More rumours are floating around about Sony’s PS4 today. This time a company named Goto have mentioned that the Cell Broadband Engine (or Cell processor) that is used in the PS3 might be used as a base in the Playstation 4. Of course, there is no official source of this information as Sony have not yet released information about it. According to Goto they believe that Sony is looking at an upgraded PS3 chipset to power the PS4 although I am not convinced my self yet.
If Sony stick with the Cell platform then there are benefits as the main brunt of the work has already been done and it’s just a matter if improving it more. However, would Sony use a technology from today in 4 years time when it is launched?
Goto have also speculated that we could be seeing up to 32 cores in the PS4 next gen console as opposed to 8 in the current PS3. This number was arrived at by using the popular Moore’s Law, although they also think that Sony might just stop at 20 cores and slightly increase the clock speed which would put things just over 2x in performance from the PS4 box.
The main reasoning behind Goto’s claims is that it could take a good number of years (like 4 or so) for Sony to develop a new chip. If they are aiming for a 2011 release date then by using the Cell this might be possible.
My own opinion on this is that what ever they do, we should see a difference in game quality so that we feel we have a need to upgrade from our PS3’s.
Via: IGN
