I told all of you PS3 fanboyz that this was gonna happen!! Sony lies to you all and you still stick by their side(duh, dumb!) You all are gonna pay $600 for a overhyped console to play BLU-RAY movies that are gonna lose to HD-DVD anyways!!! Also, count on the PS3 being delayed again!! I told you all that the team that made the cell was fired because of this same report 5 months ago! The cell overheats at 3.2 ghz so they tried 2.4 ghz and guess what happened? It still overheated! Also, the rsx isn`t as powerful as the xbox 360`s gpu either!! I told you!! Sony has a proven track record of over-stating the specs of their consoles and then underdelivering!! That`s why ASSASSIN`S CREED was running on a XBOX 360 at E3 06 under a sheet! I STAND BY MY STATEMENTS THAT THE PS3 WON`T LAUNCH IN NOVEMBER, IT WON`T HAVE ANY GOOD GAMES AT LAUNCH EXCEPT FOR MAYBE 1 OR 2, AND IT WON`T LAUNCH TIL SPRING 07! WATCH AND SEE PS3 FOOLS HAHAHAHAHA!

I'm no tech, and I don't know squat about technical specs, but I'm wondering why this is being labelled a rumour when he's showing slideshow pics from a Sony developer conference?

Basically they are going through a number of problems right now the only thing a bit off in the article is the fact that they label the cell "broken" No way is it broken, but is it currently having alot of problems? Yes... it most definetly is. Again this isn't bs folks its all true and its extremely bad news for the ps3.

comment is for 6.1 sorry

People still read the article and I have to say any bad news against the PS3 is going to be very damaging. No matter where the news came from.

slashdot seems to have some intelligent discussion on this. Some programmers said from what they've seen of this "story" is the design is perfectly normal for 3D hardware. Guess we won't know until someone in the know can give us more info.

first it was stupid rumours like ps3 hardware this and that and yet the baby was playing live games at E3
Wanna see the cell in that conference ?get this

http://rapidshare.de/files/...

I keep wondering if the PS3 will be delayed in November... when I see rumors like this it really gets me worried... if sony get delayed, poor performance or bad chips they will be over as a company.

and, hey, sony execs. TIME FOR SOME DAMAGE CONTROL! god damn, you guys don't know how bad things are looking for you in the gaming community!

how about an offical sony response to this article??

So, let me humor all the XBOX fanboys in here. You, and the Inquirer, one of the most proven shat websites in the world want us to believe the RSX and Cell are nothing but broken pieces of hardware so inferior to the 360 that Sony is going to fall from grace and never come back. You want us to believe that Sony is paying every developer to say that the PS3 is working great, you want us to believe that everything they've shown is really on XBOX 360 units, you want us to believe the PS3 will be pushed back again...

Wow. Imagine if this were the flipside and the PS3 launched first and you were hearing all these obstentatious rumors about your, more precious than titanium, XBOX 360. Look at it like that please.

The XBOX 360 had bugs, the PS3 will have bugs, the PS2 and XBOX had bugs and probably every other consoles before and after will have bugs. It's going to happen, it had happened, it will happen again. Get over it. The Inquirer has, through out the last few months, pretty much said 100% garbage on the PS3 and utterly nuthugged the XBOX 360. So, please tell me why I should take this or any other article from this website with anything more than a grain of salt?

This article isn't the only report of the cell underperforming. Do a search. While maybe the facts in this particle article may be presented in the most negative light for Sony, the point still remains. Sony is have problems with the cell. The cell has been in development for 5 years, yet it is still having significant problems with only 5 months left until PS3 launch.

Instead of being so 'diehard' for Sony, if people think for a second, this explains why we haven't seen hardly anything playable and what has been shown as been below what can be seen on a 360. This also explains why Ubisoft used a 360 or maybe a PC to show Assassins Creed. Developers are getting nervous as they rightly should be (see the article on Sega and THQ). They are in it to make money, too, and if Sony can't get the hardware out, the developers can't sell games for it.

The reports from multiple sources of cell underperforming, the nervousness of the developers, and the lack of quality games shown far enough along in the development cycle all point to Sony being in trouble. This should be plainly obvious for everyone to see.

The best case for Sony at this point will be to solve the problems at the last minute and hope it can compete with the 360. This still means that many games will be delayed and there will be incredible shortages. It also could mean the launch will be buggier than the PS2's launch. This is best case. Imagine the worst.

That's big time when big wigs are saying that. Sony was never going to launch this spring, it was a lie to steal the thunder from MS. lol

All sony cares about is its blue-ray. Playing games on the ps3 is secondary.

Why do you think the PR chick from sony left this week. She could'nt handle all the garbage sony been throwing at Her!

What happens when a ps3 fails? Does Sony replace it for free like MS or do PS3 fanboys have to pay?

BetaRay will fail also, just like Sony's other mediaformats:

- Minidisc
- UMD in the PSP

They try to push their hardware with expensive licenses, but they fail time and time again. Paying are the consumers. Do you want more expensive products that are harder to make a backup for yourself? Strange, I would go for the cheaper option with more options for a backup. Like HD-DVD does. As I think home PC users will buy a burner which is the cheapest with about the same possibilities.

HD-DVD is about half the price of a Betaray, so we all know what is the outcome.

