PS3 To Run At 120 FPS?

Gamespot is running an article in which crazy man Ken Kutaragi boasts that the PS3 may be capable of running games at 120 fps. From the article: "Never mind that even newer TVs aren't capable of refreshing the screen 120 times in a single second. Kutaragi said that when new technology comes to market, he hopes to have the PS3 ready to take advantage of it. As for the Cell chip at the heart of the PS3, Kutaragi also had high hopes for its future beyond gaming. Using high-definition TV as an example, he said that the Cell chip could take advantage of the technology in many ways, such as displaying newspapers in their actual size, showing multiple high-definition channels on the screen at once, and video conferencing. He emphasized that the Cell can be used to decode more than 10 HDTV channels simultaneously, and it can also be used to apply effects such as rotating and zooming."

Comments

Ugh!

[MilenCent]

Oh, come ON now...

F-Zero X ran at 60 frames a second and it looked utterly, silky smooth because it was already past the zone the human eye can distinguish. How is 120 fps going to be better if you can't even distinguish it? Is this going to be a visual version of people claiming vinyl sounds better than CD? Someone tell me, I really want to know.

Second point. It may be able to run at 120 fps, but you can bet that scenes will look better at 60.

Re:Ugh!

[Snake98]

120fps is just when stereographic glasses start to work great. You almost got to have 200 fps to be perfect. Maybe Sony is planning on releasing stereographic glasses for the console. Have you played DOOM III in stereo, with the lights off, your afraid, especially when you play in on a 10 ft dlp projector, even though it doesn't look perfect(flickering), when something comes out you jump back because the monster is bigger than you.

Ken Kutaragi says a lot of things

[thatguywhoiam]

And yes of course some games 'could' run at 120 FPS, its kind of a nonsensical statement.

While we are on the topic however, I'd like to address a bugbear of mine - game magazines that crow constantly about the vaunted 60 FPS. I find this to be a little disingenuous.

Televisions run at 30 frames per second, interlaced. That's the only speed available (for NTSC; 25 FPS for PAL, not sure about SECAM).

Are these game reviews just being coy, in using 'little f' fps to talk about fields per second, which are really half-frames? Or do they just not know?

Two words: Motion blur

[tepples]

In general, 60 Hz with motion blur looks better than 60 Hz without motion blur. Even 24 Hz in live-action movies can be made to look good because it has motion blur. The point of Sony's announcement is that if graphics hardware can render the scene at a rock-solid 120 Hz, then it can render a scene twice, with all objects shifted slightly, and then use the PlayStation 3 GPU's counterpart to OpenGL accumulation buffers to combine the scenes, giving motion blur.

Re:Most ridiculous piece of hardware ever concepte

[Mprx]

Are you one of those people who thinks humans can't see more than 24 bit color? Display a smooth 24 bit color gradient on a good monitor (ie. a high end CRT, not a television or LCD), and look at all the steps. We need at least 30 bit color. A pity only Matrox realized that and all the other graphics card manufacturers ignore it.

Yep and so any other console.

[AzraelKans]

Thank you Ken! Im glad the PS3 will be capable of running in 120 fps ... in a newer tv set capable of handling that framerate (or a monitor) what you failed at mentioning was that just about any console (dreamcast, nintendo 64, xbox, xbox 360, etc) is capable of doing the same. the reason why they dont do that already is because tv's cant handle it. Im sure as soon as other developers realize this they will probably use it too. (revolution, ps3, xbox 360) thanks for the tip.

Not that it helps on anything. since in order to get that speed, you would have to waste twice as many valuable ticks, that could be used for better eye candy, loading, precaching or AI but hey! it runs at 120fps!