Rough Draft

PS3 at E3

Sony held their pre-E3 press conference today and announced the PS3 would be available in the US on November 17th. There's two models priced at $499 and $599. Ouch. The less expensive model has a smaller hard drive, no HDMI out, no memory stick/SD/CompactFlash slots, and no wireless. If you're going to spend that kind of money, seems like you might as well spend the extra $100. (Pricing info from Joystiq)

They also showed the new controller. Gone is the boomerang controller shown last year and in its place is...something not unlike the current PS2 controller, sans vibration but it's wireless and has sensors that can detect motion in 6 directions. Sony's press release says it doesn't vibrate because it would interfere with the sensors. Sounds like b.s. to me (especially given that the Wii control supports vibration). I'd say this little lawsuit they lost is more likely the reason.

I really don't see the PS3 dominating the video game landscape the way the PS2 did.

Tomorrow morning Nintendo holds their press conference. Definitely looking forward to that after reading the article in Time.