Originally posted by JP
How surprising hearing this from you. You try to come across as unbiased and hide the fact that you dislike Sony, but having read most of your posts since you joined, it\'s not very hard to see it. It colours off on almost every post you make.
If you\'d been reading the beyond3d.com forum for the past 6 months you\'d know a whole lot more about the whole architecture. I bet you\'d been wetting your pants if it was MS who had developed this chip with IBM. But seeing as it\'s Sony it\'s probably just hype right? Same old story. Because MS didn\'t hype the Xbox at all, right?
I personally don\'t get the people who always gets disappointed with things don\'t turning out exactly how they\'d imagine... If people are so god damn gullible that they believe anything that\'s printed in the media then tough luck, your mistake, not Sony\'s, not MS\' but just yours.
There\'s a WHOLE lot to talk about if you ask me. It\'s a very interesting design.
And what was wrong with the EE? It was and still is a very powerful CPU.
blah, blah, blah, JP
I\'ve been to the beyond3d forums quite a bit over the past few months and there\'s nothing solid about the PS3. I don\'t care about Cell, the numbers being thrown around right now are NOT what we will see in PS3. Nvidia are the only ones hinting at possible performance but even then there\'s not alot to talk about.
I wouldn\'t be wetting my pants about MS, I\'d be sitting on the sidelines waiting to see something of real performance on finished hardware. Right now, as of this moment, there isn\'t any evidence as to what we will see with the PS3. I have no idea what to expect and I don\'t care to begin speculating based on some wanna-be tech heads\' assumptions.
Also, I wasn\'t disappointed with the EE, I was just amazed at how Sony made it such a big deal. I failed to see what was so special about it then and to this very day I don\'t see what sets it apart. Sony tacked on a "cool" name and ran with it.
EDIT: I know that MS plays the same game Sony does when it comes to spreading the word on their system. Remember the Xbox and 300 million triangles? That figure was later knocked down to 150 million triangles...anyway, neither of the figures are important because those are untextured, not anti-aliased, etc. Same with the 70 million figure from Sony. Are the machines capable of such numbers? Yes. When it comes down to actual game performance are we seeing the same numbers? No, not even remotely close.
So yay, the cell is scalable...woo hoo, I guess. What does it mean for me? What does it mean for the games I\'ll be playing? Don\'t give me a fucking guess or demo, show me a real game running on finished hardware. Until then I\'ll keep tossing all this theoretical crap aside and keep wondering what it is you guys are blowing your wads over.
JP, just so we\'re clear, and to keep your panties from going too much further up your ass, I have the same attitude toward MS and Nintendo.
