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Re: Sony unveils Playstation 2
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Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:09:38 GMT
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Adam Yulish <bwappo@ee.net> wrote:
> Granted, "not anymore". When the playstation came out, a voodoo card
> alone was half the cost of a playstation, never mind CPU prices. Now,
> the cost of a playstation-level computer is under $400. Same thing will
> happen when the Dreamcast and PSX2 emerge. The cost will be 4:1, then
> gradually settle down to 2:1.
Don't get me started on the cost of 3d accelerators. :) As an early
adopter I paid $600 for my 2 12mb voodoo2 cards. Now the same thing
can be had for less than $250, I think. 'Course, I got 9 months or so
of use out of them.
> TVs cost less than monitors, but in the same proportion as computers
> cost to consoles (and for the same reasons). A 19" TV and a 19" monitor
> have a significant cost difference (and quality difference to justify
> that cost).
Oh yeah, definitely.
> been talking with a guy over in NGO's forums, who implied that something
> even better than Metabyte's PGP will be announced at next week's Game
> Developer Conference).
That would be sweet, although I'm really looking forward to dual TNT2.
> I think that's the more important aspect. It's not that the PSX2 can do
> a gazillion things a second. More important is that the growing
> marketshare is in the lower end, and these people are willing to
> sacrifice the ability to play quake8 for the chance to play all of the
> rest of the games with little no hitches, and play them online, etc.
> etc. Games that don't tax the machine will really start to take off.
> Even StarCraft and Diablo run fine on a P-100.
Yup.
As an aside, MSI is now producing a slotkit converter for the
socket370 celeron (lets it work in a slot 1 board) that has a single
jumper on it that allows you to enable dual processors. :) No
soldering required, just a jumper. :) Intel's gotta hate it.
Even if I we don't OC, dual 400 Celerons can probably be had for quite
a bit less than a single p2-400. :)
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| (...) I.e. you were picking off people from a distance before most people had a "distance" from which to be picked off. :) (...) You and me BOTH. I've been holding off on buying a new computer for a *long* time, and this might be the thing that puts (...) (28 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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