PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'?

D-Fly writes "Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.

Comments

Re:Why ./ is bashing Sony so much?

[Darth Maul]

Why? Because they just keep messing up. They have idiots for management that keep putting their foots in their mouths. They are full of ego. They are assuming everyone will shell out $600 because "they are Sony". Sorry, but they really deserve a good bashing.

Re:Why ./ is bashing Sony so much?

[Paradise Pete]

Why ./ is bashing Sony so much?

For me personally it's because nobody went to jail over the rootkit fiasco.

Not DevStation, but Devastation

[paranerd]

Look at the bottom of the slide. The typo isn't with the capital 'M' but with the missing 'A'

Re:Go Sony, go!

[mikeisme77]

I particularly liked Ape Escape for the original PS myself, but while they do have some good games (I'm not denying that)--none of the games are unique/good/appealing enough for me to justify buying a $500-600 machine (or even a $300 machine). I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 and the only system I ever sold was the PS2 (both out of a need for money and out of boredom with the system--my gaming money had been going to the XBox and GC because they simply had better exclusive games on them--I hadn't bought a PS2 game in 2+ years...) It's just my personal opinion about their first party though--just as I'm sure there are some people out there who argue that Nintendo and Microsoft have crappy first parties (the original XBox first party lineup did kind of suck--with the exception of Halo--but the 360 first party lineup is slowly beginning to shape up... maybe in a year or two after a 360 price drop I'll pick one up).