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Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3
Tighthead Prop writes "Sony executive Phil Harrison has made some brash comments about the Cell processor and the PlayStation 3. Harrison says that the current PS3 game lineup is using less than half of the machines power, adding that 'nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capacity.' Is he right? 'The major reason Harrison wants to hype up the "unlimited" potential of the PS3's architecture is to downplay comparisons between games running on Sony's console and Microsoft's Xbox 360. The two systems are not completely dissimilar: they both contain a PowerPC core running at 3.2 GHz, both have similarly-clocked GPUs, and both come with 512 MB of RAM.'"
"nothing to see here, please move along."
There's not going to be that many games coming out?
I'm pretty sure I could saturate the CPU and all 6 available SPE's with seismic data. Though it probably depends on the FSB and cache.. considering all the SPE's share the same 512k cache.
Even then, I still wouldn't be touching the GPU since it seems to be off limits from linux for a while
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I say, make it calculate the last digit of pi. Of course, that would only work if the PS3 had been taken over by an evil force that was feeding off the fear of the crew.
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I think he meant "Nobody will use all the power to improve the storyline..."
I'm sure an PS/3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in less than a second
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Well d0h. Running Fedore Core 5 on 9 cores. You're wasting almost half the power!
You're misinterpreting his comment. What he means is game developers will abandon the platform well before they can put anything out that will utilize the system's full potential.
I for one welcome our new, vastly inefficient, overpriced, Linux-running overlords.
(Sorry. I couldn't help it.)
Well, since a pedant is concerned with minor details, and not everything is a minor detail, then you couldn't actually be pedantic about everything.
Why calculate the last digit of pi? Simply ask Chuck Norris, he knows it. But you risk getting killed with a roundhouse kick.
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
Everyone who dies is killed by roundhouse kick. Most times Chuck Norris gets help from the FSM to cover it up.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.-TJ
No, just confuse it with total illogic. After all, logic is a little bird twittering among the trees. Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad. Are the PS3's circuits in order? Its ears are green!
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Sony will never use the full spin power that their marketting department is capable of.
What he really meant was that the full power of the PS3 would never be used to eliminate moronic statements coming out of Sony.
And he's dead right. We can see the truth of it in every public statement.
I call dibs on 0!
It must be nice to be able to intimidate the FSM into doing your bidding...
My sig can beat up your sig.
2K Games/Take-Two/Rockstar
* Red Dead Revolver 2 ~Rockstar North, TBA~
Atlus
* Shin Megami Tensei 4 ~Atlus R&D1, TBA~
Capcom
* Devil May Cry 4 ~Capcom Studio 1, Q4 2007~
* Monster Hunter 3 ~Capcom Studio 1, 2008~
Eidos
* Age of Conan ~Funcom, Q3 2007~
* Untitled ~Action~ ~TBD, TBA~
Koei
* Blade Storm: Hundred Years War ~Omega Force, 2007~
* Fatal Inertia ~Koei Canada, 2007~
* Mahjong Taikai IV ~In-house, Nov. 22~
* Ni-Oh ~In-house, 2007~
Konami
* Bomberman ~Hudson, TBA~
* Coded Arms: Assault ~KCET, 2007~
* Gradius VI ~TBD, TBA~
* Mahjong Fight Club ~TBD, Launch~
* Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ~Kojima Productions, Q4 2007~
* Rengoku: The End of the Century ~Hudson, TBA~
* Untitled ~RPG~ ~TBD, TBA~
* Untitled ~RPG~ ~Hudson, TBA~
Midway
* Unreal Tournament 2007 ~Epic, 2007~
Namco Bandai
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire ~BEC, Launch~
* Ridge Racer 7 ~In-house, Launch~
* Tekken 6 ~In-house, 2007~
* Untitled ~Anime Project~ ~TBD, TBA~
* Untitled ~Mech Action~ ~TBD, TBA~
* Untitled ~RPG~ ~TBD, TBA~
* Untitled ~Shooter~ ~TBD, TBA~
* Untitled ~Sports~ ~TBD, TBA~
Nippon Ichi Software
* Makai Wars ~In-house, TBA~
Sega Sammy
* Fifth Phantom Saga ~Sonic Team, TBA~
* Full Auto 2: Battlelines ~Pseudo, Launch~
* Guilty Gear BB ~Arc System Works, TBA~
* Miyazato Sega Golf Club ~AM1, Launch~
* Virtua Fighter 5 ~AM2, Q1 2007~
* Untitled ~RPG~ ~Obsidian, TBA~
Obviously, nobody will ever use more then 10% of PS3 brain!
