Today's hottest game video: PS3 web browser in action

by Kevin Kelly on Nov 4th 2006 12:21AM

We're leapfrogging to spot number three tonight, because the top slots are currently being pwned by the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess trailer (117,537 views!) and the intro video that we've already hit. Coming up a distant third (a paltry 27,797 by comparison) is the PlayStation 3 web browser in hot, glorious video action.

Some of the cool features are that you can have six browser sessions active at any given time, you can punch in addresses and text using the controller, a usb keyboard or *snap* a bluetooth keyboard. Slickest of all is the ability to use the left analog stick as your mouse, FTW! It will be pretty sweet to surf the web between gaming sessions, but it would be even sweeter to be able to upload screenshots of yourself owning someone online to a website using the browser. Give us some kind of smacktalk feature, Sony. We're gonna need it.

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Reader Comments (56)

Analog controller mice are cool, but point and click on the Wii will rock.

i dont think you can say "hottest game video" here if it has been beaten by two other hotter game videos.

I agree, though I hope Nintendo thinks up something good for how to type in web addresses. I'd like to see a USB keyboard for the Wii, instead of an onscreen keyboard.

Fucking dumbass, conform to non-conformity Joystiq. You guys always purposely avoid anything that might put you in the same galaxy as anyone who might remotely be considered a fanboy, there-by completely missing the boat one of the most important topics of the day. What do we get instead? Fucking PS3 browser video!? FUCKING BULLSHIT, JOYSTIQ.

TWILIGHT PRINCESS IMPRESSIONS BY ALL THE MAJOR SITES.

Check IGN. Check Gamespot. Check Game Informer. Check any decent site, for crying out loud.

POST IT, BITCHES!!!

#4 - use your genius to either surf to the link in this story, or else check yesterday's hottest game trailer. We covered it.

Love,

Your Mom.

@ #4.

No you didn't, num-nuts.

48-hour gameplay impressions. Lots of journalists spent 2 whole days with the game at NOA this week, and their (lengthly and thorough) impressions are surfacing. Why isn't Joystiq covering that instead of lame-ass PS3 browser crap???

#3: Last time I checked, Wii had USB ports. I don't think implementing USB keyboard spec is that hard.. let's hope Nintendo was nice.

Analog mouse cursor? Welcome to 2000 with the Dreamcast browser. Only six windows too? Seems like a bizzare number and I don't doubt the PS3 has horsepower for much more than only 6.

FTW INDEED ON THE ANALOG MOUSE. FUCK NUMBER FOUR, HES JUST MAD WII IS STUCK IN 1987 WITH THE ZELDA REHASH TO GO ALONG WITH YOUR KILLER APP. COOKING MAMA: COOK OFF.

Kevin,

It's best never to feed the trolls, even when you know they are wrong. Even this post is more than he deserves.

A web browser is going to look like ass on a television 26" or larger, and it will look like complete junk in 480i.

There's really no point to this. It sucked on the Dreamcast, it sucked on WebTV, it sucks on MSNTV, and it will suck on anything else that puts the internet on your television. The size is all wrong. You're either straining to read, or filling your screen with big, ugly fonts and images.

I loved the Dreamcast, but web browsing was absolutely fricking useless on a console, and remains so for most people.

its just a feature, its not something sony is banking on or some shit, if u want it, its there, take it or leave it.

So how long until Microsoft releases IE for 360?

It's funny to see a lot of xbots complaining about there being a web-browser on PS3 when it's bound to come in an update to the Xbox 360 in spring next year or earlier. Oddly enough, it'll be heralded then as the second coming of Christ and the proof that Microsoft innovates.

Is it possible to use the same bluetooth keyboard for the PS3 and a PC?
And if you can use a bluetooth keyboard what about a bluetooth mouse?
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ZeroCorpse (#11), I have to say that I disagree with you. I never had a problem with the Dreamcast browser (I was reliant on it when my computer was down!), and all I've ever had is a 20-something inch SDTV.
And I never had the Dreamcast mouse, either. I browsed fine using the analog stick.

Support for USB/Bluetooth mice would be nice for PS3's browser. Ya know, it's nice to have alternatives? Analog stick browsing is nice, but mouse browsing is better.

And only six tabs? Sheesh, PS3's more powerful than this computer I'm on (by leaps and bounds), and even I can do many more tabs in Firefox (not that I ever need to, though).
Seems like a weird number to be stuck to, but probably more than I'd ever use, anyways.
('course, I won't even be getting a PS3... not until the price drops severely, anyways...)

Great idea.

"The playstation 3 is a computer."

Stupid feature, stupid video, stupid people having a shit over other stupid people saying there stupid console is fuckn stupid.

Not to knock this in any way, it seems slick and functional to me. But I like the Wii browser better due to the simple interface (mainly just 5 buttons at the bottom of the screen) and the ability to zoom in anywhere on the page. I suspect Sony will be constantly updating this browser like they do with the PSP which is good since that most issues will eventually be remedied. I don't know if Nintendo/Opera will do that or not.

@KawF

As Sony fanboys say Sony innovates. Nintendo always focuses on innovating the controller, but the Wii has it's most innovative controller to date. MS innovated with HDD in Xbox1 and XBL, and drastically improved it on the 360. Plus customizable console, and multiple SKUs. These are things not previously seen in consoles. But I can't really think of anything Sony has innovated...

Does the PS3 come out this year? Does it play DVDs? I just got 2 Fast 2 Furious. It wold be rad to play that on a machine that also plays video games. Live in your world, but play in Sony's, dudes. Rock on!!

