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03-08-2005, 08:23 PM
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Mr. Mjolnir
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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.
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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.....
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03-08-2005, 08:34 PM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
Can someone please dumb it down for me? 
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03-08-2005, 08:34 PM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
Wow, the Blu-Ray version will cost around $1,000 at first? 
This is all if its true which we wont know for sure until E3
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03-08-2005, 08:37 PM
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Abra Kadabra
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
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. >_>
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03-08-2005, 09:04 PM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
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)
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03-08-2005, 09:29 PM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
Link?
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03-08-2005, 10:22 PM
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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.
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03-09-2005, 12:03 AM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
After reading the article on sony in the WSJ on monday I don't have any trouble believing it.
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03-09-2005, 12:07 AM
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03-09-2005, 01:08 AM
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maybe they can get things figured out by next year this time, I sure hope so.....
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03-09-2005, 04:29 AM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
Stonecutter, this is official?
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03-09-2005, 09:05 AM
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
Perhaps that is why Kutaragi left/was forced out.
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03-09-2005, 09:12 AM
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The Nullified One
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
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.
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03-09-2005, 11:20 AM
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Fuuton Rasenshuriken
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
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....
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03-09-2005, 02:03 PM
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Nerd of the Rings
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Re: PS3 downgrade on the way
IS THIS CONFIRMED?!?!?! PLEASE SOMEONE TELL US!!!!
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