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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Samwise on January 29, 2005, 12:10:54 PM
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The forum\'s getting a little slow, so here\'s a little news about PlayStation 3. Sony\'s hinting that it\'ll be shown playable at this years E3.
In related news MS said that Xbox 2 will also be shown there.
Can\'t wait to see specs and actual games! :)
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I cannot understand a thing: they signed with nVidia 2 months ago the joint development of the grpahic processor and they wanna have playable games at E3?
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Yeah, sounds kinda fishy. I wouldn\'t be surprised if it\'s just tech demos being showed.
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Where did you hear about Sony hinting that the PS3 will be unveiled in E3 Sammy?
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Dude...it\'s been announced on about 10 thousand webpages.
The NVIDIA GPU probably won\'t be finished til the end of 2005. So this is making me a bit skeptical as to what they\'re going to show exactly. Maybe the GPU will be finished sooner than expected? Of course, they won\'t be manufacturing the PS3 on a mass scale, they just need a few available for E3.
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Originally posted by Unicron!
Where did you hear about Sony hinting that the PS3 will be unveiled in E3 Sammy?
IGN amongst other places. :)
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And what\'s the point of showing either a demo or technical features if the main core is not finished? It\'s a nonsense in my opinion. I think all these rumours and race to show firstly a machine than other company only responds to marketing rather to real commerce of quality.
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The first time PS2 was unveiled was a few computers connected emulating an estimation of the capabilities of the final product.
ofcourse it would be marketing.But still it will be an indication of what to expect
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We could just wait and see. ;)
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I think they will maybe show off the design? hopefully?
Any graphics demos they show will have to be taken lightly, I really don\'t think Sony will tell the truth about the graphics end so soon.
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God I say this every year. When is E3?
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May something....
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Originally posted by Seed_Of_Evil
I cannot understand a thing: they signed with nVidia 2 months ago the joint development of the grpahic processor and they wanna have playable games at E3?
Guys......, Sony & Nvidia have been working together on PS3\'s GPU already for
more than 2 years. :)
....not just purely hardware either. The PS2\'s gpu software development tools were \'weak\' becuz they were created in-house by Sony Toshiba.
Nvidia has been busy on that for PS3 so development should go much more smooth for developers compared to PS2 coding.
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good point
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yeah I was gonna say, Nvidia has been working with sony on the ps3 gpu for several years now. It just recently became public knowledge a little while ago, although many were speculating they got together when ATI locked up contracts with MS and Nintendo.
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IIRC when the Xbox was first showed off (that big ugly chrome X) they had mostly unfinished hardware and a at that time current gen Ge Force. Most likely nVidia just supplied them with a modified ge force fx to show people what to expect.
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Actually, people with actual sources within the industry seem to think that Nvidia won PS3\'s GPU contract recently, even if they\'ve been in talks with Sony for years (and probably sending them samples for testing purposes). Remember that it\'s based on Nvidia\'s new architecture which have been in development for some time, and all the work they did for that will end up in PS3\'s GPU.
Anyway, PS2\'s tech demos were shown in Feb 1999 (IIRC), more than one year before the system was finally released. They don\'t need finalized hardware to show something at E3.
I hate how everybody is holding their cards close to their chests though. I want to see something already.
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Here\'s an interview with NVIDIA regarding PS3\'s GPU...it\'s 4 pages, so I won\'t c and p: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/ces2005.html
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IIRC the most interesting part of that interview is how he remarks that PS3\'s GPU is a custom version of their next-gen GPU (they\'re abandoning their old architecture).
They\'re dedicating 50 engineers to this project, which is a reasonable ammount if we take into account that most of the work is already done and that they\'ll be collaborating with Sony\'s own engineers.