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>Thanks For Nothing, Ken
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>Feb 6 2006 1:29PM
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>The premise seemed so tantalizing; Ken Kutaragi, the 'Father of the
>PlayStation' and President and CEO of Sony's Computer Entertainment
>division, was giving an ISSCC keynote on 'The Future of Computing for
>Real-Time Entertainment'. Coming hot on the heels of the PlayStation
>3's baffling no-show at CES, and just a few months ahead of E3 where I
>expect production schedules for the PS3 will be announced, I figured
>that Ken would give us something we didn't already know about the
>console....and maybe show us some real-life running hardware, to boot
>(pun intended). So I rolled out of bed at 4AM to catch a 5:30AM
>Amtrak-plus-BART combo to San Francisco....
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>....and was disappointed once again. I'll summarize Ken's
>thinly-disguised Sony commercial in four succinct bullets:
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> * The PlayStation CPU was really big and expensive when we first
>went into production, but thanks to Moore's Law and around a decade's
>worth of lithography shrinks, we made it really small and cheap.
> * The PlayStation 2 two-chip set was really big and expensive when
>we first went into production, but thanks to Moore's Law and around a
>five year's worth of lithography shrinks so far, we've made them so
>small and cheap that we were able to combine them onto a single chip
>(Brian's comment: at the cost of imperfect backwards-compatibility).
> * The PlayStation Portable CPU is really big and expensive in its
>first incarnation, but (nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean, know
>what I mean?) I bet you can guess what we plan to do thanks to Moore's
>Law and a few years' worth of lithography shrinks.
> * I wasn't allowed to show you a Cell die shot, but here's some
>simulated screenshots of the incredible things it's going to
>do.....someday....really....trust me....
>
>First there was Stringer's disastrous keynote at CES. Now this. Right
>on top of the scathing revelations about platform and development tools
>immaturity published by a promptly-fired Sony employee in the game
>development team. Granted, I'm no marketing wizard (although I used to
>be, at least in my own mind), I'm just a simple senior technical
>editor. Maybe I'm missing the brilliance behind Sony's perpetual
>smoke-and-mirrors stalling. But I've lost any excitement I might have
>previously had about Sony's next-generation console (and Blu-ray Trojan
>Horse). The PS3 feels like the latest in Sony's repeated sequence of
>promise-much, deliver-little products. And, given what a high
>percentage of corporate revenue and profit the PlayStation franchise
>represents, if I'm right then I'm glad I'm not a Sony investor. Or a
>customer. Know what I mean, know what I mean?
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>http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/540002654.html
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> In article <1139267647.928602.223480@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> Radeon350@yahoo.com says...
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> I'm starting to think this thing will be a fall release in Japan and a
> March
> 2007 release here. Maybe a fall worldwide release? Lets hope so.
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>"MS#1Fanboy-JoJo" <jojo@cox.net> wrote in message
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>Definitely not a 2007 release, that i hope Sony wouldnt be stupid enought to
>do. By then (missing another holiday season) MS would have restocked shelves
>completely, and PS3 would be DOA in 2007.
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>If they dont get it out to Japan in spring 2006, then i'll buy into that
>worldwide release in the fall.
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>or maybe they'll follow in MS footsteps and release worldwide in phases, and
>end up with no stock on the shelves until 2007. who knows.
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>A world wide release of the PS3. I have no Idea how sony would cope with
>that. I mean the demand for the 360 was high but I'm sure the demand for
>the PS3 would be even higher. (Not that Im a fan of Sony). In the UK it is
>still quite difficult to get hold of the 360, and it was release nearly
>four months ago.

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> Good point Tim. I was sitting at work trying to remember when it was
> release and for some reason I found October kept coming into my head. Must
> be because I'm lookin forward to this years ocktober fest UMMM Beer

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> Thanks For Being Understanding Tim, lol.
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> I'm starting to think this thing will be a fall release in Japan and a March
> 2007 release here. Maybe a fall worldwide release? Lets hope so.

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>MS#1Fanboy-JoJo wrote:
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>After the 360 shortages I doubt anyone is going to have the balls to
>attempt a global release for a long, long time.

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>MS#1Fanboy-JoJo wrote:
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>After the 360 shortages I doubt anyone is going to have the balls to
>attempt a global release for a long, long time.
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>- Jordan
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