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More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-hints-of-them dept.

gwernol writes: "Redherring has a good article on Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 3: not too many technical details but good background to the Xbox/PlayStation wars. Sony are touting the use of massively parallel 'cell computing' to get a 1,000 times performance increase over the PS2. This plan, also known as grid computing is also discussed here."

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  1. Marketing PHB? by peterdaly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This sounds to me like a Marketing droid who knows jack about this stuff saying it will be a fast processor on a platform that is built for network games and applications.

    Based on the other comments, that may be the closest thing to the truth from that article.

    -Pete

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  2. LAME by Stronty · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That article was all fluff. Remember all the ps2 hype, how George Lucass was supposedly impressed and he said that ps2 could render episode 1 in real time or how Sony said we'd be playing interactive movies that looked like toy Story....remember how they said it would give you a blowjob while you played? How many of their promises did they fulfill? Backwards compatibility is about the only promise they made good on. Geez even some Dreamcast games look better than the supposedly more powerful PS2... where's broadband or even narrowband play for ps2 right now...Today.... sony can't even deliver on yesterday's promises... how can they deliver on tomorrow's???