Marcus Mattsson

The local games shop in town had put up a PlayStation 3, so I got to play a little MotorStorm and some Formula 1 game. The console was running on a Sony Bravia LCD-TV with 720p. The employee immediately started bullshitting me about the incredible 1080p resolution he had seen at some Sony conference a few days earlier, too bad no games are able to use it yet numbnuts. Anyway…

Hardware
I actually don’t like the controller that much, the trigger buttons seemed a bit slippery, seeing as the buttons themselves are turning outwards and not in, which is the case with the Xbox 360 controller, which I like better overall, mostly because it has a better grip. I still prefer the design and D-pad of the DualShock 2 though. The design of the console itself is pretty neat too, pretty big, but doesn’t seem that much bigger (or smaller) than the 360.

Interface
The interface seems good enough, I’m used to it on the PSP, and didn’t get enough chance to browse around with it to be sure of what I think about it.

Games
As I mentioned I tried MotorStorm, and what a disappointment, the graphics don’t really look next-gen, and even though it was running in 720p I wasn’t impressed with the details. Same goes for the Formula 1 game, God I hate that genre.