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Ok, so Sony make the PS2, and release it. For months they have had hardware teams working on it, and now these people have no work to do. Options:
1) Fire them all, thus losing all hardware staff for the next console
2) Find them something to do.
So, as you'd expect, the Sony staff began to develop the PS3- a month after the PS2 release. Before I give you the details, let me point out that Sony announced all this info in a press conference, and that Nintendo, Microsoft and even Sega did, and have done the same things with their consoles (although I'd guess the Dreamcast successor project has closed).
So, the details. Well, the hardware Sony expects to be available in the market in 5 years hasn't been invented yet. So all the people "making" the console are really doing is guessing what will be around then (based on Sony's chip production plans), and manufacturer statistics to begin to make a console around these imaginary parts.
The processor, according to Sony's head of R&D, will have 1000 times more processors than the PS2 chip. Now that's quite a big deal- and it should tell you that Sony know something about the breakthroughs happening in chip technology that we don't!
With this much power the console should be near to photorealistic in terms of graphics- if they could pull that off it would be amazing.
More plans that Sony announced was that these chips, that Sony would make, would be used in other products like servers and mainframe computers. Which implies to me that Sony may be going back to a PC based console architecture... but I could be completely wrong on that.
Finally, you may ask why Sony has released such info. After all, Sega only announced they were working on a new console (and no more) and Nintendo and Microsoft have been very silent. Well, the reason is for investors. By announcing such future details it places faith in the compay to deliver and proves their willingness to do so. Add to this that these details were announced at a time that Nintendo's Gamecube was coming out, and a Microsoft console was HEAVILY rumoured, and you see that Sony needed something to show they weren't going to lose sight of the market.
Sonic
1) Fire them all, thus losing all hardware staff for the next console
2) Find them something to do.
So, as you'd expect, the Sony staff began to develop the PS3- a month after the PS2 release. Before I give you the details, let me point out that Sony announced all this info in a press conference, and that Nintendo, Microsoft and even Sega did, and have done the same things with their consoles (although I'd guess the Dreamcast successor project has closed).
So, the details. Well, the hardware Sony expects to be available in the market in 5 years hasn't been invented yet. So all the people "making" the console are really doing is guessing what will be around then (based on Sony's chip production plans), and manufacturer statistics to begin to make a console around these imaginary parts.
The processor, according to Sony's head of R&D, will have 1000 times more processors than the PS2 chip. Now that's quite a big deal- and it should tell you that Sony know something about the breakthroughs happening in chip technology that we don't!
With this much power the console should be near to photorealistic in terms of graphics- if they could pull that off it would be amazing.
More plans that Sony announced was that these chips, that Sony would make, would be used in other products like servers and mainframe computers. Which implies to me that Sony may be going back to a PC based console architecture... but I could be completely wrong on that.
Finally, you may ask why Sony has released such info. After all, Sega only announced they were working on a new console (and no more) and Nintendo and Microsoft have been very silent. Well, the reason is for investors. By announcing such future details it places faith in the compay to deliver and proves their willingness to do so. Add to this that these details were announced at a time that Nintendo's Gamecube was coming out, and a Microsoft console was HEAVILY rumoured, and you see that Sony needed something to show they weren't going to lose sight of the market.
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well it seems to be a tactic of sony by not being first i mean look back, the saturn was out before PS1 and the PS1 had a better spec (just) than the saturn the sega rushed in with the good old dreamcast and sony waited about a year gap and had the better console.
Sega should of waited for DVD drive prices to drop then there machine could of been a little better.
Although there more likly to be doing research aty the mo on other technology, sony aint stupid.
it'll be interesting to see the battle between the x box, PS2 and the GC with the x box being the most powerfull followed by the GC then the PS2.
but power isn't everything it's the games remember.
Sega should of waited for DVD drive prices to drop then there machine could of been a little better.
Although there more likly to be doing research aty the mo on other technology, sony aint stupid.
it'll be interesting to see the battle between the x box, PS2 and the GC with the x box being the most powerfull followed by the GC then the PS2.
but power isn't everything it's the games remember.
Exactly Buddy- the only reason Sony are starting "work" now is for 2 reasons:
1) Give the hardware guys something to do
2) Keep investors happy- Sony are looking toward the future!
Sonic
1) Give the hardware guys something to do
2) Keep investors happy- Sony are looking toward the future!
Sonic
Although all this info has been released, eighty percent of the creation will be done in the last year. Technology now and technology when the ps3 will be released are so different it is hard to say. So if sony attempt to predict how far technology goes.....they may end up planning something
a) too advanced
or
b) not up to the standard it should be
a) too advanced
or
b) not up to the standard it should be
>Badgerman wrote:
>PS2 will do me fine for another 5 years
>===SONICRAV---> wrote:
>well, 4 years
>~Resurection~ wrote:
>well 3 years and a bit lol
I think the original 5 years is closer. Possibly 4. It might make Japan in about 4, but the UK won`t see it for 5 I reckon.
