Samanosuke: ...I reckon Sony need to release the PS3 as soon as they can, even if it means rushing the development, or else they will be left for dead.
Hardly. Sony is the ultimate hype machine. I never thought PS2 would manage to dominate 80% of the industry with its awful complexity and poor visual quality... not to mention that it looked terrible. A black box with 1980's-style cooling fins? I couldn't believe that people said Dreamcast looked "off-the-shelf" while they drooled over Sony's rectangular box with a blue sticker.
Then again, Microsoft and Nintendo basically handed the market over to Sony the first time around. Xbox 360 is smaller and definately not a PC clone this time. Hopefully Nintendo will get their licensing strategy straight sometime soon.
Lou Dias: And the 'Cube's bus is 165Mhz. It can run at just over 200 but... [Link]
Most manufacturers have multiple versions of their products. They rarely know what they are going to release until the last second.
Also, I've seen pictures on a website that opened up the cube and found that the GPU was actually the 202.5 MHz version
Depends when it was manufactured. It's impossible to manufacture a chip to run at an exact frequency, so taking a faster chip and underclocking it isn't unusual. The PS2 has also been redesigned internally a few times, and I don't mean the stupid "mini" PS2.
Nintendo always downplays it's systems' true power and are still doing this even with Revolution...
Well, it should be a given that Revolution will be faster than XBox and whatever seeing how it will be released much later.
I wouldn't say they downplay the power of the system. They just don't make it the end-all of existence like Sony does.
Lou Dias: That's a big problem on this site. Everyone is ready to start a flame war over the slightest wording in a post... Sad...
I vote this Ironic Statement of the Year.
