My man played it for a while at E3 - I was excited for him! However, when I asked him for details he said it was no different to the PS2 and the games so far are not next-gen. In fact, nobody is actually sure what next-gen actually means at the moment, so there won't be any truly games of that ilk for a while yet.

On an side note, he had a very interesting meeting with Sony yesterday. Obviously I can't divulge any details but suffice it to say that within a year or two of the PS3 being released, we'll see several major games developers and publishers going out of business.

Basically, Sony is setting dev budgets - on average this will be £25 million per title. There are very few titles that will ever be able to recoup that investment. Essentially what this means is that one or two AAA titles will either make or break their companies - do the maths; how many units would need to be sold to just break even on a £25m investment?

In the last year, a mere three AAA PS2 titles broke even or made a profit for their publishers; however, smaller titles were selling much better - one by 2K Games (which cost less than £30,000 to make) sold in excess of two million units!

I'm not conviced this bodes at all well for gamers; I suspect this will further deplete what little innovation there is and encourage publishers to go for more Fifa, GT, GTA type games because they are proven successes.