From biz.gamedaily.com:
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Sony has contacted us to let us know that they may have spoken a bit prematurely. SCEA's Dave Karraker, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications, informed GameDaily BIZ that they currently cannot confirm that this 1080i issue will be resolved via a firmware patch. The official line is now that they are "looking into the issue and haven't stated any actions that will be taken regarding it."
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From 1up.com:
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We all got excited when the PS3s finally arrived. But that initial high wore off in shockingly short order. As talk circulated around the office from everyone playing the games for reviews it became clear that beyond Resistance, the launch lineup dropped off pretty sharply. It didn't take long for the gut feeling to develop that PS3 might just have the worst reviewed set of launch games in modern videogame history.

As it turns out a Sony console did indeed have the worst reviewed crop of launch games, but not the one we thought. The original PlayStation holds the title, with the nine (out of 12 release games for which Gamerankings has a composite score) racking up a lackluster 70.4 average score.

And not only isn't PlayStation 3 the worst reviewed launch lineup in recent memory, it's not even the worst in this latest "next-gen" round of launches. Believe it or not, that distinction goes to the Wii, despite having Zelda. Its 20 games combined for a 71.3 average, making it actually the second worst launch next to the PlayStation. With PS3 coming in at 73.4, that gave the crown to Xbox 360, which averaged 77.3 for its launch library.
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From ps3news.com:
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Tonight CJPC had some freetime and decided to install Linux Fedora Core 5 (PPC iSO) along with PS3 Other OS Installer and the kboot from the CELL-Linux-CL_20061110-ADDON.iso file. Once installed, he logged into the shell and dumped the Extended OS Area (which resulted in 4.0 MB (4,194,304 bytes) by using: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/extendedos.img

Next up, CJPC connected his external USB HDD to his PS3 (since he only has a 20GB stock PS3 HDD) and just (6) days after launch proceeded to dump (read "back-up" to $ony) his Madden NFL 07 PS3 Blu-ray Game Disc (the resulting iSO image is only 7.08 GB (7,597,719,552 bytes)) via the following: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/mnt/exthdd/imagename.img

If you happen to own a 60GB PS3, you can use this command instead to dump directly to your PS3's HDD: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/imagename.img

The PS3 Blu-ray Game Discs resemble the PSP file format.
Resistance: Fall Of Man is 17.53GB (18,827,837,440 bytes).
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As expected it didn't take long for someone to use linux on his PS3 to launch an emulator and try booting Microsoft Windows.
Below is a video of a PS3 Fedora Core5 install using QEMU to boot into Windows XP. It seems slow as hell ... probably because linux has access to only 256MB of RAM on the PS3.
QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator. It has support to emulate an x86 CPU on a PowerPC-based host CPU.

From videogamesblogger.com:
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The big-name PS3 racing game Gran Turismo HD was set for release "this winter" in Japan by developer Polyphony Digital as recently as last month. But it's nowhere to be seen, so a 2007 release seems certain, but what kind of delay will that cause for the Q2 2007 release in America? Retailer Gamestop even goes as far as to say the game won't be released for another year until December 1, 2007.
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From punchjump.com:
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Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 failed out of the box when a brand new retail unit was delivered to Punch Jump.
The 20GB PS3, purchased at an online retailer, did not accept discs due to a malfunction in the self-loading disc drive.
A PS3 game disc and a DVD disc were unable to physically move into the drive, though the machine attempts to pull the disc in for several seconds.
The eject button and several reboot attempts failed to solve the disc drive malfunction.

From gamesindustry.biz:
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Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced the price range for the original PlayStation titles being made available for PSP.

The first batch of original PlayStation games will go on sale for between US $5.99 and US $10.99. Weighing in at between 140MB and 550MB, they must be downloaded to a PS3 hard drive and can then be transferred to Memory Stick Duo.

The first titles will be available through the PlayStation Store "in the coming weeks", according to an official statement, and "additional first and third party games will be added on an ongoing basis".

SCEA has yet to confirm which games will hit the store first. However, ten games - including Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Tekken 2 and Arc the Lad - are due to go on sale through Sony Japan's online store today.
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From kotaku.com:
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Here's an issue that's been nagging me since I got my PlayStation 3 on Friday. I'm playing Resistance online, and suddenly the map will come up, or the score. I didn't hit the controls to bring these up...they just pop up on their own. Then at times I'll lose control, spin around, or sometimes even fire without wanting to. At first I thought it might be my general suckage at FPS games, but several readers have now complained about similar situations. Doesn't seem to happen when I am plugged in via the USB cable...only when I am wireless, and generally only when I am playing online.
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From joystiq.com:
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Average auction prices for both systems reached a high last Friday, with the Wii going for an average of over $580 (roughly 233 percent of retail) and the PS3 averaging nearly $2,400 sale prices (an astounding 397 percent of the retail price). Since then, prices have come down to more reasonable but still inflated levels, with Tuesday's Wii auctions ending at an average of just over $400 and PS3 auctions averaging just under $1,200.

