Oh how I would love for Sony to just walk walk up to the mic and say 299.
This edited highlights vid shows the slide, explicitly stating a second custom chip.
I thought that was done by the video encode/decode modules in the AMD GPU?
Well, people are gonna call it something. If it's not CPU or GPU, and not DSP, it's an OS chip...If you read what you quoted I already stated their is 2 (that we know about) customer chips, what I'm saying is you cannot call one an OS chip just because it controls background downloading and uploading or compressing video
That OS stands for other stuff i guessWell, people are gonna call it something. If it's not CPU or GPU, and not DSP, it's an OS chip...
That OS stands for other stuff i guess
No. That tax had been repealed by PS3's release IIRC, and even if not, that strategy didn't work with PS2 so I doubt it'd have worked with PS3 and been a target strategy. The reason for Other OS IMO was to get people developing on Cell, as STI needed Cell experience to expand their new hardware platform. Only it didn't happen, homebrew turned its nose up at Cell, so Sony gave up altogether. No need for OtherOS, no need for Cell, shut up shop and move on. There's no value to Other OS in PS4. It'd just mean Steam Linux on PS4 and Sony missing sales.Would including Other OS in the system affect cost to distribute?
I can't remember why PS3 had Other OS. Wasn't part of the reason to be considered a computer or something and avoid one particular tax in EU?
Interesting. I always found it's inclusion kind of perplexing in PS3.
I mean... it was cool I guess... but confusing
It would be really fun to see if someone hacked a PS4 to run Windows though
I hope the next-gen consoles don't get hacked. I hope lessons learnt this gen will be enough to lock them down tightly and protect the software developers and services. Worst case, Sony's idea of remote play allowing someone else to take over control of your game would see random people screwing up other people's play!It would be really fun to see if someone hacked a PS4 to run Windows though
I hope the next-gen consoles don't get hacked.
Sony did a superb job with PS3 save for that idiotic critical failure. Lesson learned, they should be in a great place next-gen.
I hope the next-gen consoles don't get hacked. I hope lessons learnt this gen will be enough to lock them down tightly and protect the software developers and services. Worst case, Sony's idea of remote play allowing someone else to take over control of your game would see random people screwing up other people's play!