Tokyo International Digital Conference

[mckmas8808]

It's possible, maybe Sony is cutting a deal with EA to further guarantee that they will continue to receive the license, even after their deal with MGM is done. But I don't think that there would be anything about games at the conference though.

And Sony were talking about starting to keep their movie franchises on Sony only videogames machines so...

But I still don't think it will happen. I have to see it first.

 

[Bad_Boy]

http://nb.nikkeibp.co.jp/digital2005/program/
the first keynote speech about ps3 is at 10:35am japan time till 11:15am...so expect some ps3 news tommorrow night eastern time around 9:35pm-10:15pm (i think thats right, please correct me if im wrong)

 

[EpicZero]

I thought it was on the 27th

 

[Kb-Smoker]

I thought it was on the 27th

No you are thinking about the Austin Game conference (oct 27-28). This one starts the 22nd. I can't wait to see what come out of this.

 

[Carl B]

No he's thinking about Kutaragi's keynote address; same event as the one that begins the 22nd, but with that certain speech on the 27th.

 

[Bad_Boy]

oh ok, im 5 days too early on those timings then lol.

 

[Titanio]

Could anyone be good enough to translate the title and description for Kutaragi's speech? All I know is what Google tells me (not very well..), and that the title has "PS3" in it

http://nb.nikkeibp.co.jp/digital2005/program/

 

[HappyBread]

- EA + exclusive? Hmm...

Isn't FIFA: Road to World Cup 06 an Xbox 360 exclusive? So EA are open to money hats, if need be.

 

[Carl B]

Ok for real - didn't Kutaragi have a keynote... or something? Something we should be hearing about?

 

[Xenus]

Yeah Ign talked breifly about it aparently the word or the generation is reality synthesis and a bet you can guess how the RSX was named.

 

[valioso]

Isn't FIFA: Road to World Cup 06 an Xbox 360 exclusive? So EA are open to money hats, if need be.

is a exclusive because ps3 is not out yet.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Hmmm. Watching that vid I only get disappointed at launches and hope for games to spin on a year! NBA looked quite realistic but the animation was painfully current-gen. Fifa looked just like current Fifa, except in the closeups which were lot more detailed in the animations. Neither would sell the console to me, and neither represents anything like what next-gen is about (I hope! God forbid it's just this gen with better graphics!)

 

[mckmas8808]

(I hope! God forbid it's just this gen with better graphics!)

You and me both brother. I prey everyday that it's this gen with better graphics too. With Havok announcing 3.2 built in too most PS3's and also being a great solution for SM3.0 GPUs I think physics and animation will be the next big thing next-gen. Graphics will be great but physics and animation will take the crown.

 

[scooby_dooby]

So the 27th has come and gone, I guess there was no new info?

 

[ERP]

You and me both brother. I prey everyday that it's this gen with better graphics too. With Havok announcing 3.2 built in too most PS3's and also being a great solution for SM3.0 GPUs I think physics and animation will be the next big thing next-gen. Graphics will be great but physics and animation will take the crown.

Devs still have to buy it if they use it. Havok isn't giving it away.....

 

[one]

Since the other thread was locked in a couple of hours with a premature end...

First of all, this gamespot article is utter bullshit. The NikkeiBP article clearly says it's about playing movies/video at 120fps. You can understand it by looking at the pic below for HD World roadmap. I don't know if Gamespot deliberately put it as "120fps games" or not for sensationalist value, but if they claim to be 'gaming media' it's an inexcusable error.

http://arena.nikkeibp.co.jp/expo/news/20051028/114052/
http://japan.cnet.com/news/tech/story/0,2000047674,20089790,00.htm
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20051028/110212/?ST=english
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20051027/110194/

The summary of the above articles:

+ Kutaragi showed PS3 game demos (3 movies including F1 and Getaway: the Future Vision), which he describes as 'shocking reality, rather than thrilling', in the HDCAM SR format on a 4K x 2K capable Sony 4K SXRD. One of the PS3 keywords is Reality Synthesis, which creates realtime worlds in realtime.

+ Cell processor offers wide dynamic-range video-signal reproduction, noise-free, high framerate, full-HD multistreaming. As one of possibilitis for future technologies, he mentioned video-playing framerate. In contrast to 50-60 fields/sec for today's TV and 72-90 frames/sec, he wants PS3 to output higher-framerate movies such as 120 fps with future video interface standards. Also, video input by a fast camera with a high framerate can be used for new types of games and broadcast/communication.

+ Usage models for HD displays includes playing a golf videogame along with a real golf game, looking at newspapers at full size, playing multiple HDTV streams simultaneously with filtering such as rotate/resize applied, video chat, quick zapping for different kinds of rich contents, and so on. A home server with multiple Cell processors will download rich contents on internet, transcode, do upconversion, process metadata, then PS3 plays it.

+ Using huge remote computing resources such as a movie production environment for online games - for example login to Sony Pictures Entertainment servers may translate into an online game.

+ A 2.5GHｚ * 8 * 16 Cell rack reaches 25.6 TFLOPS. Putting 40 of these in a room can make a 1 PFLOPS server. SCE can use it for a network game but can be applied to other industries to incubate new usage models.

+ Using EyeToy for pattern recoginition systems, like lip reading in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

HD World roadmap

GUI convergence

Cell roadmap

 

[Xenus]

mmm. 4k x 2k @ 240fps.

 

[Nesh]

Since the other thread was locked in a couple of hours with a premature end...

First of all, this gamespot article is utter bullshit. The NikkeiBP article clearly says it's about playing movies/video at 120fps. You can understand it by looking at the pic below for HD World roadmap. I don't know if Gamespot deliberately put it as "120fps games" or not for sensationalist value, but if they claim to be 'gaming media' it's an inexcusable error.

hehe I suspected Ken wasnt refering to games when he mentioned 120fps

 

[BlueTsunami]

Mini Cell



Looking at the timeline, after 45nm there planning on making CELL as a multicore. Sounds interesting. Also, the 120fps seems to have blatantly been turned into something it wasn't or a really bad mistake by gamespot..

 

[AlNom]

What studios exactly will even bother with jumping to 120fps or beyond for their source material within the next 5 years?