Over 6,000 PS3 auctions finished on the 18th and over 7,000 Wii auctions were completed on the 20th. PS3 auctions have slightly outpaced Wii auctions thus far, with nearly 15,000 Sony systems auctioned in the past week compared to just under 14,000 Wiis.
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From kotaku.com:
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AmTech analyst PJ McNealy guesstimates that Sony's opening weekend shipments for the Playstation 3 were lower than the already lower than expected numbers.

Their "research" concludes that the actual Playstation 3 launch numbers were in the range of 125,000 to 175,000 and that includes the 15,000 or so being used for kiosks. No wonder people were shooting each other for the console.
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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When asked what EA would like Sony to do differently for the European launch, Intat (Electronic Arts' vice president and general manager of Europe) replied: "We would obviously like to see more units. For sure, they will not have enough, but they can never have enough."

Intat also revealed that as a publisher EA has recently been taking hardware manufacturers' launch estimations with a pinch of salt, expecting final numbers to fall shy of the figures spouted by execs on the run-up to release.
"What we've really been seeing on the last hardware launches from all manufacturers is that there has always been deterioration in the amount of units on the run-up to launch, so it's nothing new," he said.
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From ps3.ign.com:
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Sony Computer Entertainment's Director of Corporate Communications, Dave Karraker, had plenty of positive comments to make about the launch of the PlayStation 3 in an official comment made earlier today, and also spoke on the future of the PS3 for the coming weeks.

"Sony Computer Entertainment America couldn't be more pleased with the response we have seen from consumers since the launch of PlayStation 3 on Friday [November 17], stated Karraker. "This truly demonstrates the power of the PlayStation brand and further validates our belief that consumers see real value in an entertainment system that will define the next decade of digital entertainment. At this point, we are focused on getting as many new PS3s to the North American market as possible for the holidays, including airlifting systems to the territory on a constant basis. With PS3 manufacturing now running smoothly -- and product being aired in weekly -- we're focused on our goal of shipping a million units to retail by the end of the calendar year. Due to the immediate nature of these shipments, we will not be providing weekly updates on North American supplies."

In addition to the statement above, Karraker also offered a number of "fun facts." These little tidbits included things like what the two biggest selling games were (Resistance, followed by Madden NFL 07); the 60GB model outsold the 20GB model; and that PS2 and PSP sales increased that week for Sony's top five retailers (a 29% increase for PSP and a 24% increase for PS2).
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From geekpatrol.ca:
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Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark suite for Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, and Linux. Geekbench is designed to measure the performance an average application can expect from both the processor and the memory subsystem.

On Monday I started receiving requests for Geekbench for Linux PPC so people could run it on the PlayStation 3. I managed to get a beta version out last night and while it's not quite ready for public release yet, one beta tester sent in the results for his PlayStation 3 which I thought I'd share. To give the results some context, I'm going to compare the PlayStation 3 results against one of the first Power Mac G5s running at 1.6GHz with 1280 MB RAM.

There was a comment on Slashdot last year that made the following assertion about the Cell processor:
"The problem is that though the main CPU is PowerPC-based like current Apple chips, it is stripped down, and the Altivec support will be much lower than in current G5s. Unoptomized, Apple code would run like a G4 on this hardware."

Turns out the comment was right; Cell processor performance is comparable to low-end PowerPC G5 performance (which in turn is comparable to high-end PowerPC G4 performance). I can't comment on Altivec performance, unfortunately, since Geekbench for Linux PPC doesn't measure Altivec performance yet.

Geekbench also isn't able to exploit the eight vector processors on the Cell processor. Any program designed and optimized for the Cell processor should be a lot faster than one designed for a generic processor (like, say, Geekbench). So while the Geekbench results might seem disappointing, keep in mind that Geekbench can't exercise the PlayStation 3 to its full potential.
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From wired.com:
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Sony just sent out a media advisory, letting us know that another shipment of PlayStation 3 has gone out to retail and that they will be in stores "by Black Friday."

