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If PS3 is any guide, they will see massive supercompute clusters taking advantage of the subsidized hardware and bleeding them dry.
by kobeya 10y ago
If PS3 is any guide, they will see massive supercompute clusters taking advantage of the subsidized hardware and bleeding them dry.
- 6DM 10y agoIf any were curious, PS3 used to support linux: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Sony-Linux-PS3-Firmware-Update,10007.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Sony-Linux-PS3-Firmware-Upd...
- NegativeLatency 10y agoI think the current generation is more in line with compute costs to the point that this wouldn't make too much sense
- djsumdog 10y agoThe PS3 was a Cell processor, a new architecture promoted by Sony/IBM .. Toshiba? I think? PS4s just have a regular old AMD x86/64 chip in them ... plus all that other garbage he described in the talk. With all the hacks it takes to get Linux to even boot, I'm pretty sure it's not worth the cost compared to just buying a real x86/64 PC based server.
- kobeya 10y agoExcept a "real" PC based server has 4x the cost.
- michaelmrose 10y agoEquivalent hardware doesn't cost 4x apples and oranges
- michaelmrose 10y agoWhich current generation console was sold at less than cost? Is there any reason to expect next generation consoles to do so?
- kobeya 10y agoParts + assembly and logistics? Unclear. A unit cost more than the bill of materials.
- michaelmrose 10y agoThat really isn't an answer I'm pretty sure the answer is none.
- kobeya 10y agoIf Sony got an order for 200k PS4's, with a guarantee of no follow up game sales, do you think they will consider it worthwhile?
- michaelmrose 10y agoNonsense scenario. They aren't an optimal choice AND regardless of being open or not they needn't agree to fulfill such an order.