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PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.

At E3, Sony reveiled the specs and photo's of their upcoming console yesterday. I can only say: whoa. I've the feeling it will be tough for the XBox 360, although that's a great machine as well. One major feature of the PS3 is that it can play any game from the past, the XBox 360 only a subset.

But let's not talk about the past, on a new console, you want to play new games. Ok, before you click on any of those links below, I'd advice you to get some kleenex first. You'll need it (for the drooling of course)

Vision Gran Turismo (PS3)
Final Fantasy XII (PS3)
Killzone 2 (PS3)
Formula 1 (PS3)

All game trailers/demos from E3: http://www.gametrailers.com/

Published Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:46 AM by FransBouma

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# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:56 AM

[quote]One major feature of the PS3 is that it can play any game from the past, the XBox 360 only a subset.[/quote]

subset?

So the rumours I've heard that you can load and run *any* XBox Classic game on the XBox360 platform using the rumoured Virtual XBox (based on a heavily modified VPC7 for Mac) application aren't true?

Cyriel

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:58 AM

WOW.

I almost decided to buy an XBox 2 when they come out, I think these vids (and the specs) just changed my mind.

Shannon J Hager

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:13 AM

That's what I read on the various gaming sites: a subset. They said: "top selling xbox games, via an emulator". It might be that will be 'all' games, or it might be that will be '10' or 50. What their problem is is that the GF3 hardware in the current XBox is incompatible with the ATI card in the XBox 2 for the special features in the GF3 that's in the XBox, and for example Halo uses those features a lot. So an emulator has to be written. Though it might be, they can emulate it pretty generically, don't know.

Frans Bouma

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:32 AM

I haven't verified this, but one of my friends that has been following PS3 said quite a few devlopers have pulled games that were going to be for Xbox360 and are putting them solely on PS3.

I love Halo, but I agree with Shannon that the above vids are definitely making me lean more towards PS3. That and Microsoft always finds a way to either make things more costly or have "issues" (such as needing to subscribe to Xbox-Live to get the updates and other downloads).

Justin

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:19 AM

You really should check out the movies too : http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/614/614953p1.html

The Killzone movie is really cool...

Saber Karmous

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:27 PM

My opinion is, given that both Sony and Nintendo have announced backwards compatibility, the Xbox 360 had better emulate at least 90% of their current library. That is a random number that I completely made up. Nintendo has never had backwards compatibility before. If Microsoft doesn't, they are going to lose a lot of mindshare to Sony and Nintendo. It removes a lot of the reasons for not upgrading to a new console.

Scott

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:01 AM

Was that Renowa I saw in the FF XII trailer?

The Final Fantasy Trailer made me thinking about buying the PS3 instead of the Xbox 360...

Questa

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:35 PM

Be careful, except for the EA boxing and Unreal 2007 demos, all those other videos are pre-rendered and not real-time in game. This comes straight from Mark Reign's mouth[1], so I'm not just trying to stick up for the 360.

Later,
Drew

[1] http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/615/615152p1.html?ui=rssFeed

Drew Marsh

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:12 AM

Hehehehe, all PS3 minded people here.

I'm not buying any of the consoles, but if I would, I'd buy an XBox for sure.

For example, Final Fantasy is going to be XBox only! Forget about the old games, who's going to play them when you've got the new games that look 500% better and can do way, way more in gameplay?

Everyone can use Live! and if you pay for an account, you can even do much much more.

You can use your XBox as a small media center, connect the PSP to it! :)

Seriously, XBox over PS3 any day of the week! :)

But now I'm going to play my MMORPG on pc. How's that for a console! Ha!

Dennis van der Stelt

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:56 AM

@Dennis van de Stelt
Is Final Fantasy really going to be Xbox only?

Questa

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled. --Final fantasy@ Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:29 AM

"Is Final Fantasy really going to be Xbox only?"

Nope.

What is happening is that they are going to sell Final Fantasy IX(the MMORPG one) for XBOX2.

BTW the latest talk on various game boards is that the "backwards compatability" that MS says will be in XBOX360 will only be for thoses games that are recompiled for that console.

will dieterich

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:00 AM

@will dieterich
Looking forward to Final Fantasy IX on the Xbox then, but like the normal RPG's more than the MMORPG's.

Hope there is a change that a normal Final Fantasy will come out on the Xbox360 so I don't need to buy a PS3...

Questa

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Monday, June 06, 2005 4:16 PM

Both are great consoles, but im gonna wait about three or four months before buying one because
a)the price will go down a bit and
b)because it will be clearer which is better, based on what other buyers will say

Who

# re: PS3 and PS3 games reveiled.@ Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:34 AM

my problem is that i love pc games and all xbox consoles have pc games but i also love ps2 games so its hard because ps3 will have like metal gear solid four and i loved every metal gear game we go way back but i also think that i will wait 4-5 months

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