Kutaragi Thumbs Nose At Other Consoles 128
Ken Kutaragi thinks very highly of the PS3. So much so, that he is once again badmouthing his competitors in the press. From the article: "This time, Microsoft has stated clearly that it is going after PlayStation. However, they're going not after the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 2. They were looking at 2, and that's why [Xbox 360] became like that". And by "that", he probably means crappy. I'm just guessing.
my reaction: (Score:2, Funny)
(preorders revolution)
Re:my reaction: (Score:5, Funny)
Sony's Reaction (Score:1)
Nintendo may not look like the most technologically advanced, but at least they're looking like that most mature at the moment. I'm sure they'll eventually come out the door guns blazing.
Re:Sony's Reaction (Score:3, Funny)
This is Nintendo...
More like: 'With a giant bag of fairy dust to sprinkle on all the good boys and girls in rainbow land.'
Re:my reaction: (Score:1)
No Sound/All Cell (Score:1, Insightful)
So he's bragging that the PS3 won't use specialized hardware where it makes sense to use specialized hardware.
Well, whatever. I'll probably buy one of PS3/360/Revolution, but not until games I'm interested in stop coming out for my PS2 and one of these is out and gets a lineup I'm interested in.
Re:No Sound/All Cell (Score:3, Interesting)
To be fair, I don't think any of the next gen consoles are going to use dedicated sound processors. Maybe the Revolution, but I'm pretty sure the 360 isn't.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:No Sound/All Cell (Score:3, Insightful)
And I have yet to see a CPU that can handle sound processing better than a DSP. That's what they are for.
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Re:No Sound/All Cell (Score:3, Insightful)
Not all of its cores are full blown processors - many are just glorified vector units. That doesn't mean it'll perform poorly, but you should not expect the performance multiple you would from, say, a 5-cored Athlon 64 - and there's still a finite limit on its resources.
The simple fact of the matter is that a good DSP handles sound very well, and wouldn't add much to the cost. They're certainly not the only way to go, but just because a system uses a cell pro
Re:No Sound/All Cell (Score:2)
Re:No Sound/All Cell (Score:5, Informative)
The problem (and this is a very real problem for all processors, not just Cell or consoles) is getting data into and out of the processor in a timely fasion. If a processor (core/SPE/whatever) doesn't have input data or if it's unable to send data out of the chip then it stalls. If it stalls then that processor part can't get any work done until this block is resolved. This is why it's important to manage input and output of the CPU in order to keep the processor working as much as possible.
Besides this little misunderstanding you can't have "2 running the data", a processor (of any kind) doesn't work that way. The processor itself loads data from memory as part of the operations it executes. So each of them "runs their data" on their own just fine.
And the Cell doesn't have 5 of anything, it has one core and 8 SPE (vector units). Finally if you have 3 actions (data, sound, graphics) and 5 cores to execute them on that gives you 243 different combinations. (And this is counting many duplicates as sound-sound-gfx is calculated separately from sound-gfx-sound.) In any case it's pretty far from an infinate amount of combinations.
"Hannibal" over at ArsTechnica has some great no-nonsense articles (1 [arstechnica.com] and 2 [arstechnica.com]) on both the Cell and the X360. I recommend that you read them as he tends to dispell the hype and misunderstandings quite well.
Re:No Sound/All Cell (Score:1)
News ? (Score:4, Insightful)
The actual article is devoid of any real news.
The article is flaimbait, ( it's written in that tone too) to stir up game console discussion before each is released.
Luis Cypher (Score:2)
Hmm Weren't you in this one [imdb.com]?
Re:Luis Cypher (Score:1)
Umm no, I am much better looking...vanity my favourite sin.
New Marketing (Score:3, Insightful)
Wanna Be Thug 2 - Nah, man. Nah.
WBT1 - Yo homes, for real!
WBT2 - Word?
WBT1 - He call a sucka out like dat, his system gotta be for sheezy.
WBT1 - True.
Pigs! Pigs, I say, slopping at the trough that is pop culture! I will buy the system with the gaming soul. The other do can do whatever they please over there.
Re:New Marketing (Score:2, Funny)
Oh really? (Score:2, Insightful)
These people should really shut up and start badmouthing themselves once they actually have some real product to gloat about...
