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PS3 and XBox 2 Processors to be Exactly the Same?
themuffinking writes "IBM (the manufacturers of some of the parts for the PS3 and Xbox 2) told Alex Albrecht that the processors they are putting in the new PS3 and Xbox2 are going to be the same processor, with the parts around it arranged slightly differently. Alex pried this information out of an IBM employee, likely while interviewing him for the show on which Alex is a cohost, The Screen Savers. Alex equivocates by saying "Now again, this is a rumor... so no Slashdotting". Too late for that, but keep in mind this is just hearsay at this point.
Sony has previously announced (no reference sorry) that the cell will be delayed until a future playstation model, probably (?) the fourth generation unit. I guess they're not cheap enough yet to actually put them into all their devices, nor do the majority of sony devices yet have the i.Link (aka IEEE1394) that will be necessary to make the cell useful in a distributed fashion.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Actually they just included the main processor and implemented the PS1 graphics chip as softemu
Actually, from what data I've collected, Nintendo has consistently sold less and less units with each hardware revision.
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NES = 62 million units
http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/nes.ht
SNES = 46 million units
http://www.nintendoland.com/home2.htm?history/his
N64 = 30 million units
http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/n64.ht
I didn't see any up to date info on the sales of GameCube, but I guesstimate somewhere between 12-18 million units.
Now supposedly, the game market is increasing, with more and more gamers everyday... why are people abandoning Nintendo?