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The Next-Gen Consoles - Sort Fact From Fiction
1up.com continues its trend of topical features by delving into Generation Next: Separating the Facts from the Fiction of the Next-Gen Consoles. From the article: "Photorealistic graphics, streaming multimedia content, complete Internet integration and revolutionary new kinds of gameplay are all promises of next generation gaming. Right now, it's all executives blowing hot air and technobabble, but in just a short few weeks, the battle for the living room starts again, as Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony take the wraps off their new babies and show the world their visions of the industry's future."
Everyone seems be coming out with a fact/fiction article these days on the newest consoles. Check out this article [http://www.jivemagazine.com/column.php?pid=3235] for a little more humorous view of some of the same ideas at Jive Magazine.
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Do you even know what Cell is? It's multiple processing cores on a single chip. Here is a picture together with a single chip quote from IBM itself.
Actually, they did. They also had George Lucas come out and refer to the fact that it could render movie quality CG comparable to what's in the Star Wars movies. Or was that the PS3? I forget. But yes, at some point, they directly compared the rendering capabilities of the PS2 to Toy Story quality graphics. It was right around the time they announced it and showed us the lame rubby ducky in the sink floating on water demo.