Re:Oh really? (Score:5, Informative)
Epic stated at the sony E3 event that they have had the actual hardware for a a few months or so and they managed to port UnrealTournament2007 to it.
then i saw an article in the Inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23807 [theinquirer.net]
which basically states the same.
Re:Oh really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Same hardware, different video (Score:2)
The dev boxes use a PC variant which is probably simialr in power, just more expensive.
Re:Same hardware, different video (Score:2)
Oh! I know! Maybe Sony and Microsoft are lying through their teeth!
Eh? Self Deprecation? (Score:1)
Math (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Math (Score:2)
So Microsoft... (Score:2, Funny)
Millenium Edition? (Score:1)
So you're suggesting calling XBox 360 something like XBox 2000, or XBox ME?
360 sounds cooler, but you may have a point...
Re:So Microsoft... (Score:2)
sony console marketing strategy.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:sony console marketing strategy.. (Score:1)
Re:sony console marketing strategy.. (Score:1)
Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:5, Insightful)
If he can do that, he's done his job...
And by what I've been hearing people say, he's suceeded. If there is a shadow of doubt come xbox's launch in your mind, he's done what he needs to do.
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:3, Interesting)
*= oops, eighth dead
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:1)
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:4, Interesting)
And I wouldn't imagine for a minute MS isn't going to be throwing a lot of weight at keeping those publishers in line - this battle is worth more to MS than the browser wars were!
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:1)
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:1)
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm willing to bet that all the PSP launch titles that were not ports of existing PS2 games were games that started development as PS2 games.
On the other hand, the DS has a crazy new interface that does not lend itself to simple porting. At E3 2004, The DS was playable and the PSP wasn't. If either handheld were rushed, it was the PS
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:2)
Surely you a
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:1)
The 3rd party publishers love it because they cash in on the same title multiple times with relatively minor costs compared to coming out wit
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:1)
You've just sinned again by verbing the noun "verb"
Re:Remember: He only needs to delay your decision (Score:2)
That works. For a while, at least. It was Nintendo's strategy in every console since the NES, since Nintendo HATES developing new machines. The NES and Game Boy kind of spoiled them. It's surprisingly effective, but eventually it wears off.
Specs don't mean shit (Score:1)
it's not mean if it's true (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:it's not mean if it's true (Score:1, Troll)
This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:4, Insightful)
And this:
But what did they get to see? I didn't go to E3, but from what I've read it seems Sony mostly showed pre-rendered footage.Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:1)
Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:2)
Note, I'm not bashing Microsoft here - at least they were shoing realtime gameplay instead of prerendered stuff - but it was apparently running on tweaked G5 devkits, not final hardware.
Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:1)
I may be mistaken about this, but wasn't the export of PS2 to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and North Korea banned when it first came out because of it's "computer power"? Although that could be marketing hype too...
Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:1)
Re:This guy is just asking for it.... (Score:2)
I Love This Man (Score:5, Funny)
Ken comes off as a guy who cares about winning and is ready to say anything to help make that happen. What's not to like about that? Speaking for myself, an American, I think winning is more fun than just about anything not required for continuation of the human race.
I'm an Xbox fan. I have all three consoles, but I feed more games to my Xbox than the other two consoles combined. I like the games that come out, I like the graphics and I like (love) the sounds (I bought my first DVD player way back when to get Dolby Digital; letterboxed movies were a secondary consideration). I went so far as to wait for its Xbox release before playing the latest GTA game - I've had to fight off some withdrawal-type symptoms, but I made it.
All the above being true, I want to hear MORE Xbox 360 slams from Mr. Kutaragi. He makes me smile...and not in an ironic, "oh look at the silly monkey" way. No, he entertains me the same way one of the aforementioned Xbox-playing sports stars does when he goes crazy and guarantees a win or puts down an opposing team. It's just plain fun.
Even his incoherent ramblings about the PS3 and Cell are a blast. I mean, come on: "However, if you look closely, the difference between things that are being calculated and things that are simply being changed and moved is clear." I, for one, will be less than a foot from my TV screen when I eventually hook up a PS3 just to see the amazing differences between motion capture and the magical Cell real-time calculations. I LOVE IT!
Ken, you're out of your mind and I can't get enough. Go, man, go!
PS- I get similar tingles when one of the Nintendo nuts goes on and on about their magical gameplay. You know, because giving Mario a water cannon revolutionized (apologies) gaming. :)
Re:I Love This Man (Score:3, Funny)
I can't wait to see what will happen to these kinds of posts in 30 years, when game console designers end up using every word in the English language, so everything becomes a pun.
