Not to be outdone by the Xbox 360, Nintendo leaked a few juicy details on their Revolution. Perrin Kaplin, Nintendo of America’s VP for corporate affairs, went on record with the following tidbits:

Wireless controllers
Backwards compatibility
Online built in
Sleek design that will stand on its side (she said the size would be the same as 3 DVD cases sitting on top of each other)
DVD format discs (wow)

According to the CVG piece, we may also see more of the Revolution than we think at E3…

Slashdot | Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge

Currently planned features:

• Backwards compatability with the GameCube
• Very small form factor ("The thickness of three DVD cases, and only slightly longer")
• Quick startup time
• Low noise emissions

Expect release in 2006 - a few months after the PS3 and X-Box 360. Here's a thread about that release date's advantages. Note that my username on Slashdot is rbullo.

Sony a confirmé un certain nombre d’informations au sujet de sa PlayStation 3 puisque tel sera bien son nom. La console, prévue pour 2006, utilisera bien la technologie Blu-Ray. Le lecteur pourra lire les formats CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R.

La PS3 sera rétro-compatible avec la PS2 et la PlayStation.

Alors que la puissance de la Xbox 360 sera de 115 gigaflops, celle de la PS3 sera de 218 gigaflops.

NVidia travaille avec Sony sur le "RSX Reality Synthesizer" de la PS3 qui devrait produire des graphismes de qualité cinéma à 60 fps. Sony annonce des performances graphiques supérieures à celles de deux GeForce 6800 réunies.

Les caractéristiques techniques :



CPU

* Cell Processor
* PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
* 1 VMX vector unit per core
* 512KB L2 cache
* 7 x SPE @3.2GHz
* 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
* 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
* total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS

GPU

* RSX @550MHz
* 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
* Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
* Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines

Sound

* Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)


Memory

* 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz
* 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz


System Bandwidth

* Main RAM 25.6GB/s
* VRAM 22.4GB/s
* RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
* SB 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)


System Floating Point Performance

* 2 TFLOPS


Storage

* HDD Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1


I/O

* USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
* Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
* SD standard/mini x 1
* CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1


Communication

* Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
* Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
* Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
* Controller Bluetooth (up to 7)
* USB2.0 (wired)
* Wi-Fi (PSP®)
* Network (over IP)


AV Output

* Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
* HDMI HDMI out x 2
* Analog AV MULTI OUT x 1
* Digital audio DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1


Disc media

* CD PlayStation® CD-ROM* read only
* PlayStation®2 CD-ROM
* CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW
* SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD
* DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
*DVD PlayStation®2 DVD-ROM
*PLAYSTATION®3 DVD-ROM
*DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R,DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
*Blu-ray Disc PLAYSTATION®3 BD-ROM
*BD-Video BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE



Fonctions multimédia :

Chat vidéo, accès Internet, lecture de photos numériques, musique numérique et vidéo numérique.


Les jeux :

Selon Sony, la série GTA accompagnera la sortie de la Playstation 3 avec un nouvel opus baptisé à l'heure actuelle Grand Theft Auto Next. Ce sera le cas aussi de The Getaway 3 dévoilé durant cette conférence, tout comme

Metal Gear Solid 4, Devil May Cry 4, Tekken 6, Gran Turismo 5 et le prochain Killzone.