What's Sony going to do about Crysis?

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goforgold said:

disolitude said:

Garnett said:

Maybe, Sony was over exagerating about the graphic potential of the PS3?!?!!?!? Nevermind they would NEVER Do that...

 

Seriously, Everyone has been saying PS3 wont have super duper 1000x better graphics than 360, i doubt it will even have the same graphics as the 360, because the weaker GPU. 

 

My opinion.

Everyone knows thats the case. But Sony had to do the "we have premium graphix" pr cause of the cost of the console.

The fact that PS3 came out a year later and is on par with the 360 tech wise is quite a bad planning decision by Sony. A year is an eternity in R&D time...3DO to PS1, Dreamcast to PS2, PS2 to Xbox 1.

I believe the cost of the Cell processor screwed them. The initial yields on that processor were like 25% successful and I don't think they got much better for a few years. They couldn't afford to use a better GPU and add more ram (as well as other promised features which were missing or cut like dual HDMI outputs and backwards compatibility).

If sony were to use a less powerful, over the counter available CPU and a 8800GTX GPU (most powerful GPU at PS3s release), the console graphics race would have been a slaughter.

 

 

but the difference between the ps3 and all those other consoles was the ps3 specs weren't built to those specification, all the bottle necks with the architecture was a result of cut backs, the original specs for the ps3 didn't even have a gpu. Sony's eyes were bigger than their stomach, the end result of the ps3 was WAY to much for Sony to produce and distribute effectively, I mean we all know how much they lost on the current ps3 design, if they had stuck with the original the current losses would look like profit.

judging by what they've done with the NGP they look to be changing that mentality. who knows what the future holds for Playstation, but one thing we know for sure, it will be powerful as hell

I agree...I am not here to slander Sony for what they did with the PS3.

I am sure there is a PS3 out there with 2 HDMI out ports, better GPU, full 8 SPE based cell processor, more ram and a faster bluray drive. A prototype which sony made, and then realized that there is no way they can get the cost of this device under 2000 dollars. Hence why the cutting began...I bet It wasn't easy for them to do this. Cut the bluray for DVD and lose the HD format war. Cut the cell for an off the shelf chip and lose billions in R&D. They probably did the best they could.

I do think it shows a lack of strategy and leadership however as they are a hardware company. They should have had the cost to performance balance in their back pocket. Microsoft is always going to beat them when it comes to software development tools with the SDKs, DirectX, and PC architecture...so for Sony to get the hardware right is a must.