PS3 port thread

[JoannaK]

Piru wrote:

one thing that im not reading here is that sony have restricted access to graphical hardware under a different OS

Topic Thread: Linux on Playstation 3 looks good...

With current 'level' of 3d gfx-chip drivers Mos and OS4 offer it would not matter much anyhow.. Unless of course someone starts daydreaming about miraciously receiving full Chip docs and example driver source from Nvidia/Sony.

[JoannaK]

Tigger: agree on all counts..  I was considering on making my earlier post in this thread longer (with ideas of SPU use in 2d/3d acceleration) but I decided it would have taken too much time and been way too unrealistic for further discussion (as a future Amiga, especially concerning OS4 coder-talent pool).

Edit.. A thought just hit me.. Why aren't there any group of Amigians (not necessarely from *that* forum) who want AmigaOS ported to Nintendo Wii? ... IIRC it also has PPC and (as a bonus) Ati Gfx chip, so it should be even easier target than PS3 or Xbox360 At least it would be decetly priced  ;-)

[JoannaK]

Tigger: that Wii-thingy was supposed to be joke ... I'm not seruously expect port for it anyhow.

Bloodline: Console lifetime is of course depenmdent of company making them (M$ seems to have shortest lifetime-expectancy), but based of previous Sony history somehitng like seven to ten years could be my guess for PS3. Most likely 4-5 years as their top line model, then similar time as an low-end entry level product.

In comparision ... Remember it ain't long time ago when Sony still had PSX/PSOne on sale, reaching full 10 years of sales and well over 100 million sold worldwide. And PS2 is nowdays seven years old (had one major model upgrade/ cost cut) it still oversells many newer systems (PS3 and Xbox360) and it managed to overlive camecube and original Xbox, thus having a *HUGE* 115+ Million sold.

So.. *IF* this now launched PS3 reaches similar figures that eralier Sony consoles it'll likely to stay on production allmost a decade and to have 100Milion+ systems sold...  And even if it happens to flop (relatively) and sell only 10 million it would still be quite acceptable target for OS porting.

And for 10 years from now? Who knows? Who cares? With the trend of last 10-15 years, is there anyone around with *any* interest to any Amiga related???