PS3 Dev Kit Appears

[streetsoulja]

Future of gaming looks to be a large gray box with lights.
by Ed Lewis

June 22, 2005 - While the PS3 is already looking to be the largest console in the next generation, the development kit is going to dwarf it entirely. Japanese journalist Honda Masakazu of IT Media put a photo of the dev kit in his blog and it has been quickly spreading across the web. According to him, this huge box has a 2.4GHz Cell processor and a GPU that is not quite as powerful as the RSX chip. Apparently, some of the demos from Sony's E3 press conference were running on this machine.

As of press time, calls to Sony Computer Entertainment America to verify the photo have gone unanswered.



props to TaterNutz for this

[pbguy434]

Well wow. Its like a full-blown tower PC! Lol.

Does anyone have a gues on why it is so big? Maybe they still have some heat problems?

[unit_number_43]

well it's a Development box. It's probably got a bunch of added hardware to it like a couple of hard drives, and they weren't worried about packaging it up nicely either. It's a workhorse, not a finished product. I wouldn't be worried about this having any impact on the PS3 final realease.

[pbguy434]

Yea, you are probobly right. I really doubt that even half the people buying a Ps3 will even be seeing this.

[Samuel]

Yea this wont be the final product. Lol. Its just a moch up for the hardware. (like 43 said lol). I hate the PS-p-1-2-3 Lol!