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I really think that Sony is quickly becoming the king of poorly designed hardware.
Personally, I'd prefer they stop upping the damned chip speeds and concentrate on giving developers a better environment to work with and better hardware features.
Why do we even NEED 72 processors ? There are some amazing games out that require all of ONE. What's the point of making several trillion calculations when nothing else can keep up ?
Don't they push this same rumor/hype every game cycle? Remember that M-whatever chip that was going to be in the successor to the 3DO, wasn't that an everything chip? They're always a gazillion times more powerful than any computer ever conceived....
I suppose so. But the promise of a revolutionary architecture really does nothing but incite images of programmers throwing their dev kits out the window. If it was possible to make a PS system more difficult to develop for, Sony has suceeded in it.
If they go through with this kind of design, I feel it's tantamount to creating a car that can go 700mph but providing two wooden sticks as a steering mechanism.
So basically, the PS3 must be online for it to run specific games, and it needs to connect to a minimum number of other online PS3s to run these specific games?Quote:
Originally posted by Scourge
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.
That's absolutely fucking stupid. I've got to be reading this wrong.
Ummm I agree with Mech, redesign the controller and add a few more ports, only problem I have with the system.
Be interesting to see how many companies in this industry will be able to come up with budgets for next-gen games. Serious eye-candy=serious risk. *-neo
Not born, but continued into the third generation...Quote:
Originally posted by Scourge
It seems like the media will eat this up just like the PS2 hype. And thus a widened, uninformed userbase is born.
I actually think they're talking about the network between the 72 individual processors. So it's more network processing rather than processing over a network type of thing... which makes far more sense.Quote:
Originally posted by OmegaFlareX
So basically, the PS3 must be online for it to run specific games, and it needs to connect to a minimum number of other online PS3s to run these specific games?
That's absolutely fucking stupid. I've got to be reading this wrong.
Otherwise it would be funny as hell if the PS3 was some kind of BitTorrent based game machine :D
I just hope the PS3 will have that built in toaster accessory I've been asking for.
Someone please flush this crap down the toilet.
I do...