogamer...ory-sony-gaikai

 

[LightyKD]

I wanted a PS4, sony.

their waiting for the wiiu to be released 1st

So they can steal another feature.

ZING!

They already stole the WiiU tablet style gaming by alluding that the came can be done with PS3 & Vita. Unless they're gonna make a Vita with NFC a IR port, AND get the internal cam to work with PS Move, there's not much else they can "steal"

 

[jalaneme]

my ignorance may show here but I never thought the ps3 had the N band to work with? only console I know that does is the 360 slim

hmm, you are correct, current slims don't use wireless N :S

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[Rasas]

snip

The PSP had a remote play option that wasn't always used and several other features that can be used with a PS3.
The Vita was going to have remote play to a certain degree if developers allowed it and various other things.

 

[jalaneme]

Cloud gaming would be pointless on a home console. The PS3 already has enough power to run very great looking games. All that cloud gaming would bring is blocky graphics and it may be laggy on slow network connections. I can only see cloud gaming being useful on mobile devices.

Someone has obviously never used OnLive ....

can onlive run current gens games at 60 FPS on a 1MBit connection?

fingerprints can be rubbed off. dont touch it. glossiness is for looking at and not touching. if it was the 3ds or ds then its a bad idea bcz ur hands are always on it.

so you are saying to not turn on the console, don't move it, don't take the disc out, that would be quite difficult to do if you want to USE the console, wont it?

 

[LightyKD]

Cloud gaming would be pointless on a home console. The PS3 already has enough power to run very great looking games. All that cloud gaming would bring is blocky graphics and it may be laggy on slow network connections. I can only see cloud gaming being useful on mobile devices.

Someone has obviously never used OnLive ....

can onlive run current gens games at 60 FPS on a 1MBit connection?

fingerprints can be rubbed off. dont touch it. glossiness is for looking at and not touching. if it was the 3ds or ds then its a bad idea bcz ur hands are always on it.

so you are saying to not turn on the console, don't move it, don't take the disc out, that would be quite difficult to do if you want to USE the console, wont it?

OnLive can run current gen games on a 2 Mb/s connection at IIRC 30 FPS but still, it does its job damned well. Don't get all pissy about cloud gaming because you cant use it properly. There are many of us who like it. OnLive is my solid secondary system (after my Wii which will always be #1). The only reason I haven't been using it much lately is because there has been a HUGE influx of good Android games lately so my tablet is getting most of my attention these days.

 

[Foxi4]

I wanted a PS4, sony.

their waiting for the wiiu to be released 1st

So they can steal another feature.

ZING!

They already stole the WiiU tablet style gaming by alluding that the came can be done with PS3 & Vita. Unless they're gonna make a Vita with NFC a IR port, AND get the internal cam to work with PS Move, there's not much else they can "steal"

Oh my, it's raining silly again today...

Sony stole nothing. This is like saying that Apple stole from Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. If you want to be picky about the WiiMote as much as you are about the tablet, you can just as well be mad at Nintendo since they nicked the concept from SEGA and Midway. Certain technology should just be widely accepted as standard - I mean the use of cameras, gyro's, touchscreens etc. If the technology is here, it'd be a sin not to use it. Each company has their own unique flair to the use of touchscreens on a home console - Nintendo has a tablet, Sony wants to use the Vita, Microsoft wants to make anything compatible with SmartGlass - it's all different technology with different features, stop overreacting.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

I wanted a PS4, sony.

their waiting for the wiiu to be released 1st

So they can steal another feature.

ZING!

They already stole the WiiU tablet style gaming by alluding that the came can be done with PS3 & Vita. Unless they're gonna make a Vita with NFC a IR port, AND get the internal cam to work with PS Move, there's not much else they can "steal"

Oh my, it's raining silly again today...

Sony stole nothing. This is like saying that Apple stole from Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. If you want to be picky about the WiiMote as much as you are about the tablet, you can just as well be mad at Nintendo since they nicked the concept from SEGA and Midway. Certain technology should just be widely accepted as standard - I mean the use of cameras, gyro's, touchscreens etc. If the technology is here, it'd be a sin not to use it. Each company has their own unique flair to the use of touchscreens on a home console - Nintendo has a tablet, Sony wants to use the Vita, Microsoft wants to make anything compatible with SmartGlass - it's all different technology with different features, stop overreacting.

