PlayStation 3 confirmed as "focus" for Sony"s Cell chip - although it"ll also be used to give their TVs "computer-like functions". Lordy
After Sony"s somewhat obscure comments at their E3 conference regarding their forthcoming Cell processor - which will be used to power PlayStation 3 - Sony chairman Nonuyuki Idei has revealed more of their plans for the chip. And he"s confirmed that their first consumer application for it is going to be PS3, which now looks set to appear in March 2006.
"We"ll first focus on developing a successor console to the PlayStation 2," he says. "But incorporating the Cell chip into TVs will give us greater control in adding functions, so we"ll concurrently pursue the development of a new game console and the incorporation of the chip into TVs. It just means that demand for TVs with computer-like functions is starting to emerge and we are going to meet such demand."