The Sony PlayStation GScube: Exciting, but more Brawn than Brains

摘要

The Sony idea shows real spirit. The idea is to put 32 PlayStation Ⅱ chips in parallel to achieve graphics processing rates suitable for real time rendering of complex scenes at HDTV resolution. Any number of graphics chip companies could have chosen to undertake a similar machine, but only Sony has actually done it. Right now the GScube is not a product, but rather is being offered selectively to companies who promise to do something with it. In the short run, Sony hopes to learn some about possible future directions in graphics entertainment. Down the road a bit they plan to make a prodr uct out of the GScube.