The Playstation began in 1986 - when Nintendo experimented with disk read technology. When the CD-ROM XA format was released, Nintendo began to speak to one of the two companies involved in the standard... Sony. The two companies struck a contract by which Sony would develop a console Nintendo support traditional cartridges and the new CD Sony-developed format for the set of the brand.
However, the deal fell through in a shocking way to 1991 these (Consumer Electronics Show) when re-negotiations behind the scenes by Nintendo terminated the contract between them and Sony and concluded a new contract with Philips.
This sent waves in the business community Japanese as had never done this type of backstabbing - as very un-Japanese. However, the Act had been done, and Sony was left in the cold. They took their technology that they had dubbed "play Station" and went with it, to develop their own games for the console again.
The official launch of the PlayStation, was on 3 December 1994 and on 9 September 1995 North America. PlayStation pulled in fact more than a year earlier to the Japan and was the subject of a trial between Sony and Nintendo, Nintendo tried to block the sales and production claiming full ownership of the technology. Nintendo lost the trial.
Sony had an innovative advertising campaign helping to massively fuel waiting for the release of PlayStation to an ignorant public of Sony as a company of game. He has worked and helped push sales of the PlayStation console in more than 100 million units by the end of its production in March 2006.
The Playstation 2 was the following - with development announced in March 1999, generation console 6 was unleashed in a world of waiting in 2000 and quickly all the rest - to date more than 120 million PlayStation 2 consoles have been sold.
The PS2 had a unique feature to its casing, the ability to fully play PS or original PlayStation games because of the addition of PS chipset, in the case of the PS2 so it didn't PlayStation emulationHe ran a PlayStation real itself.
The PS2 is up against the new version Xbox and Nintendo Gamecube - due to marketing campaigns and effective video games, PS2 development won the duel and has emerged as the industry leader Sony - a title he would hold until the release of the Xbox 360.
With the release of the Xbox 360 and the massive delays in the release of the PS3, Sony slid - they still hold the title of leader of the market, but they are daily drag as Microsoft and Nintendo gain on preschool of Sony.
The Playstation 3 was announced after months of speculation at E3, May 16, 2005. The PS3 has a large number of technological achievements and a lot to live up to with respect to expectations.
The Cell processor - this is the heart of the Playstation 3 and in many ways a very new generation and management for Sony to go. The cell was developed by IBM with Toshiba and Sony providing funding (approach $ 400 million) and technical requirements. The cell is a direction completely new for the processors on the computer, because it is a 9 core processor that operates as a single fully integrated system in itself. with a kernel being the main and the distribution of load between the other 8 nuclei.
Full name of the cell is the cell Broadband Engine Architecture - and combines a PowerPC based on with 9 parallel-processing cores is placed. Everything designed to operate as a single unit with distributed functions - thus the main nucleus can send information to any other carrots for processing, and then hands the result back - to the bus system at speeds between 3 12 times that of a similar non-cell processorsuch as an Itanium and Opteron.
The cell was operated as a main processor again supercomputer IBM name code Roadrunner, which should exceed a petaflop or whose operations floating point per second.
A reader DVD Blu - Ray - a new player of DVD technology that can read 50 GB CD style drives. It is one of the two competitors technologies DVD, the other being the HD-DVD. PlayStation 3 is the first console to include the functionality of DVD Blu - Ray in the console itself for DVD playback.
A scalable hard drive - the PS3 will be delivered with 20 GB hard drive or 60 GB installed, and what was reported, this device is scalable for larger sizes they are available
HDMI port - A High - Definition Media Interface port is standard with the PS3 and allows it to be connected to the new format television sets to enable audio and video playback to much higher qualities than standard video Composite or coaxial signal input. HDMI is all digital, providing for a multi-channel signal very clean and crisp.
Bluetooth - Bluetooth PS3 controllers all shipped controllers are designed to be fully wireless. There is a usb port for recharging the internal battery, and with Bluetooth up to 7 controllers can be used with a single match.
WiFi access - the PS3 has WiFi access and enable 802.11 wireless networking and wireless controllers for use with the console.
Memory - the PS3 card readers will have a card reader compatible with Memory Stick, CompactFlash flash memory and SD/MMC flash memory.
Software base - one of the innovative developments is the inclusion of a suite of Open Source Development running on Linux - which seems to be the underlying OS for Playstation 3. Not only are the average of independent developers can write code for the Playstation 3, but this means that anyone can modify some of the Playstation OS to perform tasks; as the project Folding @ Home of Stanford University, which will be available for download to run when the PS3 is idle to take advantage of the processing power of the cell.
A rumor which has not been supported is the link cable. It has been said that the PS3 will have an accessory called a link cable which will be similar to a SCSI cable that multiple PS3 can be chained together in series. If this is correct, it would a user to purchase multiple on PlayStation 3 and use them as a massively parallel computer for the development of games or software such as 3D rendering or mathematical calculations on a large scale. If it is correct, this would be really cool and would bring the capabilities of a supercomputer in the homes of millions of players.
Playstation 3 seems to be a huge success, if Sony can get to endure before the Christmas season. A delay can mean the end of Sony as a major player in the industry of the game because of the predominance of the Xbox and Nintendo's Wii. Hope that Sony can deliver on its PlayStation 3 assurance - before Christmas 2006 it will be a sight to behold.
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