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Playstation 3D Display Arrives in November, Read the FAQ

Sid Shuman, Senior Social Media Specialist, writes:

"When PlayStation unveiled the 3D Display at this year’s E3, it provoked excitement among PS3 owners as well as many, many questions. We can now put one of those questions to bed: You’ll be able to pick up the 3D Display when it’s widely available this November 13th."

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Redempteur4573d ago

i kinda want it ..i already have a 1080 monitor .. i might just get this one for some dual screen & 3d gaming ..

Mrmagnumman3574573d ago

Get the vizio E3D320VX, it is only 500$ and it is 1080p, 120HZ refresh rate, and 32" http://www.vizio.com/lcd-hd...

Also im building a gaming computer and im gonna use it for nvidia 3d vision, and i have had it for a while, and the 3d is excellent

--Onilink--4572d ago

funny how people disagree with you for no aparent reason other than the TV not being a Sony product....

Anyway, the TV looks nice but at just 24" im definetely skipping it. Ill wait for at least a 32" version to show up and prices to drop a bit before thinking about it

GrandTheftZamboni4572d ago

@--Onilink--

I think people are disagreeing because that comparison doesn't make sense: you can play full screen co-op on PS display while on Vizio you cannot.

--Onilink--4572d ago

well i didnt check the link he posted, which now i see is not the TV that i thought he was talking about. The thing is Vizio is making a TV that also uses Dualview technology and they will probably have bigger screens, not sure the price though

GrandTheftZamboni4572d ago

Cool. Good to know this technology is being adopted. I'm not planning to buy a new TV any time soon, but I hope my next one will have that.

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HebrewHammer4572d ago

Foolish to launch this post-Uncharted 3. Big mistake

testerg354572d ago

How does the the dual display work?

--Onilink--4572d ago

both players wear glasses, each one sees a diferent image. I guess the game must also support the feature so who knows how much support this will get.

HebrewHammer4572d ago

But if you do Dual Display, each player sees a 2D image.

testerg354571d ago

Yeah.. and that means that if a single player game is 720p, then how can a game handle 2 720p outputs? I mean considering the PS3 and 360 can barely handle a single player 720p game.

--Onilink--4571d ago

@testerg35

its no diferent than every splitscreen MP game, the graphics are always downgraded. Just because the screen is not split doesnt mean the game will run like the single player. The feature is more for confort than anything else

testerg354571d ago

Onlink, it will look ugly no? I mean a split screen is say 360p being stretched to 720p?

--Onilink--4571d ago

i guess thats why they are sticking to just a 24 inch monitor, it would probably look ugly on bigger screens but on a 24 i doubt it, probably the same as it looks normally on MP but bigger

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PROJECTbadass4572d ago (Edited 4572d ago )

Resistance 3 was terrible in 3d. I havent played motorstorm, so i cant judge that game. Gt5 imo is the best 3d on ps3. Batman arkham city is amazing in 3d and I'm sure uncharted will be as well. I just think there are better games to showcase 3d other than resistance.

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PS3 Update 4.91 Released and Does What You Expect This Feb. 27

You read that headline right! It's not a typo, as Sony has released PS3 update 4.91 this Feb. 27 2024, and it does what players might expect.

darthv7258d ago

It says it is for an updated Blueray key but we all know its to also try and patch the exploits that were found in 4.90. And soon this one will be exploited and released as CFW 4.91

Pyrofire9558d ago (Edited 58d ago )

One day the PS3 is gonna be the most STABLE OS every created.
I think I might as well look into some Homebrew at this point. There's probably a cool scene on it.

aaronaton58d ago

I play my PS3 on a CRT @576i. There is a clear bug that Trophies aren't popping up once earned, you hear the noise, but they do not appear at the top right.

CobraKai57d ago

You hold on to that CRT for as long as you can.

anast57d ago

They are still supporting the PS3 that's one reason why people prefer Sony gaming.

FinalFantasyFanatic57d ago

I only finished Xenogears on it in January, nice to see it's still getting the ocassional update.

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Whatever Happened To Virtua Tennis?

Sega's prominent tennis sim just couldn't be beat. And then vanished without a trace. Why?

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ApocalypseShadow535d ago

Answer: Sega.

