Sony, IBM Announce Cell Workstation For PS3 Dev

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for its article discussing the little-heralded Sony announcement of a Sony and IBM co-developed, Cell-based workstation for PlayStation 3 (and other) content creation. The article explains: "The workstation, which will ship before the end of the year, will feature an architecture based on the parallel processing Cell chip [also to be used in the PlayStation 3], and will be designed to power digital content creation for movies, television and videogames." GI.Biz also quotes an un-named industry figure as suggesting: "Microsoft should be really worried by this... They've been touting Xbox 2 to their partners and talking about the kind of content they want to see created on the platform - more polygons, higher resolutions, more effects - and our response has been that the tools to create this stuff for games don't really exist yet. Now Sony has effectively created those tools."

Comments

Its not even /that/ exciting

[*weasel]

They're announcing the dev kits that should ship 'sometime' before the end of the year.

Personally I see it as the Sony PR FUD machien is running again: "no no, our machine will be much more powerful than theirs".

It worked the last time they were going to show up a year late to the next hardware generation. Why not go back to the well?