From the monthly archives:
Is 3D the Way Forwards?
We have mentioned 3D recently a couple of times. The first time was speculating on the PS4 having 3D capabilities built in, and then shortly after news was announced that the PS3 should receive a firmware update to allow 3D to be used. With an update possibly arriving for the PS3 it is pretty certain that the PS4 will follow this same route right out of the gate. This speculation is also held up by the way the movie and TV industry is going with 3D. [click to continue…]
The PS3 has the ability to install a Linux OS on its HDD, turning it into a home computer. This offers great flexibility to the system, which some love and others don’t care for. We here at PS4Talk see this as a possible step towards one of the more popular OS’s being available on the PS4, that the regular consumer will care to use. Linux is a massively popular OS, but ask the general person what is is and they just shrug their shoulders and think you’re an uber geek. [click to continue…]
When the PS3 was first launched I heard rumours that the cost to build one was over the $600 price range… actually $690.23. iSuppli are a market research company who like to keep track of things like this and in a recent strip down of the latest version of the PS3 console they priced a new model up at just $448.73. This still could mean that Sony make a loss on each console sold… but the good news is that the gap is getting smaller.
I came across some interesting statistics today about console usage in the US. With all this talk of the current gen consoles and what is selling best (ie, the Wii) I was surprised to see which console was at the top of the list of being used the most through out each week. Take a look at the numbers…
