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Crash

03-08-2005 08:23 PM

PS3 downgrade on the way

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Considering the financial crisis Sony is going through, there is little chance that CELL will have 8 APUs; IBM engineers capped APU count at 6 max but Kutaragi Ken forced 8 APUs on them and the end result is a crap chip yield. The current version cost just too much to produce and CELL must be scaled back to 4 APUs to be fabbed at a reasonable cost.

Furthermore, Sony has no money to lose on BR-ROM drive either, meaning PSX3 will have to launch with a $30 DVD drive instead, reserving the BR-ROM edition to $1,000 special edition instead.

So the end result is a PSX3 with half the APUs that are no faster than XCPU2 and a DVD drive.

tough to deal with now that Xbox revealed such huge specs... cell chip isn't looking to hot right now... maybe they can get things figured out by next year this time, I sure hope so.....

Typhoid

03-08-2005 08:34 PM

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Can someone please dumb it down for me? :confused:

Jonbo298

03-08-2005 08:34 PM

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Wow, the Blu-Ray version will cost around $1,000 at first? :wtf:

This is all if its true which we wont know for sure until E3

Vampyr

03-08-2005 08:37 PM

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Good news for the Xbox. Which I am rooting for.

And when was the Xbox specs posted?! :O

I missed it.

*edit*

Nevermind, found it. It was in that thread about the camera. >_>

Dark Samurai

03-08-2005 09:04 PM

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That must suck for all Sony's people.

You know, thats also good news for Nintendo... maybe the many third parties thats went to Sony after the SNES will go back to their roots... (yes... pun was intended)

Neo	03-08-2005 09:29 PM

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Link?

Seth	03-08-2005 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Neo

Link?

Yes, source please. It seems kind of weird of sony to not have BD since they've devoted so much effort to it.

It makes it hard to believe this.

Stonecutter

03-09-2005 12:03 AM

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After reading the article on sony in the WSJ on monday I don't have any trouble believing it.

GameMaster

03-09-2005 12:07 AM

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Sony:

From hero to zero...

Here today, gone tomorrow...

Yesterday's news...

Next generation theme: The Return of the King! :Nintendo: :king:

Perfect Stu

03-09-2005 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Crash

maybe they can get things figured out by next year this time, I sure hope so.....

:rofl:

Canyarion

03-09-2005 04:29 AM

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Stonecutter, this is official? :confused:

Neo	03-09-2005 09:05 AM

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Perhaps that is why Kutaragi left/was forced out.

Null	03-09-2005 09:12 AM

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i'd like to see a link, not to know if its true or not, i just wanna know what the hell source would call it the PSX3 ? thats kinda like a notable source calling the gamecube, the Game-Cube. jus doesnt happen.

MuGen

03-09-2005 11:20 AM

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I still have hopes that the PS3 will be a powerful machine even with 4 APU's... but I sure would've liked to see the power of 8......

In any case, I'm sure Sony will figure something out....

Canyarion

03-09-2005 02:03 PM

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IS THIS CONFIRMED?!?!?! PLEASE SOMEONE TELL US!!!!

Stonecutter

03-09-2005 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

Stonecutter, this is official? :confused:

No.

And today's WSJ had Sony posting huge gains because of their new president.

So.....

I dunno.

*and if anyone is wondering why the board's most fervent lefty is reading the Wall Street Journal, the answer is, because it's free at work.

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