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News for nerds writes "The BBC has news about the next-generation game consoles, with comments from various third parties. According to Rory Armes, studio general manager of EA in Europe, they have already received the development kits from Microsoft, but not yet from Sony and Nintendo. He assumes Sony's PlayStation 3 will have a little more under the hood and be more cost-efficient than Microsoft's Xbox 2. Gerhard Florin, head of EA in Europe, remarks 'PS3 will provide graphics indistinguishable from movies.' Spider-Man 2 or Toy Story 2, that's the problem."
Mr Dunn said he expected the introduction of real-world physics to be a major part of the new consoles.
"We want to increase that level of immersion and realism in gaming to people can lose themselves in a game."
Microsoft has apparently delivered devel kits to some of the game makers but Sony has not. I really hope that with these "real-world physics" and "more immersion" that the Adult Industry has development kits from all parties RIGHT NOW.
Yes. I've talked to people at EA. They really have no clue what it takes to get a movie made. When it takes 100 CPU hours to render a typical frame (not unusual) and hours of work by human compositors to achieve subtle 2D effects for which no algorithms as yet exist (such as touching up the lighting because what is aesthetically pleasing isn't geometrically correct) I wonder how they're going to do this stuff at 60fps even if the hardware renders 1000 times faster than is possible on the current crop of PCs.
On the other hand, if by movies they mean the likes of Episode II then Half Life 2 is already better.
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Somebody should tell ATI that, as they're the ones doing the GPU for all three new consoles. IBM is doing the processors for all three too. Hooray!
The new PS3 has a "Realism System" guaranteed to render realism more realistically than ever before! Criminal simulators such as GTA are further enhanced by the special "Gritty" subprocessor!
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Get back to me when my brain starts working.
In related news, the PS3 will also be packed with the following features:
- Built-in AI indistinguishable from humans
- Integrated 10 MP digital camera
- 10 Gigabit ethernet & wireless
- Controllers will interface directly with the human brain--wirelessly!
- Processor will run at 42 GHz
All these and more, in the Next Sony Platform(TM)!...is there anyone here who still believes pre-release/development crap like this? Anyone? I mean, anyone other than Michael.
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... but I have no doubt that the Xbox2 will be larger, louder, and hotter!
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and what could Apple provide that one of the other big 3 don't already?
A pink console.
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Don't be too hasty. I hear they used an advanced compression algorithm in order to minimize the space the final game will take up. Unfortunately, the decompressor for their "Zero-Space" compression system is only now entering the earliest stages of development.
Note: The above statement, like the article, has little or no foundation in reality.
Ever played Tron 2.0? The typical home computer or Xbox can easily produce graphics indistinguishable from movies-- as long as the movie is an effects show in Tron.
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great, now we're gonna hear jokes about the game controller having only 1 button.
Yes, can't wait for Super Mario 73. I heard it'll be innovative.