Ps3 & The New NVidia GeForce

MuGen · 03-02-2005, 12:35 PM

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and NVIDIA Corporation have announced today that the companies have been collaborating on bringing advanced graphics technology and computer entertainment technology to SCEI's highly anticipated next-generation computer entertainment system (PlayStation 3). Both companies are jointly developing a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) incorporating NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce and SCEI's system solutions for next-generation computer entertainment systems featuring the Cell* processor.

full article: http://playstation.about.com/od/ps3/a/NVIDIAinPS3.htm

Okay... so Sony isn't going with ATI... still... this has me excited as I've played Unreal Tournament on Nvidia video cards before and they are amazing!

Jonbo298 · 03-02-2005, 12:42 PM

Interesting

Blackmane · 03-02-2005, 12:57 PM

Interesting on them switching.

I have always liked nVidia, but I thought that ATI made better cards, just more expensive ones that I was not willing to buy.

Anyways, hope it turns out good for Sony.

MuGen · 03-02-2005, 01:53 PM

I like NVIDIA's power to render environments, and ATI's processing power under a lot of load.

KillerGremlin · 03-02-2005, 02:09 PM

Meh.....nvidia is decent....I prefer ATI for overall performance though.

MuGen · 03-02-2005, 02:37 PM

yeah but they are developing a new GeForce exclusively for the PS3 so we know not what this entails..... maybe a gorgeous processor with beautiful render power.

Dark Samurai · 03-02-2005, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

yeah but they are developing a new GeForce exclusively for the PS3 so we know not what this entails..... maybe a gorgeous processor with beautiful render power.

With tremendous load times...

MuGen · 03-02-2005, 05:33 PM

I can't find a system that doesn't need any load time.... fast or not... loading is part of life in multimedia....

GameMaster · 03-02-2005, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

I like NVIDIA's power to render environments, and ATI's processing power under a lot of load.

I can vouch for that statement, the nVidia card in my iMac made playing Nanosaur a thrill. The environment was one of the prime aspects of the game. Same with Bugdom.

Dark Samurai · 03-02-2005, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

I can't find a system that doesn't need any load time.... fast or not... loading is part of life in multimedia....

All cartridge based games didnt need load time, unless you were talking about disc based games, then, yeah youre right...

The Duggler · 03-02-2005, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

I can't find a system that doesn't need any load time.... fast or not... loading is part of life in multimedia....

Nintendo does it well.

Sure it loads, but it does it in a way that we don't even notice it.

Dark Samurai · 03-02-2005, 09:48 PM

Yeah look at Metroid Prime 1 and 2

The Duggler · 03-03-2005, 01:21 AM

Not just Metroid, all Nintendo games I played didn't seem to load at all.

Jonbo298 · 03-03-2005, 09:30 AM

Pre-Gamecube that is

MuGen · 03-03-2005, 10:46 AM

of course you guys say that cuz you've all grown accustomed to your gamecubes. I don't notice long load times anymore on my ps2....

In any case my point was ALL CONSOLES HAVE LOAD TIMES FAST OR SLOW <~~~~~ and I did say that.

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...need any load time.... fast or not

And all cartridge based games didn't need load times because they couldn't play live movies. Remember WWF No Mercy when the titan tron videos were slide shows.....

CD's are manufactured differently in that the files are arranged in fragments and so the lense has to adjust to read that segment and then load it.

In any case... All consoles (PS2, XBX, GCN) have load times fast or slow.