So it started slowing down if they pushed it past the 60% threshhold then?....isn't that what he said?

Over 80 % of percentages being thrown around are complete bullshit. Like this one.

hehe, I guess should of wrote "past 60%" except of "at 60%"...

Can I be the math police here for a moment? If it would use 60% of it's capablilities, you could potentially see a 66% increase in graphics/whatever, not 40%. Increasing from 60% to 100% is a 66% increase, or a 40 points increase.

Uhm. Sorry. I know you could say it that way too, it just itches in me when I see that 40% being thrown around so casually.

On topic: If it takes 5 years for them to develop the game and they can still only access 60% of the power of the machine, wouldn't that be bad?

lol.. i can't believe you guys can't comprehend this.. okay. Allow me to cut it out

"It's incredible to see huge levels and see the deferred rendering and note that on all the SPU’s, even on the heaviest load were coming up to about 60%," Haynes said. This means that even when they put the most of the pressure on them, they were only using about 60 percent of what they were capable of.

"They weren't coming close to maxing out. .They had about 40% of space before they started tripping or saw slow down on some of the processes." This means that when they were pushing those 60 percent, they had another 40 percent available before the spus started stuttering. That equals up to about 100 percent, which makes sence since 60 + 40 equals 100. Yes, it really does.

... Okay. So in other words, they still got + 40 percent of the processor before they need to worry about it getting maxed out :) So were just beyond half... I'd also say, as mikeB said in my own topic on which also contained the info, that further engine optimisations can even bring the number down. :P

4 years, but yeah it would, if it wasn't for the fact that all first party studioes share tools. So basically what any studio know, they all know :D

Oh we working with the metric system here... <-- sarcasm

So.. they have a truck with a 100 gallon gas tank,  but the truck starts to stutter and lose control when you fill it up past 60 gallons. So therefore the other 40 gallons of "air" are basically useless and the people who created the gas tank made it too complicated for car designers to figure out how to use all 100 gallons.

I must be missing something here, I know someone is going to point it out and I'm just going to go "hhaaaaa..."

im not bothered about % issues, we can talk all about it but its developers who know what it means.

as far as im concerned.........ps3 has provided me with the games that i wanted in 2008 and will do again in 2009 starting with killzone 2.

ive not seen any console game that looks as good as killzone 2, deffo day one purchase for me, if killzone looks this good how will god of war, heavy rain and gt5 looks like.

How about you use 100% and give me split screen? :)

So what they are saying that even the Sony inhouse devs can't get more than 60% out of the PS3? That sounds like a spin on the terrible bottleneck design of the PS3. Could that be!?