The successor to Sony's current PlayStation 2 console may be in the works for release on the consumer market in 2005, reports Reuters today, on the strength of comments by Kazuharu Miura, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd., whoever the hell that is.
These reports stem from Sony's joint project with Toshiba and IBM to develop the well-known "Cell" microprocessor, a chip so far pitched as the power source for distributed computing in networked machines. As SCE spokesman Kenichi Fukunaga puts it, "The ideal solution would be having an operating system installed in various home appliances that could run game programs." The Cell project is intended to bear its first fruits in 2005, hence the speculative date for what has been dubbed, for lack of a better term, PlayStation 3.
Such a product would apparently bear little resemblance to what is presently known as a game console. "We've started with boxes -- making boxes to do specific things, but if you have a chip this powerful you can add functions to any box. It's reverse thinking," said Fukunaga. Reuters speculates that the device might have as much processing power as a supercomputer, such as IBM's "Deep Blue." IGN is not particularly enamored of a games machine that's only good for playing chess, but we would certainly be interested in something along the lines of 2001's homicidal "HAL," that would be capable of singing amusing ditties and slaughtering its enemies on a whim, or those keen old water-cooled Cray machines that came with the comfy futuristic leather-bound couches.
The potential of a games system composed of a variety of appliances certainly gives rise to interesting possibilities. One would have to make doubly sure nobody put any metal in the microwave, however, lest a vital component of one's PS3 were to be irrevocably melted by the resulting fire.
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bon, j'ai la flemme de traduire, ceux qui pige pas, bah qu'il demandent a ceux qui pigent (franchement,c de l'anglais esay ca), pour l'instant on l'appel Playstaion 3, mais c pas le nom officiel (y'en a pas encore)
Sony va repasser devant ses concurent au nivo techniques (c sur et certain, il vont pas faire un truc moins puissant que les XBOX ou GameCube, mais plutot 2 fois plus puissant) fodra (ensuite) voir la reponse de Nintendo (et de Kro...éventuellement)
avec un processeur cell 