PlayStation 3 Update

Online news sites are reporting that the spring 2003 issue of Electronic Design Chain, an electronics trade magazine, features PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi on the cover, and also contains very surprising news about the Playstation 3.

According to the reports, Kutaragi mentions that final production of the "Cell" chip, originally thought to be used in the PlayStation 3, may not be ready until 2007. He also confirms that the CPU in the PlayStation 3 will in fact not be the Cell processor, contrary to earlier reports.

With a targeted PlayStation 3 launch in 2005/2006, delayed production of the Cell processor may have caused Sony to find a different solution for their next-generation console.

<font size="1">Source:IGN</font>

TNL = IGN?

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Quality avatar by Lhadatt.

As for the cell processor, is this the one that was supposed to run paralell with all the other PS3's hooked up at the same time? Because the systems would have to be online to play a game as all games would be downloaded and stored instead of bought on disc?

If it is then...good. I like it when companies make money producing games. It encourages them to do it more often. But the line of thinking behind that monstrosity is "how can we make the most money possible (no piracy, no imports, people never actually 'owning' a game)?" while neglecting the biggest part, which is "how can this new technology benefit the gamer?". Because you fuck with the geeks, you fucking with the bad guy. And that whole online-only Playstation fucks with the geeks bad.

Thanks Blaine. I need more stuff for him to say though...

Processor hype is worthless. Look at all the hype the "Emotion Engine" got back in 99, and now look at how crappy the PS2 is viewed in terms of tech specs. Why bother hyping the processor when the games are what sells a system? Oh wait, I forgot -- the PS2 launch games sucked...

I'd rather if they just built a console that didn't break.

or need to stand up vertically? :D

thank god

from the sounds of it Cell technology looked horrible for things like video games

and we would have had to put up with another generation where the most powerful system wasnt the leader and it would have been another generation of shitty PS graphics ;)

Cancelled my ass, it never existed. The Cell processor as it was rumored to be was one of the stupidest ideas I'd heard in years and not one I can see consumers supporting if it didn't have the PS3 logo on it somewhere. (Kind of like how Madden 04 could be the old Genesis Madden 96 and still sell in 7 digits.) A system that needs to be online (with a broadband solution being required, there's no way 56k would do it) to work is just a stupid idea, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to go buy a Div-X DVD player.

Dumb, dumb, dumb idea, the cell processor. I think they were just blowing smoke because the alternative is just too scary.

James

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Originally posted by James
A system that needs to be online (with a broadband solution being required, there's no way 56k would do it) to work is just a stupid idea, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to go buy a Div-X DVD player.

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I think you're a little confused here, allow me to explain. The "Divx" DVD player you're referring to is the failed Circuit City "pay to play" DVD format. It had special players and movies that you bought from them for around $5. You could watch it for a preset period ( 48 hours I think it was ) and after that, you put it back on your shelf. When you wanted to watch it again, you basically "rented" the content and the 56K modem dialed in and charged you another $5. Yea, it was lame and through a heavy website supported banner campaign railing it along with low sales and investment issues the format folded with much fanfare. More recently, a hacked Microsoft video codec sprung up using the name "Divx". It was technically illegal, and a goal was set to code a new version of the codec built with no copywritten code used. The open-source version of Divx was born, which then quickly incorporated and turned the Divx codec commercial. Divx is currently used to stream video over the net, compress DVD's into smaller files that still look very nice, and just about every other use video codecs have. Currently, the open-source Divx project lives through XviD ( try and keep up here ), which is essentially an update to the open Divx codec.

Anyway, the reason the Circuit City players needed to be "online" ( it just dialed out once and awhile ) was for billing, not the same kind of high-speed sustained throughput that this "cell" processing would require.