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Exhibition schedule title booth contents 2nd feature announcement

2006/09/12

We announce the game software, and booth contents 107 it has the notification to September 1st. Unpublished amount is included and the number of present exhibition schedule titles (the peripheral device and the like it includes), they are 573 titles. Among those, the game of online correspondence becomes 133 titles. Both the quantity of advanced registration and the number of online corresponding games, the previous opening time when past it is highest (the quantity of advanced registration: 516, the number of online corresponding games: 80) It reaches the number of registers which are exceeded. The number of titles classified by genre and classified by platform is as follows.
* As for details annex PDF (exhibition schedule title summary booth contents summary) please refer to.

<Exhibition schedule title several summaries>

Genre The number of titles

Action 129
Roll playing 76
Simulation 49
Puzzle 35
Adventure 33
Sport 28
Shooting 23
Racing 16
In addition 184

Platform The number of titles

Personal computer 127
Portable telephone 125
Play station 2 100
[nintendo] DS 52
[pureisuteshiyon] Playstation portable 33
Xbox 360 20
Play station 3 18
Wii 5
Game boy advance 2
Xbox 1
[nintendogemukiyubu] Nintendo Gamecube 1
Play station 1
In addition 88

About the test playing of game title of part

From latest "Tokyo game Shaw 2006", attendant upon the use of the CESA ethical stipulated CERO ethical stipulated new rating system, "the Z division" work or to test playing of the work which includes the expression which is suitable "Z division" makes only 18 years old or more. When test playing of the game title which has age restriction it is desired, the document which can do age verification () presentation such as driver's permit passport student's card becomes necessary. As for 18 years old or more carrying, the fish you ask the above-mentioned document.
* It does age verification with each booth.

The antenna is Y-E Data's original development. Although the company uses its proprietary UWB wireless communication protocol this time, it is reportedly developing in parallel another version to support the industry's standard "Certified Wireless USB" specification.

(from http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20060 830/120614/)

Q: Why does your controller have a speaker?

Iwata: This feature was absent from the prototype a year ago - we introduced it fairly recently. We discussed what type of feedback the games should provide the user with. Households sporting 5.1 channel speakers will certainly be able to enjoy realistic sound, yet not all homes have such audio equipment. Adding a speaker to the controller will enable us, for example, to have it emit sound effects when hitting the ball in ping-pong, tennis or golf games.

HDMI is the future for video cables and you can pick one up for $20ish today and that price will drop, the 360 requires a $30 cable for anything but composite.

IBM's CELL blades are interesting, although they are just prototypes. The Cell will be in some stuff, it has a chance of catching on in media apps, but I'm guessing it will end up only being successful in the PS3.

The 360's hard drive is completely unupgradable, you can't upgrade it even if you rip the damn thing apart. The 360's hard-drive situation really couldn't be worse...

The off-die memory is cheaper, but the fact that the video card needs two dies connected with a 200 GByte/sec bus just isn't cheap or "commodity".

The 360 can use USB drives and controllers, but so can everything. The 360 has no real intigration with the iPod(it can't play iTunes DRMed AAC) or the PSP(nothing but a jump drive to the 360)

PC ports generally suck... but I guess it takes all kinds...

It's not even going to exist, ever.

Yes, it will.

The Cell's general purpose "controller" CPU is an incredibly stripped down PPC core that has incredibly low performance compared to any standard general purpose CPU.

Maybe you should tell that to IBM, so that they don't waste time & money researching the possibility of building "incredibly low performance" Cell-based Blade servers.

I can clearly see the typical usage that could be made of such servers. Your VPN server spends 90% of it's CPU time doing crypto-related operations ? Replace it with a Cell-based server using a Cell-optimized crypto library. You have a server farm doing video encoding ? Replace it with Cell-based servers using Cell-optimized video encoding routines.

Regarding Cell-based workstations, I can't predict whether this market will ever develop or not because it all depends on the software that will be ported to it. Open source apps have a net advantage of course, since they simply need to be recompiled for the Cell. IBM has already ported Linux to the Cell too. And as a Linux/BSD guru, I would not hesitate to buy a Cell-based workstation just to play with it. Because I know I don't need a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 to browse the web, send emails, read PDFs, write some code, play a few MP3s, etc. I was an early adopter of AMD64, I bought my dual-Opteron box, and have contributed various assembly-optimized code to various open source projects. I expect to do the same with the Cell.

