The Inquirer: PS3 Slow and Broken?

[Allnatural]

Apparently so...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32171

ouch. Truth or FUD?

[whoknows]

Well, The Inquirer is one of the most reliable sources out there....

[Skelah]

lol

[TimPV3]

Well, The Inquirer is one of the most reliable sources out there....QFT

[Vinny]

Well, The Inquirer is one of the most reliable sources out there....

It's one of the best sources for total shit.:)

[gofishn]

So Bigfoot's pregnant again, eh?

[whoknows]

So Bigfoot's pregnant again, eh?
The PS3 is Bigfoots baby :shock:

[trq]

Well, The Inquirer is one of the most reliable sources out there....

Wrong "Inquirer" -- you're thinking of The National Inquirer, tabloid par excellence. This site, I've never heard of.

[Vinny]

Wrong "Inquirer" -- you're thinking of The National Inquirer, tabloid par excellence. This site, I've never heard of.

He was being sarcastic.;)

[ryanbph]

I don't know the site, but the google info on it is:

European site for computer hardware news. Covers processors, graphics cards and major hardware providers


Regardless on how reliable the source is, I wouldn't be suprised if it was bogus, or if it was correct.

[dafoomie]

I don't know about the specifics, but there are serious problems at all levels. Fixable, but serious. With more time, they'd be just fine. With a November launch... I don't know.

They took a big gamble with Cell. We'll see how it plays out. One thing is for sure, they're not in a good position to handle anymore unexpected problems, they're already up against it for November as it is.

SCEA's PR chief just resigned, for reasons unknown. Might not have anything to do with this, but we'll see.

[TimPV3]

Wrong "Inquirer" -- you're thinking of The National Inquirer, tabloid par excellence. This site, I've never heard of.This site hasn't been very accurate PS3 news-wise either.

[R1V3R5]

They are pretty damn reliable. Also, great for leaking pc stuff (video cards, new cpu sockets, etc.) months in advance. Great site for any person with their head in the current pc hardware scene. And, sometimes, a little video game hardware will sneak on to the site.

[Photomotoz]

They are pretty damn reliable. Also, great for leaking pc stuff (video cards, new cpu sockets, etc.) months in advance. Great site for any person with their head in the current pc hardware scene. And, sometimes, a little video game hardware will sneak on to the site.
QFT, although the site has an interesting writing style I have never seen them wrong about anything. I also love how they leak absolutely everything irregardless how much a company protests.

Also, I was just gonna post this, you beat me to it by an hour.

I do belive the article is accurate, I just hope they fix it before launch. That 16mb/s read speed is OMGWTF, I mean holy crap is that ever slow.

[mykevermin]

Someone hunt down epobirs, b/c I don't understand what the fuck the article is trying to say. Not very clearly, anyway.

[mercilessming]

I think the article may be true, I would say we as consumers have heard to much about cell tech and blue ray, hence the selling points and thus the rest of the tech was to a degree overlooked, causeing the final product to be simply par or maybe slightly better than teh MS offering, Similar to the way it was before when xbox/gamecube came out later and was slightly better but because of "fanboyism", "SOME" wouldn't look to anything other than Sony. I am not a fanboy I have owned all 3 consoles and in my opinion

PS2, when they get a great game they get a GREAT one, (God of War, Devil May Cry and Tiger woods always played better with the Ps2 controller)

Gamecube, The best so numerous amout of great games and just fun, always was teh console to accompany my PC gameing.

Xbox, Technically the best Graphics and I liked its sound output better, but great exclusive games were missing and the controller didn't work for me in fight games like the others controllers.


Now you have what will come to be Sony will sell the most of course, but Wii will be the funnest console, Xbox 360 for number of quality games, and PS3 will have Great Exclusive but be sparse and be to many first person shooters that play better on computer anyway. I think this time around the market owership will be closer to even distriputed maybe more like, I am guessing, 18~20% nintendo, 50 someodd % Sony and the other 25% or so going to Microsoft. Alot do to the affordablity and game library that owning Wii/Xbox360 together will be in comparison to the cost of just owning PS3.

[graf1k]

The Inq is hit or miss. Their thing is getting news on new CPUs and GPUs like someone else said, months in advance. In their rush to be first with all that kind of info, they do publish some faulty information. Sometimes a lot of faulty information. It's like a technology tabloid. I'd say the likliness of some/all of that article being true is about 60%. There was a reason they delayed the Spring 06 launch and it was not because of anything to do with Blu-Ray.

