The PS3 lives!
by Ed Stasick 
{ Sep 30th 2006 at 11:30AM }
The glare from its polished black sheen is almost blinding, but the first fully-functional PS3 to be seen, held and heavy-petted outside of Sony is now in the hands of Playstation 3 Magazine. Their initial impressions?"The pads lighter than we anticipated and we were pleasantly surprised by the top-notch feel when controlling the vehicles with the pads motion rather than the sticks. We also got to grips with Resistance: Fall of Man too. The jury's still out on this one but it looks amazing; like proper next-gen."
Today is a big one for PS3 fanboys everywhere. It's not the TGSs, the press releases or the game trailers that get me pumped for a big console launch. That's all manufactured, artificially polished. What's real, and what's really exciting, is seeing the final game cases, seeing the final demo kiosks in stores and seeing the actual console out in the wild... running actual games and being played by actual gamers who are now in the process of reviewing the entire experince.
As of today, the PS3 is no longer something powered only by PR and marketing. Today, for better or worse, the PS3 is real.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt @ Sep 30th 2006 2:25PM
Is that a tech demo I see in the reflection?
Stefano V @ Sep 30th 2006 1:00PM
YEAS THE PS3 LIVES. Sony going top kill YOU
Concerned Gamer @ Sep 30th 2006 2:56PM
"As of today, the PS3 is no longer something powered only by PR and marketing." Thank God for Sony because I doubt there could be a worse PR and marketing effort for a highly anticipated consumer product than what we have seen for this one.
And yes it looks like a tech demo to me too. :(
AL7AIR @ Sep 30th 2006 3:45PM
@ Matt
I'd say it's Motorstorm (one of the buggies jumping over the camera in a replay)
fanboyslasher @ Sep 30th 2006 6:43PM
if you morons read the article it clearly states that motorstorm is the game reflected on the beautiful system.
Butterball @ Oct 1st 2006 2:43AM
That's going to be about as much as many folks will see of the PS3 till well after Christmas.
bobeotm @ Oct 1st 2006 2:46AM
Well, it's nice to finally see one out in the wild for once. Not inside a tube of bulletproof glass, or behind an impenetrable glass wall, or in the hands of karate trained japanese booth babe. It is real, and it works. For all the bad PR and blunders of the past few months, they system is there in the flesh, almost as if nothing happened.
Edge of Blade @ Oct 1st 2006 4:44PM
Great to hear that Sony is moving beyond the PR and marketing hype by releasing their console...
...to a non-biased periodical publication called Playstation 3 Magazine.
This blog is full of shit.
SuicideNinja @ Oct 1st 2006 10:39PM
It's a bit creepy to me to even consider calling the PS3 beautiful. The PS3 is horrendous; an abomination of wanna-be-futuristic design. Aesthetics are a matter of opinion though.
But then again, what console did look good or "cool"? None as far as I can remember. The Genesis certainly looked more interesting than the SNES. But I was never drawn to its design. Looking at the consoles around my house, I actually have to say the Gamecube probably has the coolest design. The 360 looks like someone sat on it, the PS2 is a brick, the Xbox is a swollen VCR, and all the old consoles are well...just plain.
Lee @ Oct 1st 2006 10:41PM
Someone must have taken this puppy home, because surely it is against the rules to have an (albeit unplugged) Xbox 360 battery charger on a desk at PSM's offices.
Or not, either way...
SuicideNinja @ Oct 2nd 2006 1:14PM
The PSM guys play Xbox 360's. Just like guys from Xbox mags are likely to have PS2s.
Have you read their last several issues? It is apparent they play the 360. I think it's a good thing. I'd hope the Xbox guys play PS3 as well. It slightly helps their extremely biased-but-necessary opinions.
crazysundog @ Oct 2nd 2006 6:34PM
Wow, a shiny piece of plastic. Now the PS3 is reality. WTF?? Until I see one being played, (and working well, at 30fps, in 1080P) this is still just a bunch of happy horseshit. More PR and more hype just brings more dissapointment.