PS3 menu system

[yasunobu13]

If you like the PSP menu system, you'll love the PS3 menu system

at least there are kittens

[WannaBe_80z]

I saw that a long time ago. I actually really like the PSP menu. So I am all for it.

[gerbick]

screw a menu. bring the screens of the real games already!

[WannaBe_80z]

Where were those demo systems spotted a while ago? We can have a FK member rush and horde the place.

[yasunobu13]

screw a menu. bring the screens of the real games already!

Agreed. It's coming out in a month?

[hurricaneone]

I saw in the paper this morning that 200 PS3 consoles at a Japanese trade fair were having tech problems, needed to be restarted a lot to get them going.

Sony reckons it was because they were in console boxes (I guess those little plastic boxes you see games in at Wal Mart) and they were overheating. I reckon they've got issues to deal with even now.

[PAlexC]

Sony reckons it was because they were in console boxes (I guess those little plastic boxes you see games in at Wal Mart) and they were overheating. I reckon they've got issues to deal with even now.

Considering that the 360 and now PS3 have both succumbed to heat and power consumption issues, this makes so much more sense now, as the point of origin for the Wii. The Wiimote was secondary.

The Wii was designed to take processor technology improvements and use them to make the unit run with less heat, by making the chips smaller. This enabled features that other consoles couldn't duplicate, such as the ability to leave the console powered on all the time (we'll return to this later).

Shiota admitted that this was a risky decision. "Diverging from the road map takes a fair amount of courage," he said, "especially when we didn't have a clear image of what we were going to do with this hardware." However, once he saw the power level reduction (from one-third to as little as one-fourth that of current hardware) he was very excited. Instead of competing on "how many more times the CPU is going to be faster, how much more memory is going to be on the machine, and how many more polygons can be rendered" he saw Nintendo as being able to do something different and unique.

[hurricaneone]

Considering that the 360 and now PS3 have both succumbed to heat and power consumption issues, this makes so much more sense now, as the point of origin for the Wii. The Wiimote was secondary.

Good article, other than

In the end, extra metal support plating was put around the outside frame to ruggedize the case.

Ruggedize?

Hmmm.

I DON'T THINK SO!!!!

[PAlexC]

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[hurricaneone]

Indeed.