CES 2006 News & Announcements
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Alpha_Spartan
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I don't think those trailers will have the same "OMFG PS3 IZZA BEAST!" effect that it had last year.
PS Confernce FTW!
PS Confernce FTW!
"Nerve-Damage"
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OOOOOOOOKKKKkkkkkkkkkk
Questions:
1) Where in the hell is the PS3 in this pic?
2) If not a PS3…where the hell is the Blu-ray player or any other device for that fact showing the blu-ray movie demo?
A streaming thing going on!?!
Questions:
1) Where in the hell is the PS3 in this pic?
2) If not a PS3…where the hell is the Blu-ray player or any other device for that fact showing the blu-ray movie demo?
A streaming thing going on!?!
Nerve-Damage said:
Questions:
1) Where in the hell is the PS3 in this pic?
2) If not a PS3…where the hell is the Blu-ray player or any other device for that fact showing the blu-ray movie demo?
A streaming thing going on!?!
Easy, it's hidden somewhere behind/above the display to keep the emphasis on the picture quality and the display.
"Nerve-Damage"
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patsu said:Follow the cables if you're there.
Sadly I’m not
ROG27 said:
I hope for Sony sake thats the case!!
mckmas8808
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xbdestroya said:Yeah PowerLunch is bar none in CES coverage, year after year.
Ok I have the exact quote now:
"...And just to show you how everyone is hedging their bets in this race, Toshiba isn't only making a $500 HD-DVD machine, it's also announcing plans to make machines in Sony's Blu-ray format..."
So, could be a dual-format player as Scooby posited, or could not. But it's interesting news.
Looks like Toshiba is realizing that Blu-ray is a good enough format to really machines on too. Great!!
mckmas8808 said:Looks like Toshiba is realizing that Blu-ray is a good enough format to really machines on too. Great!!
I don't they're "realizing" anything; they just want to make sure even if their format fails, they're prominent in the player scene regardless. Afterall it's not like the consumers know which company is behind which format save for the occasional tech headline they see. So if HD-DVD goes down, I don't see Toshiba being associated with it in the overall consumer consciousness, allowing them smooth transition.
Alpha_Spartan
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Damn you, you silly scare crow, don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain!!!Nerve-Damage said:
Questions:
1) Where in the hell is the PS3 in this pic?
2) If not a PS3…where the hell is the Blu-ray player or any other device for that fact showing the blu-ray movie demo?
A streaming thing going on!?!
Deepak said:
Check this out in particular...Gaming: what's on the inside...
Link:
http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/conferences/search/session_detail.asp?ID_session=GP6
Excerpt:
Description: The fact that the power of an enterprise computing system is now built into every game playing machine, with all of its technology dedicated specifically to the game playing experience goes all way to explaining why games are revolutionizing the future of entertainment. The combination of chips, microprocessors, optical technology, storage together with nearly unlimited R&D investment is rapidly leading to a next generation entertainment experience. Games are great today, but what will they look like in two or three years? In this session, we will hear from the technology companies that provide the developers and consumers with game power. They are the developers of the secret sauce that is establishing games as the future of entertainment.
Moderator: Auri Rahimzadeh, , The Envisioneering Group
Panelist: Chris Donahue, Group Manager, Windows Graphics & Gaming Technologies, Microsoft Corp.
Panelist: Bryce Johnstone, Worldwide Manager, OMAP Developer Network, Texas Instruments
Panelist: Jim Kahle, Chief Architect, Cell Technology, IBM Fellow, IBM Corporation
Panelist: Adam Lake, Sr. Software Engineer, Software Solutions Group, The Modern Game Technologies Project, Intel Corp.
Panelist: Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Relations, Nvidia
Panelist: Brian Zucker, Technology Evangelist, Office of the CTO, Dell Computer
Nvidia on the panel....RSX details/overview?
IBM too...CELL/RSX interaction?
mckmas8808
Legend
xbdestroya said:
But doesn't that mean anything to you? I doubt we will see Sony making HD-DVD players because they fear that their next-gen movie media could fail.
Look your one of the sensiable ones, so I will say I'm not trying to argue to you about this point. It's just weird that they will support the great competition going up against them. If Toshiba is making Blu-ray stuff then why should companies like MS and Universal not support it either?
You see?
mckmas8808 said:
Well it's the "realizing" thing I took issue with, not the rest of it. It's not like Toshiba sees how 'great' Blu-ray is now or anything; I'm certain they're quite the opposite of being fans. Rather, I think it's an internal admission that their own format may fail, and they want to be prepared. Sony made VHS-VCR's after Betamax bit it afterall - same sort of thing.
4,000+ PS3 dev kits in the wild & new titles shown?
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7694
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7694
drpepper said:
Well it sounds like they ramped up alright, but maybe a little later than they expected. They said at the PSM in July that they were planning to ramp to 3000/month in October (although whether that was just for Oct, or would be for every month thereafter is another question). It's definitely an improvement on the confirmed 450 dev kits in July..
mckmas8808
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Titanio said:
That's great news.
How many dev-kits does a dev need? 4000 kits for 200 titles in progress is 20 kits per developer. Are there lots more games in development than that, or are lots of SDKs needed? How much of an issue is it if some of the team work on higher level code on less accurate SDKs, so the low-level coders get the final hardware Cell+RSX, and the higher-level programmers using the low-level functions run them on Cell+G70 kits appreciating the bottlenecks with the occassional test of their code on a final kit to make sure it runs up to speed?
