Playstation 2 to compete with Pentium III? 117
Anoop Sarkar
writes "Interesting article in Gaming news
about how Sony and Toshiba are likely to compete with Wintel
in the near future (not just for the gaming market). I heard
about it first on the Marketplace morning report on NPR. The
actual release is sometime today so more news should be on
its way. We need a Linux port to Playstation 2!"
In related news,
Intel is working on Pentium III only sites which will not
only use KNI, but also that... cough! Serial Number.
Linux on Playstation (Score:1)
Playstations, as you know, run MIPS chips (an R3K to be precise) and Indy systems also run MIPS chips (R4K through R5K). The Indy port of Linux should run on the Playstation with some modifications...
How exactly are they going to read the PSN? (Score:1)
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bah (Score:1)
Intel shoots self in ass (Score:1)
Pathetic.
- A.P.
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
Damn!!! (Score:1)
Pent III-only sites (Score:1)
PS does not use R3k (Score:1)
Don't believe me? Look for yourself. [a-p-i.net]
Totally Bogus! (Score:1)
If morons buy into this bullshit, then the WWW will become so diluted, as to be pathetic.
What happened to ONE standard? HTML! If you author for more than that, you should be shot on sight.
Put the Internet back where it belongs...
TO EVERYONE. Not the haves and have-nots and the don't-choose-to-bes
Heh, overreaction? (Score:1)
Any 'OS' features would probably be a combination of ROM and CD, ie auto-booting you see on today's PCs.
It's pretty easy to actually outperform a PC, since there is nowhere near as much overhead in a PS than in the traditional PC. Sony's strength is the plug and play(Sorry for that =) nature of the PSX, and most likely, the PS2k.
Their machine may cost twice as much, but it will also probably have DVD playback, 3d sound via Dolby AC3 5.1, as well as support for 3d glasses(why not? Technology has almost made it feasable!), multiple inputs, and maybe even modem/internet accessability!
It may be a good idea to create a PS2k and a PS2k+ with extra features not needed to play the traditional PS2k games.... Just an idea to separate into a chrome and black 400$ game machine, and a flat white 200$ game machine..
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Gee, shucks...no kidding (Score:1)
Oh, Hello Big Brother! (Score:1)
I think I can live without Intel's marketing crap.
As for the Playstation II, I don't find it very interesting. A computer can do far more than a Game Console anyway. I must admit, Linux running on a Playstation WOULD be very interesting, but it's not enough to get me to run out and buy one. I'll take a well-equipped PC over a Game System any day.
How exactly are they going to read the PSN? (Score:1)
Daniel
Intel monopoly gambit (Score:1)
Intel just makes me like them more and more.
Eeew. :) (Score:1)
Real products and research... (Score:1)
However, I can only think of one place where this may be applicable...
Online porn. PIII and XXX campaigns? Eh, maybe!
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Stupid Content Provider... (Score:1)
My question is: How different is this from tracking the IP address of the machine or using browser cookies?
PIII-only sites??? (Score:1)
I hope AMD & Cyrix also have CPU IDs (Score:1)
AMD & Cyrix could have a lot of fun by also putting a CPU ID in their chips. They just need to put the SAME number in all of their chips. That would make Intel's site statistics real interesting.
Thanks; here's a new marketing slogan :-) (Score:1)
I'm just getting over a terrible head cold / food poisoning bout, and my brain is like a PIII w/o cache. Glad to know I haevn't lost it all just yet...
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MSIE-only anyone? (Score:1)
However, this is even dumber. No one is claiming that Intel chips and Windows aren't the parts with the most prevelance in the market currently. But whither the poor Linux user with a dual Pentium II 450? S/he obviously has enough power to run both X and Netscape with these websites open, but can't, because s/he lacks a processor ID and "KNI," which IMHO isn't all that great a step up from 3dnow!. Believe me, these sites will be few, far between, and used mainly for Intel to say "Wow, look how amazing our processor is! Now your web experience will be many times better, more efficient, and faster!"
