Post by: TMW on June 13, 2005, 08:42:10 AM
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"We're positioning the PS3 as a supercomputer", he says, "But people won't recognize it as a computer unless we call it a computer, so we're going to run an OS on it. In fact, the Cell can run multiple OSes. In order to run the OSes, we need a hard disk. So in order to declare that the PS3 is a computer, I think we'll have [the hard disk] preinstalled with Linux as a bonus."
Is it just me, or has Kutaragi finally gone over the deep end?
Or is this, as I suspect, just some elaborate hoax?
Post by: nickmitch on June 13, 2005, 05:38:42 PM
Logic: "But you won't because you already have a computer."
Casual: "So? It's cool!"
L: "But you paid extra for something you're never going to use."
C: "Well, uh. . .shut up!"
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 13, 2005, 06:23:42 PM
and, I posted this in another thread, but it might be better suited here:
This is from the latest issue of Business 2.0 June 2005, which has a 4 page article on CELL. Here are a few intresting quotes from the article.
QuoteWe all thought he was out of his mind, but now we know
Kutaragi, known for the bold stroke and the grand vision, swung for the fences from the get-go. "We want to do something that has never been done before," he told Davari and a group of IBMers at their first meeting. "let's work together to change the world." The movie The Matrix had just come out, and Kutaragi relished itspremise of a world that is actually a giant computer simulation "Think about creating a crude version of that world," he said, "where millions of people can play in a realistically rendered virtual Tokyo or New Yourk City as if they are really living there." Creating that magical realm, Kutaragi told the team, would require a chip 1,000 times as powerful as the one in the PlayStation 2. The IBMers tried not to roll their eyes. They tended to like all that Matrix stuff, but when it came to 1,000-fold chip boosts, they thought Kutaragi was out of his mind.
QuotePS4 = 1000 x the power of PS2!!!!! O_O
Davari tapped to lead the project was Kahle...He had designed IBM's first dual core chip, the Power4, and was just coming off a project that produced the IBM chip that powers Apple's G5 computers. "I don't want to do the normal stuff," he says with a shrug. Normal obviously want what Kutaragi had in mind. Still, one of Kahle's first moves was to talk Kutaragi down from that fantasy of a 1,000-fold power increase. Kahle figured a goal of a 100- fold boost from one chip generation to the next, having rarely if ever been achieved in the history of semiconductors, was ambitious enough.
Kutaragi was incredibly demanding and repeatedly sent Kahle back to the drawing board. At one point about a year into the project, Kutaragi made the team scrap the whole system structure and start over nearly from scratch. Another time Kutaragi decided he wanted two more cores. Why? "He just wanted to squeeze the engineering team," expains Masakazu Suzuoki, Sony's top Cell engineer, wringing his hands as if strangling a snake. "it hurt your head," Kahle recalls. Making the pain worse: The team still had to deliver the chip on the original schedule.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 13, 2005, 07:08:22 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on June 14, 2005, 01:54:33 AM
Post by: nickmitch on June 14, 2005, 07:14:37 AM
Post by: Spak-Spang on June 14, 2005, 08:20:12 AM
I think he sees the Playstation 3 and future generations of the Playstation as the biggest and most important product for the computer market.
We is really wanting to make a game system that CAN be your home computer, Tivo unit, HD-DVD player and anything else you would need.
He is hoping to make a product you MUST own.
What is crazy is that it might actually work...IF he can get the price down low enough to be affordable to all markets.
Remember, a game system is basically a computer with a dedicated purpose...but sense game systems are getting so powerful why waste all that power purely on games...why not all it to do much more.
That is Mr. Kutaragi's thoughts.
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 14, 2005, 08:34:27 AM
Quick someone get the straight jacket while I vacuum out the padded room.........
Post by: Robotor on June 14, 2005, 09:12:54 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on June 14, 2005, 10:32:44 AM
Post by: Spak-Spang on June 14, 2005, 12:51:34 PM
However, if you read Kutaragi's desires then if he can make the Matrix console a reality next generation it really would be the PS3 really would be the penulimate system, because if PS4 could do that Matrix thing we would never need a new system.
Ha.
I do think its funny that the entirely too wordy post only gets commented on by a word usage.
Thanks...it shows at least someone is reading, and actually cares about the English language.
Post by: Djunknown on June 14, 2005, 01:25:30 PM
Post by: mac<censored> on June 14, 2005, 08:45:27 PM
He's notable mostly because American-style type-A "if you can still think I'm not screaming loudly enough" marketing guys are pretty rare at Sony...
Post by: nickmitch on June 15, 2005, 10:00:36 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on June 15, 2005, 10:34:27 AM
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on June 16, 2005, 10:13:50 AM
EDIT: Forgot to mention I really do think he's gone off the deep end.
Post by: Artimus on June 16, 2005, 05:13:36 PM
Post by: Dasmos on June 17, 2005, 03:45:22 AM
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Originally posted by: Artimus
In related news the ocean contains water and the earth isn't flat.
Not only water but also plankton
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 18, 2005, 04:57:35 AM
So I think Kutaragi is trying to make what failed to something what can possibly be passable by not isolating it to one special kit and make it more mainstream. Because the the two biggest failures with the PS2 is the linux kit and hard drive.
Post by: KDR_11k on June 18, 2005, 07:12:26 AM
