With programmers finding it difficult to take full advantage of PS3, tools company Codeplay hopes its new parallelism system will ease the pain.
In many respects, PlayStation 3 is an anachronism. The pinnacle of Sony Computer Entertainment's decade-old philosophy that focuses on proprietary chip design to gain performance and long-term production efficiencies, it's been outflanked by Microsoft's off-the-shelf approach and Nintendo's control-is-everything attitude. And with its main architect, one-time CEO and the father of the PlayStation Ken Kutaragi, no longer in charge, it's likely that PlayStation 4 will be a very different beast.
Of course, in terms of the current console war, it's still early days. PlayStation 3 remains the most powerful gaming device, as well as providing the best future-proofed option in terms of consumer electronics, although cynics might say that at its original launch price it should've made the tea, too.
Simply use it for what it was engineered for, to be a video imaging decoder. Like sony is doing with the ps3's blu-ray player.
In terms of the Cell and how it applies to game development- You know, you can climb a building with a rope, but it would be alot easier just to use the elevator.
anything that can help developers understand the CELL better has got to be a good thing.
It is a proven fact from the days of PSOne that games and graphics improve even after the console is dead!
The PS2 has games light years ahead of what it was released with..
Now the PS3 is facing hard challenges from m$, but in the past Sony's consoles have vanquished it's opponents after a few years.
The 360 IS nearly at it's peak and m$ are working on a new console..
Sony's investment for the next decade still stands ground..
Cause we haven't even scratched it's surface of power!
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See the size of that chip? Wow! I am please to see companies realize the potential in the Cell. Whether people accept it or not, the cell is a huge technological advancement in electronics field.
As an Electronic Tech and novice programmer, the future of this chip has me very excited.
I once read somewhere that the cell was like going from a tube to transistor when compared to a conventional processor.