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Offline Zeric
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« on: March 09, 2003, 02:10:20 PM »
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Sony\'s next-generation video-game console, due in just two years, will feature a revolutionary architecture that will allow it to pack the processing power of a hundred of today\'s personal computers on a single chip and tap the resources of additional computers using high-speed network connections.


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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2003, 04:22:53 PM »
I feel sorry for the programmers.... Can\'t see how it\'ll be possible to program for the PS3 with that many processors.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2003, 05:29:24 PM »
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I feel sorry for the programmers.... Can\'t see how it\'ll be possible to program for the PS3 with that many processors.


In the words of Bush..
Make no mistake about it.. Its being worked on

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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2003, 10:59:29 AM »
I want one!
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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2003, 11:42:35 AM »
you wouldnt have to program for each individual chip

its called clustering
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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2003, 12:29:41 PM »
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In the words of Bush..
Make no mistake about it.. Its being worked on

;)


Well given the fact of their track record with multiple processors  and the difficulty of programming for the PS2 makes me sceptical. But hopefully they\'ll come up with something clever and learn from their mistakes (more texture memory would be appreciated as well).
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2003, 12:38:18 PM »
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Well given the fact of their track record with multiple processors  and the difficulty of programming for the PS2 makes me sceptical. But hopefully they\'ll come up with something clever and learn from their mistakes (more texture memory would be appreciated as well).


I think thats a pretty safe bet.
Crying developers = bad PR.

IBM is apparently working on a OS which will make it easier to program for the Cell processors.

Also Sony is developing something similar to a Renderware middleware, which will be used to make the first games.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2003, 02:16:59 PM »
:nut: LOL... "But Sony and its partners believe that if they can coordinate those processors at maximum efficiency,..."
like it looks now with PS2, with devs having a hard
time getting acceptable performance out of just Vu0 and Vu1 >
seems Sony is keen on digging it\'s own grave concerning
console gaming. Yeah, sure they tell us promises this and that
but the outlook is kinda grim for PS3 imo. I think Nintendo made
a very good move by teaming up again with ATI for NGC2.
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2003, 02:55:03 PM »
Somehow I doubt Sony will release a console that is impossible to code for.

No one is that stupid... Not if they want to stay on top at least.

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like it looks now with PS2, with devs having a hard
time getting acceptable performance out of just Vu0 and Vu1


Are you living back in 2000? :)
Maybe then it was true.. That’s not the case anymore IMO.

PS2 has a lot of fine looking games. Even the smaller developers have learned the system by now.
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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2003, 11:51:30 AM »
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....will feature a revolutionary architecture that will allow it to pack the processing power of a hundred of today\'s personal computers on a single chip....


It sounds like a console with a lifespan lasting for a decade or two.
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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2003, 05:33:03 PM »
blah.  i think developers may ditch sony if it too hard to program on as which is the case to sega saturn.
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« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2003, 06:08:11 PM »
Oh Hey! You\'re back again? I sure have missed you MR. HYPE !

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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2003, 09:18:35 PM »
I don\'t like it..don\'t like it at all...all these talks of multiple processors blah...powerful blah...I don\'t want to wait ten years for the next Final Fantasy.

I just hope it doesn\'t do 10 billion polygons but still can\'t get rid of the shimerries...*shivers*
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« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2003, 02:04:32 AM »
I\'d imagine some really ridiculous things...

Imagine your PS3...running out of juice and tap the CELL chip in your TOSHIBA washing machine or microwave or SONY WEGA TV...

And connecting to other CELL chip via the internet??? Not even broadband is fast enough to transmit the data needed for that kind of computation needed for games..(unless it\'s for other purpose like recording a movie or god knows what that doesn\'t demand real-time 3D graphics)..

I think SONY really have gone bonkers this time round....the XBOX has shown that traditional method+raw brute force still can outperform elegant design....I just hope it doesn\'t piss off all the developers and left only a few rocket scientist to code for the thing...
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« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2003, 05:39:16 AM »
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I\'d imagine some really ridiculous things...

Imagine your PS3...running out of juice and tap the CELL chip in your TOSHIBA washing machine or microwave or SONY WEGA TV...

And connecting to other CELL chip via the internet??? Not even broadband is fast enough to transmit the data needed for that kind of computation needed for games..(unless it\'s for other purpose like recording a movie or god knows what that doesn\'t demand real-time 3D graphics)..


lol

I dont think its going to be like that.. Not now anyways.
PR mumbo jumbo


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I think SONY really have gone bonkers this time round....the XBOX has shown that traditional method+raw brute force still can outperform elegant design....I just hope it doesn\'t piss off all the developers and left only a few rocket scientist to code for the thing...


What MS did was just to put together a machine that was two years newer than the PS2.

If Sony would have used off the shelf parts like MS, the PS2 would have been a lot weaker.

If Sony had used Pentium processors with nVidia graphics chips for the PS2, there is no way the PS2 could STILL compete with the xbox as its doing today.

When PS2\'s architecture was finalized, what processors were available on the market?
I remember I had just gotten my Pentium II 400MHz with a TNT2 Ultra when I read about the PS2 in a magazine.

Do you think a PC like that could output graphics like Silent Hill 3, Zone of the Enders 2, Gran Turismo 3, Ace Combat 4 ect.??

Sony’s design > off the shelf PC components
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