Some assimilation required?

Neo · 09-06-2002, 05:51 PM

from CNN:

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TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- While Sony Corp. basks in the success of its PlayStation 2 in the $30 billion-plus-a-year videogame market, expectations are rising that its successor will be out of the box by 2005, in an entirely different form.

Sony remains tight-lipped about the timing of the next generation's debut, but it is dropping some hints about the product's likely shape -- or more accurately, lack of shape.

"We're not thinking about hardware," said Kenichi Fukunaga, spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the Sony subsidiary that develops and makes the PlayStation.

"The ideal solution would be having an operating system installed in various home appliances (what the hell does that mean?) that could run game programs," he said.

Fuelling expectations of a 2005 target date is a microchip project among SCE, Toshiba Corp., Japan's largest chipmaker and co-producer of the PlayStation 2's complex microprocessor, and International Business Machines Corp.

The four-year project, code-named "cell" and due for completion in spring 2005, aims to create a powerful processor for home electronics with ultra-fast Internet connections that could, for example, transmit high-resolution moving pictures.

"It's possible PlayStation 3 would come out in 2005, since that's when Sony's cell project will yield something," said Kazuharu Miura, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.

Null · 09-06-2002, 06:17 PM

hmmm. well ya gotta admit, it gets your brain active thinking about what all this means.

gets yer interest at least.

i read it over and over. and its still a bit strange. various home appliances? so im going to buy a PS3 game and put it in my dishwasher?

its odd tho. cuz i thought they talked about hareware a while go saying how powerful it would be. now they say they arent talking hardware at all?

Joeiss · 09-06-2002, 07:04 PM

Wow. I really do not understand what I just read.

DarkMaster · 09-06-2002, 08:19 PM

o..........................k, well that cleared up nothing. i'm even more confused now then i was before i read this.

09-06-2002, 08:32 PM

Probably you'll install it in your computer like a disc drive.

Null · 09-06-2002, 08:48 PM

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Originally posted by Danchastu
Probably you'll install it in your computer like a disc drive.

now that, would be actually pretty damn nice.

HD already there
Internet, already there.

you got everything already there. all it would be would be a special CD drive to read PS3 games.

altho wouldnt that make stealing thier games easier??

DarkMaster · 09-06-2002, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by Null
altho wouldnt that make stealing thier games easier??

thats wut i was thinking, but i remember reading an article a while back (i think it was in psm) saying that the ps3 was going to handle games differently. you wouldnt buy like a DVD or CD in a case like regular games, you would buy access to play games that were on sonys servers. developers would make games then sony would put it on their server for people to play directly through the interent. it was something weird like that, dont try to understand it, you'll just become more confused like i am....

Null · 09-06-2002, 09:07 PM

yea. but they have even more probs then. people wont like that. people without internet connections or slow connections wont want to play games off ther servers. and it would be same as playing PC games. which would mess up the whole reason for getting consoles.

-apu- · 09-06-2002, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by DarkMaster
thats wut i was thinking, but i remember reading an article a while back (i think it was in psm) saying that the ps3 was going to handle games differently. you wouldnt buy like a DVD or CD in a case like regular games, you would buy access to play games that were on sonys servers. developers would make games then sony would put it on their server for people to play directly through the interent. it was something weird like that, dont try to understand it, you'll just become more confused like i am....

Maybe they'll make cartridges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jonbo298 · 09-07-2002, 12:27 AM

Heh, I dont think I want a PS3 now. It just scares me to think that I could be playing games from my Blender or whatever.

Null · 09-07-2002, 01:10 AM

toaster would be better man.

it has an easy eject system. and can load duel CD's

Jonbo298 · 09-07-2002, 01:15 AM

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Originally posted by Null
toaster would be better man.

it has an easy eject system. and can load duel CD's

Don't forget about the Special Edition Quad Load

Angrist · 09-07-2002, 05:30 AM

Hhmmm... weird... Good thing there's competition and we have Nintendo!!

hey, deja-vu...

DarkMaster · 09-07-2002, 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by Null
yea. but they have even more probs then. people wont like that. people without internet connections or slow connections wont want to play games off ther servers. and it would be same as playing PC games. which would mess up the whole reason for getting consoles.

you dont play it on their servers, you would download it.

Null · 09-07-2002, 11:09 AM

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Originally posted by DarkMaster
you dont play it on their servers, you would download it.

same thing then. people with slow or no internet connection cant do it.

and if you download it.......... might as well just be giving every game away for free. cuz thats what will happen.

so dont think thats quite what they're going to do.