PS3: Official Unveiling

Kazaanova

Getting off topic for a minute, is anyone expecting any big surprises tonight? I think Sony are just going to play it safe.

jesus_thats_gre

I personally do not think the Cell processor is going to live up to all the hype.. I also think that in terms of raw power, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are going to be fairly even.

bizmark

Sony better hurry up and release some pics and specs or else Tusky and jesus_thats_gre will end up sleeping with each other or something

CyberGhost

well I expect atleast one real picture ffs

Hugh Hefner

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

This is fairly depressing to be honest.

I seen something mentioning a 4Ghz single Cell processor capable of 256 GigaFlops. Considering the Xbox 360 is pushing 1 TerraFlop, I am wouldnt be impressed at all.

Sony have announced 10 TerraFlops for the PS3.

CyberGhost

bizmark wrote:

Sony better hurry up and release some pics and specs on else Tusky and jesus_thats_gre will end up sleeping with each other or something

lol

jesus_thats_gre

only if he got strawberry and kiwi jam..

Tusky

bizmark wrote:

Sony better hurry up and release some pics and specs on else Tusky and jesus_thats_gre will end up sleeping with each other or something

We are cybering via PM as we speak. Hes mediocre at best.

dloob

Kaz Hirai has taken the stage, beginning his speech with "190 million PS2s sold. 2 billion software sales" Hirai then began speaking about PlayStation 3... It features the CELL processor as previously reported, and also features a Blu-Ray Disk drive, running at 6x. Backwards compatibility with both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games has also just been confirmed. Hirai also stated that PlayStation 3 runs at twice the speed of Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 console is capable of reaching 10 Terraflops of processing information.

from http://www.cgno.com/news_live.php?name=sony

Corben Dallas

that last one was fake Gonzo

jesus_thats_gre

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Sony have announced 10 TerraFlops for the PS3.

This was speculation as to what a rack of 8 or so Cell Processors could manage.. Sony have not actually released anything other than hype in relation to what the PS3 is capable off.

The Free Man

Kaz Hirai has taken the stage, beginning his speech with "190 million PS2s sold. 2 billion software sales" Hirai then began speaking about PlayStation 3... It features the CELL processor as previously reported, and also features a Blu-Ray Disk drive, running at 6x. Backwards compatibility with both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games has also just been confirmed. Hirai also stated that PlayStation 3 runs at twice the speed of Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 console is capable of reaching 10 Terraflops of processing information.

http://www.cgno.com/news_live.php?name=sony


damn that was posted fast

glimmerman

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

I personally do not think the Cell processor is going to live up to all the hype.. I also think that in terms of raw power, the Xbox 360 and PS3 are going to be fairly even.

Well, I have a feeling that sony are doing something special. Distributed computing will probably change the world

Tusky

dloob wrote:

Kaz Hirai has taken the stage, beginning his speech with "190 million PS2s sold. 2 billion software sales" Hirai then began speaking about PlayStation 3... It features the CELL processor as previously reported, and also features a Blu-Ray Disk drive, running at 6x. Backwards compatibility with both PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games has also just been confirmed. Hirai also stated that PlayStation 3 runs at twice the speed of Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 console is capable of reaching 10 Terraflops of processing information.

from http://www.cgno.com/news_live.php?name=sony

twice the speed...

jesus_thats_gre

Oh...................................................... my god

Hugh Hefner

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

This was speculation as to what a rack of 8 or so Cell Processors could manage.. Sony have not actually released anything other than hype in relation to what the PS3 is capable off.

No, I was just quoting the thing that dloob quoted 2 posts after me.

Vikings

I've just got an erection

steviec

So 10 Terraflops is twice the speed of 1 Terraflop? Hmmm

Unless he's talking about clockspeeds, but no way is the PS3 running at 6GHz surely.

dloob

Mind you I'm still waiting for that realtime toy story on my PS2

8bi1ctzegfouva

It's just been confirmed that the PS3 will have a detachable hard drive, six USB ports, a memory stick, and seven bluetooth wireless controllers.

7 controllers?? wtf??

bizmark

steviec wrote:

So 10 Terraflops is twice the speed of 1 Terraflop? Hmmm
Unless he's talking about clockspeeds, but no way is the PS3 running at 6GHz surely

I was wondering about that myself

dloob

There is a shot of a slide from the presentation here
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000050043558/

It says the cell processer is running at 3.2Ghz.
Doesn't say how many it has.

steviec

7 is an odd number of controllers, literally

But the more the merrier!

This is suddenly very interesting

Kazaanova

"It's just been confirmed that the PS3 will have a detachable hard drive, six USB ports, a memory stick slot, and seven bluetooth wireless controllers. "

Seven, what an odd number.

The Free Man

dloob wrote:

Mind you I'm still waiting for that realtime toy story on my PS2

lol i remember that, NURBS!!!

is that cgn site down?

Rabies

From the sony site forums

steviec

Hold on, 7 bluetooth controllers?

Isn't bluetooth fairly crap in comparison to wifi? I seem to remember being told that in networking lectures in the distant past...

8bi1ctzegfouva

do you think it will come with 7? or the usual of just one, but have the ability to take 7?

Rabies

Jimmy Pitiful Scrubber wrote:

do you think it will come with 7? or the usual of just one, but have the ability to take 7?

the machine will be a slut

8bi1ctzegfouva

wonder why the php has wifi, but ps3 has bluetooth, maybe its a pile of ****...???