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Re: By the time you see this post, you'll probably already know all about by mark 11/17/2006, 9:54am PST
Jerry Whorebach wrote:

Apparently the PS3 motherboard, CPU, GPU and memory alone (not even factoring in Blue Ray, hard drive, wireless, etc.) cost Sony about $175 more than the entire 360 system costs MS. So either the Cell is so incredibly advanced that no hugh-man game designer can take advantage of it or Sony got shafted by not buying their components off-the-shelf.


So regardless of whether or not this device will bankrupt Sony, The chipset really is that impressive, or so claimed most of the keynote speakers (who were, for some reason, almost all high perfomance computing researcher) at a conference I attended last May. When the third guy in a row got up to say basically the same thing (Powerpoint slide of PS2, quick blurb about how insane the processor is and how cheap it will be, 'joke' about how his kids will have one before he does) I started to look through the program for a huge Sony logo on the sponsor page.
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By the time you see this post, you'll probably already know all about this news. by Jerry Whorebach 11/17/2006, 3:55am PST NEW
    I read somewhere that they cost way more than that to make... by Fullofkittens 11/17/2006, 9:13am PST NEW
    Not even news. Most consoles are loss leaders at launch. Software is profit. NT by Fussbett 11/17/2006, 9:19am PST NEW
        Right. Remember the Linux fanboys trying to bankrupt MS during the XBOX launch? by mark 11/17/2006, 9:55am PST NEW
        Well, for comparison . . . by laudablepuss 11/17/2006, 11:45am PST NEW
    Re: By the time you see this post, you'll probably already know all about by mark 11/17/2006, 9:54am PST NEW
    BUY IT NOW for $0.99 (courtesy of Digg) by Ray of Light 11/23/2006, 7:48pm PST NEW
 
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