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To me the infamy is owed to Sony's "super computer on a chip" hype marketing (similar to the hype around the Emotion Engine int he PS2) surrounding the architec
by MisterTea 2y ago
To me the infamy is owed to Sony's "super computer on a chip" hype marketing (similar to the hype around the Emotion Engine int he PS2) surrounding the architecture coupled with the difficulty in programming it. The big issue was SPE's had no way to access main memory so you had to copy the data from RAM into each SPE which had its own local memory.
- mrguyorama 2y agoThey did a similar marketing push when the PS2 was developed, saying it couldn't be exported to certain countries due to dual-use restrictions because it was "too powerful"
- pezezin 2y agoI remember that, and also how it was called the Emotion Engine because it would allow the creation of virtual characters with real emotions, which to my 15-year-old self sounded like a big load of BS.