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Yeah, I meant to beat the Emotion Engine's hype really, because if it could deliver what Sony says, then it may well be amazing technology.Hamel wrote:The Emotion Engine was nothing special itself. Way underpowered compared to Sony's claims of how good it was going to be. FFVIII cut scenes in real time my ass.
This is indeed going to be a cast-iron bitch to program for but there is some more experience now in programming for multiple CPUs and such.MKSheppard wrote:Okay, the PS3 sounds like a bitch to program for, using multiple CPUs in
a single console? This is what killed the Sega Saturn vs PSX, even though
Saturn was more technically promising than PSX.
Xbox2 will be using some PowerPC-derived chip, possibly multiple ones. Whether it'll be harder or easier is as of yet unknown.MKSheppard wrote:Meanwhile, Microsquish will probably make XBOX2 absurdly easy to program for, and we'll see who wins, the technically more advanced, but difficult to program for box, or the idiot box.
Nobody shifted products by telling it as it is.HyperionX wrote:While greatly indepth, much of this is nonsense. The part about Cell replacing PC's is one of those things, because in the end Cell is just a standard microprocessor with vector units attached. You can do the same with any x86 chip. In the end, Cell will be nothing more than the PS3 CPU and that's it.
if sega really was better they might still be making consoles.Chardok wrote:Sega is better. "Blast processing," anyone? ROFL!phongn wrote:Yes, but Sony does an exceptional job at BSing performance.
That was the situation with PS2 vs. Xbox... the former being more difficult to program for than the latter. Didn't have much effect, did it?Meanwhile, Microsquish will probably make XBOX2 absurdly easy to program for, and we'll see who wins, the technically more advanced, but difficult to program for box, or the idiot box.
I'm also sure there's a reason for it, but I think the reason is that the guy who wrote that is full of shit. Cell-based desktops supplanting PCs? Puh-lease.Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'm sure there's a reason for it. Maybe Nvidia have a deal going with Sony or a technology that the Cell system hasn't implemented as it'd be cheaper to use a third party GPU.
Microsoft have already laid out the programming toolset for the X-Box Next.MKSheppard wrote:Meanwhile, Microsquish will probably make XBOX2 absurdly easy to program for, and we'll see who wins, the technically more advanced, but difficult to program for box, or the idiot box.
Actully it did mention, and as I see it(and IIRC) nVidia is providing the chip, and some technical help, leaving implementation to Sony.Hamel wrote:I wonder why the article didn't talk about Sony going to Nvidia for their graphics processing solution. All the hype seems to be along the lines of the Cell being the ultimate and capable of anything. So why did Sony go to Nvidia for the NV50 when, according to the article, GPUs for the foreseeable future won't hold a candle to Cell?
Methinks you need to start learning about how a computer actually works. Sure, the Cell will probably have a huge number of vector units but most work on the PC side is done by integer and floating point operations. SIMD/vector operations are not as common, especially because such things are hard to do.Ace Pace wrote:Actully it did mention, and as I see it(and IIRC) nVidia is providing the chip, and some technical help, leaving implementation to Sony.
Whats intresting is what happens when someone reprogramms the PS3 into a PC or linux box, think of the power?
Okey, my mistakephongn wrote:Methinks you need to start learning about how a computer actually works. Sure, the Cell will probably have a huge number of vector units but most work on the PC side is done by integer and floating point operations. SIMD/vector operations are not as common, especially because such things are hard to do.Ace Pace wrote:Actully it did mention, and as I see it(and IIRC) nVidia is providing the chip, and some technical help, leaving implementation to Sony.
Whats intresting is what happens when someone reprogramms the PS3 into a PC or linux box, think of the power?