PSN Can be fun!! (Score:1)
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PSX perfect (Score:1)
A game console is not supposed to be a computer, any more than a TV is supposed to toast your bread, or your VCR to polish your shoes. My microwave can do things your well-equipped PC can't, so there =P
But if you're not into games, then of course the PS2k won't be interesting to you, just like a new reflective/convective microwave wouldn't be of interest to me or you either. For developers it is much easier to target a PSX, with its fixed specs, APIs, and hardware, than a PC, what with Win98, WinNT, Linux and BeOS, and PowerPC with MacOS, Linux, and BeOS, as well as staggering amounts of APIS, hardware, and drivers to deal with...
In reverse, it's the same in trying to get a game to run acceptably on a PC as opposed to a standard console...
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Oh, Hello Big Brother! (Score:1)
Somtimes it's better to follow the bandwagon (Score:1)
PIII Only Sites ... A page out of MS's book (Score:1)
How is Intel getting people to do PIII only content? Simple, free hardware.
This is a world of monopolistic bribery
Oh well, my last Pentium chip is my PII 450, next will be an AMD K7 most likely.
So? What about the dreamcast? (Score:1)
Who cares about performance and numbers if the games don't live to the hype? First of all, Sega needs to deal with the fact that it has to deal with 2 market leaders, N64 and PSX. Can you imagine, 2 million pre-orders for FFVIII in Japan for a measly PSX? Or a half million pre-orders for Zelda64 on the 64 bit N64? First target would be to woo Square and simliar companies to DreamCast...
Good Luck!
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Oh, Hello Big Brother! (Score:1)
(P.S.: The intro to Resident Evil 2 was INCREDIBLE!)
Accipiter
PIII-only sites??? (Score:1)
I'd LOVE to know how they are going to do this *and* guarantee that the serial number is real.
It all reeks of security through obscurity.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I Love Wintel: (Score:1)
"HTTP_USER_AGENT","Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Update a; AOL 3.0; Windows 95)"
"HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE","798781954"
"REMOTE_ADDR","205.188.154.10"
"SERVER_PROTOCOL","HTTP/1.0"
"REQUEST_METHOD","GET"
"HTTP_REFERER","http://wonderland.illtel.denver
"HTTP_ACCEPT-LANGUAGE","en"
"HTTP_UA-PIXELS","800x600"
"HTTP_UA-COLOR","color8"
"HTTP_UA-OS","Windows 95"
"HTTP_UA-CPU","x86"
"HTTP_HOST","phobos.illtel.denver.co.us"
"HTTP_EXTENSION","Security/Remote-Passphrase"
"HTTP_MAX-FORWARDS","65535"
"HTTP_VIA","1.0 AOL tserver2[ a9abccd] (Traffic-Server/1.1.7(8) [ 1])"
Ultima on consoles (Score:1)
console -- I remember playing some version
of Ultima on my old NES. It was pretty sweet,
except it was too easy to run out of food, if
I remember right. Reminds me a bit of ADOM in
that respect.
Reading skills down? (was: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) (Score:1)
That $840 price they mentioned was the price of PCs there run around $840... not the Playstation. It said it will cost *less* than a PC, so you've got a max price of $840.
I'm guessing $349 to start...
Real products and research... (Score:1)
I'm actually curious what prevents a modern day P2-450 from doing full-screen DVD playback acceptably? Usually constrained to a 320-200 window or something...
Is it just Win-Bloat interfering?
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From the Intel Pentium III" website... (Score:1)
User: "Computer, go to aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash intel dot com" Computer: Connecting to http://www.intel.com/ User: "Computer, go to aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org slash" Computer: Connecting to http:///..org/
More likely:
User: "My car sucks..."
Computer: "Connecting to carpoint.msn.com..."
User: "...and I want to Hawaii...
Computer: "Connecting to expedia.msn.com..."
User: "...And I need a new TV..."
Computer: "Connecting to sidewalk.msn.com..."
User: "...and I forgot, what is the difference between a compiled and interpreted language..."
Computer: "Connecting to encarta.msn.com..."
Scary?
Links to Playstation 2 specs (Score:1)
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story
I had a much better version of the article, but here are the highpoints:
*250Mhz processors with bus running at 125Mhz
* with compiler optimizations will deliver 500 Dhrystone Mips
* three processing units which work in relative independence, linked by internal 128-bit buses to
deliver estimated performance of 5 Gflops or 30 million polygons/second with lighting and fog features enabled.
