Solid_Snake4RD said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
A rough calculation is easy: releasing next year they could sell a console twice as powerful as the current one for $300 with around the same margin they have now. But if they want to offer 1440p (and that not be just a 1080p upscaled), they need a console twice as powerful just for this, then they need to furtherly double it if they want to offer 3D up to max res. So they need to release consoles 4 times as powerful as the current ones,
1) PS3 can do full 1080p 3D
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About graphics, 1GB RAM is currently already common also on cheap cards, so no need to go below it.
2) the graphic RAM doesn't need to be there,they can do a unified RAM
and SONY could even remove the GRaphic and do 2 CELL as it does a pretty good job
also what is the speed of the upcoming SSD's,can that be used for RAM?
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1) With the same polygon count as 2D? (meaning having to calculate twice as much polygons, not just pixels).
PS3 can do 2160p 2D so they can do 1080p 3D
2) Cheaper but slower, and not necessary now that RAM is so cheap.
WHICH line was this for (*)
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(*) Answer #2 was for the bolded part.
About part #1 I didn't know, good, this means that if absolutely needed Sony could launch an early PS4 roughly 2 times as powerful as PS3 without losing money, very good.
About doing graphics with a second Cell, I guess it can be done, but a specialized GPU, good only for its work, could do the same work for less money. Maybe dropping NVidia and chosing ATI instead. Cell SPEs will help graphics and physics more and more with time anyway, as dev tools evolve, and programmers' experience increase.
About SSD, they can provide a swap file enormously faster than electromechanical magnetic drives, but they are too many steps behind dynamic RAM, particularly for writing. Life of the drive is another issue, even if less than in the past, writes still shorten flash memories' life, using them for SSD writes can be managed quite well to reduce the problem, using them instead of RAM the problem would be very serious, as writes to RAM are in numbers several orders of magnitude larger than writes to disk.
