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GT5P shown at 4x HD resolution (3840x2160 @ 240FPS) during Downshift Session 2008

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"Gran Turismo in 4 times the resolution of Full HD

Polyphony Digital also presented two technological trials for the next generation at this event. Both of the presentations, were founded on the philosophy of "achieving the highest possible quality" held over the years by Gran Turismo.

One of these, was a time trial competition using Sony's newest digital cinema projector, the "SRX-S110". Gran Turismo 5 prologue is already in Full HD resolution at 1920 x 1080 pixels, providing the highest resolution possible in today's TV content. However in this time trial, the Full HD image was increased to twice the resolution both vertically and horizontally (4x the surface area), enabling game play at an ultra high resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels. This was performed by connecting and synchronizing four Playstation 3's outputting a quarter of the image each at 1920x1080 pixels, but you must remember this demands an extremely high quality image from the source that can withstand the ultra high resolution. It can be said that this demonstration was only made possible, because the source image was Gran Turismo......"

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jams_shop - 412 days 15 hours ago

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wow this is one the coolest post ever. I need three more PS3s!!!

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Liquid Dust - 412 days 15 hours ago

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HOLY CRAP

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WANNA GET HIGH - 412 days 15 hours ago

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WOW :O

@jame_shop http://www.youtube.com/watc...

LOL XD

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hay - 412 days 15 hours ago

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And a display that can show 240fps.

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UltimateIdiot911 - 412 days 15 hours ago

1.5 - @Liquid Crap

Holy Crap doesn't even cut it.
Imagine what Polyphony Digital will do when PS4 comes out. I hope GT5 will blow my mind with realness. GT5P is already awesome, although their online play definitely needs work.

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Bonsai1214 - 412 days 15 hours ago

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i actually enjoyed reading this article. the tech specs and stuff floated my boat.

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ExgamerLegends - 412 days 15 hours ago

1.7 - Killzone 2 vs Gran Turismo

Which one has better graphics?

Thats kinda tough to say.

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Yoma - 412 days 14 hours ago

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lol

3840×2160 8,294,400 16:9 2160p DCI Cinema 4k standard format Quad HDTV, (there is no HD Ready 2160p Quad HDTV format)

Source: Wikipedia

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Mr Bun - 412 days 14 hours ago

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Who was questioning the quality of PS3 games again?

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barom - 412 days 9 hours ago

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I'm a bit confused. So each PS3 is doing it's quarter of a screen right? So I can totally understand the 4x 1080p resolution. However, since each is only doing work on their own PART of the screen, then the 60 frames per second can't be added up.

What I'm basically trying to say is. If you put have 4 artists drawing a picture, each doing their quarter of the drawing but at the same speed. Then the picture (although 4x bigger) will still be drawed at the same speed. It doesn't get 4 times faster to finish drawing the picture.

Anyway it's still pretty sick and we won't probably be able to tell the difference as the human eye can only see so much at a certain rate anyway.

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iHEARTboobs - 412 days 8 hours ago

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I think you're off on your analogy. But i do get what you're trying to say. The reason i think it's off is because if you do have 4 artists painting a quarter of a painting, simultaneously, then it will be done quicker. Because if it takes them each 15mins to do their quarter and they start at the same time they'll be done with the painting in 15mins.

Anyway, it does look awesome.

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SPECTRUX - 412 days 8 hours ago

1.12 - from the article

"The other display was a playable demonstration on a Nano-Spindt FED / Field Emissions Display developed by Sony, with a frame rate of 240fps (240 frames per second).

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has already achieved a frame rate of 60p (progressive), but in this demo, Gran Turismo was made playable at four times this frame rate at 240fps.

The SXRD demonstration described above used four PS3’s to improve image quality, but this used the same to increase the frame rate.

The display used in this demonstration was the 19 inch nano-Spindt FED screen produced by FE Technologies, who is a company that has taken over the development of the FED technology that was being developed at Sony. This display contains over 10,000 electron sources called the nano-spindt emitter, per pixcel. A fluorescent substance is exposed to the electrons from the emitters to produce light, and this format is very close to a cathode-ray tube in principle. The resulting view angle is wider in comparison to a LCD panel, and it shows superior performance when displaying moving images, with no blurring of the outline."

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barom - 412 days 6 hours ago

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Yea my analogy was kinda off. But even though I didn't write it, I really meant that if 4 artists were to draw a picture 4x as big. It would not go any faster than 1 artist drawing the "original" size of the picture.

Anyway, all I'm getting at. Is that yea I can see 240 frames of 1080p picture per second and 60 frames of 4x1080p per second. I can not see how it's 240 frames of 4x1080p though. And I do not see how FED displays may be able to speed things up. I mean displays are just used to display the picture no? I'm nowhere close to a tech geek so that might be the reason why it just doesn't make much sense to me. I guess it's possible though.

Anyway even with 60fps it's still awesome.

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SonyOwnsNextYear - 411 days 21 hours ago

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once again,

sony= highest quality entertainment

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sloth4urluv - 411 days 19 hours ago

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I think they are confused if one PS3 can do 1080p@60fps then 2160p@240fps would need 16xPS3. Either they are adding up the 60fps from each PS3, or they are confusing the refresh rate of the display with the fps.

