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From: The alMIGHTY N on 30 Nov 2009 17:35 On Nov 29, 7:56 pm, YKhan <yjk...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2:11 am, Benjamin Gawert <bgaw...(a)gmx.de> wrote: > > > A 50GB flash drive still costs many times (magnitudes) more than a 50GB > > Bluray disk, so it is highly unlikely that next consoles will use flash > > as medium. > > I picked up a 16GB Class 6 (highest speed class) SDHC card for $20 > including shipping on Ebay. I'm sure it cost whoever was selling it > much less for him to buy it. An equally likely scenario is that they purchased them earlier and were not able to turn them around and so settled for making very little to no profit just unloading them on eBay. > > Besides that, game publishers clearly aim to move from physical > > distribution to electronic distribution, not only because it is cheaper, > > but also because it allows them to kill the 2nd hand market (games are > > locked to a console/user and can't be sold) and makes other licensing > > models (like time-based licensing where you buy playtime) possible. > > That's entirely possible, and that's the reason they'd want to get rid > of the optical drive. A small flash drive slot would be a much more > cost effective non-permanent storage medium than a disk drive. > Physical distribution isn't going away, just the optical disk physical > distribution. And you can't rely on the Internet to download your > games when you need them. Optical discs are not going away anytime soon. Maybe for the generation after next but we're definitely going to have some sort of optical medium for the coming generation. It's just not cost effective enough to use anything else right now.
From: First of One on 30 Nov 2009 21:46 According to Wikipeda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Power_Processor_Element_.28PPE.29 Put three of the "PPE" cores together and you end up with something very similar to the X360's Xenon CPU. So if Sony kept the current architecture (1 PPE + 6 SPE) and simply added two more PPEs, it can probably double the real-world CPU performance over the PS3. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "The alMIGHTY N" <natlee75(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:651dc884-9865-4f17-b2ec-287648bdc16c(a)o10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > On the other hand, isn't it still possible that they'd use some current > variant of Cell to power their next console? There must have been > developments to the processor since the launch of the PS3 3 years ago and > it would allow them to not have to worry about forcing developers to learn > yet another brand new architecture for the next generation...
From: Yousuf Khan on 1 Dec 2009 10:11 The alMIGHTY N wrote: > On Nov 26, 3:48 pm, Yousuf Khan <bbb...(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: >> Jim wrote: >>> With IBM out x86+Larrabee looks more likely than PoweVR. Intel can make an >>> offer Sony can't refuse. >> Except that Larrabee isn't proven yet. PS4 can still go to a more >> traditional regular PowerPC processor along with a traditional GPU, >> making it more like the Xbox360. > > I'd love to read comments from the fanboys on BOTH sides of the fences > on this one, haha... Fanboys of what? Larrabee or PowerPC? Yousuf Khan
From: Yousuf Khan on 1 Dec 2009 10:17 The alMIGHTY N wrote: > Wow. I hadn't read that. So much for Blig Merk's constant yabbering > about how great Cell is. > > On the other hand, isn't it still possible that they'd use some > current variant of Cell to power their next console? There must have > been developments to the processor since the launch of the PS3 3 years > ago and it would allow them to not have to worry about forcing > developers to learn yet another brand new architecture for the next > generation... There was a small but significant revision to the core, where they increased the double-precision floating point efficiency of the processor. However, this was done to help out in the supercomputing arena, not really relevant for gaming. Nor does it provide much performance increase for gaming, since most gaming is done using single-precision floating point. One has to wonder how long Sony would be interested in using a core that's never going to be revised anymore? Yousuf Khan
From: The alMIGHTY N on 1 Dec 2009 15:57
On Dec 1, 10:11 am, Yousuf Khan <bbb...(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > The alMIGHTY N wrote: > > On Nov 26, 3:48 pm, Yousuf Khan <bbb...(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Jim wrote: > >>> With IBM out x86+Larrabee looks more likely than PoweVR. Intel can make an > >>> offer Sony can't refuse. > >> Except that Larrabee isn't proven yet. PS4 can still go to a more > >> traditional regular PowerPC processor along with a traditional GPU, > >> making it more like the Xbox360. > > > I'd love to read comments from the fanboys on BOTH sides of the fences > > on this one, haha... > > Fanboys of what? Larrabee or PowerPC? > > Yousuf Khan LOL Xbox and PlayStation |