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Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: on March 04, 2001, 10:19:25 AM

I saw this at another forum and I thought that it was truly interesting and worthy of a look :)

Hope it hasn\'t been posted here yet (or I would look quite the fool :(

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010214/mallinson_01.htm

Thanks for reading.

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: Caspian on March 04, 2001, 11:25:16 AM

It is new information and quite interesting. Thank you.

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: nO-One on March 04, 2001, 11:48:59 AM

Very interesting thanks :)
it was a good read

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: on March 04, 2001, 11:53:42 AM

Yep, it\'s a really good read.. however, I have a bit of trouble understanding 90 percent of it :(

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: BizioEE on March 04, 2001, 12:18:40 PM

Thanks!

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: SuperSaiyanMasters on March 04, 2001, 08:36:19 PM

interesting info..good read and helpful to others thanks

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: pstwo on March 04, 2001, 09:29:55 PM

Cool info! :bounce:

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on March 04, 2001, 09:36:37 PM

interesting...  Why do they keep comparing it to a computer though, that annoys me...

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: Sublimesjg on March 04, 2001, 10:23:46 PM

yea that is a good read but definitely not for anyone who doesn\'t understand a lot about PCs make up and all


also the PS2 and all consoles are pretty much PCs if you ask me - just they have a main purpose mostly and that is games and or a few other options

they have mostly the same architecture and all - its just the way it is

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: Biohazard on March 05, 2001, 07:47:27 AM

Thanks and ummmmmm have a nice day:D

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: ddaryl on March 05, 2001, 11:38:46 AM

this is a cool article.

It helps explain the flexibility of the PS2\'s architexture.

Developers can pick and choose which effects, how much of the systems power you want to use for that effect, and not having to waste power towards effects that you do not want to use. GC and Xbox will use hardware effects which a dev can turn on or off, but the dev still cannot harness any more power from the system because an effect was not used sinced its all hardware. Either you use it or you don\'t.  naturally though both Xbox and GC will be alot more dev friendly out of the gate and those systems will see there power maxed earlier in there life. Still PS2 dev\'s will get a heluva strong education, and alot of dev\'s will master the strengths of the PS2


The trade-off is developers have to learn to program there own effects which helps explains the PS2\'s larger learning curve.

Title: Interesting Technical Information About The PS2
Post by: Unicron! on March 05, 2001, 12:13:25 PM

You know PS2 isnt as inferior as many XBOX fans are trying to make it look.
PS2 is powerfull enough to deliver great gameplay and graphical experiences.
Developers just have to work more to have the superb results.
GC and XBOX are just powerfull consoles that can produce graphics easier.Nothing else.