June PSM Info for PS3

[curryking1]

Zbox at TeamXbox forums has been a class act once again and showered us with wonderful, wonderful knowledge lol. He is currently updating the thread but is apparently on break for a bit and will read the articles later.

Anyways, here is the thread link... has the mags cover there...

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=437640

And some info from the source...

KH II 8.5/10
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War 8/10
Daxter 8.5/10 (PSP)
OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast 8/10 (PS2 & PSP)
Suikoden V 8/10
DBZ: Shin Budokai 7.5/10 (PSP)
Tourist Trophy 7/10
Rampage Total Destruction 6.5/10
Samurai Warriors: State of War 6/10
Worms 6/10 (PSP)
Atelier Iris 2 6/10
Splinter Cell Essentials 6.5/10 (PSP)
Me and My Katamari 7.5/10 (PSP)
Grandia III 7/10
Monster Hunter Freedom 6.5/10 (PSP)
Winback 2: Project Poseidon 4/10
From Russia with love 6/10 (psp)
Capcom Classics Collection Remixed 7/10 (PSP)

NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2 Monitor 7/10

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Here is a little PS3 info. There is actually a bunch of articles about the PS3 and its games, but this stuff is off in little boxes to the side. Though, some of this is alreayd known.

-Worldwide launch in the first half of November; expect shortages
-no official price, likely to be $399
-Comes standard with a 60GB Hard Drive
-Launch games and final controller will be unvieled at E3
-All games will come on blu-ray discs
-games won't have to contain regional lockouts
-PSone & PS2 games will play in 720p, 1080i, and 1080p.
-Xbox Live type serivce to launch with the PS3, with no charge for playing games online

Like I said, there are other articles about PS3 and its games, but I'm not going to read them right now.

P.S.

Huge props to Zbox for bringing this to all us forum-goers.

[LiquidEagle]

Hmmm...nothing new there so there isn't anything to really dispute about legitimacy, but maybe the individual articles contain some info of use? I don't subscribe to PSM and we get magazines way late out here so I'm not the guy for this kinda info :-p

Anybody got the mag yet?

[julps31]

Sweeeet... I should be getting my issue soon than.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

Sweeeet... I should be getting my issue soon than.
stay on it!

[Handycrap101]

I wanna know why ZBOX gets his sooo early. I always get mine around the 5th-15th of every month. Never THIS early.

It was of him to share this news. The new magazine looks awesome.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

I'm almost certain it depends on your location in the US in respect to their shipping plant..

maybe he's like..next door.

[n1n9tean]

I need to find out where to pre-order my PS3 soon.

[curryking1]

Apparently there is a picture of Lair with the HUD on it. The HUD resembles the Rogue Squadron games on GameCube. Also Zbox is very impressed by the picture, enough to swear lol, so I wonder how good that means the picture is.

If only he would be a member here and put up some damn scans...

[LaLiLuLeLo]

I seriously hope it's not a flight shooter with dragons.
sigh..

[dantruon]

why would a xbox fan subscribe to a playstation magazine?

[yoshaw]

Screenshots I found for the new game ' FrontLines ' from THQ(I think) coming to PS3 - X360. Didn't know where to put it, so here you go.

http://pix.nofrag.com/cc/14/9a3d67b9cdf970000218acb9145at.jpg (http://pix.nofrag.com/cc/14/9a3d67b9cdf970000218acb9145a.html)
http://pix.nofrag.com/81/d4/322cbead8a9b4fffd76373eb1ce2t.jpg (http://pix.nofrag.com/81/d4/322cbead8a9b4fffd76373eb1ce2.html) http://pix.nofrag.com/44/58/29344b9eb217821edd3ea896b76ct.jpg (http://pix.nofrag.com/44/58/29344b9eb217821edd3ea896b76c.html)

[Junox50]

why would a xbox fan subscribe to a playstation magazine?

That's what has me curious too. Isnt he like a PS hater or something?

[LiquidEagle]

:laugh: his posts in that thread haven't given any indication so let's give him the benefit of the doubt :-p

Frontlines had a thread a few days ago that turned into massive complaining about the bazillion FPS/War games we're having to deal with these days :laugh:

[xbdestroya]

Just because someone is a member of the TeamXBox forums does not make them an 'XBot.' For example; I'm a member of the forums. Am I now also an XBox fanboy? ;)

ZBox is widely known to generally be the first on the scene with PSM news (though I'll say members here have beat him now and then).

Even if he did hate Sony though, what would that matter if he gets this magazine and is willing to share?

[curryking1]

why would a xbox fan subscribe to a playstation magazine?

It's possible to be a fan of two things you know lol. I would say he is lucky to be a fan of two consoles so he gets the all the goods that the Xbox offers and all the goods the PS3 offers as well. He just has a taste for both, so good for him.

Come on guys, just because he's on TeamXbox doesn't mean that he is a PS hater. You make me think you guys are Xbox haters/PS fanboys because of how immediately that sprung to mind for some of you. Having a console war doesn't mean fans fighting and namecalling each other.

If I could, I would have a 360 in my house to play Halo 2 and 3, and... that's probably it lol (I dunno why I like that game so much, usually I get bored of shooters b/c they're too repetitive but I can handle it in Halo or Half Life 2). But for only 1 or 2 games... too expensive. I'll just look at my PS2 library and know I made the right choice for me.

