PS3's Cell Processor

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Null

its entirly possible that parts of the Xbox2 and nintendo work faster with each other and thier processor to make a more powerful total system.

Ok ok fine that's what I was talking about I hate tech talk... That's what I mean, overall system stuff...

Originally Posted by Kyuzo

I'm not caught up in anything. I'm simply saying for the days ahead and definitely in the future, you cannot expect gaming consoles to stay in the $200-$300 price range at launch. The prices of things today are going up.... they charge $500 for a phone, so explain to me why they can't launch the new next gen consoles above $350?

Didn't 3DO or something launch at $500? And that was way back when? But systems that came out after still cost 200-300...

One phone being sold for $500 (while most are sold for considerably less than that) doesn't mean much of anything...

It's like looking at the crazy high-end computers designed specifically with gaming in mind that cost a few thousand dollars and saying that the prices of computers are going up...

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Didn't 3DO or something launch at $500? And that was way back when? But systems that came out after still cost 200-300...

One phone being sold for $500 (while most are sold for considerably less than that) doesn't mean much of anything...

It's like looking at the crazy high-end computers designed specifically with gaming in mind that cost a few thousand dollars and saying that the prices of computers are going up...

Then the question arises as to why people think the PSP is expensive considering the iPod is around the same price margin but the iPod only plays mp3's and m4p's. I'm just confused... as to what price is expensive nowadays... lol sorry for being persistent about this....

[Perfect Stu]

it's just that US$300 has been proven to be a good starting price point for a game console...market trends in the videogame industry havent changed much since 2000, at least not when it comes to pricing.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Kyuzo

Then the question arises as to why people think the PSP is expensive considering the iPod is around the same price margin but the iPod only plays mp3's and m4p's. I'm just confused... as to what price is expensive nowadays... lol sorry for being persistent about this....

Well the iPod can hold a lot more songs, and the price of a PSP doesn't count the price of a nice sized card to hold MP3s on...

A better question would be why do people think the PSP is too expensive compared to the DS (for what you're getting and technology-wise), to which my answer is well some people are stupid...

[Xantar]

On the next generation consoles costing more than $350:

Nope. No way, no how. Not happening. Yeah, there's a phone out now that costs $500. How many people buy it? Maybe it's a fast-seller as far as mobile phones go, but I don't think we'll be seeing it go over the 10 million units mark any time soon.

On the Cell architecture:

Anybody remember 70 million polygons?

What we have here is a bunch of numbers that all look very impressive, but like FuFu, I'm not going to draw any conclusions from them. Even with seemingly straightforward numbers such as the floating point operations the chip can perform, there's room for fudging.

Show me a game pushing these beautiful graphics and then we'll be talking. Not only will that show real world performance, it will also prove to us that programmers can actually work with the thing.

Now, I wonder what specs Microsoft plans to show off. I hope they don't attempt more tech demos with manly women and robots, though.