Sony Ps3 Console: It's Official: PlayStation 3 Launch Tops Other Console Launch

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

It's Official: PlayStation 3 Launch Tops Other Console Launch

PS3 Takes a Back Seat at Sony CES Press Conference
By Libe Goad
AOL GDXL Blog: At Sony's pre-CES press conference event, the PlayStation 3 took a back seat to a one-pound VAIO computer and new Internet video system.Peter Dille, Senior Vice President of Marketing for SCEA, announced that the PS3 has ...
AOL GDXL Blog - http://www.gamedailyxl.com

It's Official: PlayStation 3 Launch Tops Other Console Launch
By Kenjix(offtopic)
And now it is official: PlayStation 3 had a more successful launch than Xbox 360 did a year ago. Even though the PS3 launch had been plagued with delays and did not quite go off as planned, Sony still shipped a million consoles in North ...
Off-Topic Discussion - http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board?board.id=offtopic

Tired of the SIXAXIS? Why not swap it with a 360 controller?
By Nick Doerr
So, we already know someone hacked into the PS3 and made it so the Wiimote ... If you've got Linux on your PS3, you can most certainly use the wired version ... If you want to install the driver onto your PS3, the install file is here. ...
PS3 Fanboy - http://www.ps3fanboy.com

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PlayStation 3 Details

**Suggested retail price by region***
Region	Expected pricing at release
Region	Basic	Premium
Japan	JP¥49,980	Open price
United States	US$499	US$599
Canada	C$549	C$659
Mexico	MXN$7,999	MXN$9,499
Eurozone (excluding Finland)	€499	€599
United Kingdom	GB£375†	GB£425†
Switzerland	CHF 749	CHF 899
Norway	-	5000 NOK†
Denmark	4295 DKK†	5495 DKK†
Sweden	-	5999 SEK†
Finland	€550	€650
Australia	A$829	A$999
New Zealand	NZ$999†	NZ$1199.95†

The PS3's 3.2 GHz Cell processor, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM ("SIT"), is an implementation to dynamically assign physical processor cores to do different types of work independantly. It has a PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible 3.2 GHz Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), a seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to OS security, and an eighth disabled to improve production yields. The PPE, SPE's and other elements ("units") are connected via an Element Interconnect Bus which serves to connect all of the units in a ring-style bus. The PPE has a 512KB level 2 cache and one VMX vector unit. Each of the SPEs is a RISC processor with 128 128-bit SIMD GPRs and superscalar functions. Each SPE contains 256KB of non-cached memory (local storage, "LS") that is shared by program code and work data. SPEs may access more data in the main memory using DMA. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2.18 TFLOPS [38]. PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 218 GFLOPS single precision float and is reported at around 26 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 will ship with 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed.