Frame Rate Issues and Newer Versions of the PS3

[sieanr]

ssj12 said:

Entroper said:

windbane said:

As for the person that says the XBox and Wii are not comparable...ugh...we have had this argument before but there are developers that have said they are about equal in power. Sometimes spec numbers matter.

I, too, thought we were done with this argument, but apparently some people still don't know the difference between a PowerPC and a Celeron.

@ssj: All the Cell chips have the 8th SPE "installed", as in the silicon is present, but all of the ones in PlayStation 3s have one SPE disabled to reduce the cost for Sony. Essentially, chips that are found to have a defect in only one SPE are sold to Sony at a reduced cost with that unit disabled. But you're right, a firmware patch to enable the 8th SPE is not going to happen. I also highly doubt that an overclock patch is going to happen. Any amount of increase in the clock speed that would make a noticeable difference in games would consume too much power for the current design of the console. They could probably safely bump the clock speed by 5, maybe even 10%, but why bother when it would hardly make a difference?

@1080p: I agree that if you're buying an HDTV, you should buy a 1080p HDTV. Why spend a bunch of money on a brand new HDTV and not watch it in full HD resolution? However, I think now is a bad time to buy a 1080p display, because they are still too expensive. I also know from polling that a surprisingly large number of customers aren't buying HDTVs for the resolution, they're buying because you can now get a 50 inch big screen without getting a crappy projection set from 5-10 years ago. They're buying because they're getting a big, flat, easy to carry TV with a great picture, they don't care about pixels. The 1080p-enabled consumer segment will grow in the next 4 years, but it won't grow enough to suddenly put Sony and MS on top.

 didnt the slight increase for the PSP show a good amount of difference. I figure any amount of increase would make devs happier. 

Please read the other posts. It's been said several times that there was no "overclocking" with teh PSP, just that the chip was designed to run at 333mhz and the recent firmware allowed this. For the record, it was a 50% increase in clock speed, no 3.2 to 3.4.