Reuters reports that 88,400 PS3s were sold in Japan during the launch weekend. We all knew there would be a shortage and that the supply wouldn’t meet demand. However, we were skeptical about how many units Sony would actually ship. Well Reuters reports that they shipped 100K and 88.4K were sold. You have to wonder what [...]

While our own Jason Chen is a bit too in love with the PS3 for these measures, the folks at DailyTech weren't and took the huge, son of a gun PS3 apart. What surprises did they find? Nothing really; just a bunch of circuit boards, fans, and other electronic components. I must say that it does appear to be fairly easy to take the PS3 apart, a lot easier than the Xbox 360. Seven torx screws and whammo, you have the innards of the PS3.
So, uh, modchippers out there. You folks going to get to work on this yet, or what? – Travis Hudson
The Sony Playstation 3 Dissected [Daily Tech]

The Imaging Science Foundation (ISF), a group that consults for home-theater manufacturers and trains professional video calibrators, says that the most important aspect of picture quality is contrast ratio, the second-most important is color saturation, and the third is color accuracy.

So where does resolution come in? It comes in fourth on the ISF list, and according to David Carnoy's CNET article, after you sit watching five TVs lined up side by side, you understand why. He says that a relatively pristine high-def source such as Mission: Impossible III looks sharp on just about any HDTV, and your eye, when looking for differences, is drawn first to things like depth of detail in shadowy material (black levels) and the color of the actors' skin tone and how natural it looks.

He goes on to say a lot of things about resolutions and they even performed several tests to see the difference between 1080p and 1080i. However those tests mainly concerned movie outputs and na...

Now that the PS3 is in people’s hands, people have been testing its capabilities. One person over at AVS Forum reported his findings when using the PS3 as a BD player. How long does it take to boot up? It “takes 10 seconds to boot up the movie. the ps3 loading time from power on [...]

Remember when the PS2 came out? One of the big questions was how well the PS2 played PSOne games. The answer was that it did a pretty good job, but there were some titles that the PS2 didn’t play. Now it’s deja vu all over again. Even though the PS3 has the PS2’s CPU and [...]

Game developer Free Radical Design (FRD), started making a name for themselves when they left videogame company, Rare, Ltd., back in 1999. It has been a wild, yet rewarding ride for them  as they experienced changing publishers twice then got accolades for current-gen titles TimeSplitters and Second Sight. The next-gen console war partially begins with the Wii and PS3 North American launch next week, so it would be interesting to see if FRD could bring their winning ways to next-gen gaming.

Coming from a previous generation of videogames, FRD Director David Doak says they are beginning to get a hang of the next-gen craze. "We're starting to enjoy it now. New products are going to be great and they're going to turn peoples' heads but it's not a revolution, it's an evolution. It's an incremental step," reflects Doak. He was then reminded on how their company first felt about making next-gen titles: "It's like going into a new house and thinking, 'Let's cook dinner. But h...

One of the great things about the PS3 is that it uses a SATA hard drive that you can replace yourself. So whether you bought the 20GB PS3 or the 60GB version, you can update it to any 2.5″ SATA hard drive you feel the urge to buy. And that’s exactly what the folks at [...]

I went to work today with a skip in my step, fresh from finishing Final Fantasy XII. I thought nothing could ruin my work day, until I heard this disturbing piece of internet news. Apparently Gamestop has a games 4 girls kiosk filled with questionable content.

Here's the entertaining quote from a Kotaku report regarding the offending kiosk:

Apparently the powers that be at Gamestop are still under the delusion that girls actually enjoy playing crap like this. The roster of insipid titles is truly painful to take in with the exception of Cooking Mama, which rocks! I mean look at that line up: Strawberry Shortcake, The Little Mermaid, That's So Raven, My Little Pony and something that I think is Hillary Duff.
Yes I understand that the games in the said kiosk targets girls, young girls, not women, and I am aware of the complicated and touchy subject that is "female preference regarding video game genres." Since this writer is not a female, he chooses to not get enta...

Sony sure knows how to cater to its market. Especially when you're talking about the Hollywood's elite list. Throwing a totally exclusive PS3 debut party for the who's who of the entertainment industry, Sony pulled out all stops for the event held last November 8 at a Beverly Hills landmark. So this news is three days old. Big deal.

The big deal is that it shows just how much anticipation the PS3 is actually generating, that even them high and mighty stars just had to take a breather from their hectic schedules for a tryout. Pretty much, these celebrities got a good headstart from all of us still waiting for the PS3, because they already got to play it. With a party added in! And boy, don't that make you wish you went to that Nickelodeon audition some ten years ago? Dang. You could have been a star! And then, you would have been invited to this event. But no.

Anyway, back to reality. David Arquette and Nick Cannon weren't able to resist Resistance: Fall of Man, G...

Used PlayStation 3 consoles appear for sale in Japan in shops and online auction websites.