Has somebody speak with Bkillian of late? I feel weird looking at his attitude throughout the years that it would get out of his way and confirm anything (even in an elusive manner) as in the quote in that Eurogamer article (I hope they ask for his agreement...), I feel like he could be trolling the web and laughting at the bar with his (previous) workmates...
EDIT 1 WRT to BKillian statement migh t be my English but the wording definitely excites my sarcasm detector.
EDIT 2 Wrt to SPUs
I think it is highly unlikely, highly like 0.x%
Simply what would be the point to go with AMD if what they want is a massive revision of the cell broadband engine? Sticking SPUs in Jaguar doesn't seem trivial at all to me, like "not at all"
. The massive broadway revision cost Nintendo 1 billion $, for that price Sony could have get something quiet decent (especially if IBM had already lost MSFT as a client).
At this point better stick with IBM and Nvidia an go for easy BC. Actually I would have like to see how that turns.
Say a custom RSX tweaked to fill mostly the G-buffer, remove the bulk of the head ache (covering texture latencies and what not) with the bulk of the graphic work done by a bunch of widen SPUs (widen like 8 wide).
EDIT 3 wrt to late PS3, I think they are right because one Sony exec stated (prehentive strike to reassure investors when the information is out?) that they had a lot of "design wins" in their SoC as far as production cost are concerned (or something among that line). They may have "design wins" but what I see is a pretty massive core on a expansive lithography, even if yields are good now they won't be as good as with lesser chips and those wafer are expansive..
Then there are the 4GB of GDDR5 which may amount to a bunch of money.
Sounds expansive to me with no easy price reduction as far as memory and the SoC it-self. I also wonder about public reception (but also investors) about a quiet possible complete lack of BC which is pretty much unprecedented in the console realm, even MSFT could run a few xbox titles on the 360.
Let pray for the best, I don't trust SOny execs for a dime and that still sound like a cocky/we are the best design, disregarding costs (and so possibly affordability at launch) and their overall financial situation. I think they (execs) have no clue as pointed out by a (fired) member of their marketing team on twitter and as they have no clue about where to go or a strong concept so they go for a cock contest hoping that it works, if it works they can claim to be genius if it goes slightly bad Sony is broke... Looking at the PSV it makes me let say anxious...