240Hz does not equal 240fps.

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AAACE5 - 411 days 16 hours ago

1.16 - Agreed!

That looks great indeed!

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Jeebus - 411 days 16 hours ago

1.17 - Barom

I agree with you, BUT, if you read that part of the article they say that they tied in 4 PS3s for the 240fps. So you're right, but you didn't read =)

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PirateThom - 412 days 15 hours ago

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Do want... :(

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2Negativecool - 412 days 3 hours ago

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Who the hell disagreed??

Why wouldn't you want this?

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Mr_Showtime1 - 412 days 15 hours ago

3 - wow

I wonder how many peoples eyes melted and how many heads just straight up exploded lol

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Foxgod - 412 days 14 hours ago

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Diamondwolf - 412 days 13 hours ago

3.2 - Fox

You shouldn't go around giving out your IQ Level. At least try to trick people to thinking it's at least a 40 or 50

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Erotic Sheep - 412 days 13 hours ago

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Fox your "amazing" PC processor can't do this

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Foxgod - 412 days 9 hours ago

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it will come closer then your ps3

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 411 days 19 hours ago

3.5 - well

Obviously not...

...since his PS3 just DID THAT!

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Foxgod - 411 days 17 hours ago

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No it didnt, those images come from a cluster of ps3's.
Imagine what a cluster of i7's do with a cluster of Radeon HD twin GPU's.

A whole lot more.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 411 days 17 hours ago

3.7 - Really

I understand that processors can always be upgraded, but currently, the CELL is the most powerful one out there. A modified CELL chip was in the top supercomputer that broke one petaflop.

*Like a Jr. High kid* What now?

Haha...I miss those kids. They're all in jail now though...

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Foxgod - 411 days 15 hours ago

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uh, the fastest cell super computer is on position 449 in the top 500 super computers.

Everything above that (pos 448 to 1) does not feature cell computers, you have been misinformed.

Besides, the I7 alone, makes minchmeat out of the cell.

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Boty - 412 days 15 hours ago

4 - These guys are all set then....

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

and

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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PirateThom - 412 days 15 hours ago

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Oh lord. The tower in the first link made me laugh!

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PirateThom - 412 days 15 hours ago

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch...

Oh lord, they need to get GT5 ON THIS!

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Boty - 412 days 15 hours ago

4.3 - HOLY ------!

I only wish! Thats 800 CORES!

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UltimateIdiot911 - 412 days 15 hours ago

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Forget about having an army of PS3, I want their display.

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wetowel - 412 days 15 hours ago

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Holy Shi^

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kharma45 - 412 days 14 hours ago

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Damn right xD

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IDemonstalkerXI - 412 days 12 hours ago

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Indeed.

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edhe - 412 days 15 hours ago

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Nice.

You really do get to see the benefit of the cell when they start parallel processing on 'em, should be a good clue as to what the ps4 may be.

...drooling yet?

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PirateThom - 412 days 15 hours ago

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Consider this.

The PS3 was supposed to have no GPU and 4 Cell processors, but costs eliminated that.

The PS4 needs to have 4 Cell Processors 4GB of RAM (1GB per processor) and a x12 Blu-ray drive.

Epic.

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MvmntInGrn - 412 days 15 hours ago

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whoa I have never heard those specs, that would have been absolutely mind-blowing. By PS4 the cell will be a lot cheaper.

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PirateThom - 412 days 14 hours ago

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Yeah, but we're talking in 2 or 3 years time. 2GB+ RAM is standard in just about every PC and a Cell processor is currently less than $60.

With constant cost and size reductions, it's not outside the realms of possibility. Hasn't there been rumours that the PS4 would use a Cell based architecture so developers could hit the ground running with programming for it?

I'd say they'd avoid a massively expensive console, though.

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Bathyj - 412 days 14 hours ago

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They didn't spend billions making Cell just one one generation of console. If you think that, you're just as shortsighted as M$.

And we all know Cells are made to hive, and work together. 4 Cells connected can to alot more than 4 working on their own,

By the time PS4 comes, Cell will be cheap, BR drives will be cheap and quicker, and RAM will be cheap. God, its a no brainer.

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LiQuiFiedArt - 412 days 13 hours ago

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"I remember myself talking to my friends about the emotion chip and how the PS2 had the most advance CPU... and guess what Sony abandon it and many of the things they showed on tech demos never materialized."

Thats acutally NOT TRUE. Cell is the Evolution of the EE. Its still part of Ken Kutaragi's Vision. His vision is a future with Parallel Processing.

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jlytle1234 - 412 days 12 hours ago

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the cell is a joint venture between sony, toshiba, and ibm. They all equally own it through a joint company called STi. Sony sold its cell factories to toshiba to make back some of the money it spent in r&d for the cell. It didnt sell its share in the processor and factories have nothing to do with research and development. Sony owns as much of the cell as its co-creators. IBM has been using the cell to make servers and the most powerful supercomputer on earth. You would have to be crazy to think the next playstation wont be a cell based engine considering:
1) there isnt anything as powerful
2) they spent so much money developing it
3) by the time the ps4 is out, devs will understand the cell technology. so why would you change it on them again, knowing the kind of problems it will cause.
4) cell technology will be much cheaper to produce having been around for so long.

