sony surprises playstation magazine with a ps3

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posted: October 1st, 2006 stumble it!2 comments author: technabob

The folks at Playstation Magazine (PSM) received an unexpected surprise on Friday when Sony dropped by with a shiny new Playstation 3 for them to play with.

Here’s what they had to say:

You can even see the reflection of Motorstorm in the shiny exterior…. First 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

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• 1. Spork  |  October 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm

  I saw some shots of them playing with it on another site, the thing seems huge, and evidently weighs a ton, but the menus load quickly, and the load times for games are around psp length. hopefully sony doesn’t have another psp on their hands.

• 2. technabob  |  October 3rd, 2006 at 6:47 am

  Well as exciting as some of the graphical capabilities on the PS3 are, I’ve heard nothing but bad things about the load times of Blu-Ray disks. First generation drives are usually slow — remember the first CD-ROM dirves? Add to that the fact that the large disc format of the Blu-ray drive may encourage larger file sizes.

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