PS3 is just a niche thing for Cell, the workstation/server space is way to go:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051007-5403 .html
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 525/105050/

Here is an impressive "virtual mirror" demo using the Cell processor put on by Toshiba. Basically, using a video camera, it can make a 3D model of the person in front of a the camera on the fly. Then it can manipulate the 3D model to change make-up, hair-styles, etc, basically a virtual magic mirror. Really demonstrates the truly unique features these more powerful processors will offer.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/lsi/images/toshiba_ce ll.mpg

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20051 013/109623/

Here is an impressive "virtual mirror" demo using the Cell processor put on by Toshiba. Basically, using a video camera, it can make a 3D model of the person in front of a the camera on the fly. Then it can manipulate the 3D model to change make-up, hair-styles, etc, basically a virtual magic mirror. Really demonstrates the truly unique features these more powerful processors will offer.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/lsi/images/toshiba_ce ll.mpg

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20051 013/109623/

I stand corrected. Here is a link to info about the cell based blade servers. One interesting thing to note is at the bottom of the page: "The OS used was Linux 2.6.11" So I guess that kinda disproves all the people saying Linux won't run well on the Cell.

I'm a photographer and I'm looking at over a terabyte of external firewire drives piled up on my desk and spindles of DVDs backing them up. Right now the options for reliable long term reasonably prices storage pretty much suck if you generate around six gig of files a day. Lots of hard drives is fine as far as price goes, but they aren't an answer for long term storage. If anyone has an idea for storage in the 30 year range, I'd like to hear about it. My experience with tape back in the DC250 days was pretty dismal, and I don't ever see any tape systems touted for long term storage, but I'd love a recommendation for a system that I could trust for more than 10 years. I assume that a product to address this market will show eventually but I'd like to have something now

For what it's worth I'm looking forward to these when they come out.
http://www.maxell-usa.com/Content/Pages/Page.asp?S ection=pressreleases&department=maxellusa_pr&Line= datapr&Open=datapr41
or these
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 608/105586/?ST=english

The Japanese article they quoted (http://arena.nikkeibp.co.jp/expo/news/20051028/11 4052/) says Kutaragi talked about PS3 playing movies, not games, at 120fps on future TV interfaces. I'm sure those with very basic Japanese skill can make out it. Huge shame on Gamespot.

Yet another ePaper product promised more than a year away. Ho hum. If history has a lesson, any ePaper announcement this far away should just be ignored.

First there was Philips eInk, whose technology was integrated into the underwhelming Sony LIBRIe. Then Seiko revealed a wristwatch that appears big and heavy enough to block bullets.

With their no-lighter-than-other-technology design, most of these products seem to have missed the compelling point of ePaper: it is supposed to be as big and as light as paper!

Even the eInk development kits being sold Novemeber 1st are for small 6 inch displays.

Until they announce ePaper that I can use to cover an entire wall, and it is available *next week*, I am not going to hold my breath...

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/

They also have a site dedicated completely to OSS.

In other news, there was a thirty-minute report on OSS on the news after Bill Gates' Japan trip earlier this week (in which one of the newscasters said something to the effect of "Poor Gates, he must be worried").

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/

They also have a site dedicated completely to OSS.

In other news, there was a thirty-minute report on OSS on the news after Bill Gates' Japan trip earlier this week (in which one of the newscasters said something to the effect of "Poor Gates, he must be worried").

After reading the article, this is a typical Anadtech 'nothing' article, even the one they did previously on the Cell was horrible, and so full of incorrect 'guesses' that they make themselves look insanely stupid.

If they had talked to _anyone_ working on the Cell they would have pointed them to this nice article, which I wish people would read before crapping on about the Cell:
http://www.research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC 05/index.html
This isnt some marketing junk, it actually has some pretty decent info about how the Cell _works_. Unlike what everyone has been saying, the SPE's ARE general purpose processors:
http://www.research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC 05/17.html

I wish people would stop with the "everyone chooses the Xenon because its more general purpose", what a load of. The Xenon has issues.. one being they dont have many pressed yet!!! The Cell _has_ been tested in various forms, as a Linux Server:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 525/105050/
As a Linux Workstation:
http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/freecongress-det ails.html?&L=1&talkid=156
As a TV mpeg-2 stream decoder:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 425/104149/?ST=english

The last one alone shows just how much data can be operated on .. and only 6 SPE's were being used for it.

Personally I think Anadtech should stop taking drugs.. and read around a bit.. maybe they might be able to be a bit more thorough with their articles then - youd think google was broken looking at the crap they are putting up.

After reading the article, this is a typical Anadtech 'nothing' article, even the one they did previously on the Cell was horrible, and so full of incorrect 'guesses' that they make themselves look insanely stupid.

If they had talked to _anyone_ working on the Cell they would have pointed them to this nice article, which I wish people would read before crapping on about the Cell:
http://www.research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC 05/index.html
This isnt some marketing junk, it actually has some pretty decent info about how the Cell _works_. Unlike what everyone has been saying, the SPE's ARE general purpose processors:
http://www.research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC 05/17.html

I wish people would stop with the "everyone chooses the Xenon because its more general purpose", what a load of. The Xenon has issues.. one being they dont have many pressed yet!!! The Cell _has_ been tested in various forms, as a Linux Server:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 525/105050/
As a Linux Workstation:
http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/freecongress-det ails.html?&L=1&talkid=156
As a TV mpeg-2 stream decoder:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 425/104149/?ST=english

The last one alone shows just how much data can be operated on .. and only 6 SPE's were being used for it.

Personally I think Anadtech should stop taking drugs.. and read around a bit.. maybe they might be able to be a bit more thorough with their articles then - youd think google was broken looking at the crap they are putting up.

This is a wall clock, not a wrist watch. It is 1 meter wide.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 616/105862/

For a clock like this the electronics are still brain-dead simple because the digits are still only seven segments each. But they surely can't be far behind with a 1-meter wide high resolution flat screen monitor. Now *that* would be seriously cool, with the 180 degree viewing angle and all the other goodies. And if they put it in a flexible mount, you could just roll it up into a poster tube to carry it around with you. No more lugging around bulky "compact" LCD projectors to do presentations, just unroll a several-meter-wide screen and hang it on a wall. This E-ink is some seriously cool stuff.

Although both the story and this post are blatant plugs for a proprietary technology, the stuff they use for this clock (E Ink) really is quite cool, and can be used in many other gadgets.

For example they are building bendable 200dpi grayscale screens and some Xbox game boxes are using it to create an animated picture on the side of the box.

I wonder how long it will be before these take over the world, and the sci-fi idea of every billboard and poster being animated becomes real? Maybe when the Pentium VI 10GHz Powerbook comes out, it'll have a screen that can be rolled up and put into your pocket?

Actual "article" here:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 401/103334/?ST=english

The PSP's CPU architechture is VERY close the the PS2's, but the PS3 is a whole nother beast. The PS2 has 2 VPUs with 32 128-bit(4x32bit) floating point registers and 16 integer registers with 16KB of Data Memory. The main CPU is MIPs based. The PS3 uses the new CELL CPU which is PowerPC based, the CELL will use 7 SPEs that each have 128 128bit registers and each has 256KB SRAM.

The PS3's SPEs will be used very sililarly to the PS2's SPUs(dot-products, etc) although they are much much bigger, there are a lot more of them, and they are a LOT faster. The CELL CPU was developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM and is slated to be put into TVs, PVRs, etc. It is very good at compression/decrompression, showed it off decoding 48 MPEG2 streams with power to spare.

So the answer to your question is; not yet. Sony will put a CELL CPU in many of their electronics, but not until it is cheaper.

Try 9 cores. Yes, its a Cell. And yes the SPE's _are_ general purpose cores - read some more if youd like: http://www.research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC 05/index.html

The last part about programming architecture.. is interesting reading. From job queuing.. to micro kernels to streaming.. multi-cores are are a very good way to do things. And on Cell.. they are all seperate cores.. And for a server with 14 of these in one box.. coming soon..
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 525/105050/

Its pretty obvious why Intel and AMD are going multicore.. because it works.. and they have to catch up before they are lost in the dust.

