"PS3 1000 times more powerful than PS2"

All we have listened that sentence several times, but it seemed to be a dummy quote from any stupid web. But read now carefully the next piece of news:

IBM has announced that, thanks to the technology SiGe, the processors will reach speeds of up to 150 Ghz in less than two years.  
 
The transistor in which this technology is based, offers a yield 4 times superior and it is 65% faster that the last announced models.  
 
At the moment, the matter transistors are made of is the Silicon. The technology SiGe, leaves of the current base of production, but adding a new component, the Germanium (Ge) to improve the yield and speed of commutation of the digital circuits that form the current microprocessors.  
 
Although at level of domestic hardware this technology is a little big for us, it is interesting to know about fellow men advances.  


If I remember fine, IBM is working with Sony to make the "heart" of the next Sony\'s console. Do you imagine a 150GHZ graphic chip? 1000 times more powerful than PS2 indeed.

150 GigaHertz?

couple that with 32 megs of vram and we got teh win!

It sounds like they are using the:

Hundreds of
Yen
Production
Engine

.... or H.Y.P.E. as we like to call it.


The PS2 is nothing like they said it would be.

I cannot figure out how the games of that system will look. They\'re official news released from the marketing department of IBM.

Thanks for the info Adan.. surely interesting. I doubt will have that fast of a CPU.... and I\'m actually not so sure if that would be good anyway. Just imagine... those speeds could end to one unbalanced system. Where do you get the memory fast enough to "feed" a 150 GHz processor? With the speed increase, you\'ll be also looking at a dramatic increase in costs aswell.

The PS2 is nothing like they said it would be.

Word to that... it\'s actually proving itself to be even better! :eek:

ok....lets just imagine, that is gonna be reality... imagine eh ->
the graphical quality which that will enable in PS3 games will
imo create controversy. Just think about all that \'horrible video-
game violence\' which kids will play in realistic visuals. Of course
I know devs will always stylize their visuals to set it apart from
reality..... but narrowmindend parents and Liebermans are
bound to do something :eek:

Of coarse, as we head into the era of photo-realistic graphics, people of coarse will find a way to blame it on videogames and so forth. But this has been around ever since videogames started to become violent. The Lieberman and the narrow minded parents will try to do something, so, but someone from the other side (game developers, gamers) won\'t simply let themselves be censored (even though a few, like good ole Sony America, are prefectly fine with SOMe of it) so, while it won\'t stop the debate (I\'d even say it will intensify it) don\'t expect major government intervention (might be a few states passing so and so law, but the Supreme Court will probably throwout many of the excessive laws).

I read that Sony was looking at making the PS3 a non-console.
i.e. a service. Something along those lines.
Like you might download the PS3 on your PC, and play that
way. Or via your TV. etc. Anyone else read this rumor?

Originally posted by johnyaya
I read that Sony was looking at making the PS3 a non-console.
i.e. a service. Something along those lines.
Like you might download the PS3 on your PC, and play that
way. Or via your TV. etc. Anyone else read this rumor?

I posted some info from an article in the latest PSM that talked a little bit about this. Here\'s a quote from the article:

"There\'s also word this month - from Sony itself - that PS3 might not just be limited to the console domain. A spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment went on record saying that PS3 could take the form of an operating system that could run on a variety of devices, allowing them to play PS3 games.

So, instead of a PlayStation with DVD capabilities, you might have a DVD player with PlayStation capabilities. Or a toaster that can play Final Fantasy? Hmm...

:alien:

I hope PS3 wont be like what the article described it might be.

Whithin the gaming world, I cant see any more consoles getting THAT much better graphics wise. Although speed wise.. as the GHz above note, will greatly approve and say bye-bye to loading times and freezes, and all that other crap PS has gone through. The sky\'s the limit.

We might be taking too much into what the article is saying about the PS3. It didn\'t say that the PS3 isn\'t a game system, just that, it isn\'t LIMITED to a box with a PS3 logo game system. So, yes, we will see PS3 in a DVD player, TiVo, etc. but doesn\'t mean that the PS3 won\'t be base gaming system either.

PS4= VIRTUAL REALITY! Place on head and play!

IMO Sony is trying to make PS3 something as common,necessary or famous as a TV,a DVD player, a VHS etc(generally everyday entertainment and communication devices) thats the reason why they are trying to make it so powerfull(make it future proof for many many many years to come) and a feature available in many common devices

[Kurt Angle]

1000 times faster, that would be very special if they could achieve that. Imagine playing the next gen GTA on that machine!