Sony PS3 to be More Powerful Than Expected

According to Sony's Phil Harrison the Playstation 3 demonstrations shown at this years E3 show, were running on only 75% of the systems total output.

In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Harrison told the online publication “It only gets better from here on in,” “As you get closer and closer to production hardware, you’re using more and more like the final silicon, which will be more and more like the final clock speed.”

If this is the case, then Microsoft really needs to be scrambling. According to Japanese website ITmedia, the Playstation 3 development kits are running at a 2.4GHz processing speed while the final versions of the chip will run at a smoking 3.2GHz, and on top of that, the final Playstation 3 will have a more powerful NVIDIA graphics processor.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is expected to be available this November while Sony’s Playstation 3 will come out sometime next spring.

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