Developers crush PS3 rumors of console being "broken"

by David Hinkle { Jun 7th 2006 at 6:30PM }

You ~~probably~~ definitely caught wind of the article that ran over at The Inquirer that Joystiq reported on earlier. Well, some key developers creating games for the system that you'll soon be playing have stepped up to the podium and have declared it bogus. Some developers, which for some reason do not provide their names, have told gameindustry.biz that the figures are nothing to worry about.

"I didn't see that slide at Devstation, but all the numbers add up," one coder said, "and it's a total non-issue. You never, ever need to access that memory from the Cell - I can think of some useful debugging things you might do with that access in the testing stage, but that's about it. In fact, on the PS2 you couldn't access that memory from the CPU at all, and it was never really a problem!"

Tags: cell, inquirer, playstation, ps3, sony

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Mrs A Mr B Mrs C Mr D @ Jun 7th 2006 9:54PM

Check it out: http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6648/bretpwnage0bj.png

boots @ Jun 7th 2006 10:12PM

Gee! And I had almost fell for it! The Inquirer is the best source of news, everyone knows, so it's surprising that it gets debunked!

ffaljka @ Jun 8th 2006 1:12AM

wow, im hoping thats some heavy sarcasm there... the inquirer is on par with game + life's new on its biased opinions and twisted words. though game+life is a bit more humorous

Paul @ Jun 8th 2006 8:07AM

I am just interested in who these devls are... sony in house?

(I dont think the console is broken but most would have come public and said it was fine)

SuicideNinja @ Jun 8th 2006 11:51AM

I didn't buy it. It just wasn't plausible. I just can't see IBM skimping on something that would hold such a new architecture back.

Even if it was true to such that it only affected appliations but not gaming, who cares? That would just mean the PS3 sucks as a computer. Despite what Sony wants us to believe, it's not a BlurayStation. It's a Playstation. That's you know, for games?

So...how about they shut up about the BlurayStation taking over the world, and let's see some more tantalizing games like FFXIII. Let's talk about what's in it for the consumer instead of what's in it for Sony.

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