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Comment from: Paul Member

Oh dear god Wester. "1000 times the power of any PC. 66Gb/s of memory bandwidth. Toy Story graphics in real time. And such & such." is what Sony used to market the PS2 before it came out.

Yes and I think that's completely wrong.
Comment from: chapstick Visitor

Paul wrote:
Oh dear god Wester. "1000 times the power of any PC. 66Gb/s of memory bandwidth. Toy Story graphics in real time. And such & such." is what Sony used to market the PS2 before it came out.
No they didn't. Sony never made that statement. The media made this statement based on the specs they had no clue about. Sony gave away the PS2 specs and the retarded media turned around and made it seem like some gift from heaven.
Comment from: Paul Member

Sony executives said that.
Comment from: Raijin Visitor

Actually, Sony execs did not say that. And Cell can and has been used for graphics processing in one of the E3 tech demos. Its just that a processor designed for grzphics functions would be more efficient at it
Comment from: AkiraX Visitor

"Its just that a processor designed for grzphics functions would be more efficient at it "
but yet the cell is all powerful and a supercomputer....ummm...ok
Comment from: Sephiroth027 Visitor

But the Cell Processor hasn't even been made and the "trailers" that were running at e3 were on a COMPUTER and were not Real-time. The Cell has not been proven to run graphics or even just as normal coputer yet so it will be EXTREMELY difficult to program on. Also Sony Execs DID say "1000X more powerful.....etc".
(I am not a "fanboy", i just wanted to shed some light on the subject)
Comment from: jimmy Visitor

How could you say that the ps3 or ps2 are shit. Sorry to say but who is leading the game consol industry. Sony have been and for quite some time now. Sure the ps2 was a difficult devise to make games on but that was only when it first came out. People soon figured out how to make it work and game companies are leaving the ps2 um what has the largest range of games here ps2. Now with this processor business yes what sony has said is bullshit but microsoft bullshits to. Your saying ps3 is crap because it realise on nvidia. have you read about the two consols? the ps3 has one prossesor yet the xbox 360 (not xbox 2) has three and the ps3 still has a higher picture resolution. I think sony knows what there doing microsoft specilises in software sony specilises in hardware which will always give them an advantage.
"1000 times the power of any PC. 66Gb/s of memory bandwidth. Toy Story graphics in real time. And such & such."
??? Um, that's total BS dude. That sounds like some over hyped advertisement nVidia exagerrated about at the release of the GeForce 3 back in 2001. Toy Story graphics in [you mean pre-rendered solid *cough*] real-time? 66 GB/s of [BS shared?] memory bandwith? 1000 times the power of a PC? LOL, let's look at the PS2's specs:
Custom Sony Pentium II 297 MHz CPU, 32MB of shared EDRAM, and a custom crap sony graphics chip and sound chip. That can only literally compete with a 1997-circa PC ROFL, that's 1000 times the power of any PC huh? Even with the greatest console fine-tuning and optmizations OS shell and hardware wise it still sucks ass. Oh and the PS2 was released in 2000 if I'm not mistaking? Hah.
The PS3 [not sure if the code-name but don't really care], the Xbox 2 [Xenon], or the GameCube 2 [N5], ummm.... I think we already know the winner of that pointless competition. Sony's PS3's release date is slated for 2006 and it's special "cell" processor is slated for a 2005 finish date, while Xbox 2 will [hopefully] be out in 2005. Creates even more competition. Hmmm...... time will tell. ;)