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Playstation 3
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Weaste?
Well, it's is as it says it is, the PS2 is in its 11th year, and has outsold XB360 and PS3 since both of them were launched. It doesn't stop another system coming along, but I'd expect an announcement of some sort at next E3, which will be mid 2012, and a possible launch sometime late 2013 for Japan and the US, and mid 2014 for the EU.
Once they get it under $200, PS3 will fly off the shelves. I have no doubt that it will surpass Wii in its lifetime. Also, I expect PS4 to be based on a very similar architecture, and I think that the games will run on both PS3 and PS4 (which will be initially sold at a premium price point). Don't hold me on that though
It just makes sense to me, but then what Sony do doesn't always make much sense at times. Developers are finally getting to grips with the Cell; developers such as DICE like it and are screaming for more SPEs amd more RAM; give it to them.... Make Cell 2 with a 2 core POWER7 derivative with 16 SPEs hanging off each one, stick in 4GB of well connected high bandwidth RAM, a top of the range GPU from today, up the speed of the BD drive, release it in late 2013/early 2014 - job done, and it would be quite the monster.
Once they get it under $200, PS3 will fly off the shelves. I have no doubt that it will surpass Wii in its lifetime. Also, I expect PS4 to be based on a very similar architecture, and I think that the games will run on both PS3 and PS4 (which will be initially sold at a premium price point). Don't hold me on that though
It just makes sense to me, but then what Sony do doesn't always make much sense at times. Developers are finally getting to grips with the Cell; developers such as DICE like it and are screaming for more SPEs amd more RAM; give it to them.... Make Cell 2 with a 2 core POWER7 derivative with 16 SPEs hanging off each one, stick in 4GB of well connected high bandwidth RAM, a top of the range GPU from today, up the speed of the BD drive, release it in late 2013/early 2014 - job done, and it would be quite the monster.
Cross-game chat I don't think will ever happen as standard across all PS3 games, because they never thought about it in the first place. The one SPE running the OS is a busy chappy already. What if you have PlayTV recording a TV programme and you are playing a game at the same time, where the hell is the processing power going to come from when the game is taking up the rest of the 6 SPEs? There's nothing left, apart from the disabled one, but they can't even enable that on systems that have it functionally working. It's one of those features that needed to be designed into the system from the get-go.
Is there anyway to boost the processing power of a PS3?
What are SPEs?
Synergistic Processing Elements
All that cell gubbons weaste always bangs on about to nobody in particular and redlambs.
All that cell gubbons weaste always bangs on about to nobody in particular and redlambs.
The Cell processor consists of 1 PPE (Power Processing Element - basically very similar to one of the 3 cores the XB360 CPU has), and then 8 SPEs which are called Synergistic Processing Elements or satellite processors. An SPE contains an I/O controller to get data in and out (and SPU cannot address the memory directly), a local store of 256KB, and the SPU - the Synergistic Processing Unit that can only process data stored in that local store. This however makes it blistering fast, especially with floating point arithmetic. In the PS3, the operating system has one, and one is disabled for yield purposes, such that if one SPE is broken, they can still use it. All SPEs and the PPE are connected by a ring bus that has a theoretical bandwidth of around 300GB per second.
In theory, yes.
Okay, but would I be able to get photo-realistic graphics out of a suped up PS3? I guess it'd be a kin sticking a DVD in a player that upscaled.
Weaste has promised to buy me a PS4.
So we are likely to get a new Playstation in the next 2 or 3 years. Nice.
Re: cross game chat. Who gives a shit.
Re: cross game chat. Who gives a shit.
Does your current PC do photo realistic graphics?
This.....
requires 3 GTX590 in SLI, probably consuming something in the region of 800 Watts. You are not getting that in a console right now!
Yes, but as I said, I expect both PS3 and PS4 to run the same games just at different levels similar to how you can change the settings on the PC. One console for $150 and the other for $350 type of thing. Why the hell not?
Won't they develop a new BD Disc for the PS4? I think I remember there being talk of one which would hold 3/4 times more than the current ones, would the PS3 be able to play those? Or have I just made all that up?
Apparently, a simple firmware upgrade could support discs up to 200GB on the PS3. Loading will be slower though, as they can't speed up the drive, with PS4 they can.
GTX 580s, not 590s.
Point remains the same.
It's all posteuring. They are waiting for M$ to show their hand.
That would make sense, but they didn't take advantage of it last time around. They could have blown XB360 out of the water on many fronts due to the delay with the blue-violet laser diodes - added more RAM, modified RSX, etc. Maybe however they were so confident in the brand name that they didn't see it as a problem.
Well it helps when you know your machine is on a par, coupled with the brand name.
However, there's no way they can afford to let M$ get a big jump start this time, unless they really are going to blow them out of the water - but I just can't see that.
CVG
Bargain.
Original article I belive is from.... PS3 price cut imminent. £179.99? | Games Industry | MCV CVG are such trash plagiarist bastards.
It saves me having to visit a bunch of sites. Plus it's not like they don't credit the original source.
I wonder if there is any truth to this.
I hope the rumours of the PS4 being released next year are not true. They can still get 2 years out of the PS3 without releasing the PS4 and also I can't afford another new console.
What I hope for most is a 'appear offline' option. A lot of the time I just want to be able to play online without people bugging me for a game on so and so.
Don't sign in.
The other option is more easy. For example all those PSN games where you are going for a high score. Need to be online for that.
Well then I won't be able to play online will I?
Then sign in, dummy.
If you get annoyed by your mates messaging you, turn off notifications under settings. I think an appear offline option would be really useful. I'd like a sleep option like they have on the PSP, it's not really necessary but it would be simple addition rather than having to boot up the console and the game everytime.
But that's the idea behind appearing offline. I want to play online but appear off, duh
I just want cross game chat.
They aren't, it's tripe!
Unless you are a trophy whore, use a different account.
Is PSN down again?
Right, so I was playing Fifa11 and suddenly my PS3 turns itself off. Now it can't turn on again. The red power light keeps flashing. Any ideas on what the problem could be? I don't want to send it to Sony for repair as it would cost alot.
over heating?
I've turned it off for more than 3 hours now and tried again. Still can't turn on.
Something has gone pop! And if it's out of warranty then you will have to pay. If you live in Europe you should be able to get a new one from where you bought it, but you will lose everything on the HDD in that case.
I've gone over this a lot over many years, but how do you normally turn it on and off? This is important as to heat dissipation. Never turn it off straight after playing, ever. And keep it clean. You could be unlucky, but I know that most XB360 and PS3 failures are down to people turning the boxes off straight after playing without letting them first cool down.
How old is mine now, 4 years old, and for the last 4 days it's been running GT5 non-stop, I simply haven't turned it off. It's just sat there, humming to itself.
I've gone over this a lot over many years, but how do you normally turn it on and off? This is important as to heat dissipation. Never turn it off straight after playing, ever. And keep it clean. You could be unlucky, but I know that most XB360 and PS3 failures are down to people turning the boxes off straight after playing without letting them first cool down.
How old is mine now, 4 years old, and for the last 4 days it's been running GT5 non-stop, I simply haven't turned it off. It's just sat there, humming to itself.