Any news on the latest PS3 Update?

Marky

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Hey all,

I remember hearing there was a new PS3 update in the works that was going to be released just before MGS4.

With all the hype and playing on MGS4 I completely forgot that there wasn't an update.

Is there a reason for the delay? Is there a date announced yet?

Thanks,
Marky
 
triggerthat said:
Backwards compatability firmware? :)
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I really hope so, but I'm thinking Sony might lose money if they do that because that means the only thing that would separate the 40Gb and 80Gb PS3's (the only two currently still in production) would indeed be the size of the hard drive, the two extra USB ports and the card readers which from what I've gathered people aren't too bothered about anyway, so by releasing a firmware which supports backwards compatibility they probably wouldn't sell as many 80 Gig PS3s.

Mind you it's Sony's loss, not ours :)
 
Backwards compatability wont be possible because the 40Gb doesn't have the correct hardware to run it unfortunately.
 
The next update is v2.40 which will intorduce ingame XMB at long last. 1 date flying around is the 18th June although some are saying it may well of been pushed back to July.
 
in its current state ps2 chips are still definitely needed. the 60gb despite common thinking still has ps2 hardware to run ps2 games, which was removed in the 40gb....guess what, no ps2 emulation.


it could be done, but on a title by title basis and not without some major rewriting of code. if they do do it, i wouldnt expect a lot of games to be compatible.
 
no! its a software and hardware solution. only part of the hardware (the emotion engine, aka EE) was removed from the original us and jap models. the 60gb consoles still have the graphics synthesizer (the GS). the 40gb has neither = no emulation.


think about it...... if the 60gb consoles emulated entirely in software....which means the 40gb would have been able to from the start.....so why didnt they?
 
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Ah ok that makes sense. Now I think about it, you're probably right (and Wikipedia agrees with you).
 
Tute said:
I thought that any future backwards compatibility was going to be done software-side.
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It's just the PS2 CPU that is software emulated, the PS2 GPU has so much bandwidth that it can't be emulated.

Only the original Japanese/American PS3's had full hardware emulation and that's probably the way that it'll stay, ie. all future units will just have hardware emulation of GPU only.
 
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It should arrive within the next few weeks, as soon as an article goes up on the psblog regarding it ... then it will arrive a few days later.
 
closeratio said:
Yeah apparently the software emulation only works for about 80% of the PS2 games. Better than none though I guess.
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This is also what I thought. I know Sony removed the emotion engine to reduce costs, but I think their plan all along was to get it working by other means further down the road.
 
mmj_uk said:
It's just the PS2 CPU that is software emulated, the PS2 GPU has so much bandwidth that it can't be emulated.
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Is there no way to use the apparently awesome cell processor that sony are making such a fuss about to emulate the PS2 GPU as well as the EE? I mean with 6 cells is there no way you can process both the graphics and the physics and whatever else just using the cell processor? And basically not use the RSX chip at all?

Or even, and I suppose this would be quite difficult to do, emulate the PS2's emotion engine using the CBE (like they've been doing with the 60Gb PS3) and then somehow code the emulator it uses to use the RSX for the graphics?

Just some ideas :) Mind you if they could I guess they'd have done it all already
 
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