>Sony originally wanted the PS3 to use 2 Cell CPUs instead, doing all rendering on the Cell>PlayStation 3 is powered by the Cell Broadband Engine, a 3.2 GHz processor co-developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBMHow impressive was PS3 in 2006?
it was a very impressive bluray player
>>109095939I don't think that is the whole story. I read that the original plan was to create a custom rasterization only gpu, basically a successor to the PS2 gpu. But they could not get it to work. Using a second cell as a gpu was considered and ruled out rather than being a serious plan.
>Sony originally wanted the PS3 to have games
>>109096026What does steam have to do with the PS3?
>>109095939well apparently it was good enough that it was cheap enough to be used as a super computer.
>>109095939>>109095957they screwed up on all fronts. cpu was too complicated, it had half the ram of xbox 360, and the gpu was last gen nvidia while 360 had next gen ati with unified shader tech thats still used in every console/pc to this day. ps3 was effectively a cheap bluray player that made no sense for gaming.
>>109097079Why did GTA V look better on PS3 compared to an Xbox 360 then? GTA IV did not however.
>>109097113GTA V is one of the most expensive video games ever made in existence. It's the exception not the rule. Gears of War was impossible on PS3 due to lack of RAM.
>>109096033Actually...https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/5302
>>109097126Last of Us was better looking than any 360 game too. Maybe Rise of the Tomb Raider perhaps was the best looking 360 game. PS3 was just not utilized well.
>>109096008It had the games I wanted at the time (God of War and anime)
>>109095939It was the most impressive and interesting console, nowadays the PS5/Xbox Series are practically the same console engineered by AMD cucks
>>109095939A video game console is supposed to have games, so it was extremely unimpressive
>>109095944It was the cheapest way to get a Bluray player because they sold it at loss.
>>109095939all the faggots in here are braying "muh nogames" meme while conveniently ignoring the console's second greatest selling point (greatest being "an affordable bluray player") - it kept the entire ps2 library playable, which was a big deal for a console
Why do zoomers keep making threads about the PS3's cell processor? Did some influencer make a video about it? It really isn't interesting...
>>109097683>it can play blu-ray movies!It's a video game console.>it can play PS2 games!Just get a PS2, they were dirt cheap at the time. The PS3 being a video game console with no video games made it shit.
>>109097703Every time some random video game related subject like this starts popping up regularly, you can guarantee some jewtuber made a video about it that's gone viral.
>>109097683>it kept the entire ps2 library playableonly if you bought a launch model. they effectively removed backwards compatibility about a year after PS3 was released
>>109097838It wasn't even complete backwards compatibility, so buying a PS3 for that and the promise of PS3 games (that never came) was idiotic when PS2s were selling for peanuts and were of course fully accurate
>>109097113GTAV ran at ~600p on PS3 while it was a full 720p on 360.
>>109098072It ran like crap on both of them. Rockstar was really pushing the hardware to its limits and anyone sensible played the verison for the newer consoles or PC.
>>109097930>It wasn't even complete backwards compatibilitythe launch models (CECHA) were because they literally had a ps2 built into them, but then CECHB was software emulation, and all subsequent models
>>109098093>the launch models (CECHA) wereNo, they weren't, not completely, just mostly. Sony had a site up that listed the games that had issues. Found this site that lists some of the games with issues: https://www.videogamesage.com/blogs/entry/1292-which-ps3-consoles-are-backwards-compatible-and-do-all-ps2-games-play-on-them/
>>109098155Here's another site from 2006: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/96724-ps-3-backwards-compatibility-issues/
>>109097710the ps2 was also a (quite good) dvd playerrole consolidation in a limited-space scenario like an entertainment center is a good thing, retard>>109097838the thread is about the console's launchwhy would we be talking about anything but the launch version?
>>109096008kek
>>109095939>How impressive was PS3 in 2006?not verywhole lotta talking but shit had no gamesand they were hyping up six axis garbage more than anything
TOO HARD FOR THE FUCKING RADIOOOOO
>>109098086It was OK on 360 as long as you didn't turn on a flashlight (which totally tanked the frame rate)
>>109095939the only impressive thing about it was that snoyfags kept buying them at obscene prices, only to end up collecting dust in the living room
>>109095939>How impressive was PS3 in 2006?compared to the 360 that came a year earlier it was a piece of fuckin shit
>>109097113>Why did GTA V look better on PS3 compared to an Xbox 360 then?Well for one IT FUCKING DIDN'T
>>109097683>it kept the entire ps2 library playableI was taught to read the fine print so let's see*only in japan and US*only if you bought it in the first 6 months*snoy was already planning to can the backwards compatibility before it launched*100% of these have defective graphics chips that WILL die and 70% have died*once it does it requires incredibly involved and expensive repair that sacrifices another PS3 with a GPU that doesnt have manufacturing defects*multiple motherboard revisions are fragile as shit so swapping GPU is risky asWhat a piece of shit. Sony never even acknowledged they shipped GPUs built to fail.360 won.
>>109099550I actually own a CECHB00 btw. Worked but ran so hot I went to delid the GPU and broke it. Yes I'm mad. Immediately I bought a 360 for $50 to forget about it.I'd have to go to fucking Romania to have it fixed. It's not that far for me but I ain't got a car, maybe I could mail it and have it arrive in 20 pieces or get stuck in customs. There might be a guy in Bosnia, I've been there before, dad's been there before (we don't talk about that though kek) we speak the same language and whatnot but Romanian guy is THE most experienced.
Very impressive in theory, disappointing in practice. Only PlayStation's native studios could actually take full advantage of the architecture.
>>109095939Mogged by the 360.
why is this extremely obvious and literal botpost still here?
>>109100266https://brownstone.org/articles/perverse-incentives/Midscale boards without a dedicated mod are intentionally allowed to be spammed in order to keep the site attractive to advertisers.
>>109100325What advertisers on /g/? I haven't seen a ad in forever.
>>109095939>over-hyped overpriced CPU>Under-powered, overpriced Nvidia GPU hackneyed in because of Over-hyped CPU which keeps PS3 prices insanely high>Over-Hyped, expensive RAMBUS ram that also kept ps3 prices insanely high and amount of ram low.>Hacked in PS2 for backwards compatibility that they ultimately killed.>available Linux OS to make the Linux fanboys happy that they ultimately killed.>overheats resulting in board failures (at least not as fast or as much as RROD at first).>Bluray technology that Sony bet the farm on.>doubled down on Bluray by buying exclusivity rights from every content provider to keep in afloat>Wii inspired Boomerang controller so bad they bring back PS2 design.>SIXAXIS controller with no rumble that makes everyone with for the banana. >Still try Wii angle with Lollipop controller and Eyetoy 2 that couldn't even compete with Kinect.>kills PSP with Vita because no R&D money left to make a proper PSP replacement.>Bluray Buyouts ultimately lead to Sony declaring Bankruptcy, killing virtually all tech divisions not PlayStation or Media related. It's impressive that Sony survived after this crap show.
>>109100247PS3 sold more and that's with people having to buy multiple 360s after RRoDs
>>109096008> and now we can't even get a decent exclusive without a 5 year wait.
>>109095939>>109095957Yeah, original plan was for the Cell SPE to do vertex transforms, a translation logic to sort all the vertices and send it to the rasterizer, and a massively parallel rasterizer to then draw everything. Basically a PS2 on steroids.How powerful it would be is a toss up since we don't know any details. In pure compute it would've been far weaker since the SPEs are now doing things the nvidia gpu shaders were doing, so it would've been the PPE + SPUs alone against 3x PPE + Ati unified shaders on the Xbox.But we have no idea how the LDPCU and RS would have worked. If the RS was just a simple rasterizer with maybe an eDRAM like the PS2, then the original PS3 design would not have been so fragmented and maybe if you are coming from the PS2 it would have made more sense than the frankenstein setup of the final PS3, which could have made up for some of its weaknesses.
>>109097683> "kept the entire ps2 library playable" except it didn't, half the classics are still stuck on ps3 or never got patched
>>109097079>the gpu was last gen nvidiaBoth consoles used between-generation chips. PS3 was a 7800 with some 8000 features, 360 used a x1800 with some hd2000 features.
>>109096008Kek, I remember even as late as 2012 one of the professors in my college was using like 50 PS3s for computational chemistry. It just always made me laugh thinking about it
>>109096100It was something about the actual architecture that made it very good for parallel HPC (pricewise especially) but I can't remember what the fuck it was
>>109095939It won its generation and then it was all downhill from there
>>109095939>How impressive was PS3 in 2006?It had no games at all. While being very expensive. They managed to sell those black boxes to people and nobody tried to sue them. Very impressive.Try to pull it off if you think otherwise. You promise people X, they get empty shell and you deliver like 5 years later or something and by then, the shell is outdated, client have to get a new one...
Only it had the Atelier games of the time so it was the best.
>>109097683>it kept the entire ps2 library playableonly true on a select few launch models that quickly stopped being made, and only if you were lucky enough to get onet. got one shortly after launch that did NOT have ps2 compatibility
>>109101325and a memory just resurfacedmy friend who DID get a launch model that had the ps2 compatibility, i tried to play my copy of midnight club 3 dub edition remix on it and it froze while accessing the memory card and could never be playedit was a glitchy feature that couldn't even be relied onthey should have faced another class action for that shit, fucking dumb
>>109098331Apparently this thing was actually very comfortable in the hands but I don't buy it. Would it not easily slide out of your hands?
>>109101046>It won its generation and then it was all downhill from thereIt didn't. For the late 2000s, xbox 360 won by a landslide. For the early 2010s, ps3 sold slightly more. 360 kept its lead by the end.>but ps3 official sales are higherMicrosoft stopped counting 360 sales when the Xbone came out. But the console still kept selling later, it was confirmed by all the third parties who sold accessories and all the stores who sold consoles and games, that the 360 was very actively selling even during the Xbone life time.Sony meanwhile keeps counting adding sales even today, like how they found a few PS2s in a warehouse to make sure the Switch wouldn't beat it.
>>109100558360 had features pc didnt get until much later and that made a bigger impact than ps3.
>>109095939>How impressive was PS3 in 2006?It was a complete disaster and spawned several memes about how bad it was.>five hundred ninety-nine US dollars>nogaems>no good games>it's riiiiiidge racer!>revolutionary new gaming features like real times weapon change, or attacking weak spots for massive damage>giant enemy crabsevery single multiplatform game looked worse and had a lower framerate, and the 360 had an extra year worth of exclusives at any time, plus better online (at the time, anyway). it even started getting some japanese titles - had the biggest Katamari to date, fucking Idolmaster, Virtua Fighter 5, and so on.
>>109095939It wasn't very impressive at all. Being $200 more than the Xbox 360 while offering no games worth mentioning and being substantially more annoying to program for was not really exciting to hear about. And the sixaxis controller without rumble had no hype when the Wii controller was all the rage and was waaay cheaper. But it was fun watching the disastrous reveal and reading all of the fanboy losers comments on forums telling you how the ps3 was capable of controlling time and space itself.
>>109101784How else am I supposed to play Metal Gear Solid 4?
>>109101689>it's riiiiiidge racer!That one was about the PSP.
>>109095939I don't know, but it had LittleBigPlanet which is the reason I am embedded software engineer today. It introduced me to logic gates and such when I was 9. It was the minecraft-redstone pipeline before it was cool.
>>109095939this fucking thread again
>>109102300>elpida RAMRIP.
