IEEE Spectrum - August 2006
"Expressway to your Skull"

[quote]If you believe the prerelease hype, Sony’s PlayStation 3 is the machine that is going to change the way we experience games. This past May, gamers got a taste of some much-awaited PS3 titles during the E3 conference in Los Angeles. In Resistance: Fall of Man, a first-person shooter set in a devastated England overrun by creepy creatures, bullets zip and thunk with stunning clarity, and blood sprays with gruesome realism. In Heavenly Sword, tables and bodies fly as in a martial arts movie while you face enemy squads controlled by artificial intelligence algorithms. And in Gran Turismo HD, a dozen racing cars speed and skid through the streets of Tokyo or on a dusty rally circuit that has the Grand Canyon as a backdrop.

Sony Corp., in Tokyo, has a lot staked on the success of the PS3—hundreds of millions of dollars, at least, and maybe even its future as the preeminent maker of consumer electronics. “Gamers are expecting a great deal from the PS3, because Sony has promised a lot,â€