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From: "Rikki Prince" <netyaroze@rprince.dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Playstation 3 for 2002
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:12:40 +0100
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> Not sure how to take this, I think it's a bad idea but read all about
> Playstation 3 and 4 here
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/991006-000026.html


I read something similar to this earlier today or yesterday. Obviously, it
sounds an annoying thing to do, and stupid thing to tell people, before even
releasing the PS2. However, nowhere in the story does it say that Sony have
confirmed a third console in the PlayStation series. Just because Sony are
bringing out a newer version of the chip it's using in their latest games
console, doesn't mean they're going to use it in another games console. It's
highly likely they will apply the massive power of the Emotion Engine 2 to
another area of entertainment. Admittedly I cannot think of numerous
applications for the new chip (and if Sony have got some innovative idea,
it's unlikely many people will be able to predict it), but there's one thing
that I thought of straight away, based on something I heard about a year
ago - sports transmission.

As I said, a year or so ago I read about how someone was pioneering a method
of showing football matches over the internet, by putting transmitters on
the players, and in the ball, which were then sent over the internet to
whoever was watching, and deciphered by the software, which then played the
match in real time, using an engine similar to a football game like FIFA or
ISS. I haven't heard much lately, probably as a year or so ago technology
wasn't quite good enough. However, thinking about it now, it seems even more
viable. With the amount Sony are claiming you can do with the current
Emotion Engine - show people's facial expressions, put many hi res figures
on screen etc - imagine with 5 times more in transistor count (don't sound
much, but when you compare the figure of 10 million to 50 million you
suddenly realise the difference), and possibly tons more RAM, you could have
photo textures of all the players' faces and the teams' shirts, downloaded
at the start of the match, running the game engine, by receiving information
on exactly where on the pitch the player is.

Of course, Sony could be planning increase its market by going head-to-head
with Intel by releasing a PC processor. But of course, they could, just as
equally be inventing another form of technology, that no one outside
somewhere deep inside Sony's R and D building could ever fathom.

Rikki