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Cell 'helping'?
That doesn't make any sense. The Cell SPUs + RSX is the GPU in the PS3. It's one unified system.
The SPUs do most of the heavy vertex transforms,lighting,physics,an imation,etc.
The RSX does the pixel painting.
The RSX can do vertex transforms too but it is best used for static geometry.
And the SPUs can be used for pixel operations, but it is not their strong point.
"the Wii U will be out powered."
That is a certainty. Even the pie in the sky high end server version of the Power 7 chip is only slightly more powerful than the PS3's Broadband Engine Cell chip.
The actual Power 7 based chip Nintendo puts in the Wii U will have less cores and be clocked lower due to heat and cost constraints. But the rendering hardware will certainly have a higher fillrate.
It will most likely end up being pret...
"Tech wise the Wii-U is powerful"
That's not necessarily true. People have jumped at the Power 7 and looked up some theoretical numbers that have nothing to do with the actual Wii U hardware. The Wii U isn't going to have a 4GHz 8 core Power 7 server chip that seems to be the source of people jumping to conclusions.
The actual Power 7 based chip Nintendo will use almost certainly won't be running at 4GHz due to heat and power constraints...
"264 GFLOPs"
This is just a cut and past from the Power 7 Wikipedia article referring to a hypothetical 4.14 GHz 8 core version of the chip.
It has nothing to do with the actual performance of the chip in the Wii U.
Whether the SNES comparison is valid or not, the technical points in the kid's article have no basis in reality.
"Sony easily topped that number entirely with games that could be played by the media"
A direct result of Sony's massive 20-21 first party studios. Sony has more first party studios than Nintendo and Microsoft combined. Nintendo has about 10 and Microsoft is down to about 3.
Getting mad because the PS3 has a massive graphical power advantage over the 360. Ok...
BluRay - 3-4 times the storage space for games
RSX - PS3 games run a significantly higher resolution than 360 games
Cell - Killzone 2/3,Uncharted 1/2, and now GT5 all make massive use the PS3's SPUs to perform massive parallel graphics calculations: vertex transforms, lighting, frame buffer effects, physics, animation, and so on
Sorry ...
"GT5 wins, no news here"
Yes, no real surprise. GT5 is running on massively more powerful hardware:
* The 21 gigabyte game size thanks to the next gen storage format of the PS3 compared to the last gen DVD format of the 360
* The insane power of the PS3's SPUs to do massive physics, lighting, animation, framebuffer effects in parallel with the Cell's core and the RSX
* The much stronger RSX pixel pushing pow...
Sorry, the Beyond3d forums are a cesspool of bullshit.
At work when some tester or artist says something inane about console hardware the engineers will usually respond with 'did you read that on beyond3d?'
>some of these talented devs always find some new trick to push quality and power a little more for their next game
Exactly.
The PS3 is almost identical in design to the PS2. We are seeing the same incredibly growth in PS3 graphics engines we saw with the PS2. PS2 graphical masterpieces like God of War didn't arrive until the PS2's fifth year. The PS3 is only in its fourth year.
The PS3 has another seven or so years of sales. We wi...
The 0-100% question that gets asked of developers is way too simple because it means different things to different developers. What Konami considers 100 percent is going to very different from what Naughty Dog does.
The people who lash out at Home and have been desperately trying to get people to believe it is a 'failure' are Xbox fans and Xbox fans in the media.
Paying 50 dollars a year for their online service and Sony is the one the up and creates this massively successful online gaming world has got to sting and generate a massive amount of anger.
Home had 15+ million active and unique users months ago. I would not be surprised if the Home userbase is up to the 20 million range now.
It is just an click away on every single one of the 42 million PS3s out there and it only requires an Net connection.
What influence Kinetic and why it is being released tomorrow are two different questions.
Kinetic is obviously very similar to the Eye Toy and had to have been an influence when the company that created the original tech that Microsoft eventually bought.
However why Microsoft is releasing Kinetic now has more to do with the billions of dollars they have wasted trying to compete with Sony. They are faced with being dumped into third place in worldwide installe...
Sarcasm?
"Which console has the most lag???
Which exclusive game has the most lag???"
If your online game is P2P based then you are at the mercy of whatever random user is hosting the game. If they are running torrents or someone else at their house starts using their connection the game suffers and lag and other problems happen.
Games like Gears of War were plagued with lag and other problems due to its use of outdated P2P type technology.
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"Main reason i dont use it is because home is all about meeting people yet sony remove the feature to use your mic to talk unless in your apartment. "
Home is so much better since they turned off public chat.
It used to be non-stop:
* Distorted crap music being blasted everywhere
* People screaming racial slurs
* Retards verbally harassing female dressed avatars
* People leaving their mics on constantly so ev...
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