Playstation 3 Development Underway

At least in the United Kingdom, developers are already being handed development hardware for Sony's next-gen platform in anticipation of its debut at E3. From the article: "Sony plans to show the next-generation PlayStation off in public for the first time at its pre-E3 conference in Los Angeles in May, where it will almost certainly debut within a few hours of the public unveilings of Nintendo's Revolution and Microsoft's next-gen Xbox."

Comments

I don't get it

[dauthur]

What's with all of this Playstation stuff? I've still got my NES.

NetBSD

[SA Stevens]

Okay. Who can port NetBSD to the 'development hardware' first?

Re:Too Fast?

[Crimsane]

In most cases I would agree with you, but I would give an exception to the PS3.

As a geek and longtime gamer, I'd let go of one of Natalie Portman's breasts to hold onto a cell processor right about now.

Hrmm

[Ianoo]

Playstation 3 - IBM Processor.
X-Box Next - IBM Processor.
Nintendo Revolution - IBM Processor.

Is anyone noticing a pattern here?

Wow...

[s4m7]

from TFA:

"they're more advanced than the PowerMac kits [Microsoft] has given us [for Xenon] - they're still prototypes, but they're closer to what'll be in the final console... The graphics chip isn't there, say, but we can get a pretty good idea by taking an NVIDIA 6800 and saying, okay, it'll be like this but faster."

This seems a far cry from what Sony was promising us just after the release of the PS2... I can't seem to find the old press release but i remember them talking about integrating some kind of organic or biomechanical components into the processor and that the spare cycles from net-connected PS3's not in use would be available as some kind of grid computing enhancement. Way to deliver, Sony!!!