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More On PS3 and Xbox 2

Posted by michael on from the controllers-now-twice-the-size dept.

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."

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  1. We are going in the WRONG direction for desktops by zymano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.primidi.com/2003/12/01.html

    We need more parallel processing applications. We need to drop the intel isa architecture(heat,effectiveness).

    The reason why we use AMD and Intel is because of applications are all intel isa based. We need effective parallel processing compilers . Who cares about word processing software that might get slowed down . Graphics,mathematics and sciences,and supercomputing will get a BIG BOOST.

  2. Who really wants to buy three consoles anyway by 5killz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unless Nintendo pulls some real magic with their next console, I can only see them going the way of Sega, and becoming a software exclusive company. They've just dug their hole too deep, and though their first party games are amazing, most people over 18 or so don't take the 'cube seriously.

    I don't necessarily want to see nintendo losing their foot in the market (Gotta love those guys), but imagine a world where you have your Mario Sunshine right next to your GTA: Vice City on a next gen console. That, and if Nintendo decided to start making games for exclusively microsoft or sony platforms, they could effectively muscle out the other.

    In truth though, I see nintendo coming out with another amazing, but underrated system, which doesn't take hold.