Anyways...

*Looks at BIA stills in BIA thread* looks good for next gen
*looks at Frontlines* ewwww *shuddering*

Frontlines doesn't look much better, if any better, than BF2 on a mildly powered system (like mine :angelgrin )

Btw thanks for the pics tho yoshaw, how do you do it lol.

Well Zbox doesn't seem to want to scan the magazine articles for us lol, so, like we all have been saying lately, we'll have to wait til May 8th and E3 to get our flood of news. I asked him about the Lair pic too, and he gave me a link to the picture in the mag, but he said he thinks the pic looks better in the mag b/c of lighting (maybe just post processing to glamourize it or it actually looks better, or the shiny paper :) who knows).

P.S.

The name Zbox just reminded me of something. Wasn't the name of the successor to the Xbox originally speculated to be the Ybox? I think that was right about when the Xbox just came out lol. I like Ybox better than Xbox 360.

[Marjoh]

-PSone & PS2 games will play in 720p, 1080i, and 1080p.

What?!

.aZF

[xbdestroya]

What?!

.aZF

It's been published/announced before that PS1 and PS2 games will be upscaled by PS3 to higher resolutions.

[Junox50]

I thought he was the one posting those one sided articles, that's where I drew that conclusion. I asked was he a PS hater, I never said he was.

No need for the examples.



Come on guys, just because he's on TeamXbox doesn't mean that he is a PS hater. You make me think you guys are Xbox haters/PS fanboys because of how immediately that sprung to mind for some of you. Having a console war doesn't mean fans fighting and namecalling each other.



flawed logic then if thats true.

[yoshaw]

*Looks at BIA stills in BIA thread* looks good for next gen
*looks at Frontlines* ewwww *shuddering*

Frontlines doesn't look much better, if any better, than BF2 on a mildly powered system (like mine :angelgrin )

Btw thanks for the pics tho yoshaw, how do you do it lol.

How do I do what? :shifty:

;)

C'mon man. When we start comparing every single title to the likes of superstar titles of the next-gen. Then everyone is going to turn into makeitlookreal.

We MUST realize that mediocre companies like for example THQ produced games on current-gen that weren't the graphical equivalent of God of War or Okami or DMC3 or MGS3 or whatever. They were just that, mediocre looking even in the current-gen. Their programmers and artists are to blame for their lack of graphical prowess on current-gen consoles.

So why the freaking hell are we expecting these same guys, who were lackluster in the current-gen to provide us graphics rivaling the efforts of quality master programmers and artists of other companies that were successful in the current-gen.

I'd like to suggest you and everyone who thinks like you mate. That you people stop comparing every chip change developer with the likes of top tier developers like Gearbox, Konami or Capcom etc. THQ was a sub-par dev and looking at their next-gen efforts from the pics I shared, doesn't seem like going to change in the future either. So why not we all keep ourselves on the same path of expectations we kept for current-gen devs and only have great expectations from them. Caring about every lil developer not delivering top quality graphics is gonna turn us into makeitlookreal(hehe, he's a good chap though). I think we should shudder over this aspect rather than over lack of the graphical power ;)

[chrismt]

I'm also surprised about the comment on PS3's upscaling abilities. I know upscaling has already been mentioned, but I didn't know it would go up to 1080p. Even if there wont be many PS3 games to enjoy that nice 1080p set, at least you can enjoy previous generation's games in that resolution. Now PS1 in 1080p? Don't know if my eyes would bleed from seeing that many jaggies or not.

[CARTIER90]

Does anyone else while reading psinext think mags are a waste of money, then get seduced by them while passing the magazine racks in Tesco :) (or any other supermarket)....

[LiquidEagle]

Yeah Chris, we might need some kind of protective lenses for PS1 games in 1080p. Even looking at GT4 in 1080i was rough enough on my eyes :laugh:

Cartier: Sometimes I think that, but I would never give up my subscription to Game Informer. All PSiNext needs is some demo discs for me and I won't need a reason to pick up OPM (unless a Kojima game is on the cover, in which case I'm forced to buy the magazine regardless of publication :-p)

[CARTIER90]

yup, the vids are worth it.....I dont know about the US , but we pay £5.99 for a premium mag eg, Official Playstation Mag, while PSM comes in at £4....
(thats $11 and $7)

[Smokey]

i pay $15au for official aus mag with demo

[LiquidEagle]

$10 with demo, like $5 or $6 without, I think.

[DESONE]

More scans

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bigger scans.
http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newspsm4mb.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=psm16wb.jpg
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[LiquidEagle]

Ooh, thanks! Is there any way to enlarge them? I really wanna read that article about Katamari coming to an end!

[frosty]

Actually guys, PS1 in 1080p would have almost no jaggies, you're forgetting that RSX can anti-alias. What would suck is the incredibly low resolution textures, which would look blurry as hell.

[LiquidEagle]

Do we have a guarantee though that the PS3 would add that anti-aliasing? Bleem! did it on Dreamcast to spectacular results, but each package had to be custom-made for each game it seemed. I would love to see Anti-Aliasing on PS1 & 2 games :-D