Now that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 specifications have been announced, it is possible to do a real world performance comparison of the two systems.

It took a little wrangling since we didn?t have an appointment, but we managed to blag our way into the backroom where Sony had three genuine PlayStation 3 consoles on display.

Engadget

In many ways, Xbox 360's graphics processor goes well beyond anything we currently have available on the PC. In today's article, we go over all the details of ATI's architecture with ATI VP of Engineering, Bob Feldstein. Bob discusses everything ranging from the 48 pipes, to ATI's "AA" for free comment. Catch all the details inside!

HardwareOC send word that they've snagged a video of Unreal Tournament 2007 on Sony's PlayStation 3

We will show the world what a next-gen system can be. Revolution marries the strongest heritage of innovation to the future of gaming," says Nintendo President Satoru Iwata. "With backward compatibility and the 'virtual console' concept, the stylish, compact body provides maximum gaming power.

ByteSector

Electronic Arts announces largest commitment in its history to Xbox 360. Key industry publishers already in development on more than 160 Xbox 360 games! Xbox 360 backward compatible with top-selling Xbox games.

First photo of the Playstation 3, mmMmm very droolable :P Read more for specs!

Yes, after all the PS3 will have only one CELL, due to cost issues, and the decision of making a GPU on PS3 by NVIDIA, is due largely to this fact : Only ONE CELL on PS3, so there is no way that this CELL could be used as a multi-purpose processor and as a GPU in the same time ! 256 GFLOPS is not sufficient to do this?gone are the days of DREAMING of ((( a PS3 with 4 CELLS ( 4*256 GFLOPS = 1024 GFLOPS or 1 teraflops) with 1024 GFLOPS power, allowing the system to do all the graphics stuff plus AI, PHYSICS?on those CELLS without any need of a GPU, and making the dream of real time ray-tracing finally possible?))) Unfortunately, its not the case, and without wasting time, those are near-final PS3 specifications :

GamesAreFun

Could this be the Next-Gen "Revoloution" console from NINTENDO? Check it out!

Here's some larger Pic's of the Console and Controller

A video presentation of the new Nintendo Revolution console appeared on the net on a Spanish forum. The video starts with the early Nintendo Entertainment System and progresses to the current Nintendo DS. The presentation then goes on to show what seems to be the Nintendo Revolution.

FlexBeta

Word has gotten round a few forums about the existence of a PSP emulator for Windows. Although it?s not technically an emulator, the ELF file interpreter does run some of the homebrew code compiled for the Japanese 1.0 PSP (such as Hello World by NEM).

The graphics system uses the R500 GPU from ATI. Whilst all sorts of information has been flying round, here's what we know. R500 is an Xbox-only chip. R520, ATI's next PC part, is nothing like it. It won't be until R600 - possibly this time next year, or even early 2007 - that we see the Xbox-esque features on the PC. The GPU itself uses a unified shader architecture. That is, unlike PC graphics boards - which use a pixel shader pipeline and vertex shader pipeline - just one pipeline is used for both, which will, it is said, lead to more efficient programming and better performance.

In a surprising twist on the next generation hardware race, a Sony representative has stated that a year 2005 release for the next generation PlayStation is a possibility.

PS3-IGN

The next Nintendo console will be no more than three DVD cases tall, or about an inch. The console will feature wireless conrollers, online play, play standard DVD movies and use the format to play a ?new class of high-definition games.? It will also play GameCube, that?s right it?s backwards compatible.

Kotaku

We all know that the Xbox 360 will be a gaming console, but did you know its abilities are going to reach far beyond playing games? The Xbox 360 has changed the Xbox from a gaming console into a lifestyle device.

Leave it to Wired to manage to finesse a few tidbits of interesting news out of yet another story about the upcoming E3. The story mostly talks about the unveiling, to one degree or another, of the three new consoles. The Xbox 360 and Revolution mentions don?t include much new info, but Wired hauls out some new facts about the PS3 by digging through an interview a French-language business site had with the senior vide president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

Kotaku

Playstation Japan have released an updated firmware v1.51, that fixes a few security bugs.

Playstation Japan are releasing an updated firmware v1.51 soon, that fixes a few security bugs.

Ladies and gentlemen, hello. I am Japanese who one of the PSP fans. GB emulator for PSP was released by Mr. MIRAKICHI in 2ch that was the most famous forum in Japan a little while ago.

PS2DEV

The first-person shooter will include 22 weapons, selectable spawn points and the ability to scan your body in via a camera so the image can be your in-game avatar. Can?t wait to get my grubby little paws on that one.

Kotaku