Sony announces Dualshock 3 controller at TGS - full lineup of supported games listed here
One of the not-anticipated (but not unexpected) announcements coming out of Tokyo Game Show 2007 is today’s announcement of the Dual Shock 3 controller by Sony.
Coming this November to Japan, the Dual Shock 3 will combine SixAxis support with RUMBLE~! They weren’t able to include this feature at launch, due to litigation from a controller [...]
Playstation 3 80GB’s PS2 backwards compatibility sucks
We’ve hinted at it in the past, that removing the Emotion Engine chip from the 80GB (and future) Playstation 3 consoles would ruin backwards compatibility with many Playstation 2 games. Without it, the console runs these games via a software emulator. You may not even care about this feature if you no longer play [...]
Rumor: Another PS3 price drop; 40GB version at $399
Today’s rumor once again involves the PS3. Most of the previous PS3 rumors we posted ended up being true, which makes this one particularly interesting. This one comes from Ars, which suggests that this holiday season (once the $499 60GB version is sold out), the 80GB will receive a $100 price cut, taking over [...]
All remaining 60GB Playstation 3’s are in stores now
In July, we told you that once Sony sold out of their stock of 60GB PS3’s, that they would not be shipping any more to stores. We speculated that this would happen in “a few months”.
A few months later, and here we are; and Sony is confirming that they are fresh out of 60 GB [...]
New XBOX 360 Premiums (with HDMI) still use 90nm processors
I’m not sure how the rumor started (my guess is that someone on some forum just made the assumption), that the new XBOX 360 Premiums with HDMI output would be using the much-anticipated 65nm “Falcon” processor, but here is some proof that it doesn’t:
Courtesy of “wonderkins” from the NeoGAF forum comes this photo of his [...]
Microsoft gives OK to HDD-only XBOX 360 games
If you were stupid enough to buy a Core Edition XBOX 360, your poor decision is going to look even worse in the next year or so. At Gamesfest, Microsoft has announced that, after immense pressure from MMO developers, they would allow games to use a large ‘Master Storage File’ which would be too [...]
Microsoft cuts XBOX 360 prices, adds HDMI
It’s official, the XBOX 360’s price has been cut! The Premium is now $350, down from $400. The core gets a $20 drop, down to $280, and the Elite is now $480 instead of $500.
Also, it appears that new models of the Premium are being released, with HDMI support. So now, more than ever, [...]
