What comes to mind is one of my favorite Kaz Hirai quotes. On the PS3:
Wow. Talk about a complete 180.
God that was a stupid philosophy.
What comes to mind is one of my favorite Kaz Hirai quotes. On the PS3:
Sounds more like he had to cover up for Kutaragi's foibles.Wow. Talk about a complete 180.
God that was a stupid philosophy.
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I dare someone to say something bad about Mark Cerny. I dare you!
Designing and manufacturing a Modern CPU is way more difficult than you imagine. There is no way Sony could do it on their own. IBM and Toshiba helped on the Cell. Neither has any intrest in Cell anymore. That leaves Intel, AMD or ARM.
What comes to mind is one of my favorite Kaz Hirai quotes. On the PS3:
any thread involving the genius that is Mark Cerny is a great chance to post this video again
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Actually, sounds like Sony got there head out of their butt. This guys resume is impressive.
And people were wondering why Kaz wasn't at the PS4 event. I bet he won't even be on stage at E3. I think Sony wants Cerny to be the man this time.
Kaz is now the head of entire Sony. Before he was head of SCE.
No one expects Steve Ballmer shows up and announce Xbox720 on e3, right?
There is an 4xSPU no PPU version, which is used on TVs.Shit, remember how Cell was supposed to be some revolutionary chip that would be in TVs?
Yeah, Cerny has done a good job if he is responsible for the PS4 hardware and he did a good job at the conference to, but he's no peter moor, he's more like a don mattrick but with more passion.
Came for the article. Stayed for the reaction faces.
If there is no objection by anyone I think I know my next avatar
To be fair the dude does some amazing reaction faces:
he needs to sleep
This post right here is evidence people will find reasons to complain about any and every thing. I've ripped my entire library in super high bit rate MP3, and on my Sennheiser HD800s and my Onix Rocket MK2's, the sound quality difference is minimal at best.
Also please stop comparing this guy to Miyamoto, people living in the real world find this comparison insulting to their intelligence. I admire Cerny's insights and accomplishments, but keep them in check. It's like you're trying to compare Dave Grohl to John Lennon.
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Define "super high bit mp3". Some people think 320kbps is overkill but if you listen to HD800's then i would assume 1000 kbps or more? Even with my Grados i can tell the sound difference between a wav file and flac.
any thread involving the genius that is Mark Cerny is a great chance to post this video again
any thread involving the genius that is Mark Cerny is a great chance to post this video again
he needs to sleep
In that game changers video he actually relates a tale from earlier in his career when he pulled multiple all-nighters in a row...and ended up in the ER.
So I hope he is getting more sleep these days
He's also nearly 50, looks pretty good to me.
Has there been any negative news on the PS4?
Oh you guysso youre saying they will have vinyl support
So is Kojima .
Absolutely. But most people here aren't into computer architecture, so they just see Cell as an expensive failure. That's an understandable perspective, but really doesn't do the vision and foresight of the architecture justice.I'm really surprised at the bashing Ken Kutaragi is receiving here for the PS3.
Sure, from business / image PoV it wasn't wise to go with Cell, but the architecture was so far in the future that it's still relevant - as an idea - even today.
This is a good analogy, since I prefer the former in both casesIt's like you're trying to compare Dave Grohl to John Lennon.
Absolutely. But most people here aren't into computer architecture, so they just see Cell as an expensive failure. That's an understandable perspective, but really doesn't do the vision and foresight of the architecture justice.
But the industry isn't about selling ideas and architectures, it's about selling products. If Kutaragi was visionary and too early, it's just as bad as if he was too late. The timing was wrong indeed, but timing is essential when creating a product that people would buy. If you choose a technology that isn't ready yet for your market (because it's expensive, or unreliable, or the users aren't ready,...), it's your responsibility if it fails to sell or fulfill its tasks.
Most tech-savvy people know about the technologies of tomorrow. The difficult part is choosing the right moment to bring them to market. Inertial sensors have existed for years, but Nintendo had to wait for the right moment to succeed with the Wii ; just like they failed with the Virtual Boy because it was "too visionary", and now the time seems right for the Oculus Rift.
I'm really surprised at the bashing Ken Kutaragi is receiving here for the PS3.
Sure, from business / image PoV it wasn't wise to go with Cell, but the architecture was so far in the future that it's still relevant - as an idea - even today. It's telling that it is still impossible to emulate the Cell in software on current PCs or PS4. Cell is a vector processor, just like current compute-shaders in GPUs are becoming, so actually I wouldn't be surprised if it resurfaces somewhere again in few years. Just read the interviews with people like John Carmack or Tim Sweeney to see that they see a future where fixed-function hardware (like current GPUs) are ditched in favor of much more flexible designs. The drawback would be, that the devs would have to make basic stuff like drawing triangles and texturing them themselves, but on the other hand there would be much more freedom in how they could create geometry, texturing, effects, etc. Remember the old times when Quake2 or Unreal had 'software rendering' option available? In many cases the software results (volumetric smoke, colored lights, etc) were better than what could be achieved using then-available gfx cards, because in software you could do anything, while with hardware you're limited to options given to you by the driver/api (eg. DirectX) and the card.
Ken's vision was exactly that, but it proved to be too challenging for most of the dev teams (even some 1st party ones), which simply could achieve the same results with much less effort on X360 or PC. But some positives remained - in recent years we've seen numerous devs (Dice, Irrational, Criterion to name just the top few) employing multi-threaded / job pipelines designed for PS3's parallel Cell/SPUs, which - turns out - were also hugely beneficial to performance on PCs and X360. So, in that sense not all of Ken's work was wasted. Simply, the timing was wrong
Low-level access and the "wrapper" graphics API
In terms of rendering, there was some interesting news. Norden pointed out one of the principal weaknesses of DirectX 11 and OpenGL - they need to service a vast array of different hardware. The advantage of PlayStation 4 is that it's a fixed hardware platform, meaning that the specifics of the tech can be addressed directly. (It's worth pointing out at this point that the next-gen Xbox has hardware-specific extensions on top of the standard DX11 API.)
"We can significantly enhance performance by bypassing a lot of the artificial DirectX limitations and bottlenecks that are imposed so DirectX can work across a wide range of hardware," he revealed.
That's one hell of a false post.For all he hype Cell got it barely performed better than the 360. Even Sony's inhouse devs didn't release anything that showed a difference for the first 2 years. And even now the difference is negligible imo.
PS4 memory setup is much more elegant (X720 development will 'suffer' for the next 7+ years in comparison) and the system is over all stronger (+50% gpu power) than leaked Durango specs. The PS4 is delivering on all fronts (hardware, os functions, controller input, launch titles) confirmed at this point. The Durango might deliver strongly on several fronts (os?) but in power and hardware elegance it's now the lesser of the two.
Cerny is also being applauded for the general attitude turn-around within PlayStation.
Also please stop comparing this guy to Miyamoto, people living in the real world find this comparison insulting to their intelligence. I admire Cerny's insights and accomplishments, but keep them in check. It's like you're trying to compare Dave Grohl to John Lennon.
He's also nearly 50, looks pretty good to me.
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