Unfortunately, that's all the updates we're going to get. Says the statement:
"With PS3 manufacturing now running smoothly and product being aired in weekly, we're focused on our goal of shipping a million units to retail by the end of the calendar year. Due to the immediate nature of these shipments, we will not be providing weekly updates on North American supplies."
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From gizmodo.com:
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Here's a clip of the PS3 and PSP playing well together over WiFi. If you've forgotten, Remote Play is a mode on the PS3 that lets you use a PSP handheld as both a controller and a remote screen for the Playstation over WiFi. The thing is, all you can do is browse the net, which you can already do on the PSP. And you can hit up the vids, photos, and videos on the PS3. But not access the Blu ray discs. Too bad, streaming downsized Blu ray over WiFi would be pretty fantastic.

From biz.gamedaily.com:
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Today Sony Computer Entertainment America confirmed the problem to GameDaily BIZ:
"A small number of older High Definition television sets found in the United States only have 1080i inputs for HD signals. Those televisions will currently only play some PS3 titles at 480p resolution. PS3 games render images at either 720p or 1080p for High Definition, and you need 720p input on the TV to play select games that do not support 1080p. This is an issue on the side of the individual television sets, which do not accept 720p input, so when a game outputs an HD signal only at 720p, these select TVs have to display the game at 480p instead."

The SCEA spokesperson went on to assure us that Sony is working on a solution.
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From kotaku.com:
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An anonymous tipster writes that Best Buy's next big Playstation 3 shipment will be hitting on December 12. Yikes, I hope that's not true. Sony's been saying that the consoles wouldn't be coming in large shipments, since they are not being flown in rather than boated in, and that it would be a smaller, though steadier stream of consoles.
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From bloomberg.com:
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Sony Corp. may have missed its goal of having 400,000 PlayStation 3 consoles in U.S. stores for the video-game player's Nov. 17 debut, analysts said.

The number of machines available was ``even lower than expected,'' Kaufman Bros. Equity Research analyst Todd Mitchell said today in a research note. Analysts including Michael Savner at Banc of America Securities and Anthony Gikas at Piper Jaffray & Co. also predicted a shortfall.

Parts shortages forced Sony to reduce its year-end goal for worldwide shipments of the new console by half, to 2 million, in September.

``We shipped as many PlayStation 3 units into the North American market as possible and continue our efforts in supplying systems to retailers nationwide through the holidays,'' Sony spokeswoman Kimberly Otzman said today in an e-mail.

The company is airlifting in shipments weekly, and aims to have 1 million units in U.S. stores by the end of the year, Otzman said. She didn't say how many shipments were on hand for the launch.
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From threespeech.com (the "semi" official PlayStation blog):
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We've been trying to find out what's going on regarding being able to register usernames online via the PlayStation Store (we were originally told this would be in operation worldwide today)

All we're being told at present is that the launch of this service has now been delayed - and that a new date will be confirmed shortly. We'll keep you posted.
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From eurogamer.net:
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The first steps of what became the PlayStation had started life several years earlier. Sony's first foray into videogames was actually back in the mid '80s, ironically as one of the manufacturers of the Microsoft-backed MSX home computer, but it was a collaboration with another future competitor that would ultimately produce the PlayStation. Sony's dalliance with Nintendo stemmed from fears that the increasingly successful Game Boy would encroach upon sales of the Walkman, and produced a joint venture between the two companies that was supposed to see Sony develop a CD-ROM drive for Nintendo's Super Famicom.

The project was scheduled to be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1989, but on the day that the add-on was due to be announced, Nintendo reneged on the deal. Fearing that the deal would give Sony too much control over the finished product, Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi simply terminated the agreement. Nintendo would instead, it was announced, be working with Philips to produce the unit.
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From engadget.com:
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In what's sure to be a frontrunner for the "oh snap" moment of the day (or year), a presumably frustrated, delusional, and impatient individual apparently forgot to read the fine print on his latest eBay win. While it's no secret that PlayStation 3 units have been selling for incredulous prices, snagging one for $900 probably seemed like quite the deal at the time; however, the poor sap failed to realize that he/she just committed almost one thousand dollars to purchasing three original PlayStation consoles.
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From cbs2.com:
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Two men who had agreed to buy two PlayStation 3 consoles from a third man attacked the seller at a La Palma McDonald's restaurant early Monday morning.
The victim -- a man in his 20s whose name was not released -- was assaulted with pepper spray and robbed of the coveted consoles.
The victim said that he had advertised the consoles on Craigslist.com, and was trying to sell both items for $5,000. PS3s retail for $500 or $600 per unit.
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From ps3.ign.com:
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Today, Sony Japan at last got around to announcing official PS3 brand cables. Set for Japanese release on 11/22 is an official D-terminal cable. It will be followed on 12/7 by a composite AV cable, an S-video cable and a component AV cable. The composite cable will sell for 1,500 yen with the three other cables delivering double plus performance for double the price, 3,000 yen.
Each cable is 3 meters in length and uses 24K gold connectors.

