bad ps3 news!!!!!

[peroxwhysm00]

OH MY GOD!!! the Xbox 360 uses about 160 watts of electricity! yes thats alot...and as most of you have prob already seen, with the german guy fryin an egg on the 360 heatsink and foolishly ate it, thats hot!! the Ps3 uses 380 watts!! thats more than double what 360 uses.....Is it just me or are these Ps3's gunna blow up!! literally...thats too hott! what do you think is gunna happen?

[f4st3rth4nyou]

well the 360's have had major problems with running hott, and i cant even imagine what the ps3 is gonna do with that much electicity heating the place up. I think they will fry unless playstation/sony made a very efective cooling system. I am guessing they have it under control tho.

[Chris]

You're hoping they have it under control. Everyone says the PS3 is amazingly quiet, so I'm just waiting for PS3 death news to come out from one blowing up.

Everyone seems to forget that Microsoft didn't want the heating issues. They thought they ironed all the problems out, we obviously all know that wasn't the case. So to say "Sony's making SURE no heating problems are going to happen with the PS3, unlike Microsoft!" Is extremely wrong and naive. They'll try their hardest to make sure nothing happens, but no one's ever sure. i.e. Microsoft.

[Nino]

peroxwhysm00 easy with that button and the fanboy remarks.

[Fanappy]

and try and get the thread in the right area

Being this one is called xbox live gaming and there is a Sony Playstation one

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Fanappy

and try and get the thread in the right area

Being this one is called xbox live gaming and there is a Sony Playstation one

Fixed.

[Fanappy]

thank you very much

[BikeRanger]

Is it just me or are these Ps3's gunna blow up!!

It's just you.

[Curry]

Do you have any solid source? Because I don't believe one thing about it consuming 380w.

[Rival24]

Originally Posted by Curry

Do you have any solid source? Because I don't believe one thing about it consuming 380w.

http://www.jp.playstation.com/support/qa-591.html

[Curry]

Omg Try baking eggs on THAT.

[Rival24]

Originally Posted by Curry

Omg Try baking eggs on THAT.

Don't you keep up with Playstatic

[Curry]

Hmm I completely missed that one article

[Sir SpankalotUK]

and its an internal power supply, dissipate that amount of heat is going to take some doing, will be interesting to see the amount of DOA's.

[Fanappy]

that is an insane amount of power its uses!!! I guess they havent heard about global warming in Japan yet

[acromyth]

Japanese are NUTS about gloabal warming and power consumption. Don't use dryers and are super, super pissed if you leave anything consuming electricity on. If they know the PS3 consumes that much, they might reconsider (no joke).

[Fanappy]

Hot on the heels of a profit nosedive and a slashing of Japanese PlayStation 3launch numbers, Sony has been dealt another blow--a thumbs-down from gaming guru Nolan Bushnell.

The industry veteran, who founded Atari back in 1971 along with Ted Dabney, has given Red Herring his personal opinion on the way the next-gen console war will play out. He's "curious" about the Wii, likes the Xbox 360, and has a few choice words to say about the PlayStation 3.

Bushnell called Sony "arrogant and capricious" in the interview. "I think Sony shot themselves in the foot... There is a high probability [the PS3] will fail. The price point is probably unsustainable," he said, referring to the $499 and $599 sticker prices of the system. "For years and years Sony has been a very difficult company to deal with from a developer standpoint... They have also historically had horrible software tools."

Other points of interest from the interview included his statement that Atari was now a shadow of its former self, and had no "meaningful" part in today's gaming world. The Atari name, once synonymous with the revolution in home gaming, was adopted by French company Infogrames in 2003.

Bushnell has founded more than 20 different companies throughout his career, and his latest business venture is the uWink Media Bistro in Woodland Hills, California, a restaurant where you can play video games at your table

Ripped from Gamespot UK

[Rival24]

Hmm it's quite easy to rant about what Sony's doing. We'll have to just wait and see what'll happen with it and don't judge too soon. They have announced quite a bunch of cool stuff that I definitely want to check out.

[Fanappy]

Yes it is! meh i like xbox 360 and never got used 2 the PS controller and i cannot afford or justify over £400 on a console with no games :p esp since my friend at Lionhead told me he didnt really see a difference between the PS3 dev kit and the 360 dev kit meh its all about personal choice i just hope sony dont got bust that would suck who would we have to argue with

[Thugboy4]

This thing is freaking huge! All that together is a giant fan and heatsink this biggest i've ever seen and i build and design computers.


And a picture of the underside minus the fan.

[Chris]

wow. Do you think it'll keep it cool enough? I've also heard that it's amazingly quiet.

[Thugboy4]

it should it covers the whole system board

[TwoXist]

well i guess we will find out if it uses that much power when peoples power bills start surging

[Thugboy4]

I got a picture of the power supply too believe me it uses that much power.

[Fanappy]

If its power usage is really as high as 380 watts i hope it does keep the thing cool otherwise there will be lots of dead systems.... which is not what sony need happpening
well im not even gonna see one till some point next yr
March 2007 maybe ?!?