You could change the name of the game in the title that was awesome in its day, could still be around today because of its fun factor with a remake, remaster or sequel, that's in their huge back catalog, that's no longer being produced as a franchise. And the answer would still be the same: Sega.

As much as I love their games and their spunky attitude. That Sega no longer exists that I grew up with. The current company is a mere shadow of its former self with only a few moments of grandeur. Which is why owning their previous consoles like Dreamcast, is a necessary thing if you want to continue playing games like Virtua Tennis. The reason why I have two of them just in case one stops working. And of course emulation on the go. Wink. Dreams do come in red.

Terry_B535d ago

Virtua Tennis 3 and 4 didnt sell well. Thats all.

senorfartcushion535d ago

Both Virtua Tennis and Top Spin have gone. It’s annoying for tennis game players.

CBaoth535d ago (Edited 535d ago )

Yeah....all 5 of them. Obviously, game budgets now outweigh profit for what essentially boils down to Pong. I'm not talking about coders but licensing costs. Boxing, golf, etc...all fall in this category where real life athletes far supersede their worth in video games. Same thing occurred to Sony's Playstation All-stars. Sony spent 2 generations helping to cultivate all these 3rd party mascots into recognizable assets but when it came to license them for a game, they didn't want to pay the exorbitant fee. That game's 1 million sales didn't warrant a sequel and I very much doubt ANY tennis game could reach that sales plateau

senorfartcushion535d ago

It’s funny how you’re over the age of 3 and don’t know how to read properly 😅😅 Why the bizarre response?

Yi-Long535d ago

I couldn’t care less about licensing in a tennis or golf game. I don't need real-life players or locations/tournaments.

Just give me some fun cool characters, some courts/courses in varied gorgeous locations, and use the Virtua Tennis or Everybody’s Golf gameplay. That’s it.

ActualEngineer535d ago

I used to play tennis IRL and in videogames. My 2-cents is that a boring game that was simulating an extremely boring sport, was thrown under the rug, now that the devs can produce more complex and interesting games.

It's like the tetris-like games and games like space-invaders, that stopped being produced ... it is because they were good and simple to make in the early days of commercial videogame development but they are just not as interesting as, let's say, an open-world coop arpg ...

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Five Video Game Console Launches That Went Terribly Wrong

From giant crabs to surprise launches to weird-looking tablets, these console launches were...yeah.

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brewin596d ago

Yet they all turned out to be great systems with lots of gems, except for Jaguar. Wii U was a criminally underrated system. The Gamepad implementation of Zelda Twilight Princess was incredible! I was so disappointed they removed it altogether for Breath of the Wild because they wanted "parity" with the Switch version. Its a shame and it was a lame excuse.

You can tell BotW was designed around the gamepad usage, with all that menu navigation. That item management and weapon switching would have been 100x better with the gamepad. The worst part was they never let the wii U players know they were removing it! I got the game for Wii U at launch and was disappointed it wasnt there.

PS3 was a mess at first but what a turnaround! That was a crazy generation. Uncharted 1,2,3, Infamous 1 & 2, God of War 3, Last of Us, MGS4, Ratchet and Clank series, Little Big Planet, Modnation Racers, Killzone, Resistance. My god they were so on point later in that generation it was crazy!

TheEnigma313596d ago

Nintendo Screwed themselves using the Wii name again. And the jaguar was straight doo doo; I still have it.

darthv72596d ago

I had it too... Jag could have been something great considering how good the ST games were. And now many of those have been ported but it was too little too late. The CD was just plain unreliable (apart from being an obvious design flaw). The thing about the Jag was it was just too Euro. given that Atari was built initially a US brand and then it later became more European and you could tell from the games. There is just something that stands out with EU created games vs NA or JP ones. Alien vs Predator was cool but def needed a better frame rate. At least 30fps instead of the 15-20 it was.

Im actually surprised nobody has gone back and tried to remaster that one for other platforms. It was a pretty good game.

Espangerish596d ago

Surprised vita didn’t get a mention in the article.

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Knightofelemia596d ago

PS3 had a buggered up launch but Sony was able to turn things around with the PS3. I still say the XB360 had a terrible launch half the systems cooked themselves and the RROD would appear. Then the 3DO, CDI, Pippin, the Amiga, 32X the list can go on and on with systems with terrible launches.