PS3 'near-final' hardware present at E3

[Npl]

I dont care for micro-transactions, but having a Gig for swapping out Memory would help alot. Especially if it comes to Games that utilise Memory-hogs like the U3 Engine.
Doesnt mean he additional Gig has to be on a HD tough.. a low Performance SDRam Module would likely be better than a harddrive( low latency, faster, failsafe ).

For that micro-transaction-stuff. Aint the point of this that you can pimp up characters/cars/whatever and then play against your friends ? If it resides on HD, how are you gonna do this if you want to take it to another Place - a BIG MemoryCard would certainly be better than a HD...

 

[Phil]

lb;

memorysticks are priced far more competitively than Sony's console memorycards. Also Sizerice don't scale linearly either.

 

[London Geezer]

lb;

memorysticks are priced far more competitively than Sony's console memorycards. Also Sizerice don't scale linearly either.

I neve said it is, all i'm saying is that it does NOT cost 100 quid to make a MS, not even close, so they make big profits out of those

 

[Phil]

While I don't doubt that there is a profit made on those memorysticks, it's quite obvious that there is a much higher one in selling memorycards.

Memorysticks sell to a much larger and diverse market - not only that but they are under competition at all times by competing makers - which is why you see prices on those products decrease rather quickly as newer and better types become available. The memorycards have a history of always costing the same amount - a very high price for what, just a pathetic small 8 MB card?

 

[j^aws]

...
Regards bandwidth, what does the FlexIO do? It's got 75 Gb/s shared between GPU and something else. Why is there talk of only 40 Gb/s shared between CPU and GPU? Whers's that FlexIO data going? Or is the limitation the RAM?

IIRC, the FlexIO aggregate ~77 GB/s is divided into 12 lanes. There are 7 outbound lanes and 5 inbound lanes. Whatever's left you could give to your 'chaperone'!

I'm pretty sure Axiders hinting at "3" main chips involved in the PS3...

CELL + GPU + XDR DRAM (it is a seperate chip afterall )

But...but...1 XDR chip is only 64Mbytes!

 

[PC-Engine]

Since the E3 PS3 topic was locked, I put it here though it's a bit offtopic. According to the today's entry in the blog of Turumi 600 (producer of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker at SEGA and R&C at SCEI), he joined Kutaragi and his guys at a bar in a hotel in Santa Monica. Apparently SCE guys were back from the rehearsal for the SCE press conference. Though it's unclear whether it's due to the Xbox 360 unveiling or not, they were very cheerful and confident, more so than ever, especially Kutaragi

He was drunk.

 

[rabidrabbit]

Yeah, propably drowning his sorrows after he realised PS3 is gonna fail miserably and xbox360 will take the no 1 place next gen

 

[Xenus]

No, then he would have been a cussing and a fussing.

But anyway the only thing I think that might be missing from the one shown at E3 will probably be the videocard.