Playstation 3 e3 thread 2

What's this SB?

SB 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)

 

With the EDRAM in the GPu, i think 1080p souldnt be a prob.

 

I guessed SouthBridge when I read the specs, though it probably doesn't even have a real physical southbridge. But I'm pretty sure it's the IO bandwidth.

Agreed. The new controller design seems disappointing -- though I'll wait with my final judgement until I get to actually use one.

 

Design is cool. Certainly no worse than the 360 and would fit in quite well with a 'modern' living room setup.

Controller looks ridiculous and like everybody else I'm wondering what's up with the relatively low bandwidth.

 

x1 will be the transmission rate of a BR-Movie at highest Bitrate. Similar thing like CD-Speed and DVD-Speed. Though 1xBR should be substancially higher than 1xDVD

Where youre gonna plug them in? You can only hope you might be able to use an USB-Adapter.

Honestly, the controller really worries me - at first ive seen RSX Bandwith and though - na, theres a piece missing, they cant be serious. Now I actually fear they really dont know better

 

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/050517e.pdf

6x BD-ROM.

 

so where's the "amazing announcement" god damn it .. it's already 3:30am and i want to get to bed already actually does anyone know how long this will take approximately?

 

That's actually what I meant mostly in my reply on the bottom of page 6 . Though the CompactFlash slot surprised me as well. And the 3 ethernet ports in addition to WiFi...
As did the 7 SPEs, but now that I think about it reserving one artifact on a chip that size is actually a pretty good idea.

 

http://www.zombieculture.com/img/Killzone_02.jpg

 

as far as AA is concerned, if PS3 renders at 1080p resolution (1920x1080), there will be less need for AA than there will be for Xbox 360 games rendereed @ 720p (1280x720), IMO ........ it seems to me that Sony is going the higher resolution route, instead of the AA route.........

 

6x BluRay is 216Mbps or 27MBps.

 

Anyone see Warhawk, DMC4 and Killzone yet? I hope they aren't just teasing. I hope that's the target graphics for the first gen, b/c those are DEFINITELY a step up from this gen.

http://www.zombieculture.com/img/Killzone_01.jpg
http://www.zombieculture.com/img/Killzone_02.jpg
http://www.zombieculture.com/img/KZ_03.jpg

PEACE.

 

I wonder if traces is the issue with 256-bit busses. Both XBox 360 and PS3 look to be using 128-bit bus widths (multiple ones in the case of the PS3) - to keep the memory speeds up the proximity of the memory chips needs to be fairly close to the chips (at least for GDDR3 graphics chips), which makes issues for routing. Currnt 256-bit graphics boards are using somewhere between 8 and 12 layer PCB's, but these are fairly small, self contained units - I'm wondering if an issue is that it is just too costly to have muliple layered motherboards to support larger bus widths.

 

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/614/614677p1.html?fromint=1

 

LOL I think alot of the press release was designed to specifically slam XBox 360. "MS has one teraflop total performance? We've got over two teraflops! MS supports 720p standard? We support 1080p! MS has a gay controller? Ours is ten times as gay!"

 

Hmm...

Controller over IP??
Some sort of local network browser interface?

 

Did they state anything about the controler and how it might impact their lawsuit with Immersion? Did they use another technology (if there is one) or did they just not say anything specific about the controler rumbler?

 

the killzone shots look very, very good to me. none of that gay shininess all the other next-gen titles seem to hold so dear.