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This right here. Gamers were burnt by SEGA's past consoles and SONY's hype machine was running on all cylinders. SONY was promising Toy Story level graphic and
by Grazester 4y ago
This right here.
Gamers were burnt by SEGA's past consoles and SONY's hype machine was running on all cylinders.
SONY was promising Toy Story level graphic and all sorts of nonsense with their "emotion engine".
- keepquestioning 4y agoWhat was the emotion engine actually
- bagels 4y agoMarketing nonsense. Sony was trying to sell the idea that the PS2 cpu had... magic in them.
- fxtentacle 4y agoThe PS2 had two CPUs inside, one of which had GPU-like features. To differentiate them, one was called the IOP = Input Output Processor and the other the EE = Emotion Engine. It was a surprisingly powerful system at the time and it took developers years to understand it well enough to take full advantage of the hardware. But the ability to have 2 CPUs run simultaneously and interact with each other allowed for A LOT of crazy optimizations that I haven't seen since.
- pbar 4y agoInteresting, what were some of those unique optimizations?
- bitwize 4y agoIt was a MIPS CPU with special proprietary vector units.
- keepquestioning 4y agoOh... boring