>PS2 will do me fine for another 5 years
>===SONICRAV---> wrote:
>well, 4 years
>~Resurection~ wrote:
>well 3 years and a bit lol
I think the original 5 years is closer. Possibly 4. It might make Japan in about 4, but the UK won`t see it for 5 I reckon.
===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Badgerman wrote:
> Good post there Sonic. I'd prefer to just play pong
> rather than get into all
> this hi-tech stuff.
Joke
PS2 will do me
> fine for another 5 years
well, 4 years
Sonic
well 3 years and a bit lol
> Badgerman wrote:
> Good post there Sonic. I'd prefer to just play pong
> rather than get into all
> this hi-tech stuff.
Joke
PS2 will do me
> fine for another 5 years
well, 4 years
Sonic
well 3 years and a bit lol
Badgerman wrote:
> Good post there Sonic. I'd prefer to just play pong rather than get into all
> this hi-tech stuff.
Joke
PS2 will do me fine for another 5 years
well, 4 years
Sonic
> Good post there Sonic. I'd prefer to just play pong rather than get into all
> this hi-tech stuff.
Joke
PS2 will do me fine for another 5 years
well, 4 years
Sonic
Good post there Sonic. I'd prefer to just play pong rather than get into all this hi-tech stuff.
Joke
PS2 will do me fine for another 5 years
Joke
PS2 will do me fine for another 5 years
well i read it and PS3 is still a few years off and i'm still enjoying the PS2 so as informative and interesting your post is people still aint gunna worry about it, the only reason i read it was because i hunger for nerd stats LOL.
I go to the trouble to post a topic on an issue that dozen of current topics are quoting, and no one reads it! Typical!
sonic
sonic
Ok, so Sony make the PS2, and release it. For months they have had hardware teams working on it, and now these people have no work to do. Options:
1) Fire them all, thus losing all hardware staff for the next console
2) Find them something to do.
So, as you'd expect, the Sony staff began to develop the PS3- a month after the PS2 release. Before I give you the details, let me point out that Sony announced all this info in a press conference, and that Nintendo, Microsoft and even Sega did, and have done the same things with their consoles (although I'd guess the Dreamcast successor project has closed).
So, the details. Well, the hardware Sony expects to be available in the market in 5 years hasn't been invented yet. So all the people "making" the console are really doing is guessing what will be around then (based on Sony's chip production plans), and manufacturer statistics to begin to make a console around these imaginary parts.
The processor, according to Sony's head of R&D, will have 1000 times more processors than the PS2 chip. Now that's quite a big deal- and it should tell you that Sony know something about the breakthroughs happening in chip technology that we don't!
With this much power the console should be near to photorealistic in terms of graphics- if they could pull that off it would be amazing.
More plans that Sony announced was that these chips, that Sony would make, would be used in other products like servers and mainframe computers. Which implies to me that Sony may be going back to a PC based console architecture... but I could be completely wrong on that.
Finally, you may ask why Sony has released such info. After all, Sega only announced they were working on a new console (and no more) and Nintendo and Microsoft have been very silent. Well, the reason is for investors. By announcing such future details it places faith in the compay to deliver and proves their willingness to do so. Add to this that these details were announced at a time that Nintendo's Gamecube was coming out, and a Microsoft console was HEAVILY rumoured, and you see that Sony needed something to show they weren't going to lose sight of the market.
Sonic
1) Fire them all, thus losing all hardware staff for the next console
2) Find them something to do.
So, as you'd expect, the Sony staff began to develop the PS3- a month after the PS2 release. Before I give you the details, let me point out that Sony announced all this info in a press conference, and that Nintendo, Microsoft and even Sega did, and have done the same things with their consoles (although I'd guess the Dreamcast successor project has closed).
So, the details. Well, the hardware Sony expects to be available in the market in 5 years hasn't been invented yet. So all the people "making" the console are really doing is guessing what will be around then (based on Sony's chip production plans), and manufacturer statistics to begin to make a console around these imaginary parts.
The processor, according to Sony's head of R&D, will have 1000 times more processors than the PS2 chip. Now that's quite a big deal- and it should tell you that Sony know something about the breakthroughs happening in chip technology that we don't!
With this much power the console should be near to photorealistic in terms of graphics- if they could pull that off it would be amazing.
More plans that Sony announced was that these chips, that Sony would make, would be used in other products like servers and mainframe computers. Which implies to me that Sony may be going back to a PC based console architecture... but I could be completely wrong on that.
Finally, you may ask why Sony has released such info. After all, Sega only announced they were working on a new console (and no more) and Nintendo and Microsoft have been very silent. Well, the reason is for investors. By announcing such future details it places faith in the compay to deliver and proves their willingness to do so. Add to this that these details were announced at a time that Nintendo's Gamecube was coming out, and a Microsoft console was HEAVILY rumoured, and you see that Sony needed something to show they weren't going to lose sight of the market.
Sonic
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