"I really liked (sorry) the Nintento XZ3000 and their ombudsman (not a plug for Microsoft) because (no pun intended) they tend (no, I don't work
Re:I Love This Man (Score:1, Insightful)
Also, I don't remember hearing anyone ever refer to Mario Sunshine as a "revolutionary" title, but I suppose that is beyond the point.
Curse Nintendo for adding awesome new features to old franchises so that they both keep their core audience, expand to a new audience, and maintain the high level of quality they are kno
So let me get this right (Score:4, Insightful)
Christ last time I heard that line of arguments was in a school playground (before they allowed guns
J Allard (and Nintendos equiv) has been much more mature, raising the profile of thier own machines. Selling their machines, not slagging off competitors
CJC
Re:So let me get this right (Score:2)
But something else I feel is that the Console gamers have gotten a little smarter and are aware that Playstation isn`t all its cracked up to be, and will be prepared to see what it can really do before making a decision.
Admittedly you'll still get the GTA and Gran Tourismo fanatics that would buy the PS3 if it had C64 level graphics/abilities
CJC
Re:So let me get this right (Score:2)
However, a huge number of people still trust print magazines and never really keep up with stuff like this - and GamePro has already put up articles calling the PS3 as the winner. It was a terrible article, but it is there, and I'm sure their print magazine will carry the same stuff.
Re:1990's Sega vs Nintendo Wars (Score:1)
Methinks, you don't remember the Sega VS Nintendo ad campaign wars in the early 1990's. I remember this because I was so influenced by the ads I wouldn't be friends with those with opposing systems. I remember my mother yelling at me one day because every time she had to baby sit one of our family friends kid, I would rag him about owning a Sega Genesis
Re:1990's Sega vs Nintendo Wars (Score:2)
But in those instances Nintendo/sega and Commodore/Sinclair & atari all had their machines out, and you could directly compare them, and not base your judgement on marketese.
In this particular case, 15 years or so on, that this kind of "Marketing" is still being applied.
CJC
Re:So let me get this right (Score:2)
Pretentious much? (Score:3, Insightful)
It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:1, Insightful)
The Xbox did horribly in Japan.
The Saturn caused Sega to lose a lot of money.
The Xbox caused Microsoft to lose a lot of money.
Sega releases their nextgen console only four years after their previous console.
Microsoft releases their nextgen console only four years after their previous console.
What happens next?
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:3, Insightful)
Microsoft uses its cash reserves to keep the console going in case of bad sales?
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:1)
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:1)
Also, Sega goofed up and didn't have any kind of launch software with the Saturn. Microsoft will do very well this round.
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:2)
I've never been so excited in my life!
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:1)
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:1)
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:2)
But for whatever reason, Sega wasn't ready or didn't want to do it and it cost them.
The good news is that with the video game industry is getting bigger and bigger each year, grabbing 10% of the market is going to be sust
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:1)
Re:It's the Dreamcast all over again (Score:2)
Really trying hard to slam it... (Score:3, Insightful)
What it comes off like is they're running scared. It feels like they've got nothing but pre-rendered stuff and a past track-record of overpromising and underdelivering and now they keep on just saying shit like "ours is sooooooo much better. Reeeeeeealllly better. Soooooooo. Muuuuuuuuch. Beeeeeeeeeter!" and waving their hands around nonsense numbers and specs.
Personally, this amount of hot air and handwaving with *zero* real data to back it up at this point is making me think there are some real problems with the PS3 that they're hoping they can hype over.
Of course, everyone's hyping their stuff - but, in the case of the original XBox, I really feel that they lived up to what they promised and delivered a damn fine system - so (ironic, isn't it?) I guess I trust them a little more than Sony who lied their asses off, didn't live up to what they promised, even if they did deliver a nice console.
Re:Really trying hard to slam it... (Score:2)
As for the next generation consoles? I'm looking forward to getting the Xbox 360 at launch. MS hasn't overbullshitted their hype like Sony are doing, claiming that the Xbox 360 will be the end of everything (wh
Re:Really trying hard to slam it... (Score:1)
Microsoft did the same things, like inflating polygon count numbers and claiming a bunch of BS stuff like "only the Xbox can handle fur-shading effects". I don't k
Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:3, Funny)
But of course remember, the playstation 3 will have REALISTIC EMOTIONS! using it's emotion engine and be able to RENDER TOY STORY IN REAL TIME! and be a SUPER COMPUTER!
