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PS3 Performance Downgraded Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-we-go-back-to-sony-saying-crazy-things-that-was-fun dept.

Heartless Gamer writes "The PS3's performance has been downgraded again, according to the Inquirer." From the article: "We can't tell you why the GPU lost nearly 10% of it's clock, it could be an NVidia screwup, or it could be Sony/Cell. Either way, it just became much less of an overwhelming value, but you get a DRM infected drive for 'free' either way." Interesting, but keep in mind this is The Inquirer. 9 out of 10 doctors recommend salt with their articles. Relatedly, the choice comments from Penny Arcade this past weekend about Sony's console are wandering around the internets today. From that article: "We've already talked about it, there's no chance we're buying a PS3 at launch."

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  1. again? by dlc3007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it possible that a single day pass without more bad news for Sony? Looks like it is about time to short-sell their stock.

    1. Re:again? by Suzumushi · · Score: 4, Interesting
      You also clearly have no idea what Sony has been up to in the last year. Besides lagging sales in all of their segments, the Rootkit fiasco and now their failure even before launch of the PS3 does not bode well for the company.

      While I'm sure Sony will not disappear, it is far too large for that, unless it returns to it's prior days of creativity, quality, and innvoation, they will certainly go the way of Panasonic. That being stagnation and mediocrity in the marketplace.

  2. Hmm... by MaestroSartori · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Disclaimer: I work for Sony...

    Given the crap the Inquirer has already talked about PS3, I'd take their article here with a pinch of salt roughly the size of Jupiter.

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    Game dev and music blog
    1. Re:Hmm... by jtshaw · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I once sent an e-mail to one of there "journalists" pointing out an error. I got perhaps the most childish response imaginable back. They have zero integrity and don't even appear to give two shits about the validity of the information they put out.

      Regardless of what I might think about Sony and the PS3, I certainly am not going to believe something just because it comes from those jokers.

  3. Re:Oh, Zonk by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "When will you realize that Penny Arcade just isn't funny?"

    If you click the link, you'll see it's not a cartoon but a comment made by one of the peeps at Penny Arcade. So, you're right, Penny Arcade isn't funny when it's not presenting a joke.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  4. Will they never learn? by antialias02 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The thing about it is that Sony will downgrade their hardware as often as they want and STILL we will hear trash talk from the Execs and higher-ups about how their hardware is going to outperform and outsell the other consoles. And they'll back up this arrogance by not moving their price point an inch. Sony seems to think that the PS2 success will drive PS3 sales. Most serious video game enthusiasts seem to think otherwise. Sony needs to wake up and start doing some serious damage control after the PAX incident, with Gabe and Tycho endorsing the "Wii60" over the PS3.

  5. Actually by ZakuSage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PSP's initial specs were upgraded. They started out by only planning to have 8MB of RAM, which was later upgraded to 32MB. Additionally, the 256bit bus in the second graphics core was upgraded to a 512bit bus. Beyond that, in firmware upgrades, PSP now has the ability to run more music and video formats, and now has a web browser with flash support.

    The CPU is still 333 MHz as a peak without overclocking. It's designed to run at different speeds in order to optimize battery life. Sony's offical SKU allows it to run at 222 MHz, 266MHz, and 333MHz. At the moment, there's nothing really stopping developers from using 33MHz (in fact in all likelyhood there have been games released running at that speed), other then them wanting to conserve battery life. For instance, many homebrew applications either by default run at 333MHz or have an option to do so to increase performance.

    You have to remember something here: this is The Inquirer. (No, I'm not confusing this with the British tabloid The National Enquirer.) Basically all this site does is make shit up in order to increase hits to their site. This is just the latest in a string of false information on that site about the PS3, it's Cell processor, and it's RSX graphics chip.