Then I realized if you believe this article and all the BS being spouted in this thread by XBOX 360 fans who want nothing less then Sony to crash and burn then you deserve to believe it.

I don't want to believe it either, but the truth is, the Cell wasn't originally made for video games. IT'S NOT A VIDEO GAME PROCESSOR!!! It won't do all the amazing thing we've been told. It will work, but not at well as promised.

yeah........speculation....... nothing more....<_<

to # 24 atleast somebody knows that the cell WAS NOT,I repeat WAS NOT made for videogames, it was made to handle alot of other consumer electronics an sony thought it would be good to include the cell into the ps3.they were going to let it run the graphics also but it didnt work out, so they got with NVidia to provide graphics chip for the ps3.im not saying that the ps3 wont be great, but it just dont justify the price.sony is a billion dollar company going up aginst another billion dollar company.MS aint little'ol sega or nintendo. bill gates is in this for the control, he wants to be number 1, nothing else, its not about money because he has plenty of that, its all about being in first!!if he makes money in the process cool,but trust me his motavation is domination!!

After reading this article, I can understand now
why it was neccessary for the PS3 to include a
hardrive. The XBOX360 does not require a hardrive to
play any games. The XBOX360 hardrive is used for
downloading content. However, here is my theory of
the PS3. I thought it was also used for content, but
now, it makes sense to use the hardrive for additional
memory reads.

Since the article states that Cell can only read
16MB per second(which is seriously whack). It needs
another source to read the data. Why not use the
hardrive??? There has been reports stating the PS3
hardrive would be used as dynamic memory for games. I
didn't quite undestand why since the blu-ray is so
large, they won't have to worry about memory usage.
Now I understand why.

If Cell processor needs the hardrive to store the
game data(this is similar to temp folder in Windows,
or swap in Linux and Unix OS).

Boy, I can't keep up with this PS3 crap!!! There
is only one thing why Sony does this... My guess is
Sony couldn't afford to put in additional memory for
the PS3 because it would up the cost of the PS3...

If u look at that slide, it says "No,....this isn't a typo". Now tell me who in Satan's name would type that in a Sony spec sheet which is being shown to all the developers!!! Wouldn't they have some say in the matter. If they felt that it is as slow as it is being projected in the slide, wouldn't they be put off!! in the sense that they have to develop the game for a highly complex console and then with all the complexity surrounding the cell processor, they have to live the a read speed of 16 MB/s for cell. Gimme a break!!! How could u ppl believe that the slide is authentic! just because it has the PS logo and other things on it, doesn't make it authentic. This guy obviuosly edited the slide photo and put it on the website to attract some attention. Even if this was true, wouldn't Sony come out and cover this up. Since all the people in this forum say that PHONY is a bunch of BS and has a super product called the DELAYSTATION 3, wouldn't they, according to u ppl, would cover the truth up with their lies!! At least when u post please think!!!

after all such articles tarnish their already tarnished image!!!( they dont want to get tarnished any further...). If there is any element of truth( which i sincerely doubt) to the slide, they would always say " Sony doesn't comment on rumors!!" kind of stuff, which would throw light on the fact that the article is indeed true. Since there has been no response from their side, it means:
1. they know it is false and will continue their work without even bothering over it
2.even if it is proved to be true, they would rather dig their heads into solving out the issue than sticking it out and trying to tell the public that such rumors are false( which 98% are always false!!)

your just vex cuz we own ur @ss on the market line..with ps2 still kicking the hella outta u

I could care less about the Japs. All they do is steal from the U.S. and make a cheaper/crappier product.

First and foremost almost every "rumour" the inquirer has post has come out false. And even if this is true It has allways been stated that the Cell is designed to work drasticly different from other PC structures. Yes by the looks of it Sony does not have their $#!t together. My concern is that the game industry overall is more concerned about the "HYPE" of video games as opposed to actually putting out great games.As a 360 owner and a PS3 fan Im just disapointed overall.

# 32.1 the last part of your post sounds like bull#@$#, it makes you shy away from the 360 yeah right!! either you dont have an 360 or you ARE a ps3 fanboy.because I dont care what a person says, it wont make me not like my 360. the system is great an you know it.people are upset because sony aint stating facts. there hyping up this godly machine(sony) like they always do, then when people state otherwise(reporters,developers )people get all bent out of shape.the ONLY reason why sony is trying desperatly to release the ps3 this year is because they CANT AFFORD!!! to give xbox360 another X-mas, an thats a fact. it would totally crush there income for the system if they did!!

This is so fustrating because i want xbox for halo, then i want ps3 for mgs4 then im down $12oo what the heck. also the specs dont matter its all about the games

im not upset,i just stated what I felt was B.S thats all. then you say you expected more, thats the difference between us,I didnt expect this much,which I fell I got my moneys worth!! I didnt get my hopes to the sky for a let down like you did.this is one reason I like reading all this bad stuff about the ps3, because when it comes out it will be a good system like the 360, an I wont be expecting (toy story graphics)like they promised with the ps2, but just a good system!!

all the xbots are such idiotic cunts, hd dvd lost and the cell spanks the xenon processor, killzone 2 gt5, heavy rain destroy any 360 exclusive game.