Saturday, March 24, 2007

PS3 attach rates soar!

PS3 bundleAfter a bit of a lackluster debut, PS3 owners are starting to buy games. The latest sales figures show that the average PS3 owner owns an average of 3.4 games. That's up from an average of 2.7 games last month and puts the PS3 in the same territory as the less expensive Wii.

The NDP confirmed the obvious: "Some detractors may consider the next generation cycle off to a poor start, we think that improving tie ratios indicate strong demand for the relatively light software lineup on the next gen consoles, and we believe that once a greater variety of compelling software is released later this year, demand for the new hardware will increase."

Since the readers of PS3 Fanboy are anything but the "average gamer," we want to know how many PS3 games you own (and, specifically, which ones).

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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
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 5000 NOK†
Denmark Denmark 4295 DKK† 5495 DKK†
Sweden Sweden
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 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.