Those of you who have PS3s had better sell them ASAP and the rest of us waiting to get our hands on one had better look elsewhere because TIME.com has labelled the PS3 as a complete failure. Already. Yup.

Here is the quote in full:

The big story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They’re probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive–it goes for up to $600–and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it’s hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you’re in trouble when you get beat by something called a Wii.

Erm right. Please remove your head from your asses please.

Firstly no console ever launches with millions of of units available for each territory so launch shortages are to be expected. Secondly, “hideously expensive”? I’m not going to go over why the PS3 is worth up to $600 yet again but if it is so hideously overpriced it simply wouldn’t sell not to mention comparing the 20GB model with the ‘20GB 360 price is a lot more sensible.

Thirdly, the PS3 is hard to write games for so that makes it over-hyped! The PS2 was hard to write for as we all know and as a result there weren’t many decent games available for it, right? And as a result of it being “hard to write for”, the launch games were “lame”. Yup, Resistance is a pile of cow dung, as is CoD3 etc. The PS2 launch lineup was lame. The PS3 launch lineup is actually pretty damn good compared to most console launches that have gone before it.

Finally the PS3 is in trouble because the Wii has “beaten” it. There you have it folks, the Wii has won the console war after not even a month on sale. I bet you feel like a complete fool for buying a PS3 now. No mention is made of the 360, maybe that was never released in TIME’s alternate reality.

Maybe I’ve travelled forward in time to April 1st 2009 because everything that is written by TIME is a load of rubbish and smacks of bad journalism.

Once again, if you haven’t got a PS3 go and buy a Wii and if you have a PS3 you’d better sell it because it’s doomed!!

TIME Blasts PS3

I’ve recently discovered a fantastic collection of game industry interviews and commentary by Newsweek columnist N’Gai Croal.

Articles include:

Mr Croal sums up Ozymandias perfectly: “Atwater-esque tactics” and “compiling oppo research on the Playstation 3″. Also, why won’t Sony blog? We’ve asked that question ourselves as well.

Interview with John Riccitiello
Part I
Part II
Part III

What The PlayStation Executive Changes Really Mean. This is the best explanation I’ve read.

Interview with Burnout creator, Alex Ward, which we previously reported on

Wow, it’s really nice to enjoy journalism like this from the mainstream media for a change. What do you guys think?

If you had any map packs from the likes of SOCOM, or played Final Fantasy XI and want to play them on your PS3 then you are in luck!

A download from the PlayStation Store now allots a folder on your HDD to space for PS2 game data. Simply go to the store, download and install. It isn’t the biggest of Sony’s Backwards compatibility issues with so few PS2 games utilising the HDD, but small steps like this show that a steady rate of progress is occurring.

IGN: PS2 HDD Now Supported

• Higher color bit depth. HDMI 1.3 supports 48-bit color depth. DVI supports only 24-bit (VGA, S-Video, and component signals are analog so this measure doesn’t apply). This higher color bit depth allows for smoother color gradations without unwanted color banding.
• Both YCbCr and RGB color space support. The YCbCr color space is better for transporting decompressed video data such as that from a DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD disc or from a DVR or digital television service. RGB is better for transporting raw computer generated video from a computer or game console. VGA and DVI are RGB only. S-Video and component are YPbPr only (the analog version of YCbCr). HDMI can transport both and switch between the two to provide the ideal transport depending on what you are displaying.
• Digital Video Transport. DVI is digital as well, but S-Video and Component are both analog transports. The source for all game or movie content is digital, so a digital transport preserves more data on the way to the display. Fixed resolution displays such as LCDs must otherwise convert an incoming analog signal back to digital, so a digital transport provides more benefit on such devices since it eliminates a complete lossy conversion from digital to analog and back to digital.
• Display Interrogation. The video source can interrogate the capabilities of the display. This can assist in automatic configuration and synchronization.
• Hi-def multi-channel Audio: Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DSD, and DTS-HD. This is the best that Blu-Ray/HD-DVD and SACD/DVD-Audio have to offer. This hi-res audio content can also be transmitted over multi-channel analog output but not over toslink optical or coax digital connections.
• Integrated Video and Audio on the same cable.

The disadvantage is that since PS3 is the first HDMI 1.3 device, compatibility problems are a worrisome possibility.

1080p and copy-protection related functionality have already been talked to death, so I avoided those.

Can any hi-fi buffs, find any further omissions or corrections? Henning?

Right, so I’ve chatted you through what was said. Now I can talk you through my personal impressions of what I got hands on with!

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