PS3 launch: This was waiting
We chart the PS3 story from E3 2005 to 𒀰this week's Euro launch
August 2005
Buying a PS3? May as well hurl that , asold-gen per🧸ipheralswill be problematic.Meanwhile the news was that,if we were to believe old-hand developer John 'Quake' Carmack, Sony and Microsoft were just .
September 2005
Look at Xbox 360, Sony's Phil Harrisꦰon, it's got two models! It's all too confusing, said Harrison, before has🔯tily pointing out that this was just his opinion, that's all. Meanwhile, dev 'sources'claimed that PS3 was than 360, and it'd be launching in the summer, not spring, as Sony's decision to opt for Blu-ray support for the console's predicted high price.
Above: Sony would not be deterred from using the boomerang-style controller
every PS2 game, Sony warned this month. This kicked off a bad period for the Japanese giant as developers and considered defecting to Microsoft, after while working with PS3's new hardware. Worse was to come, however, as Sony an online service similar to the internet headache suffered by PS2 gamer💞s. Shudder.November 2005
A worldwide launch was already looking unlikely in November, when Sony chief Howard Stringer spoke of for Japan, and Christmas for US - although Eurಞope was predictably left unconsidered. Although that wouldn't matter if Sony were telling the truth about PS3 being .
Meanwhile Sony was adamant that the controver꧅sialboomerang controller , and Stringer broke cover once more to hint that PS3 would cost .
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Be🎃n Richa𒅌rdson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.