8 Pages of PS3 Pandemonium!
by Nick Doerr 
{ Oct 13th 2006 at 1:30PM }
Live in New York? Go to the Digital Life event? Get the Playstation 3 flier (thought it was flyer... but I've been wrong before)? If not, no worries. MiVADiKA is making the 8-page propaganda paper piece available to all of us and boy, is it ever an intense read. The first page the cover page (really?!) and has the "PLAY B3YOND" slogan tacked at the bottom. The second page discusses this slogan, claiming the PS3 is "beyond anything ever created in the world of gaming." Page three goes into the hardware specs and tosses up some pics from next-gen titles. Page four? Blu-ray. Page five talks about the cool options of the PS3, like backwards compatibility, "always on" online connectivity, PS3 to PSP connectivity, yadda yadda awesome. Page six appropriately talks about the SIXAXIS and its sensitivity. The seventh page compares the 20GB and the 60GB models. Last page... different angles of the gorgeous system. It's a cool piece of literature. Should be studied in an english course. Just kidding -- but it is a very mouth-watering bit of Sony-propaganda for those who were already interested in the system. It may even make those who weren't terribly interested say, "hmm. Neat."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael @ Oct 13th 2006 2:40PM
Note that it states 8 SPU's not 7. I'll assume 8 is in error.
Carnie @ Oct 13th 2006 2:47PM
Anyone have the pics of this? I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and don't have access to such freshness....
Carnie @ Oct 13th 2006 2:52PM
Disregard that last statement, I over looked the link.
Pedro Van Faulk @ Oct 13th 2006 3:06PM
The 8th is for redundancy. In the event that one of the SPU's is burnt out. You have one to fall back on.
Foppe @ Oct 13th 2006 5:12PM
"1. Note that it states 8 SPU's not 7. I'll assume 8 is in error."
I have heard 8 earlier.
From Wikipedia: It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields.
Andir2.0 @ Oct 13th 2006 6:34PM
"Wireless Controller Bluetooth (up to 7)"
So can we consider this official? That's awesome if it pans out. Many people looked at the controllers 4 lights and thought it was only 4, but if you do some quick math, you could have 7 combinations of lights (1, 2, 3, 4, 4+1, 4+2, 4+3)
Kat @ Oct 13th 2006 7:31PM
It is flyer.
a5rriente @ Oct 13th 2006 7:04PM
To #6...Andir2.0
up to 7 controllers its the most idiot thing they could have done...and nobody seems to get it...
so teams will always have to be 4 vs 3 xD ??? -_-U
One controller will have to stay usb'd then for all to play... *sigh* i think its just stupid...
make it 8 and move on =P
Andir2.0 @ Oct 13th 2006 7:34PM
@a5rriente: yeah, but you could do 3 on 3. The other controller could be used for coop or something. Maybe you and two friends would revel in the thought that you were outnumbered :p Just hoping that it is truly up to 7. There are so many possibilities like party games that could be made. So far Nintendo has been the only "party game" producer, but we can dream.
ihavenoideawhatisgoingon @ Oct 13th 2006 8:58PM
Yeah...I'm not buying that ad. There's only going to be 7 SPEs in the PS3. As stated previously, the 8th is disabled. The yield on Cells with all 8 SPEs is pretty low. So, only using 7 means that more will pass QA (and if one does have 8, the 8th is either disabled, or the whole processor is used for something else). The other thing that I don't quite agree with is the sentence.
"The Cell Broadband Engine has the muscle and horsepower to move beyond artificial intelligence."
I'll give the cell a slight edge in physics threaded correctly between SPEs, but not AI. Sorry. A general purpose core that allows for branch prediction (i.e. any normal processor, intel, amd, the 360's, and the single PPC core of the ps3...but that will be used to keep track of the SPEs) is way better for AI than the SPEs of the Cell.
also... 1.8 trillion calculations is actually 1.8 teraflops..or 1.8 trillion floating point operations per second...which is great for things like scientific calculations, but not all that necessary for games.
overall, i call BS on this flyer. A little overhype. (i'm not saying that the PS3 won't be a great system...i just hate overhype, and would personally like to actually see the system in action, instead of seeing a bunch of BS numbers and screenshots!)
rabbits foot @ Oct 14th 2006 10:10AM
Well in a months time its "Show me the money". We can all lay to rest conjecture and judge Sony on what it does and does not have. Fanboys will no longer be able to hide behind the excuse of..."How can you talk crap about a console that's not here yet". Touche...I think there will be a whole lot more crap to talk about once this thing hits the streets.
Then folks can actually compare the lack of online cohesiveness and Media Center capabilities that don't compare to the 360's...not to mention the innevitable hardware bugs ontop of the mediocre launch titles and impending Blu-Ray format failure.
PS3DO @ Oct 14th 2006 3:16PM
599 US DOLLA*
*HDMI cable not included.
neo @ Oct 14th 2006 6:16PM
Is it the PS logo button on the SIXAXIS is lighten red?
Alex. @ Oct 15th 2006 12:32AM
To all the guys saying that Xenon is better at branch prediction than Cell, grab your tissues now. They're both In-Order processors, the SPEs can run general purpose code 90% as fast as G5 PowerPC cores (3 of which are in the 360),and run SIMD 30 times faster than than G5 cores(and yes, that includes the VMX altivec units).
P.S. Cell can read branch hints in place of branch prediction; Xenon can't do either function. ^_~