Or VGA. Or component.
No HDMI, no Blu-ray, no WiFi, models with no HDD and no rechargeable battery (something that somehow find acceptable to this day), you couldn't just upgrade the HDD easily like with the PS3 and as a bonus you had the 3RLOD. The PS3 originally even had backwards compatibility using actual PS1 and PS2 hardware inside the console and even OtherOS.
Ken made a lot of claims about the PS2 and PS3 that never materialized. Dude was as showman and it worked.
Been thinking about this too and give it a whirl for myself. Its the kind of game Sony doesn't greenlight anymore.
Going back and looking at technical specs again(wikis,etc) for the Sega Lindbergh arcade machines:
That is what the wiki says, but I was sure DF did an article about it using 14MB on the VRAM in the end and was part of the reason cross game chat couldn't be implemented, but maybe it was partly using GDDR3 at some stage from a larger total I've misremembered,
To be honest I still dont know what's the most impressive PS360 exclusive. I was impressed with Killozne 2/3 and TLOU1 graphics, but something like Gears Of War 3 on xbox360 looked equally impressive.
Even making a more expensive console turned out to be a good call, as it did sell well despite everything and these days we see that there is definitely a market for more premium products. They made a lot of good calls that would've worked out just fine but betting on the Cell was a brutal mistake (that wasn't helped by partnering with NVidia).
Sony lost a ton of money on the PS3 for a long time, so I wouldn't say making an expensive console was a good call at all. I mean, I personally like their ambition with it, but had they made a simpler machine more like the 360 it would have been cheaper, sold better, probably won the generation easily, and made them more money.
I meant the price they charged. It costing a lot and being hard to produce was one of the big reason it was a massive blow to Sony. To me the PS3 had great value even at that price point, the problem is that Sony was still taking a massive loss to hit that price.
Richard/DF kept saying that at the time, but it was never true. Geometry processing and floating point format handling alone on the RSX - not to mention triple and double buffering, free HW sRGB gamma correction, to name a few - were always better specs of the RSX.
As I said, I meant the price point. Making a $500~$600 console wasn't a mistake, the problem was making a console that was still resulting in huge losses at those price points.
What!!!! I thought you love xbox consoles, yet you want to tell me you havent played ultimate xbox classic like Gears 3? Son, you have disappointed me, so I give you an order and you must follow it. PLAY THIS GAME RIGHT AWAY (if you have family or other games to play, just forget about them for now), because you will not regreat it. On XSX gears 3 looks good even today, and gameplay is beyond awesome (gears 3 has the most varied and beautiful locations in entire series).
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Dont forget Xbox GPU had unified shaders and "almost free" MSAAx2. Most mutliplatform games looked much worse on PS3 until developers starting using CELL potential to offload RSX.
Well not exactly but he knew what he was doing and it worked.All of Ken's claims came true. He was a true pioneer and visionary.
All of Ken's claims came true. He was a true pioneer and visionary.
I don't necessarily mean as an engineer but more so as a guy that could get hype around his products. People used to quote some really silly shit about the PS2 and the PS3 capabilities. That myth surrounding The Cell, BS or not, is still believed by a lot of people.
yeah, it was kinda crazy to think that the original plan was to have 2 Cell Chips, with them also handling graphics... like god damn, imagine if that system released, I think Sony's gaming division would be a goner by now.
apparently the studios were telling them that the best they can do with a Cell only console is HD PS2 graphics, and early showings were telling in this regard. look at the very first showcase where they had gameplay clips of Resistence... that game looked like absolute horseshit in those clips, and even the finished game was barely better than an HD Xbox 1 game in terms of graphical fidelity.
but Insomniac really turned that ship around last second it seems, I mean look at the 2005 fottage
That is interesting. If the arcade hardware is literally a weaker version of the ps3 gpu architecture then I'm not at all surprised at how well the PS3 port turned out. You can see how well this works in the other direction, like the switch version of cruisn blast ; it's 1/4 the power of the arcade gpu but the same Nvidia Maxwell gpu, and the graphics cutbacks are pretty minimal considering.
Kind of crazy that both consoles were saved at the last minute, like could you imagine if the 360 shipped with only 256 megs of ram? That would have been a disaster.
