Sunday, May 30, 2004
EA Canada is working on a Need For Speed title for the PS3, Xbox Next, Nintendo Revolution, and teases that it will revolutionize driving games.
From Computers and Video Games, "Having added his own voice to a growing body of opinion that next-gen will no longer place such emphasis on creating visual splendour - since all next-gen games should easily achieve a high level of quality, Osieja gave insight into how his team is using development kits to change to face of the racing genre:
'We're seeing with the specs of the new hardware we can do some pretty amazing stuff; for us it's figuring out how to harness the laws of nature in basically a 2D gaming environment. Even though it's a full 3D environment on screen you're still limited by a TV screen, so how do you harness those things that you experience naturally in the world and translate them to a videogame experience?'
'Needless to say it's really, really exciting and I don't know if anyone else is going to do it, but I think EA, well, we're putting a lot of effort into it. I think it's going to be pretty cool.' Hell, yeah."
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
In commenting on Sony's Cell processor, chairman Nonuyuki Idei indicates that its first use for consumers will be the PS3.
From GamesRadar, "After Sony's somewhat obscure comments at their E3 conference regarding their forthcoming Cell processor - which will be used to power PlayStation 3 - Sony chairman Nonuyuki Idei has revealed more of their plans for the chip. And he's confirmed that their first consumer application for it is going to be PS3, which now looks set to appear in March 2006."
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Monday, May 24, 2004
Sony will utilize the PlayStation3's Cell processor will power a networked television that will have PC-like functions some time in 2006.
From Reuters, "In an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Sony Chief Executive Nobuyuki Idei said it would use Cell to power its next-generation game console as well as a network television that will offer functions similar to a personal computer."
"Sony has said Cell -- due to start test production in early 2005 -- will power the next-generation PlayStation game console, which will probably double as a home server, as well as other digital home electronics."
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Friday, May 21, 2004
Sony has begun a test production of its Cell processor at its Nagasaki semiconductor fabrication plant. The Cell processor is the core of the PlayStation3 and high end graphic workstations to be co-developed with IBM.
From EETimes, "Sony and its game subsidiary has thus far invested 115 billion (about $1 billion) in the 300-mm fab to establish a 65-nm process. The fab will serve as Sony's base for manufacturing Cell processors and other devices fabricated with the 65-nm process. SCEI's Nagasaki Fabs 1 and 2 served as the production base for core chips for PlayStation 2. But with production processes scaling down, the lines now have surplus capacity and are fabricating other devices such as CMOS sensors."
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
With all the attention focused on Sony's PSP at E3, the graphics technology behind the PlayStation3 was largely ignored.
From Fortune, "Overshadowed by the electronics giant's unveiling of its PlayStation Portable was the announcement of a new multimedia processor, code-named Cell, that could break the boundaries between movies and games."
"Assuming that Sony can persuade software developers to write code for the new chip, and assuming that Sony and IBM aren't playing a fantasy game with the chip's purported specifications, the Cell workstation promises to give affordable, supercomputer-level tools to digital content developers in the movie and video game entertainment industries. The Cell chip is also expected to be the main engine of the PlayStation 3 game console, expected to replace the PS2 in late 2005 or 2006."
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