From ps3land.com:
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We here at PS3Land were lucky enough to be able to get a Q&A session with the good folks over at Nyko about their plans for the PS3.

* PS3Land: How did you design the Intercooler to benefit the PS3 to the fullest?
* NYKO: We designed a cooling device that worked with the internal PS3 fans to aid the flow of hot air out of the console. The Intercooler was also designed to be small and match the contours of the PS3. These features are important because it maximizes the cooling power while not detracting from the look of the console. It also allows the PS3 to be used in a horizontal or vertical position.

* PS3Land: What other accessories are currently being developed for the PS3?
* NYKO: We have several accessories in the works for the PS3 but the only one we have announced at this time is a PS3 version of our new line of Zero controllers. We have not revealed what Zero for PS3 looks like yet but you can check out the PS2 version at http://www.nyko.com/microsite_zero.

* PS3Land: How much should gamers expect to pay for these accessories?
* NYKO: The Intercooler PS3 will retail for around $19.99-$29.99 and Zero will be $49.99.
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After the somewhat creepy tv-spot with the baby doll, Sony is now airing a new commercial on US TV stations featuring Rubik's Cube.

IGN posted pictures of the final retail PS3 game cases.

From engadget.com:
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In the second part of our pre-release PlayStation 3 videos, we've got a full walkthrough of the XMB menus and user interface of the console. No, sorry, no gameplay -- why bother when our video camera wouldn't show the graphic subtleties anyway? -- but we've got the A-Z on almost everything in the console, including the new and improved Sony browser, the Folding@Home client, and even a tiny preview of the PlayStation Network's friends and messaging features.
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From gizmodo.com:
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Sony's been throwing a PS3 fest here in New York. Richard Blakeley, gave us a first hand look at the PS3's web browser interface. Typing URLs with the controller is somewhat clunky as you can see from the video itself (luckily you can plug in a USB keyboard), but otherwise it'll let you open up to 6 different browser windows simultaneously and then tile them (Expose style) so you can see them all at once.

From next-gen.biz:
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EA CFO Warren Jenson said, "We're thinking that with PlayStation 3 in North America, the [2006 shipment] range is probably 500,000 to 800,000. If you take the middle of that range, that's approximately what Microsoft sold last year on the Xbox 360."

EA's estimations for PS3 shipments are substantially less than Sony's North American target, which is 1 to 1.2 million shipped.
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From next-gen.biz:
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Although PlayStation 3 supplies will be tight this November, Sony said that it would be launching the console in Hong Kong and Taiwan on November 17.

Tech site DigiTimes cited Sony Computer Entertainment Asia managing director Tetsuhiko Yasuda, who said that the Taiwanese 60GB hard drive-equipped PS3 would launch first, costing the equivalent of $545. The $455 20GB model is set to launch in the region in December.
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From joystiq.com:
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Some mates over at the E-mpire Forums have scrounged up what appear to be Japanese reviews of five PS3 launch titles by way of Famitsu magazine.

* Resistance: Fall of Man = 9, 8, 8, 8
* Ridge Racer 7 = 9, 9, 9, 9
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire = 8, 8, 8, 8
* Miyazato (Sega) Golf Club = 7, 7, 7, 7
* Genji: Days of the Blade = 7, 7, 7, 8
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From eurogamer.net:
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Speaking to Eurogamer's Rob Fahey as part of an interview being serialised on semi-official Sony blog Three Speech, Harrison said that EDI had been "a call to action to the development community to encourage them to create games specifically for us, that we would fund, that we would publish, in the online sense of the word, and distribute online".

"We're developing about 40 products that fit that strategy right now," he added. They showed off flOw at the Tokyo Game Show, of course, with others like Calling All Cars (David Jaffe's title, formerly known as Criminal Crackdown) also generating a lot of interest.
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From money.cnn.com:
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The stakes are high for Sony in the delayed launch of the PS3. They may be even higher for its ultra-cool ad agency, says Fortune's Devin Leonard.

The launch of the PS3 will be one of the most closely watched new-product rollouts of all time. Sony is spending $150 million on the ad campaign by TBWA, which has done all the ads in the U.S. for the videogame console since the launch of the first PlayStation in 1995.
For the past year it has been working on the ad campaign for the Nov. 17 launch of the third-generation platform - giving the Los Angeles office a chance to demonstrate once again that it is one of the world's coolest creative shops.

The goal isn't to sell the PS3 on the first day of the launch - PlayStation fans will probably grab every one of the 400,000 units off the shelves.
The agency's job is to persuade those who leave the store empty-handed to wait - to not buy Xbox or Wii - even if it means holding off until after Christmas before Sony can ramp up its manufacturing enough to satisfy the demand.
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From biz.gamedaily.com:
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Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News recently interviewed Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack. The Canadian developer is currently working on Too Human exclusively for the Xbox 360, but Dyack doesn't believe there's much difference in terms of power between the 360 and Sony's PS3.

