Anyone else miss Ken Kutaragi?
It's at the bottom of the article - in addition to Folding@home, researchers used a PS3 cluster for black hole science, and are still using 400 of them to this day.
I think it was less greed over profits, but rather pure survival. There was a period in the PS3's life where it was burning through money and developers were struggling - all while the rest of Sony was struggling.
Over the next few years, the PS3 built up momentum, and ended pretty strongly, but it was during that fateful period when Sony were considering to make another Cell, and I think the thought of putting down another $400m for a chip just seemed too risky. And, ...
It certainly meant exclusives were always a cut above the rest, that's for sure
Well like the article says, they considered a Cell 2, which would have been even more powerful. That and a bunch of ram? That sure would have been something...
Crazy to think there's still a cluster of PS3s still running too, that's some legs right there
Yeah, despite the success of the PS4, sadly I can't ever see anyone taking a risk like this again. For as long as home consoles exists, I think they'll rely on mostly off the shelf tech from this point on
Even though it makes sense for current consoles to pursue a more PC-like architecture, I always loved the ambition of the cell chip, and it's a shame stuff like that didn't continue
Said it in their version of the preview, and claimed that it came from Amazon - who said no such thing.
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GTA IV City Stories
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Wouldnt be so tough
Classic music
Clown cheats ruled
Bobbleheads!!!
Strange Sony is the best Sony