Mr. Apollo
06-06-2006, 01:22 AM
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/06/05/0933239.shtml
"Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'"
If correct, this is bad news. Couple that with reports that that some Blu Ray drive manufacturers are pushing back their ship date to AFTER the PS3 because they are still confident that their units will sell more even though they are more expensive than a PS3 because apparantly the PS3's Blu Ray reader is inferior to what standalones will be using and its movie playback really bad. Plus there are reports that MS will drop the price of the 360 just before the PS3 launch and Sony might be hurting pretty bad.
"Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'"
If correct, this is bad news. Couple that with reports that that some Blu Ray drive manufacturers are pushing back their ship date to AFTER the PS3 because they are still confident that their units will sell more even though they are more expensive than a PS3 because apparantly the PS3's Blu Ray reader is inferior to what standalones will be using and its movie playback really bad. Plus there are reports that MS will drop the price of the 360 just before the PS3 launch and Sony might be hurting pretty bad.