Wednesday, January 31, 2007

People are down on PS3 for no reason

That's the view of Epic Games VP Mark Rein who believes people should be praising Sony for meeting demand for the PS3.

Epic Games VP Mark Rein believes that people have become overly negative about all things, and this has resulted in an unwarranted backlash towards the PlayStation 3.

"People think it's bad if they can't ship enough, and then they think it's bad if they can ship enough. It's like, which is it?" Rein told Game Informer. "Either they can't fulfil your order or they can, and they're both good. Being able to fulfil your order is good news, right? Go out and buy your PS3 now. You can get one. That's miraculous."

Rein also has no concerns over the success of the PlayStation 3.

"So as long as people are willing to pay the price for the machine - and I'm sure lots of people are - I think they're hopefully in a good situation," said Rein.

He also believes people are now generally much more down, always looking on the negative side of things.

"I've really noticed this over the last couple of years. It's really turned a corner from positivity to negativity, and it's overwhelming sometimes. It makes you want to kill yourself. It's just crazy," expressed Rein. "I don't get it. I don't understand why people want to be so negative about everything. Like I said, I think there's some really good news there and it's a great machine, and people just want to beat them up. Same with Xbox. It doesn't matter which one it is."

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Japan Japan JP¥49,980 Open price
United States United States US$499 US$599
Canada Canada C$549 C$659
Mexico Mexico MXN$7,999 MXN$9,499
European Union Eurozone
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499 €599
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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.