"The 360 and the PS3 are equal in power in my eyes. Maybe the PS3 has more processing power. The 360 has more available memory. It's pretty much a net, net. The public perception of the PS3 was that it was much more powerful. To developers, they look even," he said.
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From kotaku.com:
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Via one of our insiders comes this helpful list of the 18 Best Buy stores which will be having midnight opening for ths PS3:
* Park Lane, TX
* West LA, CA
* Chesterfield, MO
* El Cajon
* Superstition Springs, AZ
* Chapel Hill, OH
* Richfield, MN
* Galleria, TX
* Butterfield RD, IL
* Wester Hollywood, CA
* Ann Arbor, MI
* Gwinnet, GA
* Hialeah, FL
* South Tampa, FL
* Mt Laurel, NJ
* Manhattan NoHo, NY
* Landmark, MA
* Manhattan Midtown, NY
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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Ubisoft executive Alain Corre has said he believes Microsoft is set to reap the benefits of the European PS3 delay this Christmas in the form of extra hardware and software sales.

Speaking in an exclusive interview, Corre - who is executive director of EMEA territories - said, "We had three PS3 games down for Christmas. I would have preferred the PS3 to come in, but it wasn't a big part of our business plan this year, and it can easily be replaced by the extra sales we'll do on 360 games that would have been cannibalised by PS3 games.

"I think that Sony giving an extra Christmas to Microsoft is an issue because the more 360 is established in homes, the less PS3 will be," he continued.
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From videogamesblogger.com:
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The Nikkei Keizai Shimbun morning edition reports today that due to component shortages, Sony will have only 80,000 units ready for the PS3's November 11th Japanese launch. This cuts back by a fifth the initial launch target of 100,000.

The big question now is if these PlayStation 3 production problems will stop their influence at the Japanese allocation, Sony's homeland of all places, or if they will also cut down the North American launch day availability with a fifth from 400,000 to 320,000 PS3's?
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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Following the closure of Lik-Sang last week, fellow online retailer Play-Asia.com has told customers reserving an import PlayStation 3 that their preorders have been cancelled.

In an email sent out to consumers yesterday, Play-Asia cited "licensing and distribution limitations" as the reason for the cancellations.

The news comes less than a week after Lik-Sang announced it was to close following a series of lawsuits filed by Sony over the issue of import PSPs. Earlier this month, Sony warned that it would "utilise the full scope of the law" to prevent retailers from importing any of its consoles.
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From newlaunches.com:
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The PS3 is a power hug and consumes around 380 watts of power more than double the Xbox 360's 160 watts and eight times the PS2's nimble 45 watts. So spending an average of 4 hours a day on the machine will add approx $ 80 to your yearly power bill.
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From gamesindustry.biz:
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Sony CEO Howard Stringer has conceded that the company must explore new ways of boosting profits in order to "offset the performance of the PlayStation 3".

"We promised the margins for next year will be 5 percent and we have every intention of doing that," he confirmed.
"Considering some of the additional costs of PlayStation 3, we have to generate some excitement and profits from elsewhere in the company to offset the performance of PlayStation 3."

"I think the idea of worrying about a delay in PlayStation is slightly strange to me. Every complex technology runs the risk of delays," Stringer said.
"The point really is that PlayStation 3 is already finished and has been tested in America and has been deemed a creative success. In the end that is what counts."
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From gamespot.com:
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I'm covering the backward compatibility testing first since a lot of readers have been asking about it.

Slide in a PS2 game and the PS3 will recognize it as a "PlayStation 2 Format Disc."
Before launching the game, the PS3 will prompt you to create an internal memory card on the hard drive to enable game saves.
Gran Turismo 4 loaded just fine on the PS3.
The PS3 doesn't do anything special to improve image quality for PS2 or PS1 games, but GT4 has built-in support for 1080i.
We used Battle Arena Toshinden 3 for our PS1 backward compatibility test.
The PS3 ran Toshinden perfectly but couldn't do anything for the decade-old graphics. Finally, we tried out a Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts 2 to see how the PS3 handled region locking for PS2 games.
The new console can play PS3 games from any region, but it looks like the system will obey region restrictions for games from older PlayStation platforms.
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From biz.gamedaily.com:
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No console maker has ever dominated three consecutive platform generations. Will Sony pull it off? We think so. Here's why the PlayStation 3 will assume the PS2's throne in the next few years...

Here are five reasons why we believe Sony will stay on top in the console race:
* The Brand
* Microsoft (somewhat) Squandered its Lead
* Japan is Ripe for the Taking
* Blu-ray Will Matter
* Free Online

New console launches are often some of the most exciting periods to witness in the video game industry and we can't wait to watch it all unfold. This industry is poised for some tremendous growth in the years ahead, but we still believe it'll be Sony that'll maintain a leadership position and will lead the charge forward.
We don't expect Sony to dominate the way it did with the PS2. Certainly the first six to twelve months could be rough going for the PS3 as Sony deals with ramping up its manufacturing, but at the end of the day Sony will have done the "impossible" by winning three console generations in a row.
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