Next-Gen Consoles - The Real Deal?

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#1 ahoymateyct
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Interesting info on the PS3 and 360, see link

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/hardware/next-genconsoles-therealdeal.shtml

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#2 smokeydabear076
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Yes this is interesting, thank you for posting this.
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#3 Data77
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The question is, is this guy just a PC fanboy trying to justify spending $3,000 on a PC instead of $500 for a console.  Of course the PC will have more horsepower within 1 year after the launch of any console but that doesn't mean the games on consoles will start looking like crap.

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#4 bigdrew172
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Consoles will never catch up with computers... I have my own reasons for prefering consolses to computers.... however i will say it was an intersting article... sorta
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#5 Bladex2k
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wellif ps3 launches in june it will be better than any computer out but come december when we see next gne gpu computer will prevail. geforce 8800 woot
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#6 Game-o_O
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blade, those gpus & cpus will cost double of the PS3 :p.

I should add who ever wrote that article doesn't know much at all about the Cell.  They also lied about 5 times about it ;).  He also based all of his performance rating for the PS3 based on excluding the "SPEs", well duh, it sort of needs those to function.

He also said the RSX & Cell won't communicate [right..], & that the SPEs have 'limited memory', I don't know about you.  But, do you have a 300gig EIB for memory?  They don't 'request' to access memory, they are built into it, they are apart of it.  And whats this about SPEs being extremely limited to developers?  The PPE knows what its doing, the developer just tells it stuff & it [with its smart self] determines what and how many handle it.

An SPE isn't dorment if data is being calculated, they host it in the EIB & they just divide up the work, its a little more specific then that; you would have to look it up on wikipedia for some more 'indepth' information.  I can only tell you its 'real world' communications :/.
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#7 Dopeman84
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If you ask me that was just a bias PC fanboy. I found that article linked on the theinquirer.net today, but whats funny is theinquirer is about 3 months late as that article is dated november 16 2005.
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#8 Game-o_O
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Blasphemy!  Btw, I don't remember reading any information that came from developers in that whole article.  Wasn't he boasting about that in the begining?
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#9 Basinboy
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The man is one of those "half empty" people.  He's not giving each company as much credit as they deserve for what they're pulling off, but he's more than likely right about everything.  That is unless he is just some egotistical hermit who thinks he knows all about PCs.

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#10 Game-o_O
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The RSX is faster & performs better then nVidias newest PC GPU, and it costs $999 :/.  You guys honostly think you'll be able to afford a next-gen PC :/.  MEH, I'm wondering how much CPU power you need for next-gening in a PC.  The Cell has 7 x SPE at 3.2ghz, 7x 3.2ghz common, you going to find a CPU faster then that?

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#11 hoosiredaddy
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interesting read, but ill stick with my 400 dolla x360 and soon who knows the price of my future ps3.
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#12 -Makaveli-
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The RSX is faster & performs better then nVidias newest PC GPU, and it costs $999Game-o_O

400. 
7x 3.2ghz common, you going to find a CPU faster then that?

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That's not how it works.
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#13 diderot
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Interesting info on the PS3 and 360, see link

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/hardware/next-genconsoles-therealdeal.shtml

ahoymateyct


Not interesting, not info. No support in that article, no tech specs to back up claims, just a ranting PC owner.
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#14 X360PS3AMD05
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The PS3 is an innovative fine piece of hardware totally different than a PC
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#15 granadavictor
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seriously?
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#16 granadavictor
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seriously?
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#17 shadystxxx
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This article was made in november 2005 before any of the next gen consoles were released.

So they were basicly going off rumors.

It's pretty clear the proccesors in both 360 and ps3 are better than a intel pentium 4.

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#18 caseystryker
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Nothing like reading a two year old article with no follow ups. Maybe because the majority of it is bull****?