Ken Kutaragi: Higher-End Playstation 3 Model in the Future
PC Watch, a japanese software/ hardware news site have sat down with Ken Kutaragi of Sony Japan ("The Father of Playstation") for an interview about Playstation 3 video entertainment system.
A very kind spirit called Viano at E-mpire forums has translated the most interesting parts of the article:
Quote:
- games on PS3 are running on the PS3 with "basic configuration"
- software will have different relationship with hardware (including non-gaming applications) in the future
- software module will be made inside the PS3 (such as OS?) so PS3 will have no problem adopting new hardware parts (this doesn't mean you can upgrade but just different versions of PS3)
- thus two models of PS3 are actually two different configurations, there might be other configurations in future, such as: enhanced version of CELL, more memory etc. The higher-end model of PS3 might be released in future.
There's also a very interesting picture titled "Changes of Software Module" included in the article.
Please note that the interview is in japanese. The E-mpire link I provided includes an automated translation of the WHOLE interview, be sure to check it out.
There also exists a quite good translation over at Beyond3D forums - read it here.
Upgrading a console?
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Ken Kutaragi. Out of his mind, out of control!
People, Ken did a tremendous job on PS2, it is the best console out there, my favourite console ever, but this time, really people, somebody get him AWAY from PS3 before he runs it into the ground
I need to stop reading about the PS3. I'm trying to stay unbiased and always plead to my friends I'm going to get all the systems, but between all the PS3 updates we've been getting, then contrasting that with yesterdays excellent 360 update, and it's hard to justify spending anything on Sony's product, at least this year.
I thought the point of this generation of consoles what that they could do a lot of the things PCs can do, but cheaper and more conveniently (i.e. in your living room). Having a $600 console that can be upgraded like a PC? Sounds like a proprietary PC to me, too, Dabombpizza.
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How can you put more memory into a console? I hope you means hard drive memory and not RAM. Otherwise, it will either go to waste or games will need this "higher end" PS3 to run at all. Makes no sense to me.
How can you put more memory into a console? I hope you means hard drive memory and not RAM. Otherwise, it will either go to waste or games will need this "higher end" PS3 to run at all. Makes no sense to me.
I don't think it's unreasonable, depending how it would be done. Being able to double up your memory near the end of a console's lifetime when developers are tweaking the hell out of the system, would be fine. Of course, cost is a limiting factor.
I mean comon.. nextgen is going to cost as much as a PC anyways.
How did this crackpot land a job at Sony in the first place? The only thing coming from his mouth is nonsens. He might have a brilliant mind, but he needs to be under strict control and learn to STFU!
The "upgrade" option reminds me a lot of the Nintendo 64. Anyone remember the RAM upgrade? I remember shelling out cash for it to support my GoldenEye deathmatches with my friends. But I honestly can't remember if it helped with preformance.
Anyone else get this for their Nintendo 64? If so, did you notice a difference?
