It’s too funny to checkout some articles spreading around the internet.

Ken Kutaragi, one of the mighty Sony figures, recently speaked to the BBC with another one of his lovely stories.

He said that Sony wants to “lead with the PlayStation 3, and beyond that to the PlayStation 4 within the next decade,” - and many PS4 stories follow.

But if it wasn’t enough to make you laugh, he had a secret weapon hidden in the socks.

PS5 release date? Yes, he knows the answer. “it is almost certain to come out within 20 years. Probably sooner!”.

Ok, I didn’t watch the interview, I just found this somewhere around the internet and I wanted to share it :P.

Ken worked with Sony since 1995, he’s a good guy after all… he just talks too much :)

Source: [IGN]

Let’s analyze PS3’s top 10 strong points as IGN described them!

Reason #10: Xbox 360 Doesn’t Have a Killer App
360’s launch lineup is admirable; there are 18 games and five first-person shooters. It can even be argued that the 360’s overall average quality of titles is greater than that of previous systems. And yet not a single game is Killer App worthy? Where’s the Halo? Where’s the Mario? Where’s the Soul Calibur? Where’s the frickin’ interest?

It’s true, though. PS2 launched with a sorry lot of games and PSOne featured a similarly disgraceful lineup, but with the advent of PS3, Microsoft may have wished it more heavily emphasized one game its new console could forever be known for. This is because PS3 has the Metal Gear potential, Warhawk, Tekken, I-8, Gran Turismo, Killzone, and a dozen other high profile games that may hit day one to put a smiling face to the splendid PlayStation name. And when you can associate Dante with PS3, will anything else matter?

Where’s the Halo?! Oh my god, I heard Halo 3 was being developed and known as xbox 360’s golden token… Anyway, isn’t it too early to emphatize games that we only know through 3-4 screenshots and nothing more?

Reason #9: Dual-Screen and 1080p Support
1080p! Sweet Marie! Even if most televisions don’t support it, why limit yourself to interlaced images when you can experience the glory of 1080 progressive? Support is for the weak! PS3 is forward looking, if anything. This means when you invest in the ultimate display technology however many years down the road, PS3 will make good on your purchase by outputting the absolute best image available on the market. And according to boastful Sony reps, we’ll see games running at 120fps, too.

The Dual-Screen support also adds some interesting 3D potential. Layering images is a great way to fake depth. But if Killzone in full 3D isn’t your cup of tea, maybe panoramic F1 racing will be? The option is certainly there. If the next Ace Combat doesn’t feature dual screen-in cockpit support, we know it at least could have if it wanted to. Boo-yah, 360. Where your 720p now?

Oh well… I hope I’ll become rich before ps3 launch date :) I really hope so… a Dual Screen is a dream. 360 with such a feature? Are you kidding? :)

Reason #8: Hefty Expandability / Connectivity Options
Have expansion, will travel. The best way to maximize a console’s lifespan is by lining it with a thousand ports and interfaces of every type. In this way PS3 has expandability written all over it. Compact Flash, SD Card, Memory Stick, Blue Tooth, USB 2.0… If Sony ever wants to add-on, it need not limit itself to one standard. And if you ever want to jam something into your PS3, chances are you’ll be able to, assuming it’s not toast.

I love Hideo :D let’s see what comes out. We are expecting big emotions from Metal Gear Solid 4, but let’s not focus everything on it...

Reason #1: The Blu-ray Player
Sony and Company’s next-generation disc format has yet to see the light of day in its final form, but the pure technology behind the format is immensely promising from both a gaming and general entertainment standpoint. We’re talking 50GB+ of storage space here, more than 5x the space than the 360’s DVD format can muster.

More storage space means more room for content which helps widen the possibilities of the PS3’s power. Who needs a next-gen system if you run out of content space on your media (and keep in mind, Microsoft has no plans to incorporate HD-DVD or anything like it)? Blu-ray’s transfer rate is also quite quick, and though the PS3’s actual drive speed hasn’t yet been announced, speedy load times should be on the horizon. And with all of the studio support that the Blu-ray Disc Association has garnered, it’s sure to be one hell of a next-gen home video format. In short, the PlayStation 3 will have the most advanced storage medium of any game system on the planet.

I already discussed this point enough :) another good hit. But I’m still in doubt if there was any need to have such a big storage capacity. Do they already know what to put inside it?

