nice... PS3 is awesome



and wasn't PS2 prohibited to be sold in some countries because it can be used to "create" giant bombs?

Neither of those is true. It was originally held up for import in some countries because Sony attempted to classify it as a 'computer' rather than a video game system, because computers had lower import tariffs.

Yeah you don't see this kind of thing on xbox's, I guess people are too busy playing games on it... Although this is cool, it's extremely pointless, I don't see any hospital really buying ps3s to look at xrays. This isn't helping the PS3 at all.

...At the amazing dumbness of your comments.



Okay, I acknowledge that the PS3 kicks 360's ass in raw power.



But as long as my 360 runs the games I want to play, I really, really don't give a flying f*ck about how powerful the processor is compared to the PS3.



Seriously, wtf.

"and wasn't PS2 prohibited to be sold in some countries because it can be used to "create" giant bombs? "





Are you sure it wasn't the original xbox?

the same thing here... but one concern over importing the PS2 was from the similarity in a computer chip used for guided missiles.

I think its tough to say that an Xbox 360 can run general applications at twice the speed of a PS3. I mean, its usually based on what a program is optimized for. Even as users, I dont think we can completely say what a PS3 can/cant code better on because developers are still figureing it out itself. So just in my opinion, the PS3 does have the XDR RAM, and even though the 360 has 3 PPUs while the PS3 has 1 PPU + 8 SPEs instead, I think the PS3 has more potential for running applications faster in general then the 360 given that you take a single program and optimize it for both.

this may not seem much like a breatkthough, but this does come to show what the PS3 can do, perhaps apps shall start pouring for the PS3!!



@phiyuku: ahh a typical xbox FPS fan, still not tired of the mindless run-gunning?

What hospitals do with a PS3 doesn't make the PS3 any better than Xbox 360.



The hospitals are really just saving money buying PS3 clusters over IBM Blades which isn't really newsworthy other than just cool and giving Sony's gaming division more publicity.



I'd go into the actual differences of the Cell B.E. and a triple-core x86 processor more in-depth than what any random person can read on Wikipedia, but I think I should save that rant for another, perhaps more sober, night.

"even though the 360 has 3 PPUs while the PS3 has 1 PPU + 8 SPEs"



that's the point Csyrah. the cores of both CPUs are based around the same PowerPC technology, but the 360 has 3 PPUs for running main code (i.e. non-arithmetic operations) compared to PS3's single PPU (both at 3.2Ghz). this will give the 360 the advantage for such code.

the SPEs are for maths only, just like the FPU in each 360 core, so that's 6 SPEs in the PS3 compared to 3 VMX units in the 360, giving the PS3 the advantage for maths.

the difficulty on the PS3 if not programming the PPU, there's no more to figure out that the 360's PPU (same code base), the difficulty is in getting the SPEs to do as much work as possible, lessening the load on the Cell's PPU, but this only applies to mathematical calculations. If there's no maths, then there's nothing for the SPEs to do (or the VMX units in the 360).

so unless your application has lots of maths, then the 360 will run the application faster than the PS3, and this will be seen more when running multiple applications.

Anyone here wanna read x-rays with their PS3? No.



Does it matter that a game console can read x-rays? No



It's way more important for the PS3 to be a game console not a PC.

I would have to say yes to both of those actually. Not for the purpose of specifically narrowing down to the PS3 being capable of reading Xrays, but the fact that once it gets opened up to new capabilities, then its potential is further maximized. One useless thing COULD lead to another great thing. Besides, it would be nice to play a PS3 while waiting in that boreing room for my doctor