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Sony Playstation TV Uses 3D To Change The Split Screen

This Sony playstation TV intended for PS3 gaming, Sony has obviously learned from the lessons of the PS3, and this playstation TV as an affordable 3DTV option. The price at $499. This is not the only product that Sony just introduced recently, the Playstation TV should offer up similar technologies as current 3DTVs, with support for 3D movies. The $499 retail price will net you the 3DTV, an HDMI cable, one pair of glasses and a copy of Resistance 3. Extra stereoscopic specs will go for...

PS3′s new 3D mode captured

You know what's absolutely useless? A video of Wipeout HD being played in 3D, with some schmuck wearing 3D glasses and babbling on about how much fun he's having. Well, that schmuck is this Engadget editor, the video can be found after the break, and we've gotta say: we loved it. Especially for something like Wipeout HD, whose neon-infused tracks make for an almost too convenient example of rapidly approaching vanishing points, we'd say 3D could really be a quasi-"killer app" for consoles...

PS3 firmware 3.0 locking out knock-off controllers?

Well, here's a bit of a curious situation. As Joystiq reports, it wasn't long after the PS3 firmware 3.0 went live that the first reports of problems started cropping up, with one particularly nagging issue being that some controllers (specifically the CECHZC2H Ceramic White DualShock3) seemed to be locked out of the console once the update was installed. After hashing it out a bit on the official PlayStation3 forum, however, users apparently determined that the controllers in question were in...

Sony PS3 Slim

Sony today took the wraps off their newest version of the Sony Playstation 3 gaming console. The Sony PS3 Slim had been a favorite rumor among fan blogs and technology pundits alike, and today the company finally made the device official. The Sony Playstation 3 Slim will trim down the original Playstation 3 in a few key ways, answering almost all of gamers' requests for changes in the original system without adding any new functionalisty. Most importantly, the new Sony PS3 Slim will see a price...

SSD Will Used PS3 Slim

Could the PS3 Slim have been even slimmer? It could have, according to Sony's Masayuki Chatani, but it would've cost you. That word comes from a wide-ranging interview Chatani gave to Tech-On!, in which he revealed (seemingly for the first time) that Sony had considered using SSD drives or even network storage to further reduce the size of the console. SSD drives were ultimately rejected, as you might have guessed, due to cost reasons, and Chatani says that network storage ultimately proved to...