PS3 specs, facts, speculations and rumours !

Personally I don\'t think Sony should hurry. Why rush for Spring when the winter could allow them to impliment many of these features.

I\'m really not in a hurry for a PS3, and when it does launch I want it to be all that.

[videoholic]

^  Who are you?

and why didn\'t you post in your birthday thread....

[BizioEE]

Originally posted by ddaryl
Personally I don\'t think Sony should hurry. Why rush for Spring when the winter could allow them to impliment many of these features.

I\'m really not in a hurry for a PS3, and when it does launch I want it to be all that.

Yes !  exactly what I think !  ..and better launch games !

Originally posted by Phil
and why didn\'t you post in your birthday thread....

There was a birthday thread

Sorry I feel like an ass


BUT, I\'m busy busy busy. I have been called back to work at Boeing. I\'m working graveyard, and then I work a few hours at my other job. On top of all that We\'re scrubbing the house for the holidays and getting ready for my parents visit this week.

I\'ll have to look it up.

Hmm.. I hope they can get Rambus\' XDR memory on RSX.. so they can make the pcb as they fit since XDR doesn\'t require strict pcb layout guidelines.

[BizioEE]

...and another interesting reading, about the extraordinary power of Cell in areas such as graphichs/rendering capabilities...

http://gametomorrow.com/blog/index.php/2005/11/30/gpus-vs-cell/

""To our surprise, well not really, we found that using only 7 SPEs for rendering a 3.2 GHz Cell chip could out run an Nvidia 7800 GT OC card at this task by about 30%. We reserved one SPE for the image compression and delivery task. Furthermore the way CG structures it SIMD computation is inefficient as it causes large percentages of the code to execute in scalar mode. This is due to the way they structure their vector data, AOS vs SOA. By converting this CG shader from AOS to SOA form, SIMD utilization was much higher which resulted in Cell out performing the Nvidia 7800 by a factor of 5 - 6x using only 7 SPEs for rendering.""

I can\'t imagine what the combination Cell/RSX will produce...

[Bobs_Hardware]

I can\'t imagine what the combination Cell/RSX will produce...

Massive hype?

That as well. It\'s a by-product.

[BizioEE]

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Massive hype?

I don\'t think it\'s only hype....

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellperf/

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and here an interesting interview with Alex Chow on Cell Broadband Engine programming models

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-expert8/

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
Massive hype?

^^^This guy speaks the truth. Nothing but hype. I don\'t even wanna get into it. Because I don\'t expect too se the true benefits of what the cell can actually do. Til at least the next installment of playstation gaming(ps4).

[Paul2]

I will second that it\'s hype.  Even if its performs better.  So what, is that all there is?  Top notch performance?  There are few things that really interested me about PS3 over XBOX360 and most of them aren\'t about graphical performance such as Blu Ray add-on, HDMI connections, and can output 1080p.  On the other hand, graphical performance between XBOX360 or top of the line graphic card for PC compare to PS3, I wouldn\'t worry much about it since most of it are more of hype.

I don\'t care if other disses Blu Ray for PS3, I am all for it.  If PS3 can be sold at $300 without blu ray.  But it will cost an additional $100 - $200 with Blu Ray drive, that\'s not a lot honestly.  It will gives PS3 a huge advantage over XBOX360.  Think of the capacity benefit the blu ray disc can store which can benefit both movies and videogames too.

Honestly there has been very little hype from Sony. Most of the Hype we are reading comes from outside of the Sony camp.

if it was Sony who was releasing all these specs, like they did with the PS2, then we could say MASSIVE HYPE !.

but these are software Engineers working with the cel. So IMO its got some bite.


IMHO. MS made a huge muistake going before Sony this round. Sony knows what MS is trying to do, and Sony knows the only way to stop MS from gaining ground is too leave absolutely no doubt about which platform is more powerful and superior.

I personally believe Xbox 360 will be remembered as Xbox 1.5 in the end.

I, too, have a feeling Sony is cooking up something special. That, or they don\'t have crap so they keep quiet.

[Titan]

Originally posted by ddaryl
I personally believe Xbox 360 will be remembered as Xbox 1.5 in the end.

Its already getting the reputation of being just a beefed up version of the Xbox with the same basic parts, only upgraded. The PS3 however is completely new stuff. The PS2 was completely new. The Xbox was already made parts that were just thrown together and so is the 360.