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Some_One_Plays - 412 days 10 hours ago

6.9 - PirateThom

That's actually true and in a way I think it would have be worth the risk if Sony was that risky. That would allow Killzone 2 to be in 1080p with 60fps instead of 720p at 30fps.

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Ju - 412 days 10 hours ago

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Not sure if they'll ever use multiple cpus in a game console, but one CELL on the roadmap has 2 cores and 32spus. That's about the same SPU performance (maybe more, since its possibly optimized) like those 4 PS3, and the 2 PPU cores could be enough to what those 4 PS3 do, but will be more efficient because the share short data paths. Maybe, a multiple RSX approach could be added. That's the only thing where I would be curious to see how to scale this chip. With a CELL beast, an old fashioned RSX (or multiples of it) could be sufficient and used as a rasterizer only. Rest can be done by the CELL. So, I think these theories are not to far off - except the market dictates a Wii-like approach for the next gen.

I would be curious to learn, how they connected those 4 PS3s. And how the communication works between them. Just a 4 way HDMI port wouldn't do, I guess.

Anyway, before one says, 3840x2160, what for. It would also give you 4x more details on 1080p.

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DaTruth - 412 days 5 hours ago

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Given this scenario, it is not necessary to build a whole new console, many have already used multiple PS3's working together to make a supercomputer, so it would only be necessary to buy another PS3 and write a firmware to let them work together. All PS3's have Wifi so they could easily communicate with each other at high speeds. When PS3 hits $150 price range it would be easy and cheap for anybody to join the next gen by buying another PS3.

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Silogon - 412 days 15 hours ago

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One day that'll be us in our living rooms... Well, rather our sons and daughters probably.

On a side note... do you remember when Krazy Ken said that the more Ps3's in and around and area connected would mean the more power and performance the PS3 would be able to achive? Remember that? Sure it didn't go down for us, but it looks like this is a little bit of what that crazy ass dude was talking about. Maybe Ps4, guys!!!!

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Oner - 412 days 15 hours ago

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I'm already on my way with 2 PS3's an Obutto Race Chassis & a Logitech G25! Though in all honesty I wouldn't go all out like in the article (FFS the projector is $$$$)...I'll be happy with what the PS3 can do now & what the PS4 along with Polyphony Digital has to offer when that day comes ;).

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pixelsword - 412 days 7 hours ago

1.3 - I guess Ken isn't that crazy, then...

...more like a visionary that gets laughed-at by people with gimped vision.

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Mr PS3 - 412 days 15 hours ago

2 - Suck on that BoTs !!!!!!!!!

Now Back to your Avaturds

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BananaSlug - 412 days 14 hours ago

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so that's how they will sell playstation 3s

=)

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Surfman - 412 days 14 hours ago

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pp? ppppp???

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ToastMan018 - 412 days 14 hours ago

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sorry wrong section!

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AuToFiRE - 412 days 13 hours ago

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DAMN IT! SCREENS OR GTFO

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AuToFiRE - 412 days 10 hours ago

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the only problem i have with big screens is you have to look around

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caffman - 412 days 1 hour ago

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108p? Jesus that must REALLY suck

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ChaoFun - 412 days 13 hours ago

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what about xbox?

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MaximusPrime - 412 days 12 hours ago

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xbox 360 cannot handle GT5, only less inferior flawza 2

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Oner - 412 days 11 hours ago

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Maximus you actually made me laugh! Flawza 2 LOL! ~ Bubbles

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Shaka2K6 - 412 days 11 hours ago

10 - ' ' flawza 2 ' '

LMAO with only 2 tracks and 5 cars LMAO!!!!

Sony PS3 is the king !!

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jerethdagryphon - 412 days 9 hours ago

11 - screenshots

would be pointless as theyd vbe compressed to .jpeg standards

and would be lossy then lossy again when displayed on low res moniters

the science works but only way to see it would be to hope they do another event

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cmrbe - 412 days 8 hours ago

12 - Ladies and gents

I present PS4!!

Haha. This is why poly has taken so long with GT5. Nothing close to revolutionary perfection is what they are aiming for.

Poly is living up to their rep. GT will again define the best there is in PS gaming like they did in previous gens.

No other racing game or any game for that matter can match its technical achievements.

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RLSsmokes - 412 days 7 hours ago

13 - omg

PS4 looking good

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pixelsword - 412 days 6 hours ago

14 - Hey, as long as the PS3 lasts 10 years building up to this...

...I will welcome it;

I would hate to see the PS3 or 360 cut short because this gen's consoles couldn't cut it so the makers of the consoles "take the money and run" to the next generation.

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shawnsl65 - 411 days 15 hours ago

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yeah.. but good thing most developers aren't ready for the next next gen gaming system yet. Heck, they haven't even perfected this gen consoles yet. I'm pretty sure the ps3 will last at least 7 years.

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