E3 2006: Sony Japan Talks PS3
Missing ports and possibility of a power brick touched upon.
Izumi Kawanishi, head of Sony Computer Enteratinment's Software
Platform Development division, was in attendance at E3 to see the veil
fully lifted off his company's newest gaming behemoth. Japanese site IT
Media managed to score an interview with the high ranking executive and
asked the tough questions on all things PS3.
First, the two PS3 bundles. Kawanishi suggested to the site that gamers
should think of the two bundles as simply being two variations, akin to
the PC world where the same product is released in different memory and
hard disk variations. In particular, he noted that the base hardware is
the same between the two. He also mentioned that it might be nice to
offer additional variations in the future.
IT Media asked Kawanishi to give details on how Sony will be explaining
to potential PS3 purchasers the difference between the two models. When
playing games, explained Kawanishi, there will be no problem if you
consider both models to be the same. The level of importance of the
lack of HDMI on the 20 gig model depends on if your television has an
HDMI port. Also, the difference in hard disk size can be fixed by
swapping the 20 gig drive for a larger one.
The original PS3 model shown at last year's E3 had two HDMI ports. On
Monday, Sony unveiled the final system's design, and the 60 gigabyte
high-end model, the only model to include HDMI, had just one port. IT
Media asked the big question -- what in the world happened? Kawanishi
admitted that the port count has dropped down to one, but added that
Sony is looking into the possibility of including two in the future.
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