{"id":524,"date":"2006-11-18T00:32:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T04:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2006-11-18T00:32:22","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T04:32:22","slug":"playstation-3-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 3 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Sony&#8217;s third generation video game console was released. And what a beast it is. I went to Best Buy to try it out, and got some pictures and a video.<\/p>\n<p>Let me just say this. Wow. And I mean that totally sincerely. Wow. I expected it to be amazing (well, with a $500 core model and $600 full, it pretty much has to be), but this is ridiculous. The graphical quality is freakin&#8217; amazing. It looks insanely photorealistic. The images it produces on the fly are like images pre-rendered by Pixar or something. I feel like I&#8217;m preaching here, but I really believe this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The new controller design (as in, redesigned l2\/r2 buttons) is awesome. I really like the trigger-style buttons. They move much faster and more fluidly.<\/p>\n<p>I took some photos of it at Best Buy, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maj.com\/cgi-bin\/gallery.cgi?f=128507\">this gallery<\/a> to check &#8217;em out.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the video I took (pardon the quality, youtube ruins movies&#8230;):<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mb0Ua0TxjWQ]<\/p>\n<p>(check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maj.com\/gallery\/zibredlektab\/Photos\/ps3\/p1010738.jpg\">this photo<\/a> for an idea of what the footage actually looked like)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Sony&#8217;s third generation video game console was released. And what a beast it is. I went to Best Buy to try it out, and got some pictures and a video. Let me just say this. Wow. And I mean that totally sincerely. Wow. I expected it to be amazing (well, with a $500 core [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,19,23,8],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers","tag-news","tag-releases","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}