More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details

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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http://10.10.10.1/ps3/webcam/

[peterdaly]

Instead of using a mouse or game controller, players might wave their hands in front of a Web cam, showing what they want to do through gestures.

Sony...where half the fun of a game is watching someone else try to play it.

-Pete

Re:http://10.10.10.1/ps3/webcam/

[ender81b]

wave their hands in front of a Web cam, showing what they want to do through gestures.

This could lead to a disaster of epic proportions. Imagine hundreds of sexual frustrated males showing the playstation what they want it to do. Can you imagine the warranty requests?

Good god.

Re:what the hell are they talking about?

[tunabomber]

FYI, it's a "self-healing" article. Whenever the writer made a typo, the masssively parallel content management system dynamically replaced the mistyped word with a buzzword, making for one superintegrated synergistic media experience with meshed redundancy capabilities.

Re:This has to be the dumbest idea ever

[guttentag]

Does the parental admonition "Close the door! I'm not paying to heat/air-condition the whole neighborhood!" ring a bell? How many parents are going to allow their kids to tie up a phone line or leave the console on 24-7 to allow complete strangers all over the world to use their PS3?

Seriously, either the author of the article doesn't know what he's talking about or Sony's been smoking something other than Xbox sales. I saw Dean Takahashi (the author) give a talk to promote his new Xbox book at the San Jose Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago. I was sitting in the cafe area, occasionally looking over to get an idea of whether the audience seemed interested in what he was saying... but they seemed so dead I didn't bother walking over.

At the end, he distributed free X-box games to random audience members, and I distinctly remember the look on each person's face as they accepted their prize: "what the fsck am I gonna do with this?"