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I just looked at the Halo Wars trailer and it looks so beautiful... aggggh.
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The Cell processor is beautiful, but it's extremely difficult to program well. IMO IBM is in the right in terms of the hardware they're developing, but Sony is in the wrong in terms of the hardware they're using (unless they're willing to invest in support tools). At the last parallel computing conference I attended we had a guy from nVidia who basically said "the Cell processor is great, but unfortunately only one out of a thousand computer scientists have the ability to program it."<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures
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We'd need a whole thread on parallel computing just to discuss why the Cell chip is such a bad choice for the PS3 console. Does anybody have any sources saying that the Cell processor runs their games well? Do regular games use the full processing power of Cell? How do you use all that power?
With the news leaking out about the graphics capabilities of the PS3 being downgraded, the PS3 is looking to be a real stinker. What is the most recent release date guess? I'm asking, because I thought it was going to come out in November or something, but apparently that has been pushed back?Comment
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My understanding is that the Cell would work fine with most console games if people knew how to use the damned thing. It's great for CPU-bound processes, which means that console games should run well on them, but programmers are used to hardware that compensates for their shortcomings and so they don't know how to use a processor as unforgiving as the Cell.<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures </p>Comment
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When I was at IBM, there was a team of six PhDs whose sole task over a couple years was to try to make smart compilers for Cell and its SPEs. I went to several presentations given by some of them, and I have very little hope that 99% of games will leverage Cell to any reasonable extent.
What's interesting is IBM's initial proposal to Sony for Cell was a 3-PPC core design -- amazingly enough, this is what IBM proposed to MS a year later that MS accepted. Toshiba's proposal was 12-16 SPEs in a single core. Sony, having an alliance with Toshiba and wanting to work with IBM, effectively merged the proposals into the Cell we have today...
On an unrelated note, some new Mass Effect screenshots (from in-game engine) -- it's BioWare's new RPG for the Xbox 360. These images are scaled down from their native 1280x720:
Full resolution pics are here: http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3618_en.html"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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that crowd of people will never suspect the assasin is the one WITH ****ING CLAWS ON HIS BACK! WTF!
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Screw it all. I'm just going to play board games.
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Regarding Assassin's Creed in the original post:
While the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Assassin's Creed are to look identical, the Xbox 360 version will have more advanced AI due to the architecture of its CPU.
As I've said many times before, Cell isn't a very good fit for a game console CPU -- it's terrible when it comes to important cases like AI..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Regarding programming for the Cell, I guess that's one area where M$ has a built-in advantage -- it's strong in programming tools. It seems as if there have been nothing but compliments for M$'s 360 programming tools.
If Sony has to rely on a third party (IBM) to provide most of the best tools for the Cell, that's seems to be a decided disadvantage.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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In-game footage of the 360 version of Assassin's Creed. Unfortunately, we don't get to see Jade Raymond.
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*clasps fingers together monty burns style*
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That looks incredible.Originally posted by nostromo
In-game footage of the 360 version of Assassin's Creed. Unfortunately, we don't get to see Jade Raymond.
http://media.xbox360.gamespy.com/med...24/vids_1.html
And Jade had a hot voice."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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She's hot, too. Based on her name, I think she's a french canadian girl. If so, I have to say that her english sounds impecable to me.Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Maybe she's coming from Ubisoft Montreal?
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Looking further into the video, and she come from Mtl!
But yeah, she looks hot!
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