Posted by Doug Jacobs on 10/18/07 22:21

ChairmanOfTheBored <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote:
> >PS3 has no reason left (certainly not games) to sell itself as anything
> >*but* an odd-looking Blu-ray player that's been getting its share of the
> >good tech reviews--

> Bullshit. It is far more than that.

> http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/lectures/6.189-lecture2-cell.pdf

Irrelevent. This isn't a PC - it's a game console. An appliance. You
don't choose which stove to buy because of which embedded processor it
uses, do you?

> >Unless, like me, you happen to be somebody in the "gamer-curious"
> >non-gamer camp who never owned a PS2 in his life, in which case...ermmm,
> >it's worth considering.

> Oh, and try:

> http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/index.shtml

Oh yes! That's exactly what the common customer wants! A programming
manual for a highly specialized, over-hyped platform that's getting its
collective cores handed to it by another console that involves waggling
the controller around like an excited 6 year old.

> Then there's:

> http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/students/contests/cell/index.html


> PS3s are far more than you give them credit for. I have yet to buy a
> game for mine. At $60 a pop, the idiots can keep 'em.

> Too bad you won't be able to DL and load and look at those demos of the
> Cell CPU's capabilities done by MIT students.

Um. Why would I want to? Why would I want to spend $600 on such a niche
piece of hardware just to look at low-level programming demos?

You fail to understand that the PS3 is NOT being marketed as a programming
platform for eager computer science students.

It's being marketed as a game console and movie player. And at least as a
game console, it has been found to be lacking. No compelling exclusives,
more expensive than its competitors, no better graphics than its nearest
competitor - in short, almost NOTHING to justify its high price.

I'm glad you think it's a neat programming platform. You're probably part
of .1% of the entire market who even KNOWS that the PS3 can be used in
this manner.

> Awesome stuff coming down the pipe.

> Try to stay somewhere within a few miles of the curve. :-]

Yeah, yeah, that's what all the Sony fanbois have been saying "just you
wait...you'll see..." But in the meantime, people are looking around at
what's available NOW, and the PS3 just can't compete. Sure, there's a lot
planned for the PS3 over the next 6 months - but there's a lot planned for
the other guys too.

--
It's not broken. It's...advanced.

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