[Source: PS3Updates]

The PS3, scheduled to be introduced in Japan in mid-2006 and in the U.S. a few months later, is expected to be technically more advanced than the XBox 360 in many ways. Notably, it will include a high-definition DVD player intended to capitalize on the growing market for HDTV sets, which, of course, Sony also makes. (The Xbox 360 supports HD games, but it lacks the ability to play next-generation, prerecorded HD movies.)

Sony’s CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, said recently that Sony will sell the PS3 at a loss in order to populate the world with Sony’s favored high-definition DVD standard, known as Blu-ray. If millions of Blu-ray PlayStations find their way into living rooms, Sony figures, movie studios will be compelled to embrace it over the rival standard, known as HD-DVD. Yes, brace yourself for another Betamax vs. VHS standards war.

Sir Howard said the PS3 will sell for $300 to $400 and will come with a bundle of games, movies, and TV shows, many of which Sony also makes. The question is whether the titles will be bundled on Blu-ray DVD discs or on a built-in hard drive.

Because the first standalone Blu-ray DVD players are expected to cost $1,000 or so, Sony is essentially giving a free next-generation DVD Player to every Playstation 3 customer. That eases the pain (a little bit) for people faced with buying new, high-def versions of their favorite DVDs.

Of course, nothing is stopping Microsoft from adding a high-definition DVD player to the Xbox down the road, once the standards battle has been resolved.

How else does the PS3 stack up against the Xbox 360? It’s based on a bodaciously powerful Cell processor developed by IBM and Toshiba, which appears to outmuscle the IBM PowerPC custom chip used in Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Sony has also tapped nVidia to supply the graphics engine in the PS3, and it’s going to be a whopper, with nearly double the rendering power of the top graphics card that nVidia now supplies to PC gaming enthusiasts. Again, on specs alone, the PS3 should have a graphics edge over the ATI-based Xbox 360.

Fancy hardware doesn’t mean anything, though, if the people who write the games for the hardware can’t take advantage of it. (Exhibit A: The PlayStation 2 is technically inferior to the original Xbox, but it’s still the world’s most popular gaming platform based on the selection of compelling game titles.)

At its launch the PS3 will be backward compatible with thousands of earlier PlayStation titles. But Microsoft knows software, and game developers are praising it for providing them the tools and support to build new titles for the Xbox 360.

So should you wait a year for the PS3 or buy the Xbox 360 today? Current Xbox owners are likely to upgrade to the 360, and current PS2 owners will probably stick with Sony. New gamers, however, have little reason to wait nearly a year for the PS3, and Microsoft is almost certain to gain some ground on Sony.

The one wild card: Sony could slash the price of the current PS2, perhaps to $100, making the $400 Xbox 360 seem less attractive.

[Our Words]

As we already knew, PS3 is going to introduce an enormous amount of innovative features. The mechanism is pretty interesting:Why should you buy a DVD Player when you could buy a PS2?

Why should you buy a BLU-RAY Player for 1000$ when you could buy a Playstation 3 for 4-600$?

Why should you buy a portable media player for 300$ when you could buy a PSP?

That’s why Sony beats Nintendo. They sell a lot of sweeties, more than a console. Then, again, mr. Hideo Kojima & friends, let’s try to make quality games for PS3…

I feel sad.

This morning, I made a little tour between many Hi-Tech informative resources all around the web.

I’m not going to mention them, but there are big names involved in it.

Almost 75-80% of PS3 articles, published over time, are IDENTICAL.
Ok, let’s make the point of the situation: EVERYONE, included me, must take PS3 news from bigger websites (IGN, Gamespot, Joistiq etc.) having direct contacts with major gaming companies. There is no alternative solution. I do it as well, I check bigger online magazines, I take out the news and I rewrite them, with personal impressions and references. I try to select accurately the best (and only the best & breaking) news, to create communication with my 800+ daily readers, to make my bLog less formal and “purely informative”, to discuss (as it’s happening in the xbox vs ps3 price contest) . To be, at least, friendly.
But I counted over 15-20 ps3 websites / blogs COPYING and PASTING those “breaking” news, in some case without even reporting the source. They just play on different search engine keywords, so people will read their website instead of another, to read identical things.
Now, this is not a new phenomenon, it always happened with newspapers (actually sucking news from wikinews - blah), tv news, etc… but to create a blog talking about playstation 3 and only pasting things written by others on it is insane. Why are you creating a website if there is another with the same contents? You are tricky.
The sad thing is that with a small amount of keywords play, and 15-30 minutes / day of copy/paste work, you can obtain loads of visitors (=$$$).

