PS3 specs, facts, speculations and rumours !

[GmanJoe]

What the hell does "360" mean anyway?

[Jumpman]

it means ms is going to circles

its xbox1.0 all over again!

[clips]

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

i agree....even if sony knew what microsoft has or is doing, i think it\'s waaay too late for them to try and pull tricks out of their hat...at this point i feel they have stick to their original plan....*oh and that\'s a slick avy of the joker jumpy*....

Sony is obviously blocking developers from releasing anything until Sony gives the green light. They are saving all the fireworks for CES or more likely the PlayStation Conference (set for Feb).

Also Sony does not want to spoil PS2 and PSP sales for the holidays by releasing PS3 info. It’s a balancing act.

After the holidays, all out assault. Price, release dates, online plans, OS features, new game announcements and so on.

It will be heaven for a starving fanboy like me.

Originally posted by ddaryl
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 agree.I remember when PS2 tech demos surfaced and magazines and the internet were all like "PS2 can perfom graphics as good as a CGI movie, its a real time workstation" "if this is only a tech demo imagine what we are gonna get" "blah blah blah" and they formed all kinds of conlusions by themselves.

We sure got that tech demo quality after some years and games even surpassed it but hell it was people\'s own expectations that hyped it the most.

And when Kutaragi mentioned Toy Story graphics?He is not even a tech geek.Satetements like that are expected some times by people who get excited with impressive graphics and dont speak "technology".
I mean everyday people say similar things too while its far from reality.I ve seen many times people that described their own experience with the DC games as if they were as good looking as a CGI movie.They would say things like "hey did you see Sonic Adventure?It looks as good as those intro movies we used to watch on PS1 and Saturn games"

[Bobs_Hardware]

Quddus: I didn\'t say nothing but hype.

[BizioEE]

Originally posted by ddaryl

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

well, I saw some X360 games, and they look very good, but not so good to make you say :"oh! it\'s really the next gen XBox"....

"only 4 years" between the two...and yes, it seems like a super boosted XBox, an XBox 1.5.........

And what\'s weird about that is I\'ve heard recently that Revolution is comparable to a "souped up Xbox" but not quite X360.

That\'s what I thought X360 was.

Technology is slowing down. Innovation has to move quicker.

Xbox Live and the Revolution controller are two good steps.

-Dan

I think we will see the true power of the PS3 in 3-4 years... look at the games on PS2 now. The first games didn\'t look like the ones from today and so they wont on PS3.

^ You can\'t copy paste that situation.

Like you said yourself ; devs have become savvy at developing for PS2. PS3 is in line with multithreaded coding like the EE requires.

Furthermore, the whole pc industry is, as we speak, shifting towards multicore. AMD\'s X2\'s are a huge succes and Intel\'s roadmap shows the have 65nm plans for quad or even eight core chips.

Then there\'s Nvidia\'s counter to Ati\'s \'XT1900XT\' in 06 ; it\'s rumoured RSX might be closer to Nvidia\'s 90nm than the current 110nm 7800\'s.

Of course, Sony\'s quiet becuz there might have been some hickups or slowdowns in PS3 development, but logic suggests ppl are very much underestimating what SOny will come up with.

[BizioEE]

Originally posted by THE EYE
I think we will see the true power of the PS3 in 3-4 years... look at the games on PS2 now. The first games didn\'t look like the ones from today and so they wont on PS3.

I feel 2nd gen PS3 games will make latest PS2 games look like atari 2600 games...that\'s what I feel...from the latest rumors I heard about PS3 specs...and I agree with Knotter8...

[BizioEE]

...and the latest about Power consumption of the Playstation 3’s Cell processor...(Dec 8, 2005 @ 3:25 am)

""Power consumption of the Playstation 3’s Cell processor may be reduced by up to 40%, thanks to new technologies developed by IBM and AMD.

IBM and AMD have employed two different techniques which fall into a category known as ’silicon straining’. Essentially, these techniques allow electrons to travel faster, thereby reducing a chip’s power requirements without sacrificing chip performance.

Incorporating these techniques into the Cell processor could potentially reduce its power requirements by 40%, and may in turn decrease the PS3’s heat output, thus reducing the likelihood of the console overheating.

Xbox 360 users, on the other hand, have already reported problems with the console overheating and consequent system freezes, along with loud fan noise, and the Xbox 360’s power consumption has been measured at a hefty 160 watts.

IBM and AMD have also announced that Cell chips using silicon straining will be manufactured in the latter half of 2006, and that this next generation of chips will use a 65-nanometer process, as opposed to the current 90-nanometer process.

Using a 65-nanometer process will reduce the chip’s surface area, bring the Cell chip one step closer to realizing Sony president Ken Kutaragi’s vision of Cell-powered mobile devices.""

http://www.ps3focus.com/archives/165

[Titan]

Originally posted by THE EYE
I think we will see the true power of the PS3 in 3-4 years... look at the games on PS2 now. The first games didn\'t look like the ones from today and so they wont on PS3.

True but I\'m not sure if that will be the same for the PS3. We\'ll see though.

[BizioEE]

...and it\'s curious...technology from the Sony/Toshiba design into the Nvidia/Sony RSX design ?!  ...there\'s a lot of talk lately about the RSX being a multi core GPU, and SPEs are well suited for multicore implementations that can take advantage of parallelism, designed to accelerate media and streaming workloads.



now let\'s wait and see for jenuary the 5th...

Wow man!That would be awesome!If CPU performance is greatly improved with multicore architecture, imagine the combination of both multicore CPU and GPU!