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walsufnir on 16 January 2015

It was also used in dec stations and SGI's indigo and iris...



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Lafiel on 16 January 2015
JEMC said:
Lafiel said:
JEMC said:

So NASA prefers tried and tested technology over raw power... they're the Nintendo of the space exploration! (j/k)

And, not to be one of those guys but this line "This chip is going to parts of space where man-made objects have never been before, ...". That guy has never heard about the Voyager probes?

neither of the Voyager probes visited Pluto, Voyager 1 swung by Jupiter and Saturn and then left the orbital plane to exit our solar system on the shortest way, Voyager 2 stayed in the plane until Neptune and then left it aswell

New Horizons will be the first probe to visit Kuiper belt objects

So the Voyagers left our solar system without going through the Kuiper belt?

yes, the Kuiper belt is located roughly on the orbital plane (with a lot more deviation than the planets show), which is why it's a "belt" and not a "cloud" like the oort cloud that is all around our solar system, but in the directions the voyager probes were sent to "exit the solar system" (exit the territory dominated by solar particles) that one is still far away

and actually the existance of the Kuiper belt was only proven 15 years after the Voyager missions started



darkknightkryta on 16 January 2015

I remember when I was taking my advanced computer organization class, our professor was saying that the CPU in the PSX is a very good processor. Obviously it's lacking power by today's standard (Even then), but it was pretty advanced at the time.



DonFerrari on 16 January 2015

Ps1 best seller console globally in solar system. Will vgc track this console?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

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Eddie_Raja on 16 January 2015

Wait, you guys don't think the Xenon in the 360 would have been just as reliable? :P



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Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

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platformmaster918 on 16 January 2015

Video games are becoming more a part of our generation's history every day. Makes me sad when older people and my own brother constantly crap on them as the great evil of our time. Ah well what are ya gonna do? Great job Sony!




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walsufnir on 16 January 2015
platformmaster918 said:
Video games are becoming more a part of our generation's history every day. Makes me sad when older people and my own brother constantly crap on them as the great evil of our time. Ah well what are ya gonna do? Great job Sony!


What does this have to do with Sony?



Metallox on 16 January 2015

PlayStation is officially universal :P



My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first. 

QUAKECore89 on 16 January 2015

Geeeenius!!!



binary solo on 16 January 2015

They hopefully also code very efficiently so there is optimal use of the power they do have. Because it's cheaper to simply get more power into machines than to put effort into efficient and clean code people don't bother.

My friend who did a computer science degree wrote all his own code for projects and assessments, whereas 90% of other students simply copied code from past students. Invariably the code he wrote for which he got As, came in at least 1/3 the length of the recycled code other students would hand in.



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