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Distributed Playstation
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. "
Does this mean it will take Tekken 4 even longer to come out?
"Goodness, how did you people live long enough to invent tools?" -Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher)
See here, if you don't believe me: http://www.misinformer.com/archive/01-01/15.html
The speed of time is one second per second.
Distributed console computing... interesting! Does anybody have a link on how I can hook up my Atari 2600 consoles for something like this?
Just think how much faster PONG will run!
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
Does this mean we can look forward to playing "CORBA Command"?
I am a Karma Library.
does that mean that if no one else happens to be playing their playstation 3 at the same time you are you can't play at all or the game will look and play terrible?
i'm not so sure this is a great idea.
"I just want to thank my coach Eric a.k.a. Disco for shattering my reality..."
Developers: We want a 1000 times speed increase
Sony: Would you settle for a press release containing a bunch of buzzwords
Developers: Which ones?
Sony: Let me think: "distributed computing", "biotechnology", "linux", "grid computing" and "Moore's Law"
Developers: OK, if you throw in some hookers at the next Comdex in Vegas
Sony: Deal
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Forgive me if my math is off, but if Moore's law states that processing power roughly doubles every 18 months, wouldn't a 1000-fold increase occur in about 15 years?
Maybe they're designing the next generation Playstation on a Pentium machine. Did they ever fix that bug?
-Jeff
If you wish to run Gran Turismo 4 in full resolution with highest graphics settings, 4 Playstation 3's are recommended.
Well, I guess if they're rack-mountable, I'm game. Bring it on.
That sounds like a practical solution. I'll just buy a beowulf cluster of PS3's and ...
(Do these guys think I can offload the processing for my games to someone else's PS3? Won't that PS3 be busy trying to run someone else's game?)
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Wow. pay 500$ for a console, only to have it spend half its time working on someone else's games...on the otherh hand, plug it into a 56k line and watch someone playing Quake 7 have a stroke as their FPS drops to 3
"Sir, looking at our usage staticstics it seems to be that your Sony(tm) Playstation(tm) 3(tm) has not been doing its fair share of our distributed computing"
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Speaking at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), an annual trade show for the creative and technological sides of the game industry, Shin'ichi Okamoto, chief technical officer for Sony Computer Entertainment, said research efforts for the PlayStation 8 are focusing on neurological implants, a method for allowing the game player to control game merely by thought.
Okamoto said the method also appears to hold the most promise for dramatically boosting the performance of the PlayStation. Instead of being reliant on a hardware "processor", all game computations would be performed in the user's own cerebrum. Unfortunately, this means that game developers can not work on a strictly "fixed platform" basis any more, considering performance will greatly improve with intelligence.
"I think we can easily overcome this barrier," Okamoto said, "Instead of hardware requirements as we see them now, we could instead have IQ requirements. Like, we would say that the minimum requirement for Gran Turismo XII is a high-school diploma, but we would recommend at least a college-level education to get any decent performance. But then for games like Resident Evil, well, any idiot could play that."
The gaming industry was reeling with excitement by this announcement, and Okamoto was further pressed for details on how this technology would actually be implemented. After a few minutes of uncomfortable shuffling and avoiding eye contact, he eventually admitted that he was merely "making shit up".
Paradigm Shift
Come on... PS9 was already released, with the telepathic interface. Surely it's 1000x faster than PS2
Don't any of you watch T.V. ????
Hardware guys: *kick the developers in the nerts* Give us games 1000 times better and we'll think about it, you pathetic freaks.