Recent content by archangelmorph

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    What's with trees this generation?

    One single simple answer... Overdraw...
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    I know that feeling all too well... Probably one of the best things the CELL ever did was forcing developers to think about this stuff going into production from the off rather than write huge monolithic C++ object-based multiple-inheritance hierarchies of spaghetti code & then have tov deal...
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    Well said Vitaly...
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    How much CELL or PS3 programming have you done yourself aaronspink by the way?
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    No they used 1 PPU... Early in the generation... I can categorically state with a pretty firm degree of certainty, that nobody has shipped a game on PS3 that only uses the PPU for at least the past 2-2.5 years... Sony's APIs & toolchain have matured leaps and bounds since the consoles' inception...
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    The CELL certainly was a failure both from a business & strategic perspective... However as a specific piece of technology built to solve a particular problem, it was far from it. Sony made the best of it & in the long run it worked out for them, offering the only positive differentiator...
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    I keep hearing our publishers talk about things like that... Tell me what are these "returns" you speak of...? :razz:
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    Our livelihood depends on people buying games... Whether they upgrade to a new playstation or switch to an iPad doesn't really matter to me in many ways...
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    No they didn't... They "had" 1 dual-issue PPU & 6 SPUs... Rubbish... There's no way in hell you'd get similar speed ups with Xenos if you spent "vast" amounts of resources on optimizing CPU code... The problem was that most multi-platform developers didn't "have" vast amounts of...
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    Was Cell any good? *spawn

    Of course they did.. What are you talking about?
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    They already have... It's confirmed the Microsoft Surface (Tablet PC) comes in both ARM & Intel CPU flavours.
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    Do you have a source/citation for that?
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    & your monitor too? :roll:
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    3GB of RAM for the OS sounds like it's applied for both system & video memory usage... So thats vertex, texture & shader data for all OS-driven UI (always accessible from the HOME button)... Then throw in all your kernel level constructs (can't be much more than a few hundred MBs max), throw in...
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    Predict: The Next Generation Console Tech

    Why is the "Devkit" on the floor too?
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