Hey hey! There's no good reason to bring logic into this! We have to keep up the Fanboy status quo, no matter what. If we so much as admit that Sony has come up with an original idea, our fanboy cards will be revoked. You have no idea how hard it is to keep up this image!

 

[LightyKD]

I wanted a PS4, sony.

their waiting for the wiiu to be released 1st

So they can steal another feature.

ZING!

They already stole the WiiU tablet style gaming by alluding that the came can be done with PS3 & Vita. Unless they're gonna make a Vita with NFC a IR port, AND get the internal cam to work with PS Move, there's not much else they can "steal"

Oh my, it's raining silly again today...

Sony stole nothing. This is like saying that Apple stole from Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. If you want to be picky about the WiiMote as much as you are about the tablet, you can just as well be mad at Nintendo since they nicked the concept from SEGA and Midway. Certain technology should just be widely accepted as standard - I mean the use of cameras, gyro's, touchscreens etc. If the technology is here, it'd be a sin not to use it. Each company has their own unique flair to the use of touchscreens on a home console - Nintendo has a tablet, Sony wants to use the Vita, Microsoft wants to make anything compatible with SmartGlass - it's all different technology with different features, stop overreacting.

Hey hey! There's no good reason to bring logic into this! We have to keep up the Fanboy status quo, no matter what. If we so much as admit that Sony has come up with an original idea, our fanboy cards will be revoked. You have no idea how hard it is to keep up this image!

Original Sony idea ..... The Eye Toy and Wonderbook (in which I really cant wait to see what comes from this!)

Aside from that there's not much out there that Sony has "originated" It's just fact. As for my last post I wasn't trying to be like "ZOMG Sony is stealing again", I was trying to make a point that there really isn't much that Sony and Microsoft can take away from The WiiU because all three systems are for the most part, on par with each other with Sony being the closest. And like I said earlier, if Sony could add NFC and Move support to the next Vita model, there would be no reason for a PS4 for a few more years.

 

[notmeanymore]

What would be interesting is if this had anything to do with Sony's acquisition of Gaikai. No disc tray, no hard drive, just streaming PS3 games.

That ain't even possible.

All of Gaikai's image quality and latency optimisation efforts have been built around PC technology, which in the short term may cause issues for Sony, because cloud servers aim to provide tolerable controller response by running games at twice the frame-rate of a typical console title. Local latency on a 30FPS game (defined by the time taken between button press and the resulting action on-screen) is around 100ms at best, typically dropping to 50-66ms when run at 60FPS. Gaikai and OnLive aim to use that latency "saving" to offset the cost of encoding, transmitting and decoding video. The result is streaming gameplay with ballpark console response levels - in theory, at least.

There's nothing to stop Sony simply installing a big bunch of PlayStation 3s in each datacentre, but the result would be highly sub-optimal as there would be no 60FPS vs. 30FPS latency off-setting at all - all the 'cloud stuff' would simply be added to the existing lag. Sony's Remote Play isn't particularly effective for this exact reason, and that's running on a local connection.

http://www.eurogamer...ory-sony-gaikai

Thank you for a legitimate explanation rather than needless hate. It's interesting to know how the services really work.

 

[WolfSpider]

Cloud gaming would be pointless on a home console. The PS3 already has enough power to run very great looking games. All that cloud gaming would bring is blocky graphics and it may be laggy on slow network connections. I can only see cloud gaming being useful on mobile devices.

Someone has obviously never used OnLive ....

I have used it on my pc and the graphics didn't look very good.

 

[Vampire Lied]

Introducing the 200% smaller ps3-go.
A home system now small enough to fit in your pocket. How did they do that, you ask? Simple. We removed the bluray disc drive. Now you can download games you already own on disc for a small fee. Isn't that great!!? Seriously though, how many revisions does a system need when it's supposedly on its way out in a few years?

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

mass revisions means a company is scared shitless of actually creating something new.