Sorry, but I'm not looking to buy a computer. Sony, you're repeating the same mistake you made with the PSP.

Looks awesome....everybody is just jealous and btw... wtf is up with "twilight princess" ?? sounds gay as hell....i have never played a zelda or link game ever in my whole life and never want to...all nintendo does is make the same games over and over again and they got you guys hooked....lmao fools

sorry but im not looking to buy a computer. Sony, you're repeating the same mistakes you made with the PSP.

Youtube on TV great !?

I'll just use my Mac, thanks anyway :|

never played zelda? your not a gamer then are you one of the most revoultionary series ever to come out. heh your missing out @20
as for this video lame waste of time. ps3 web bowser pfft

I'm wondering why Sony insists on using that crazy "text messaging" method of entering the URL. That's the way it is on the PSP as well. Why can't they just have an onscreen keyboard pop up? Does Sony think everybody in the world sits around text messaging all day so that we should be fluent in "8,44,4,7,0,4,7777,0,66,88,8,7777,1111"?
The madness. The madness!

there is another ps3 web browser. You can run linux, and in it you can have mozilla, with no limit windows

The Xcast doesn't have a web browser so it can't be gud.

Stop it Sony, stop it.

I h8t them always stealing from Nintendo and Microsoft.

The Xcast is the leading console despite selling less than the PS2 consistently. We the games media will pwn reality forget shipment figures.

The PS3 wont sell cause of the price thats why it is already sold out and people are camping out already to buy it.

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But it is all bullshit, you peasants don't know jack.

I think the 6 window limit is in place so that the number of browsers you can open just sitting at a dash, and the number you can open while playing (pausing) a game are the same. They'd probably rather not swap out a large chunk of ram to the the drive every time you context switch to gamefaqs or youtube.

If you can't hit home button and get to the browser during a game, then why even bother? I keep my laptop on my desk just so I can look stuff up while playing, because so many pc games hate alt-tab. (Psychonauts was great, it pauses whenever it loses focus. Genius!)

What I'd like to see is a text entry piece that can be swapped out from several different choices that can be downloaded. Numpad, osk, gesture, dasher, with more in the future as clever people figure more out. I hate that stupid numpad metaphor, it's insane to emulate a hack necessary for phones on something with an analog stick. WTF are they thinking? I don't get this stupid obsession with cellphones.

Augh! They gave BASIC info, but nothing GOOD! What browser engine is it based on?! If it's Sony's own (God help me if it is...), does it come anywhere CLOSE on the ACID test?

Give it to me! I want one !!!

What about being able to use a mouse , as a mouse?!?!?

fucking YUCK. Why the hell don't they use the motion-sensing bit to move the mouse, etc?

I hate web browsing on ANY CONSOLE. I do not see a use for it.

#9 "HES JUST MAD WII IS STUCK IN 1987 WITH THE ZELDA REHASH TO GO ALONG WITH YOUR KILLER APP."

Just so your uneducated ass knows the first Metal Gear was also releases on the NES at around the same time. Geesh Sony stuck in 1987.

@31

Xcast?

So can the PS3 get spyware and viruses?

did she say "TAXT" instead of text.. what an accent..teehee

Left analog stick to move a cursor?! I've never seen that before, amazing!! :OOOO

"Does Sony think everybody in the world sits around text messaging all day so that we should be fluent in '8,44,4,7,0,4,7777,0,66,88,8,7777,1111'?
The madness. The madness!"~MikeG

That key combo spells the word "thgp0gs0nuts-" so what exactly are you getting at? Here, Decipher this: 6,444,55,33,4,444,7777,2,3,88,6,22,2,7777,7777

Ever heard of T9Word guys?

I tried this out at the Sony event here in NYC and it was OK, no big deal. They had a keyboard and mouse hooked up and the only thing that was weird was the lack of a visible URL input - you had to hit the 'start' button to call up a field where you could enter a URL. The window/visible resolution was very low - I loaded my own website (1100x700 sized-window) and it didn't initially fit, although the Sony person there pointed out you could increase the window size on the monitor (not on the fly with a pull tab) by hitting the option along the right margin called 'large window' or something.

I don't really get into web browsers on my consoles, but I'm not mad at the option - video on the internet is a much bigger deal now and waaay more feasible that it was when the Dreamcast had browsing, so dumbing out and watching YouTube, etc. on your TV is more possible now.

Elmer92413, you can pair any standardized bluetooth device with this box - keyboard, mouse, headset...

A lot of angry xbots this morning; its just a browser morons!

Enjoy your bricked system after it's filled with spyware and trojans within a week!

the only thing that would look cool on the PS3 internet is youtube, internet games, and porn for the lonley fanboys out there

Even if a browser came out for the Xbox 360, I doubt I would use it.

Quick, before anybody else says it:

OMFG I CAN GET VIRII ON MY PS3. OMFG THAT SUCKS.

*In case you didn't notice, thats sarcasm.

only joystiq would point out that a video for a webbrowser only got roughly 25,000 views, where videos for an *ACTUAL GAME* get roughly 115,000 views each.

well, *DUHHH* joystiq!

gee, what do people on the internet find more interesting to view? uh, videos for upcoming video games? or videos for a web browser, neverminding that they are using a web browser to view this information?

the fact that that PS3 web browser got so many views is disturbing to me.

now, videos for Virtua Fighter, Resistance, MGS4, Gran Turismo, Lair, etc, i'm sure, would garner a lot more views. you know, *video games*. kind of like the Zelda videos. sheesh, joystiq.

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