Sony Computer Entertainment
* Afrika ~Rhino Studios, 2007~
* Angel Rings ~Japan Studio, TBA~
* Ape Escape 4 ~Japan Studio, TBA~
* Blast Factor ~Bluepoint, TBA~ (PNP Download)
* Eight Days ~London Studio, TBA~
* The Eye of Judgment ~Japan Studio, Q1 2007~
* flOw ~thatgamecompany, TBA~ (PNP Download)
* Formula One 06 ~Studio Liverpool, Dec. 2006~
* Genji: Days of the Blade ~Game Republic, Launch~
* Getaway ~Team Soho, TBA~
* Go Sudoku ~TBA, TBA~ (PNP Download)
* Gran Turismo 5 ~Polyphony Digital, 2008~
* Gran Turismo: HD ~Polyphony Digital, TBA~
* Gretzky NHL '07 ~Page 44, TBA~
* Heavenly Sword ~Ninja Theory, Q1 2007~
* Hot Shots Golf 5 ~Clap Hanz, Q2 2007~
* Killzone ~Guerrilla, 2008~
* Lair ~Factor 5, Q2 2007~
* Lemmings 2 ~TBA, TBA~ (PNP Download)
* Monster Kingdom: Unknown Realms ~Game Republic, 2007~
* Motorstorm ~Evolution, Q4 2006~
* My Summer Vacation 3 ~Japan Studio, Q2 2007~
* NBA '07 ~SCE San Diego, TBA~
* Ratchet & Clank: Next ~Insomniac, TBA~
* Resistence: Fall of Man ~Insomniac, Launch~
* SingStar ~London Studio, Q4 2006~
* Siren ~Japan Studio, TBA~
* Swizzleblocks ~TBA, TBA~ (PNP Download)
* Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom ~SOE, Q4 2006~
* Warhawk ~Incognito, Q2 2007~
* White Knight Story ~Level 5, Q4 2007~
* World Tour Soccer '07 ~London Studio, TBA~
* Untitled ~Action~ ~Media Molecule, TBA~
* Untitled ~Adventure~ ~Naughty Dog, 2007~
* Untitled ~MMORPG~ ~SOE Austin, TBA~
Square Enix
* Densha de GO! Online ~Taito, TBA~
* Extreme ~Taito, TBA~
* Final Fantasy XIII ~PDD1, 2007~
* Final Fantasy Versus XIII ~PDD1, 2008~
* Project Psychic ~Taito, TBA~
* Railfan ~Taito/Ongakukan, Dec. 21~
* Untitled ~MMORPG~ ~PDD3, TBA~
Tecmo
* Ninja Gaiden: Sigma ~Team Ninja, 2007~
* Untitled ~Action-Adventure~ ~TBD, TBA~
Misc. (No publisher)
* Mercenaries 2: World of Flames ~Pandemic, TBA~
* Redwood Falls ~Kuju, TBA~
* WarDevil: Enigma ~Digi-Guys, TBA~
You are all wrong, it is nullity.
Quick, someone port the Aero GUI.
Last non-zero digit is 1 -- in base pi.
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My Linux desktop soaks up every available CPU cycle, mostly by running the hlt instruction ;)
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That's okay. Nobody else commenting here read it either.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Who said they're getting smaller?
Hmm, good point. Maybe I should stop accelerating to near c while playing on my Gamecube.
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Just use Java or .NET on it.
Unless it's a Honda... then it just sounds like you're breaking the law.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It would be nice if Square-Enix would come out and say: "Since Sony is so confident in their machine, we upped the graphics on FF XIII. We found that the PS3 cannot handle the that level of graphics, so we had to turn them down. Sorry Sony, try again."
Can all fish swim?
Chuck Norris IS the last digit of pi.
Base Pi? You're not being rational.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
What loves systems with idle resources & fast internet connections ?
It's definately not my grandmas pacemaker.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Last non zero bidgit (binary digit) of pi is one.
I'm filing a class action on behalf of all who were eating or drinking when reading your post.
I think someone here is a Wintendo gamer.
Just let people write games in Java. You'll see all resources used to the max...
Perhaps you would like to purchase the PS3 game I have just written. It's called "Factorial of one million". It's not as much fun as Doom 3 but it will use the CPU quite heavily.
Good lord, attack of the fanboys! ACK! Get them off of me! They're spouting too much usless information I don't want to know!!! AAAAAUUUUUGGHHHH!!
There are linux games? You're not talking about emacs are you?
You'd end up with the CPU running idle as you push into swap. :-)
That's okay. Nobody else commenting here read it either.
So how come it was slashdotted? Evil slashdotters just clicking the link and turning their heads away?
the same CPU with 4mb L2 cache
Now, I have coded embedded controllers which only had 32 bytes of data RAM, (and 128 bytes of program memory) but I've never heard of cache for any processor measured in millibytes. A processor would need to have a really wide data path for the concept of a 4 milibyte cache to even have meaning if that cache was reflected in a single bit.
Even better odds if you write it in binary...