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Having come up trumps with a PS3 on Saturday, Martyn Williams gave us a few initial impressions of using Sony’s great hope in Japan itself.
Chief among his findings were the blazing download speeds and the fact that physically being in Japan forces gamers to use Japanese as the interface language, which can be a pain.
Martyn says: “What’s with the user account setting? When I selected Japan as my country it only allowed me to choose Japanese as my language. The on-screen menu can be set to one of several languages, so why assume in the account settings that Japanese is the only language understood by gamers in Japan?”
It’s not all bad, however — of the movie trailers on offer, he says: “Downloads were fast — it felt like Sony’s server was next door to my house. It took about 20 seconds to download an 80MB trailer, which is one of the fastest downloads I’ve experienced.”
And, adding to the growing good vibe about the PS3, Martyn notes: “The PlayStation 3 will play back MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4 video, which means that a lot of the content available on the Internet can be played back on your TV through the PS3. Better yet, you can plug an external hard-disk drive into one of the USB ports on the PS3 and play back videos without having to transfer then to the console’s own hard-disk drive. That’s pretty cool — who would have thought a Sony product would offer such openness instead of the usual locked-down support users have grown used to?”
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