Jobs not Impressed with Cell

June 14, 2005 | Blackstaffer

It seems like mister jeans-and-turtleneck Steve Jobs didn’t take a shine to the Cell processor when approached last year by Ken Kutaragi.

In a New York Times article, Jobs reportedly met Kutaragi and Sony chairman Nobuyuki Idei last year … Read More

Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility Details

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer | 2 Comments

[Update 17may05: nVidia technology will be licensed by Microsoft in order to help the effort]

The door keeps opening, bit by bit. A little more light at a time is shining on the whole Xbox 360 backwards compatibility thing with … Read More

ATI’s Effort Better than the RSX?

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer

As the launch of the next generation of consoles approaches, much is being said about which system is better. While the PS3 architecture isn’t quite locked down yet, it is known that it has a 550MHz RSX graphics chip by … Read More

PS3 – No Hard Drive by Default

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer | 3 Comments

Sony’s Ken Kutaragi has said that “We’re not going to equip [the PS3 with] an HDD by default, because no matter how much [capacity] we put in it, it won’t be enough.” Is he really saying that there’s no HDD … Read More

Welcome to PS3Blog.net!

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer

Hello and welcome.

I am officially creating PS3Blog.net today. It’s a website devoted to the PS3 and its competitors, the Xbox 360 and the Revolution. This site started as a bunch of posts on the topic at HDBlog.net. But I … Read More

PS3 Dev Kits Running Low

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer

Kutaragi admits that they’re running low on PS3 development kits:

Speaking to Japanese news outlet Jiji News, Kutaragi admitted that he was having trouble manufacturing the kits, used by developers to design and build PS3 games and the first true … Read More

Video Interview with J Allard

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer

On June 8th Kikizo posted a video interview with J Allard, the man behind the Xbox 360. If you’ve been keeping up to date on all things Xbox 360, there won’t be much new to you. He says that Halo … Read More

Revolution Specs?

June 13, 2005 | Blackstaffer

A rumour of a rumour of a possibility of an inkling thought says that the specs to the Nintendo Revolution might be:

2 G5 1.8GHZ CPUS (NOT 2XCORE) 512K L2 Cache 1200 MHZ Front Side BUS – Xbox 360’s FSB … Read More