Redesigning PS3

[Powderkeg]

How about 2 PS3's to get an SLi thing going

You mean distributed computing? Yes, they claimed the PS3 would do that to at one point too.

 

[Mefisutoferesu]

!!!!!
Buy 2 PS3s hook 'em up and get your games to run at 120FPS!!!

SONY'S BRILLIANT!!!

By the way, does Sony own doublemint gum?? (Double your freshness! Double your fun!)

 

[MBDF]

a third as of yet unknown chip

more RSX bandwidth in some form

gyro's in the controler

 

[jvd]

That's actually true...

Yea i remember watching the ps3 confrence with a bunch of my friends (Streaming it from ign) and i said damn it sounds like they have a xbox 360 spec sheet and are doubling everything they can .

They even have two pools of ram !

 

[Mythos]

Yea i remember watching the ps3 confrence with a bunch of my friends (Streaming it from ign) and i said damn it sounds like they have a xbox 360 spec sheet and are doubling everything they can .

They even have two pools of ram !

To some degree I had a feeling that Sony was puting on a magic show. Some things real other things yet to be.

 

[jvd]

To some degree I had a feeling that Sony was puting on a magic show. Some things real other things yet to be.

well features have already been cut out . I'm sure there will be more . I allways felt there were to many ports there for no other reason than just because .

I don't think specs would change. Mabye the cell chp will drop a few hundred mhz to like 3ghz or so . But i don't think that would affect performance much

 

[Mythos]

well features have already been cut out . I'm sure there will be more . I allways felt there were to many ports there for no other reason than just because .

I don't think specs would change. Mabye the cell chp will drop a few hundred mhz to like 3ghz or so . But i don't think that would affect performance much

If some feature changes then most likely the console will aestically change.

At least Cell for the most part (will not change)...possibly we could learn a thing or two from new discovery on cells scales. If anything, I think that any change will possible come from the RSX.

 

[hey69]

well features have already been cut out . I'm sure there will be more . I allways felt there were to many ports there for no other reason than just because .

I don't think specs would change. Mabye the cell chp will drop a few hundred mhz to like 3ghz or so . But i don't think that would affect performance much

Features cut out? like what ?
I dont remember that

and no , dropping the router functionality isnt a feature thats cut

 

[Andy]

well features have already been cut out . I'm sure there will be more . I allways felt there were to many ports there for no other reason than just because .

Actually it was just misreported that PS3 would have router capabilities, which it never had to begin with, so it actually didnt lose anything.

 

[rabidrabbit]

There might be some minor feature cuts in later revisions for sure, as they manufacture the PSThree.
I don't think there'll be major cuts in the production model versus the specs that have been announced... at least I hope there won't be anything as major as the cutting off the harddisk and wireless controllers from core xbox360 and making them an optional accessory, not "included in every console" as promised in first unveilings.

 

[V3]

well features have already been cut out . I'm sure there will be more . I allways felt there were to many ports there for no other reason than just because .

I don't think specs would change. Mabye the cell chp will drop a few hundred mhz to like 3ghz or so . But i don't think that would affect performance much

There are features that didn't make it to the spec that was announced of PS3, but no feature is cut yet from that spec.

 

[Tim]

The RSX GPU will be a dual core design; each chip contains 26 pipelines (total of 52 pipelines) and each core is currently running at 470MHz (550MHz?). The estimated transistor count is well above the 587 million mark. The RSX GPU has been in development for about 8-9 months, and in final silicon form. The rumor also states there?s a third core or setup engine to regulate both graphic cores, and all cores are link around a ?Cell like EIB interface?.

A build in espresso maker is way more likely (and I am not joking).

 

[London Geezer]

A build in espresso maker is way more likely (and I am not joking).

True, they could just use the heat generated by Cell and RSX to boil the water!!

 

[Black Dragon37]

Promotional or factual marketing?

I don't seem to recall Sony stating "Our macine might be slightly better than the 360 in some areas, but overall they will be very similar" which is very close to the truth of it.

Sony's promotional marketing, like all corporate marketing is based on BS and not on the truth. That's just how promotional marketing is.

I was saying that Sony has been promoting the PS3 as more powerful than the Xbox 360, and has been using the trailers and Cell chip promotion as 'proof'. Meanwhile, Microsoft is saying how the power between that and the Xbox 360 is the same. Which sounds better to the casual... ear?

 

[Titanio]

or the Sony claims that the PS3 would have more than double the 360's processing power?

I already tipped my hat at the E3 floating point comparison. "There was the floating point performance slide at E3 regarding CPUs"

The Xbox 1.5 comment, I thought, was about strategy as whole as much as individually about power.

I mean really now, are you suggesting that Ken Kutaragi has made no direct comparisons?

No. I said they have not as actively or explicitly drawn comparison based on power as much as MS has. But then, as I said, MS has to be more vocal on this point because general perception is not in their favour here.

 

[ihamoitc2005]

Redesign appearance of console

Look of PS2 makes me want to play games but PS3 makes me hungry. I do not like George Foreman grill look of console. But, if that is how it will look, I will buy one anyway since hardware value is very good.