[KaneRobot]

Link (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32171)

Posted here since direct comparisons to the 360 are made.

It's the Inquirer so I'd take some of this with a grain of salt, but unless he completely made those numbers up (not likely), well....uh, I'm not technically knowledgeable enough to be able to refute his claims. Maybe someone else is.

It does lend a tad of oomph to the thought process of the PS3 being a trojan horse Blu-Ray player that just so happens to have game console features. If the game end of it is underpowered, Sony won't lose quite as much money.

[javeryh]

Wow. The PS3 might be the new N64 - or worse - the new Jaguar...

[Reality's Fringe]

The Ps3 only has 1/2 the triangles of the 360.

ONLY 1/2 THE FUCKING TRIANGLES!

... ?

[mykevermin]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96290

[Apossum]

didn't understand a word of that article except the part about the movies and karma.

[Chacrana]

That article was worthless, but I did get one line out of it: "recto-cranial inversion." That's where you have your rectum in your head and it gets inverted cause you're doin it so hard.

[mykevermin]

hat's where you have your rectum in your head and it gets inverted cause you're doin it so hard.

Thanks for 'splaining that one to me. :roll:

[Demolition Man]

So in other words in plain English... Sony expects us to pay $599 dollars to play games set in ancient Japan fighting giant enemy crabs by hitting its weak spot for massive damage...... with only half the triangle processing power. That's blasphamy folks. Sony fucked up.

[Reality's Fringe]

So in other words in plain English... Sony expects us to pay $599 dollars to play games set in ancient Japan fighting giant enemy crabs by hitting its weak spot for massive damage...... with only half the triangle processing power. That's blasphamy folks. Sony fucked up.

Yeah, but don't forget you also get Real Time Weapon Change™ and New and Interesting Ways to Defeat Enemy Bosses™.


It's all in the traingles, mo' fuckas!

[KaneRobot]

Didn't realize this was posted in the PS3 forum. Merge or delete this if it's appropriate.

However, understand that "NEEDS MORE TRIANGLES" may become a 'net reference point similar to "GIANT ENEMY CRAB."

[jkam]

I don't really care about the article. However Sony does tend to throw a bunch of tech into their systems without thinking about the developers....The PS3 much like the PS2 will probably be slow to take advantage of its capabilities. I just don't think there are going to have as much time to make a strong showing like they did with the PS2. I'm not knocking the PS3 it just seems they are already behind in the race.

[AFStealth]

I like how the slide has nothing to do with the CELL Processing. They are specifically talking about the RSX there people, not something the CELL processor should even need to access.

[Apossum]

The Ps3 only has 1/2 the triangles of the 360.

ONLY 1/2 THE FUCKING TRIANGLES!

... ?

:rofl:

I heard this is hampering the progress of Trianglevore, the sequel to Cubivore *dodges tomatos*

[jimbodan]

Someone hunt down epobirs, b/c I don't understand what the fuck the article is trying to say. Not very clearly, anyway.

I second this motion, I'd be very interested to read his take on this article

[whoknows]

The Ps3 only has 1/2 the triangles of the 360.

ONLY 1/2 THE FUCKING TRIANGLES!

... ?
Looks more rectangle like to me :-k

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9958/realps3front27vh.jpg

[Allnatural]

There's a rebuttal to the Inquirer story posted at slashdot (http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187510&cid=15471653), and an ongoing discussion at Beyond3d (http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31255) about this and other PS3 articles.

Sounding more and more like it was FUD all along.

[PrivatePixel]

There's a rebuttal to the Inquirer story posted at slashdot (http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187510&cid=15471653), and an ongoing discussion at Beyond3d (http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31255) about this and other PS3 articles.

Sounding more and more like it was FUD all along.
Even the folks at Joystiq (http://portable.joystiq.com/2006/06/05/rumor-ps3-hardware-slow-and-broken/) question the legitimacy of the Inquirer article. Anyone who is familiar with the Inquirer's website knows that every piece written should be taken with a grain of salt and that responsible readers should check established, respectable gaming sites for similar articles to corroborate the facts of each and every story. You'll find that The Inquirer consistently post retractions to breaking news stories.

The fact that this article was based on an informal conversation between an Inquirer writer and a passenger on a flight should be enough to raise a red flag (even the Inquirer article mentions this). Having read some of the responses on Slashdot and Beyond3D by folks with some knowledge of graphics programming further exposes the technical shortcomings of the Inquirer writer.