Sony claims PS3 has more beneath the hood

The aftermath from last month’s E3-mass is still going on and this time its Sony that is making a statement on its PlayStation 3-demos and the hardware it used to display them. Just as Microsoft it claims to have used a developing system that has far from the capacity of the final product and that the next generation Playstation will be a much more powerful console. The Japanese site ITmedia has revealed that Epic’s Unreal Tournament 2007 demo was run on a hardware clocked at only 75% of the final specifications. 

“The Cell chip in the development kits runs at 2.4GHz, according to ITmedia, while the final chip will be at 3.2GHz; and the graphics part used for the demos wasn’t the final RSX chip, but rather a different NVIDIA GPU which may not have been optimised for the PS3’s high-speed RAMBUS memory interface.”

We have no real eason to doubt Sony’s statement as they appear logical. Although Microsoft claimed to run its demos on a Alpha-kit with only 25% of the performance of the final product. It is still uncertain how many and which demos that was pre-rendered, which makes the hardware specifications rather uninteresting in those cases.

Source: Gamesindustry.biz