* effective bus bandwidth of 1.7 Gbytes/second and supports two Direct Rambus channels
* implements all the MIPS III and most MIPS IV instructions in addition to 107 new SIMD multimedia instructions such as parallel add/subtract, multiply/divide and min/max operations. Toshiba and Sony are not disclosing details on 17 of the new instructions
* Includes hardware support for Bezier curves in 3D (stuff used by Carmak for cool shapes) and DVD playback
* Many details of the system are still unclear-including a graphics chip designed by Sony that is said to contain as many as 20 million transistors
From memory, this is supposed to be able to support HDTV-resolutions and the API's/hardware will be optimized with this as the max number of pixels to deal with.
All said and done, this thing has the potential to outperform even a Voodoo3. Given the general quality/optimization of currently playstation API's and code, programmers will be able to make games with almost DVD-quality. I'm routinely stunned by the quality squeezed out of the measly 33Mhz R3k.
Since I don't own a DVD player, I'll pay $500 for one of these things. I want it. Bad.
Can't remember (can an Aussie confirm?) (Score:1)
the daily battle over specs and accessibility),
I remember that someone mentioned a new law in
Australia that all sites must be accessible to
anyone with a computer and modem, as part of a disability law. And as a result, several sites did have to shut down to compily with this law.
Hmm, Intel wanting another lawsuit?
(Remember, it's ok to offer something like video
or audio that you need certain requirements for,
as long as you have either duplicated the content
in a more accessible format (text), or if its
unnecessary to get to the content).
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Oh, Hello Big Brother! (Score:1)
Long as you're willing to put up with a lousy cumbersome interface, you could run pretty much any game. I know I wouldn't want to play Alpha Centauri without a keyboard, for example.
lintel (Score:1)
Great.. division of Processors and who get's in wh (Score:1)
Sounds like segretation to me.
What? You use Intel's crap? Get lost!
Heh? What's that? You a AMD user? Go somewhere else.
Huh? Cyrix? Stop taking up server bandwidth!
It would be so simple to turn the PIII id code into an ANTI-PIII screening process. The irony might just be a web message to PIII users:
Error: Insufficient Processing Power to access this web page.
Please upgrade upgrade to AMD K7 or better.
- Wing
- Reap the fires of the soul.
- Harvest the passion of life.
Ummmm (Score:1)
From what I've read, the performance increase is very modest. After checking some prices, it looks like you can get a PIII 450 for about $50 more than a PII 450, so many people may go ahead and buy a PIII instead. I just hate the fact that they spew all that crap about how it will make the net a much richer experience. The chip isn't going to do that. It takes bigtime bandwidth to make things more interesting. Unfortunately, they are allowed to make totally unsupported statements (stated as if they were fact) and then proceed to shout them from the mountaintop. People recognize this kind of thing when it comes from a shoe company or a even a car company sometimes, but when a tech company says things like this and then backs it up with meaningless techno-jargon, they believe it. Sad really.
Then answer me this: (Score:1)
What do you do if you want to include content that goes beyond what is defined by the HTML standard?
I'm actually posing a serious question, not flaming. I'm developing (make that: trying to develop) a website right now that has all sorts of fancy, on-the-fly stuff (actually an online game). Except I've run into the problem that a lot of the stuff I want to do simply isn't supported by HTML. I'm basically left with only a couple of options:
So what do you reccomend? If anyone has any ideas, I'd be more than glad to entertain them!
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Hmmm... (Score:1)
Personally, never liked the FF series that much; my speed is more Daggerfall, Ultima Online, Civilization, etc... where in the first, you have absolutely no obligation to follow the storyline, and the game can still be just as entertaining, in the second, there is no set storyline, or in the third, you can happily ignore everyone else (except for the occasional border defense), and do whatever the hell you wanna do with the game for a couple of centuries.
I've been playing the same character in Daggerfall for getting on 2 years now, and still haven't advanced much past about 1/4 the way through the "official" story. In fact, I pretty much ignore the built-in storyline except for when I come across it accidentally, and yet, I'm still having a lot of fun with the game.
Civilization (Civ 1... still the best), I still play 2 or 3 times through per week. It's freeform, randomized maps, with little to no enforced direction make for infinite playability, which I love!
Once those types of games come out for a console system, I may seriously consider getting one, otherwise I'll stick to playing games on my PC.
But again, that's just my $0.02...