But, in my opinion (hey.. it’s just me), this is just stealing.

Ok, take news from your sources, but try to write something of your own (something more than “it looks interesting”).

Or burn away your stupid blog and build a Playstation 3 forum / community, if you can launch it.

Let’s work together for the sake of internet information, not only on its divulgation.

And You, my lonely user, stop relying so much on search engines and make a better use of your Browser’s “favourites” folder.

The DVD era was opened up by “Twister�, the mighty Cyclone. It’s always nice to remember something about the first ancestor of such a revolution.

But now it’s time to project ourself in the Blu-ray era.

And… What Hollywood wonder will be remembered forever as the first Blu-Ray released?

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle - this is the answer.

The sexy and freak fighter girls just received a good Blu-ray treatment, directly from Sony. What does it mean?

- “dynamic menus with full resolution graphics and animation�

and, naturally…

“1920×1080 flick of that female crime fighting trio. We can’t claim to have viewed said picture, but lets just say that even Blu-ray could not compel us to such an act. Sony says that “this achievement will help everyone understand that Blu-ray is real and poised to enter the marketplace�.

Well, if the tornado made it, the 3 bu**s can make it as well.

But I don’t like Charlie’s angels, it’s such a stupid film. Is there any need to have it at Cinema quality? To enjoy what kind of particulars? What graphical experience?
If this is really the first playstation 3 blu-ray released (talking about movies)… well… shame on You, Sony :(

Let’s welcome the smily Ken Kutaragi, PlayStation’s dad, a living legend in the videogames’ world.

Recently interviewed by BBC, he started talking about PlayStation 4.

We did it as well, here, but his words are more impressive by far :P

“My dream, and the dream of all my team, hasn’t finished. In fact we haven’t achieved even half of what we’re going to do. We want to lead with the PlayStation 3, and beyond that to the PlayStation 4 within the next decade.”

The Messiah spoke this way. 10 years? Mmmmh… so, in 2015. I’ll be 32, and maybe I’ll hate games :( too bad. Will Playstation 3 be my last console? Or will I become a workless beggar-addict, howling among the streets to get a PS4?

But when Playstation 4 does launch, according to Kutaragi-san, our miserable existences will be radically transformed: “I am an engineer and I like technology. I want to change the world with technology and I want to change our lives. The best way to realise it is, for us, PlayStation.”

Kutaragi-san, the Playstation Lord, didn’t stop its mouth in many similar occasions.

At the recent Tokyo International Digital Conference he said: “Today, I would like to tell stories that might sound like a dream.”.

Mr. Kutaragi, stop drinking please :)

We’ve read an article on SPOnG giving out interesting PS3 news.

Were you scared about the bad boomerang banana? (Talking about the Playstation 3 Controller as usual, of course).

Well.. it was just a joke! You children, You always believe everything :)

The definitive design of the controller is going to be unveiled (maybe) at January’s Consumer Electronics Show.

The story so far: A Sony representative told GameSpot, “We have made no announcements regarding the PS3 controller, so any reports to the contrary are purely speculation.”

It’s pretty true. People always has to talk, talk and talk about things they are waiting for, and they (well, I’m one of them maybe :) ) get easily tricked. The boomerang controller could even be a fake, who knows?

Well, Sony has shown it at E3 2005, so I’m still worried about it :) why showing things that are not final? Did they want to create a lot of interest around the playstation 3 controller? To analyze gamers’ reaction? Who knows.

Let’s say it was a test judge public’s reaction to the controller, and as it was a disaster it became unofficial until next event :).

But wait! Sony Comp. Ent. and. corp. exec. and. chief. tech. off. (lol) Masayuki Chatanai told our Famitsu friends about the E3, and we find out than:

…the controller might undergo “minor changes” but that the form factor would probably stay the same!

So, that controller wasn’t official. But its shape (its worst part) is already truth. No revolutionary design. No way out. We’ll use it to catch kangaroos :)

YAHOOOO!