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Re: CELL in PS3 will push NO MORE THAN 148 GFLOPS, peak, for GAMES
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| timeOday 2006-08-08, 11:41 pm |
| Zackman wrote:
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> AirRaid <AirRaidJet@gmail.com> spake thusly:
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> Or, how about this: Let's just wait until the thing comes out and see what
> the games look and play like, instead of ranting about theoretical peak
> performances.
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> Who cares if the PS3 doesn't have enough computing power to predict gloabal
> weather patterns? True, some of the stuff that's been shown so far hasn't
> been all that impressive, but if games like Heavenly Sword and MotorStorm
> look as good as they do now, then the PS3 will be a perfectly solid (if
> expensive) next-gen game machine. It won't destroy the Xbox 360 like the
> trolls hope, but it will certainly hold its own and produce many, many
> excellent games.
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> You're starting to get as tiresome as Bligmerk with this stuff. Theoretical
> computing/bandwidth/rendering numbers have much less to do with how games
> look and play than developer skill does anyway.
If developer skill and game design are all that matter, why buy a PS3
when skilled developers can and do make great-playing games for the PS2
I already own? I don't think we can write off hardware capabilities
when, after all, the new model is just a hardware upgrade over the old one.
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