Those of you familiar with past coverage of the Sony-IBM collaboration on Cell processors should be familiar with Jon Stokes' take on the matter: the Cell is a high-performance chip that happens to be okay at running games.
This makes it a good fit for clusters, either via independent hardware or the independent SPEs in a Cell. Given the choice, the winning project did both: it networked a cluster of three PS3s and got the primitive recognition and matching implemented in a way that it can run independently in an SPE. The net result was a PlayStation cluster that could recognize specific objects in a second. By way of comparison, a single Core 2 Duo took three minutes to perform the task.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
ps3 did well ( except in EA products becuz they are in MASS production so there is no quality)
and this article proves (and many other ones) that PS3 made for 10 years of improvment .
cant wait to see 2008 games and compare it to current games..
That's why some articles said PS3 games only use 20%-30% of its power. I think it's true because Sony always has the reputation to be the hardest platform to program. With how current games look now I couldn't imagine how games will be like by the end of next year or two.
I want one. (either a single or a cluster will do.) :p
I do think the cell excels at this, but... the numbers here don't tell us much in terms of benchmarks/ps3 using 20-30% of its power.
One Core 2 Duo (no ghz mentioned) took 3 minutes, 3 ps3s with multiple cores (not just two) did it in a second. Impressive. But sorry, that says very little other than that 3 of them are much, much faster than the poor, little computer by itself. We aren't told the operating system used on the core duo, the memory, etc.
It's a cool use, but it means nothing in terms of power.
for gaming? Like if I link up two of these suckers up is it going to run better,,, probly not huh. Maybe load times will be faster but thats about it. Maybe no framerate slowdown that could be sweet. But probably not worth buying a second console.
Sure the Cell is a cool piece of technology. Blu Ray, too, for that matter... Some games and a lower selling price. Stay on topic, Sony...