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 descripti on, 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. |
The memory thing might be true, but the "pulling engineers" thing is only related to Sony selling its portion of Cell research to the other partners -- the Cell is being worked on by Toshiba and IBM, and my source is umm... lets just say its a lot more reliable than yours is, even if the link weren't busted.
Also, 2011 is BS as far as rolling off the production line goes. A prototype might exist by then, but you wouldn't see said machine on store shelves until at least late 2012 or later.