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- Sean
Bad possibility: PIII cable modems (Score:1)
That could be one way the PIII could enhance (quote unquote) your internet experience.
$400 (Score:1)
So take your Cyrix for 400$, slap in 2 V3-3500 just to be generous, and the price goes to 900$ for a barely comparable system...
It will still be a bargain.
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Suggestion (Score:1)
And the thing with Java is that I would have to load all the graphics in one huge lump at the beginning, which would be many, many megabytes (as it currently stands). The way I'm currently doing it, you just load the graphics that you need on each page, which would currently come out to less than 50k per page, absolute max (actually, usually a lot less). The game itself spreads out across several hundred pages, not all of which are necessarily loaded. Only about 1/6th of the total pages are needed to be accessed to finish the game, the rest are just there for extra "diversions" and stuff. Basically, there are a lot of graphics which may not ever be seen by any given player. I tend to regard it as being a bit of a waste to make each player download all of that, regardless of whether or not they need it.
Of course, I will be releasing the source (prolly GPL or something), so anyone who wants to make a port (to Java, or whatever else) will be able to.
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Internet Multiplayer (Score:1)
Then no one would ever need to buy a PC to play games; PC for work, console for games!
Whatever =) Still, specialization and distribution of responsibility works in general, rather than having one device try to do everything(See Win98 as the OS that does everything, and nothing well...)
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"Best viewed with a Pentium III" (Score:1)
This information best processed with a brain.
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- Sean
At least its not Dreamcast(it uses WinCE) (Score:1)
The Sega DreamCast has a modem and uses widows ce of the cds so lets hope that playstation does not do the same thing, it seams like they are not.....
Also so i have read that playstation2 will not be able to play normal dvd's due to the fact that it would take money away from sony dvd sales......
One bad thing about sony it they are so damb propiatary with there stuff. Did you ever try to buy a battery for a sony phone. You pay twise at much just because there plug is a little different than the cheaper one.
just my 2 cents
also i do have a playstation and use it allot
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Ok (Score:1)
Actually, still not quite sure why I posted that in the first place... some innate desire to make my voice heard, whether I had anything useful to say or not.
Just like right now...
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Peace, brothers!
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- Sean
Pent III-only sites (Score:1)
Marketing salesbabble (Score:1)
Wow! I managed to not understand a word the Intel spokesman said. I guess that means I'm not allowed to buy a PIII or something, huh?
Who cares? (Score:1)
Console wars are fine for 12 year olds, but lets keep them out of slashdot. If you really like console gaming that much, but BOTH systems and stop whining about which one is better.
-W.W.
How exactly are they going to read the PSN? (Score:1)
Beware of Toshiba (Score:1)
What the F???? (Score:1)
We need someone in the public eye (someone to whom the media listens) to break through the public ignorance that makes these damn PIII commercials look good to the average shmoe.
We need the public to know that Wintel preys on the public's lack of technical knowledge.
An informed customer is a wannabe monopolists worst nightmare. All my chips thus far have been Intel's, but the next one won't be, unless this PIII abomination dies in pain.
Who cares? (Score:1)
That's what Legions [legions.com] is for!
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Hmmm... (Score:1)
I confess I don't know a hell ofr a lot about Java. I honestly didn't know that you could do that (stream it using HTTP).
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HDTV (Score:1)
The "Enhanced Internet Experience"(tm) with PIII (Score:1)
Who cares? (Score:1)
Console wars have as much place on
Um, well...
Take it either way, I guess, but I think they all belong or go as a group. As long as it's discussion and fairly civil, and not just flamebait or trash talking...
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Re: (Score:1)
Boycott PIII and PIII-serial code using sites! (Score:1)
Also, boycott Windows 95/98/NT3/NT4/NT5 because it is required to activate the serial code.
What about the dreamcast. (Score:1)
Ohohoh.
Oh how such a short period of time can change everything. It's going to piss all over the Dreamcast.
What about the dreamcast. (Score:1)
No it isn't. But the PSX2 is backwardly compatible with the PSX. How? It has a R3000A embedded in the IO chip.
Hoho.
PSX Has 16MB... (Score:1)
PIII vs Playstation 2 (Score:1)
-Chris
Look at the crossfire client (Score:1)
Boycott? Grow up. (Score:1)
Big brother tactics.