Up close and personal with the PS3 hardware

To get up close and personal with the PS3, it helps to work for PSM3, we guess – or Famitsu. It’s now the Japanese game site’s turn to show off a PS3 (not necessarily their own, or maybe they borrowed them). Courtesy of their pictures, and some rough translations, we can present their guided pictorial tour of the PS3 and the new SIXAXIS controller.

The cosmetic differences between the 60GB and 20GB models seems to be a more silver-finished disc loading panel for the 60GB. The disc slot loading system should work whether the PS3 is mounted horizontally or vertically. The power/reset button is quite interesting, because it ISN’T a button (uh, we think). It seems to be some sort of heat sensor that reacts to the temperature of your fingertip to power and reset the console.

So the flap at the back of the 60GB model covers media loading slots for compact flash and SD memory cards. Below it are four USB ports. On the other hand, located at the right are the ports for HDMI (now in 20GB as well!), LAN cable, digital optical and A/V composite/component, main power switch and AC cable port.

And the SIXAXIS controller’s covered at the full article!

To get up close and personal with the PS3, it helps to work for PSM3, we guess – or Famitsu. It’s now the Japanese game site’s turn to show off a PS3 (not necessarily their own, or maybe they borrowed them). Courtesy of their pictures, and some rough translations, we can present their guided pictorial tour of the PS3 and the new SIXAXIS controller.

The cosmetic differences between the 60GB and 20GB models seems to be a more silver-finished disc loading panel for the 60GB.What’s cool is that the disc slot loading system should work whether the PS3 is mounted horizontally or vertically. The power/reset button is quite interesting, because it ISN’T a button (uh, we think). It seems to be some sort of heat sensor that reacts to the temperature of your fingertip to power and reset the console.

So the flap at the back of the 60GB model covers media loading slots for compact flash and SD memory cards. Below it are four USB ports. On the other hand, located at the right are the ports for HDMI (now in 20GB as well!), LAN cable, digital optical and A/V composite/component, main power switch and AC cable port.

And now the SIXAXIS controller. Compared to the DualShock 2, the only difference is the “PS Home” button on the SIXAXIS taking the place of the “Analog” switch on the DualShock. Famitsu says that the SIXAXIS feels “securely” lighter without the rumble weights of its predecessor (hey, that’s how the web translator translated it).

One last comparison shows the redesign of the shoulder buttons. The L2/R2 buttons on the SIXAXIS (on the right in the last pic) now feature a smaller profile, but with more freedom of travel than the DualShock’s L2/R2 – or the L1/R1 on both for that matter.

Now, you probably can’t wait to get your hands on the PS3 once it ships. Until that happens, do check our site regularly for more PS3 sneak peeks and updates.