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PS3 To Run At 120 FPS?

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-shiny dept.

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."

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  1. Ugh! by MilenCent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Ugh! by Snake98 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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  2. Two words: Motion blur by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:Most ridiculous piece of hardware ever concepte by Mprx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.