It should be noted that PS2 branded cables do the job just fine with the PS3. However, if you find yourself concerned about having that number "2" on the packaging, you now have an alternative.
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Sony released their 4th "Play B3yond" internet ad explaining the Sixasis Controller.

From next-gen.biz:
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The New York Times has reviewed the just-released PlayStation 3--and it's not a fan of the console, to say the least; Sony dismisses the viewpoint.

Writer Seth Schiesel's thoughts on the PS3 in a nutshell: "Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company's new video game system just isn't that great."
He wrote, "Sony blithely insisted that the PS3 would leapfrog all competition to deliver an unsurpassed level of fun. ... Put bluntly, Sony has failed to deliver on that promise."
He described the PS3's functions as "clunky," also lamenting the exclusion of high-definition cables, the not-so-wireless controllers, lack of custom soundtracks and unintuitive online store.

Sony Computer Entertainment America communications boss Dave Karraker dismissed the review, telling Next-Gen in an e-mail, "This is one person's view of the PlayStation 3 and is not reflective of the majority of great reviews the system has received to date."
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Here's a video with voiceover explanations of Fedora Core 5 for PPC running on the PlayStation3.

Sony released more details about their 'Open Platform' for the PS3:
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PLAYSTATION®3 allows a third-party system software to be installed on it besides its system software provided by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Such third-party system software is referred to as "Other OS".

Installing an "Other OS" on PLAYSTATION®3 requires two files. One is the "Other OS Installer" distributed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (which is called installer hereafter), and the other is the "Other OS boot loader" (called boot loader hereafter) provided by the third party.

The installer installs the boot loader of an "Other OS" on a boot‐loader‐dedicated storage area of PLAYSTATION®3. Once the boot loader of an "Other OS" has been successfully installed, it automatically starts up instead of the PLAYSTATION®3's system software at every power on by selecting it as"Default System"in the menu of the PLAYSTATION®3's system software.

The installer installs only the boot loader of an "Other OS". It is assumed that any further installations, such as the installation of "Other OS" files on the built-in hard disk of PLAYSTATION®3, are performed when the installed boot loader starts up. For more details, please contact the provider of the boot loader you are using.

Please note that we can accept no inquiries or requests about any "Other OS" and the boot loader. If you have any inquiries or requests on an "Other OS" or the boot loader, please contact the provider directly.
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Manuals and Downloads: here
Open Platform FAQ: here
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As if SmashMyPS3 wasn't bad enough already ... a new video got released today of 2 people massacring a PS3 (box) on release date with a chainsaw.
Am I the only who doubts there's actually a real PS3 console in the box? The real PS3 is prolly standing next to his TV right now ;)

From cbc.ca:
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Sony says more of its PlayStation 3 video game consoles are on the way after the initial shipment sold out on Friday, the first day it was available in North America.

"We are getting a second shipment next week, probably around the middle of next week," Matt Levitan , marketing and public relations manager for Sony Computer Entertainment of Canada, told CBC News Online on Friday. "We'll know by Monday or Tuesday when they will be available.

Levitan expects four or five shipments before the end of the calendar year, estimating each batch will be the equivalent of a quarter of the units available at launch.
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From joystiq.com:
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The second and third parts of Newsweek's N'Gai Croal three-part series consider why 360 software sales haven't yet boosted demands for the hardware and how Microsoft courted many titles away from PS3-exclusive status.

Croal says that Sony was too focused on Japanese developers and its national launch of the PS3 that its American and European divisions couldn't get developer negotiation approval from the Japanese mothership. Microsoft maintained contact with Rockstar and others through this Sony silence, scaring up Xbox 360 versions of third-party PlayStation mainstays. Apparently, Ubisoft wanted Assassin's Creed to be a PS3 exclusive but couldn't steal Sony's focus from the initial Japanese launch. (So that's what was going on.)
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From joystiq.com:
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You'd think that after the buzz the PS3 has been getting lately, Sony would be a little more confident in itself. Analysts are predicting major victory for the PS3 and it even got a (pseudo) political endorsement. Yuichi Ejiri, general manager of sales and marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong, wasn't completely ecstatic about his product.

According to Dow Jones, Ejiri "conceded that competition in the game console market is intensifying with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. offering cheaper devices," an odd concession from a Sony official on the day the PS3 launched in his own territory. The Hong Kong 60GB PS3, priced at HK$3,780 (or $485 US, those lucky bastards), is competition for HD-DVD, or so Ejiri says.
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