JiaJia on 30 September 2008
| mrstickball said: Unsure if anyone heard the latest news: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2.../kaigai469.htm Goto Hiroshige has received PSX4 spec info from Japanese developer sources who received preliminary spec from SCEI for developer feedback(whom Goto refuses to name due to NDA). - SCEI has sent rough PSX4 spec to 3rd party developers for feed back. Based on the description, PSX4 is a Wii-tized PSX3, no more than 2X as powerful. - SCEI wants to beat Xbox 3 to launch. 2011 is the deadline, or sooner. - SCEI pulled all its engineers from IBM Texas, and there is no new CELL architecture being developed. PSX4 will use same CELL architecture with improvements. - SCEI will dump XDR and use standard JEDEC memory type(GDDR3/DDR3) for main memory. |
Well none of these actually look feasible. They are just illogical. Besides going back to DDR RAM for cost purposes, you telling me that SONY one of the leading innovators in technology isn't developing and improving the CELL architecture? And they want to launch by 2011 really just kills the credibility. And only two times more powerful than PS3? This just isn't within the business statement and objectives of SONY.
I for one am confident this is all false speculation comparable to the speculation that caused the crash of the financial sector accredited to the sub-prime crisis.