Wait.. that was the PS2 wasn't it?
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:1)
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:2)
I guess that Sony is the only one who doesn't realize that as far as technology is concerned, the first Xbox wiped the floor with the PS2.
Yes, the Xbox 360 is going after the PS2- as far as sales numbers go. This whack job spouting Sony's poo has no interest in the actual reality as far as the technology is concerned...I'm sure he STILL thinks the PS2 is a great system.
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:1)
What does technology have to do with anything? Did you buy a 3DO back when it came out for $699? It had great technology for it's time, but that has bupkis to do with how great a system is overall. (I was seriously considering saving up for one, but after I saw how fucking bad the two zelda games were and how little other compelling *exclusive* games there were, I decided to wait. Luckily there w
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:2)
The article was all about the technology- that is the comparison.
The Sony guy was saying that the Xbox 360 technology was aimed at the PS2.
When in fact, the technology in the original Xbox was superior with the technology in the PS2.
Sorry that I was basing my comments on the subject at hand.
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:1)
Really? bad guess....
The article was all about the technology- that is the comparison. The Sony guy was saying that the Xbox 360 technology was aimed at the PS2. When in fact, the technology in the original Xbox was superior with the technology in the PS2.
Well, that was one line in the article. And much of the article focused on technology, true, but you'll notice some of it is focused on people's perceptions of technology and performance, and how numbers stack up. For
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2 (Score:3, Funny)
Similarly, albeit a bit more devastating, they could have used a PS3 to guide a missile right into Iraq live on a huge screen.
It's nice to see some progress.... (Score:2, Insightful)
When the PS/2 came out, I tried to explain why the hype was incredibly overblown. I got the equivalent of "troll".
If I tried now to explain why the hype for the PS/3 is overblown, now I'd get "Redundant".
Nobody admitted it at the time. (Haven't seen many admit it now, either...) But I think a lot of people basically got burned. (The PS/2 is nice in a lot of ways. It also sucks ass in some completely inexcusable ways. It's
Computerentertainment.slashdot.org (Score:2)
Hmmm... Computer Entertainmentspot, Computer Entertainmentspy, Computer Entertainmentpro... nope just doesn't work
Fanboy! (Score:3, Informative)
I love this stuff (Score:2, Informative)
Here's one for you.
http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2005/06/10/richard_hu ddy_ati/1.html [bit-tech.net]
Interview with Richard Huddy of ATI. In a nutshell he basically says that CPU power of the PS3 will face a
Re:I love this stuff (Score:1)
I want them to work hard and give me some really revolutionary thing, not just some technology that was forgotten in some drawer for 20 years and then brought back and presented as "the biggest revolution in computer gaming experience (cash is over there, thank you)".
I would like someone to explain me why PS3 or XBox360 are so revolutionary. I read about the XBox and it doesn't seem like th
Re:I love this stuff (Score:1)
Another troll from Kusoragi (Score:2)
He's a moron. Just ignore him.
Everyone I know plays XBox (Score:1)
Ok the 360 comes out at least 6 months prior to PS3 - That will give them a lead on Sony. People will buy 360s because thats what there kids will want. If MS has it right they could take the lead over sony.
Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score:1)
Microsoft showed an empty box as well, but they had playable demos running on G5s. They were the most forthcomming and honest of the three.
The reason I singled out Sony was because the PS3 show was contrived and pre-rendered. It showed the press exactly what it wanted to see. It was headline bait, and it worked. This is just further headline bait.
I don't dispute the fact that th
Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score:2)
Forthcoming, I'll give you - Nintendo doesn't seem ready to share much just yet.
As far as the PS3 goes - well, I wouldn't make a judgement until I can actually look at the hardware. Until we've seen what the CPU and video hardware can do for real, it's all just guesswork (if intelligent guesswork) to a
Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score:2)
I've never had much love for sony, so when I saw how crappy the PS2 looked compared to what Sony was shoveling with their hype machine, I decided I wasn't interested. Fortunately for them, a while later GTA showed up, and I changed my mind.
I am, however, a Nintendo fanboy, and will likely be buying a revolution as my first
Re:Well, duh. (Score:2)