Well, in this picture I see a movie file being played (on what seems to be WMP) showing the cells on the screen.

Now, I wasn't there, nor was the article really in depth by any means, but it would seem to me that this was nothing more than a movie demonstration and nothing live.

I'm not quite so impressed. Maybe we should start linking to real content from the front page (i.e. in-depth accounts and not some blogger's one page summary with a blurry photo of a movie file being played on a projection screen).

Ken Kutaragi Talks about Cell

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050 407/103542/

The Creative Muvo2 retails at 189.99 and has 4 gig drive in it. The iPod mini is 249.00. Up until last week there was a 50 dollar rebate for the Muvo making it 139.99. The Muvo is super tiny, much smaller than Apple's offerings. Photo here.

There's competition, albiet not much, out there, not to mention the 512 to 1 gig players out there. Most people have no need for 40 gigs in their pocket or they don't want to drop 249 or 299 for an iPod, which wont record line in nor do FM/AM. I see a lot of 128-512 meg players out there and people don't at all seem to mind not having their entire collection on them at all times.

those nice people at zalmantech.com have created a completely silent case for a 4way opteron so you can have power and silence for the correct amount of $$ http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/NC/NEWS/20040716/ 147359/

i found a picture of what the PSXs menus look like (not sure if thats from the final product). However i wonder if the added cost of a 3d chip will really help push more units for Sony. I mean does anyone care how cool the menu looks? I know personally when purchasing something like a new tv, i read alot of reviews and tend to look at something like picture quality and price as the main selling points. but then i know some people who bought new cell phones so they could get a camera, so maybe im wrong.

The Bloomberg article offers some insight into the business strategy. The plan here is to make units that require a "fuel cartridge". "Fuel cartridges" contain just methanol and water, but will have markups previously seen only for printer ink. Toshiba expects to make ten times as much on the "fuel cartridges" as they do on the fuel cells.

Look for strategies to prevent "refilling".

A nice story about the technicalities here.

This is an outstandingly clear and concise explanation of the issues involved. Someone with Karma bump the parent!

To be able to write with higher speeds the new drives will need to have higher output lasers together with a media that is more sensitive since it is impossible to get the effect by simply changing one of these parameters. (A nice story about the technicalities here.)

This means that an older drive, even though it has a lower effect laser, will destroy the more sensitive media since it stays longer over any one point.

These "bad" effects is probably more due to DVD being a more mature technology closer to the limits than CD were, 8x is a relative number.

The Playstation BB

It is a broadband hub service. Users can buy / download games, movies, music, and chat / mail eachother.

Press Release from Turbolinux Japan (in Japanese)

Another article from NikkeiBP (in Japanese)

The main points are:

• Turbolinux Inc. sold Turbolinux Japan K.K. (its Japanese subsidary) to SRA. (This is the $1 mil. transaction according to Slashdot Japan (in Japanese))
• Turbolinux Japan K.K. will become the new Turbolinux Inc.
• Turbolinux Inc. also sold all its Linux distribution business, logo, trademarks to SRA, but the price is not yet disclosed.
• SRA is also planning to buy the Chinese and Korean joint ventures between Turbolinux Inc. and local companies.
• The old Turbolinux Inc. will change its name to CenterRex and focus on software it developed like PowerCockpit or EnFusion.

After rumamging through Google for a while, the best estimate to where the article is Here. However, it gives a DNS/Server Down error. It may have already been /.ed by the people who originally read the article. Then again, I could be wrong. If GameFu is citing the right source, the above URL is where the news site for Nikkei MicroDevice should be. Maybe it will be up in a few hours.

In any case, the new chip might not help benefit people who've already bought a PS2, but the technology used can help lessen the cost of making the PS3, as well as open up possibilities for backwards compatibility. Sure, it would have been great if the new chips came out sooner. However, not every advance is made at the best possible time. Look on the bright side: it can still offer a chance to help the PS2's potential. It'll be interesting to see what they do with the new chip.

Sony released a prototype calld SDR-3X some time ago. You can see an article of it and video here.