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Distributed Playstation

Posted by Hemos on from the concatenate-two-buzzwords dept.

withinavoid writes "News.com has a story up about the next generation Playstation 3. Apparently the game developers are asking for a 1000 times performance increase and that's just not possible, so they are looking at distributed computing as a possibility. "

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  1. MS employee admits monopoly sucks by Skwirl · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The only interesting part of that article is the part where a Microserf basically admits that MS's monopoly lets them write crappy software:
    "Microsoft has this stigma about not getting it right until version three... We didn't have a choice with Xbox. If we didn't get it right with version one, Sony and Nintendo would eat us alive." — Pete Isensee, lead developer for Microsoft's Xbox Advanced Technology Group.