Sony: Devs to help build the next PlayStation


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Guess we can expect Jack Tretton to hop around on stage at an upcoming event, drenched in sweat screaming "Developers developers developers, developers"

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Guess we can expect Jack Tretton to hop around on stage at an upcoming event, drenched in sweat screaming "Developers developers developers, developers"

Ahaha, nice. He'll have to wear a blue dress shirt, of course :).

You know, its not like Ken Kutaragi was wrong.

He said Blu-ray was the best solution going forward, and it is.....

The only problem with his vision is that they didnt make it easy to develop for, something that could have been avoided by allowing devs in early.

I say let Ken Kutaragi design the next one and let the devs and the Sony accountants hammer it into a mass production unit

Replacing Ken Kutaragi with Kaz Hirai was one of the best moves that SCE has made in the past few years as far as I'm concerned. I respect Kutaragi for what he accomplished with the original Playstation, but by the time he started working on the PS3, he had completely lost it. Instead of listening to developers, he was living in his own little world. It wasn't until Kaz Hirai stepped in that the PS3 finally began to improve via software updates (and they had a lot of damage control to perform, considering what a piece of crap the console was on day one).

I'm definitely excited for the news. Sony has done a decent job with the PS3 in that they were able to turn a train wreck into a decent system. I'm looking forward to seeing what they'll do with a completely fresh start.

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"Sony: Devs to help build the next PlayStation" here is one tip, don't cut on RAM.

(it's why the Xbox has it easier for the developers, the 512Mb ram developers begged for at microsoft.)

HD needs bigger textures to be HD in the end...256Mb XDR isn't helping the PS3 image quality...

PS3 GPU has access to the CPU RAM, it's just not in one universal chunk shared by all like the XBox. But they're both 512 either way (aside from the 360's 10MB frame buffer, good for AA and upscaling).

edit: Corris beat me to it.

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Wrong, the 360 has more in common with the PS3 than it does a PC. Both machines use chips derived from a PowerPC architecture the Xbox has a triple core dual threaded design which gives them 6 hardware threads to play with, the PS3 is in essence a dual core chip in the fact that it has 2 threads on the PPE but has 8 SPEs, technically the Xbox 360 CPU is a slightly modified Cell processor without the SPEs.

Thats not entirely true. The Xbox 360 and PS3 have similar hardware, at least in comparison to the PC. But the Xbox 360 and PC both have DirectX and the PS3 has OpenGL. If a game is designed with DirectX, it can (relatively) easily be ported between Xbox and PC. Porting a game from OpenGL to DirectX or vice versa is a lot harder.

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I just bought a PS3. Did I make a mistake? I mean is the XBOX better machine when it comes to horsepower? Is the PS3 going to be phased out by the PS4 already?

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I just bought a PS3. Did I make a mistake? I mean is the XBOX better machine when it comes to horsepower? Is the PS3 going to be phased out by the PS4 already?

I wouldn't even think about it.

Why?

You bought the PS3 to be an entertainment and gaming machine because you were attracted by what the PS3 offers. You don't buy consumer electronics to future proof yourself, that'd be an oxymoron way of making decisions.

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Ummm lol if the PS4 is coming out in a couple months then I will take this back lol...Not really future proofing just being careful you oxymoron :p

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Ummm lol if the PS4 is coming out in a couple months then I will take this back lol...Not really future proofing just being careful you oxymoron :p

a few months?

Try 2012-2013

Let me tell you something, you wouldn't want to own a launch console to begin with, you always want to jump in after a few years so developers can crank out games with reasonable knowledge on how to develop for the machine.

You won't see the true potential of the machine with launch titles anyway, so might as well wait and grab those launch titles for cheap when you will purchase.

The PS3 is going to have a long replay value, I'd be nervous if you spent $600 on launch day excluding the purchased games and accessories./

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a few months?

Try 2012-2013

Let me tell you something, you wouldn't want to own a launch console to begin with, you always want to jump in after a few years so developers can crank out games with reasonable knowledge on how to develop for the machine.

You won't see the true potential of the machine with launch titles anyway, so might as well wait and grab those launch titles for cheap when you will purchase.

The PS3 is going to have a long replay value, I'd be nervous if you spent $600 on launch day excluding the purchased games and accessories./

Well put, understood.

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