Report Claims That These Are The Next PlayStation’s Processing Specs

26 responses to “Report Claims That These Are The Next PlayStation’s Processing Specs”

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   Jordaan Mylonas

   April 5, 2012 at 8:44 am

   Kill the SPUs. They were an interesting idea, but they necessitated too many changes to software architecture.

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   WiseHacker

   April 5, 2012 at 8:45 am

   Specs are only the icing on the cake when it comes to platforms.

   Any word about new games for the thing? That’s the main problem when the PS3 first came out. It had a laughable selection of launch titles.

   The same happened with the 3DS, it too was a launch disaster because of the launch titles.

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      Braaains

      April 5, 2012 at 9:08 am

      The games were fine – as good as any other console’s launch line up, anyway. The problem was the price.

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         Adrian

         April 5, 2012 at 7:40 pm

         Not to be devils advocate but I bought one at launch and spent a good 8 months or so waiting before I bought a title. Money wasn’t an issue at the time…simply no games appealed for quite a while. That said, $1000 was kind of ridiculous so a combination of the two was probably the problem for most people.

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      AkIRA

      April 5, 2012 at 10:59 am

      It was better than the 360 launch. However it benefited from a year of extra Dev time and ports . PS2, now there was a crappy launch.

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   iniff

   April 5, 2012 at 8:53 am

   Hopefully similar insides means its simpler for 3rd party developers to design for both consoles.

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   NoTheMama

   April 5, 2012 at 9:06 am

   Bugger the specs, a new controller please!

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   1. 

      Morkai

      April 5, 2012 at 10:22 am

      I just wish I was technologically knowledgable enough to be able to swap the guts of a PS3 controller into the body of a 360 controller.

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         NoTheMama

         April 5, 2012 at 10:49 am

         Same here!

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         1. 

            Sylver

            April 5, 2012 at 4:12 pm

            Is there actually a market for this?

            I may have finally found a use for my diploma.

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      2. 

         Stevorooni

         April 5, 2012 at 1:31 pm

         Or you could just buy one of those $20 usb adaptors (I got mine at EB in a sale once) that let you hook a wired 360 controller up to a PS3 .

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         1. 

            weresmurf

            April 5, 2012 at 9:46 pm

            Or you could buy one of those awesome 40 dollar PS3 controllers that are shaped like a 360 controller!

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      3. 

         Sliphsurfer

         April 6, 2012 at 1:50 am

         Get yourself the Power A Pro controller. PS3 wireless controller with the 360 controller setup and shape plus really nice textured grips. It’s the only controller I use on my ps3. Sorry if that sounded like a sales pitch but it’s my job 😉

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   2. 

      adam

      April 5, 2012 at 11:09 pm

      I’m amazed that the controller remains unchanged for the past 18 years! If they released that boomerang controller for the PS3 they probably would’ve followed it up with a much better design – similar to how the 360 controller was made from the original gigantic thing

      I just wish they’d design it for non-japanese gamer hands & make some better trigger buttons than the current awful ones

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   Kid

   April 5, 2012 at 9:29 am

   It will be a shame to see STI go. 🙁

   Interedting there rumored to have almost the same gpu but with the PS3 using the revised version. I guess that’d mean no console wars arguing over power?

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   1. 

      majorpain

      April 5, 2012 at 10:27 am

      im sure that even though the next gen xbox and ps3 are rumoured to be evenly powered im sure fanboys will still argue that their console is the more powerfull

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6. 

   Craig

   April 5, 2012 at 10:23 am

   In fairness to the poor developers, MS and Sony should shake hands and agree on a common spec that will allow developers to port easily between the two platforms. They can then focus on the value add services and accessories.

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7. 

   villainsoft

   April 5, 2012 at 10:23 am

   I think that the best games of the current generation have been exclusives to their respective platforms. It’ll be a shame to see platform exclusivity fade away, as developers will be less inclined to develop to the strengths of their particular platform.
   Are they still moving towards streaming gaming (ie OnLive) or has that fallen by the wayside? True hardware agnosticism.

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8. 

   Boomzzilla

   April 5, 2012 at 10:27 am

   This great news for PC gamers as console ports of PS4 games will be quick and easy with decent optimization from the get go.Its a pity they couldnt up the GPU to something like a 6850-70, I for one would gladly pay an extra $100 for a better console.

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9. 

   Rob

   April 5, 2012 at 11:42 am

   Why they don’t use Nvidia I’ll never fathom.
   The reason I use them in my PC is because I game so much; I like all the bells & whistles, physX, etc

   Wouldn’t it also make more sense to go with a higher-end gpu instead of the mid-range version? I’d rather the money be spent on that than on Sixaxis….. Does anyone really use that??

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   1. 

      Braaains

      April 5, 2012 at 12:29 pm

      Flower.

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   2. 

      Yurick

      April 6, 2012 at 1:58 am

      Nvidia vs AMD is always a sketchy argument, so i’ll move on from that point for now.

      I can understand the desire for a more powerful graphics processing unit, however if im not mistaken the power requirements tend to skyrocket for anything past the x600 series for the HD series or AMD GPU’s, with additions of things like extra 6-pin connectors being required. That being the case, a higher power draw would be required which would do three things a) it would use more energy and then be more costly to run, b) it may require a more expensive PSU, further increasing production cost c) it will most likely increase the heat generated by the console which must be mitigated by either more fans or higher throughput fans. For fans higher throughput can be achieved by a faster fan (louder and exponential power draw increases the faster you need to go) OR a larger fan, which can become more and more difficult to hide (which can lead to an ugly looking console, which lets face it, will matter quite a bit for a consoles sales figures).

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10. 

    warcroft

    April 5, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    WHen Sony announced they were dumping Cell and jumping into bed with AMD (the same bed as Xbox) I said the PS and the Xbox will be pretty much the same console.
    Its a smart move by both companies and will make it extremely easy for developers to make and port games between the two.

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11. 

    truncheon

    April 5, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    As an enthusiast these specs upset me. NANANA NOT LISTENING

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12. 

    Senno

    April 6, 2012 at 3:54 am

    Just make them backwards compatible please.

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13. 

    madatom

    April 7, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    oh mu god

    no cell processor

    fuck yes

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