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Has anyone read the latest Official UK Playstation Mag? The article concerning the PS3.
What I cannot believe is that a magazine which I have always believed to be informative and unbiased has printed, what is essentially a rumour, but worded it as fact!
For anyone who hasn't read it, the article concerns the rumours that the GSCube will eventually become the Emotion Engine 2 (For the ps3) and a new chip unveiled at some dull american conference as the new graphics processor.
This is all well and good, but the only difference appears to be a big dollop more ram.
However OPSM stated that well have Jurassic-Park quality graphics and that the PS2 to PS3 leap will be greater than that between the PSOne and PS2.
I am simply shocked that OPSM would succumb to such unfounded rumour-mongering!
What I cannot believe is that a magazine which I have always believed to be informative and unbiased has printed, what is essentially a rumour, but worded it as fact!
For anyone who hasn't read it, the article concerns the rumours that the GSCube will eventually become the Emotion Engine 2 (For the ps3) and a new chip unveiled at some dull american conference as the new graphics processor.
This is all well and good, but the only difference appears to be a big dollop more ram.
However OPSM stated that well have Jurassic-Park quality graphics and that the PS2 to PS3 leap will be greater than that between the PSOne and PS2.
I am simply shocked that OPSM would succumb to such unfounded rumour-mongering!
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Has anyone read the latest Official UK Playstation Mag? The article concerning the PS3.
What I cannot believe is that a magazine which I have always believed to be informative and unbiased has printed, what is essentially a rumour, but worded it as fact!
For anyone who hasn't read it, the article concerns the rumours that the GSCube will eventually become the Emotion Engine 2 (For the ps3) and a new chip unveiled at some dull american conference as the new graphics processor.
This is all well and good, but the only difference appears to be a big dollop more ram.
However OPSM stated that well have Jurassic-Park quality graphics and that the PS2 to PS3 leap will be greater than that between the PSOne and PS2.
I am simply shocked that OPSM would succumb to such unfounded rumour-mongering!
What I cannot believe is that a magazine which I have always believed to be informative and unbiased has printed, what is essentially a rumour, but worded it as fact!
For anyone who hasn't read it, the article concerns the rumours that the GSCube will eventually become the Emotion Engine 2 (For the ps3) and a new chip unveiled at some dull american conference as the new graphics processor.
This is all well and good, but the only difference appears to be a big dollop more ram.
However OPSM stated that well have Jurassic-Park quality graphics and that the PS2 to PS3 leap will be greater than that between the PSOne and PS2.
I am simply shocked that OPSM would succumb to such unfounded rumour-mongering!
It's not a rumour - everything in the article is a fact.
The GScube was first mentioned months ago, and consists of at least 16 GS chips (one version is reported to contain 64 GS chips) and is primarily for real-time movie-quality CGI rendering.
As I said myself in a post on here months ago, it didn't take a genious to realise that this would probably be viewed as a prototype for the PS3.
It has also been claimed by Sony that the new chip is intended for use in a number consumer electronics, not PS3 specifically - though why any other appliance would require that much power is another matter!
Ken Kutaragi - PlayStation's creator - has also said in many interviews that he sees PS3 as being many, many times more powerful than PS2.
So basically, there is no rumour in the article - simply a logical combining of two factual stories.
The GScube was first mentioned months ago, and consists of at least 16 GS chips (one version is reported to contain 64 GS chips) and is primarily for real-time movie-quality CGI rendering.
As I said myself in a post on here months ago, it didn't take a genious to realise that this would probably be viewed as a prototype for the PS3.
It has also been claimed by Sony that the new chip is intended for use in a number consumer electronics, not PS3 specifically - though why any other appliance would require that much power is another matter!
Ken Kutaragi - PlayStation's creator - has also said in many interviews that he sees PS3 as being many, many times more powerful than PS2.
So basically, there is no rumour in the article - simply a logical combining of two factual stories.
I heard something about a possiable PS3 maybe around September 1999. I know it was when the first shots of games for PS2 were being shown. The Offical PS magazine had an article with Ken Kutaragi I think and he said that he would execpt the next console he makes after PS2 to be about 1000(Or maybe 10,000, cant remeber to well) times more powerful than the PS2. So you can bet Sony are developing something right now and improving technolgy to make the next console be something of Wonder.
There is no doubt that Sony are developing a successor to the PS2, and there is no doubt that the two parts (GSCube and Graphics processor) are true information. What I objected to, however is the way on which OPSM essentally said: "Here are the facts and from this we conclude that..." The is no official statement from Sony that the GSCube will oneday become part of the Ps3 or that the aforementioned graphics chip will be in the PS3, but OPSM wrote it in such a way as to suggest that these were a foregone conclusion and that this is how the PS3 will be.
How much better can the graphics get
khazar wrote:
> How much better can the graphics get
They will probably stop getting better when they are indistinguishable from real life. Though I wouildn`t put it past Sony to think up a new definition of reality.
> How much better can the graphics get
They will probably stop getting better when they are indistinguishable from real life. Though I wouildn`t put it past Sony to think up a new definition of reality.
Or better than life, to use an old Red Dwarf episode title. Realistic graphics, in unrealistic environments. But ultimately you can improve graphics as much as you like (and it's probably only restricted by the hardware, the physics engine and the graphics team's imagination and skill), but capturing 'realistic' intelligence is the Holy Grail for me. Unless we just end up playing against other people online of course. And as much as the media keeps hyping online play, it can be a pretty mediocre experience. Avoiding the cliques, and sad to say, the almost moronic chat in some cases. A lot of the time you may as well be playing against a CPU. If only it was more frequently the gaming utopia we want....
Just think about the programming skill required though. Mind blowing when you think about it!
PS3 te earlyist its comin out is 2005
Good to see you came over to the PS2 forum Slim.
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