Sony's newest system.

The PlayStation 3, will use Blu-Ray discs as its media format. The discs can hold up to six times as much data as current-generation DVDs. It will also support CR-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R formats. It also confirmed the machine would be backward-compatible all the way to the original PlayStation. It will also have slots for Memory Stick Duo, a SD slot, and a compact flash memory slot. It will also sport a slot for a detachable 2.5 inch HDD somewhat similar the Xbox 360's.

Out of the box, the PS3 will have the capability to support seven Bluetooth controllers. It will also have six USB slots for peripherals--four up front and two in the back.

Sony also laid out the technical specs of the device. The PlayStation 3 will feature the much-vaunted Cell processor, which will run at 3.2 Ghz, giving the whole system 2.18 teraflops of overall performance. It will sport 256mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 Ghz, and have 256MB of GDDR VRAM at 700mhz.

Sony also unveiled the PS3's graphics chip, the RSX "Reality Synthesizer based on Nvidia technology. The GPU will be capable of 128bit pixel precision, 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 over 300 million transistors, larger than any processor available commercially today. It will be manufactured using the 90nm process with 8 layers ...

sony playstation 3, it was released @ E3 2005, looks like a fridge door with dildos as controllers

Maybe the most powerful next-generation videogames console also the MOST EXPENSIVE. I won't pay $600 for a videogame console...

The new console from Sony. Looks hideous with a controller that has caused more commotion than at the Xbox's unveiling. You could attached string to the Baterang like controller and swing around gothem city on it.

Blu-Ray Player/Game System/Cash Sink

Cost of average Blu-Ray player:
$1,000.00
Cost of average game console:
$300-500.00
Cost of PS3 (combine Blue-ray cost to console cost and then read)
$600.00

Think about that. "It's cheap for what you get."
...and you get what you pay for.

My point is: You're not getting a Blu-Ray player for 600 bucks. You're getting it for considerably less after you factor in all the other parts. More like $300-400. and that leaves the game system coming in at 200-300 dollars.

How good do you think a 300-400 dollar blu-ray player is going to be? If not? How cheaply made is the gaming system?

If a regular blue-ray costs almost double the whole PS3 package, either the player is bare-bones and made of shoddy materials (common for Sony) or all the other Blu-ray players are vastly over-priced, over-hyped and aren't worth the money (very likely).

Either way, Sony is cutting HUGE corners somewhere in this thing.
PS2 had one of the worst DVD players on Earth. Why? Because it was an add on. A secondary feature. Only now the secondary feature over-shadows the main event!

PS3 is made to appeal to gamers looking for an image-enhancing system. The flashier and most expensive = the best.

PS3 is doing so badly and is such a nasty mess, that most game companies have already pulled out of exclusive deals and taken their games multi-platform because of the orgasm of bad ideas, practices and ridiculous greed of Sony.

Sony fanboys ...

1. Sony's $600 Blu-Ray Trojan horse. A game system designed with games as a secondary concern, and getting the BD-ROM (Blu-Ray) format into consumer homes as the primary goal. While the $600 model will play Blu-Ray movies (as long as you spend $50+ on an HDMI cable) the cheaper "Crippled PS3" will not play Blu-Ray movies, as it lacks the required HDMI port (not to mention several other features). The only reason to purchase a PS3 is to play the Final Fantasy series, unless you've grown past the childish need for anime movies with 10 minutes of actual gameplay, in which case you can purchase both a Nintendo Wii and an Xbox 360 for the same price as the non-crippled PS3.

2. Console for Sony fanboys. Everybody with a brain will avoid it like Bird Flu.

3. Another way to say "too expensive"

The Next Gen console that ooks Very much like a fax machine/printer or an old vcd player, and has contollers that look like batmans' weapon of choice, A console that will surly crash, sieze up and short out due to the shoty cell processor.

Aka: GayStation 3, Fax machine