Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Report: PS3 to crush competition by 2010 (sorta)


A new report by Screen Digest (abridged by Gamasutra) suggest that the PS3 will outsell both the 360 and Wii respectively by 2010, though "PS2-style dominance will not be repeated." The forecast predicts the PS3 will take the Japanese and Euro markets, while the 360 will slightly edge out Sony here in the States. The Wii? That'll be "a distant third" according to the conservative analysis. Still, the report acknowledges Nintendo's potential in closing the upset: "Nintendo's strategy with the Wii is, at the moment, the great unknown... if Nintendo can make this work... the potential is absolutely huge." Read on for the full skinny.

@ 11:15 PM

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Suggested retail price by region*
Region Expected pricing at release
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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
(excluding Finland)		 €499 €599
United Kingdom United Kingdom GB£375† GB£425†
Switzerland Switzerland
 CHF 749 CHF 899
Norway Norway
-
 5000 NOK†
Denmark Denmark 4295 DKK† 5495 DKK†
Sweden Sweden
-
 5999 SEK†
Finland Finland €550 €650
Australia Australia A$829 A$999
New Zealand 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.