Sony planning to set the standards with PlayStation 3
May 21st, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 23 times, 2 so far today
Sony planning to set the standards with PlayStation 3
While Microsoft claims that their Xbox 360 is the product that will help them overcome the Sony’s domination in the gaming console market, Sony thinks otherwise. The three big players in the market Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all released details about their upcoming offerings at the E3 Expo and the coming year is going to be interesting with some real awesome products expected to arrive.
The Sony PlayStation 3 is expected to offer 10 times more power than the average PC with capabilities to display movie-like graphics. The company claims that their version would be THE most powerful gaming console ever and their demonstrations at the expo somehow made their claims look justified. Visitors were especially excited about a particular game called KillZone.
Statistically, Videogaming industry makes more money than the movie industry in the market. Now the videogames are reaching the levels of details that it becomes hard to recognize whether what we are watching is CGI or reality. And Sony says that for this their console packs the power of a supercomputer into a gaming console for the living room of today’s customer.
The Sony PlayStation 3 comes powered by a revolutionary new processor called CELL. It has been developed with collaboration with tech giants IBM and Toshiba. And the processor is claimed to be faster than the best the Microprocessor industry has to offer for Personal Computers as of today. The gaming console is also expected to ship with wireless controllers, a detachable 2.5-inch hard drive, slots for compact flash and Sony’s memory stick media and a built-in Wi-Fi connection. PS3 would also support connectivity with the recently launched and hugely successful Sony PlayStation Portable.
In fact, Sony is also offering truly multiplayer gaming capabilities with support for as many as seven controllers at once. It would also come with support for the next generation DVDs, as it would be compatible with Blu-Ray DVD standard currently under development at Sony. It would support all the media and content available for current and old generation PlayStations making it an uber cool upgrade for Sony fans.
Sony is the current leader of the videogaming console market and they look prepared to remain so in the near future. Unless, Microsoft has something special up their sleeves!
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May 21st, 2005 at 05:06 am
From all the E3 footage I have seen, Sony sure looks set to dominate once more…the rubber duck demo was phenomenal!
May 21st, 2005 at 07:32 am
Ok my view is that somebody must have peed on Kutaragi’s brain. They spent 5 years developing a scheiss processor that is about twice as fast as the rest? It will be matched 6 months after launch by the rest of the pack..Why the f… did they spend billions on 65nm technology in the last 3 years if not for PS3? They could have at least doubled the number of coprocessors on the cell from the IBM prototype which was in 90nm, and upped the Ghz as well. Why else waste the money on being first with 65nm? I don’t know of any other biggies coming out from sony in 2006. AAARRRGH. What about the research into massively parallel processing and early tests on that? Wasn’t the only way to justify Cell its ability to connect to multiple processors? Why then only one Cell in the PS3? What happened to ‘the PS3 will have to be 1000 times faster’ than PS2 statement from ideo/kutaragi? 35 times? you must be f…ing kidding. 2 teraflops, mostly coming from the nvidia GPU, which ‘is as fast as two of their fastest’ current cards? This looks more like a PC architecture than the ‘innovative’ sony thing; anybody can do fast GPUs, why do we even care about the Cell CPU then?
Ken, I hate you. This better be a grand magic trick to fool microsoft into starting production on their crap box (not that ps3 sounds any better)