Archive for the 'Playstation 3' Category

Playstation 3 graphics processor unique

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

The Playstation3 graphics processor is the result of a two year collaboration between nVidia and Sony. Following on from Sony Computer Entertainment and NVidia announcement, further details regarding the graphics processor set to feature in the forthcoming Playstation3 have today come to light.
Speaking at a San Jose Press Conference, Jen-Hsun Huang President nVidia, claimed that […]

Awaiting Playstation 3 launch date

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Sony will host Destination PlayStation 2006 at the Loews Miami Beach resort February 27–March 3. The annual “business casual” gathering is intended to provide retailers with SCEA and third party companies’ plans and strategies for the coming year. If Sony does launch the PlayStation 3 in North America this year, one would have to assume […]

Sony CEO can “produce the PS3 anytime”

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

This bold statement came from Ken Kutaragi himself at the Las Vegas Consumer’s Electronics Show last week.
Could this mean the PS3 is almost done testing? No one knows for sure, but Sony hasn’t released much information about it, which leads many gamers to think that it will go on sale in fall - not […]

PSM UK: GTA4 a PS3 Exclusive

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

The UK edition of PSM has run an article that claims the next Grand Theft Auto game will be a PlayStation 3 exclusive, to be unveiled at E3 2006.
Rockstar, the creators of the popular GTA series that first debuted in 3D on PlayStation 2, release a new Grand Theft Auto game every two years. […]

PS3 price could reach 500 dollar

Friday, January 13th, 2006

CNNMoney is now speculating, along with other industry analysts, that the Sony Playstation 3 will release wth a $500 price tag.
Although Sony hasn’t officially announced the console’s price, SCE president, Ken Kutaragi stated,”it’ll be expensive.”
A.T.R.’s (American Technology Research) P.J. McNealy in a note to clients on Monday said, “[Sony] could now consider launching […]

Reasons To Wait For PlayStation 3

Monday, January 9th, 2006

After E3 in May last year, you would be forgiven for not remembering the slew of information Sony threw at us about the PlayStation 3. But what really stood out? Between all those figures, specifications and PowerPoint slides, what do we have to look forward to?
What will make the PlayStation 3 the killer console […]

Official PS3 Specifications

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Official Playstation3 Specs:
CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
GPU
RSX @550MHz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader […]