So the new Sony Playstation 3 has a ‘Reality Synthesizer‘, ‘Synergistic Processing Unit’, ‘Cell Broadband Engine‘ and an ‘Emotion Engine’. This thing may have “more than the total number of transistors in both the central processing units and the graphics processing units of the three leading current-generation systems, combined” but I think their naming convention is pushing it a bit!! Show me this thing driving a Star Trek style holodeck and I might believe you otherwise “creating a real time world in real time” is nothing but a marketing gimmick. Still, it does sound quite cool and the cell processor looks pretty amazing up close!
Funnily enough I’ve never brought a gaming console before, and have no plans to in the future, although the Nintendo Wii looks kind of neat but something tells me the novelty would wear off after about 5 minutes!
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