Anyone remember the GSCube?

developed by sony, this machine was suposed to have 16x time the power of the ps2, and some info told george lucas and star wars episode two had a certain relation with it. some pictures where even released and published in some magazine (i have one of them). Anyone have any info about what happened to the project and how far in developement it was?

 

Hmm, never heard of it. While we're at it, anybody heard of PlayStation Plus and/or GPU-B?

 

anyone heard of the Np2?

 

Yea, I remember the GScube. From what I recall, it wasn't 16x the power of ps2, it was 64x the power. That was due to the fact though that it actualy had 64 modified p2s boards with alot more ram (somewhere between 64-512mbs each). They used it to run a section of the ANTZ movie in real time, as well as some other impressive stuff. Unfortunatly, I believe that sony was mostly using it to show off what would be possible in future consoles. Even if thats not the case, it never went into production.

 

I have an Edge special with loads of info on the GSCube. I'll scan it and put up pics.

 

SO do that!

 

never heard of it but it should look like this:






numbers differ a little

16 blades were crafted into the GSCube producing
1.15G polygon/sec in 1920x1080 60p...

 

exactly that.

anymore informations? what they did with it? what was the point of that system? and why?

and i'm pretty sure it was 16x, i need to check in my old magazines.

 

MY GOD that thing is huge, hehehe

I think the GS stands for godzilla sized

 

The pad looks like a Pink PSX pad. I'd SO want that...

 

if i read right this not really a prototype more some kind of design study for makeability in a part also a tryout for the ps3 maybe they tried to test out the massive paralellisation that they now face with the half dozen of cell units in a real environment

oh and test it was on the sigraph expo with a matrix scene that rendered the vfx in realtime at 60fps in 1080p when the original needed 1hour per frame but remember all that was around 2000

 

What is it with you and pink By the way, I wore a pinkish looking shirt to work today :smt042 Well, more salmon coloured really.

Yakumo

 

dont you see hes nick? Dirtypig, pigs are pink, he likes pink

 

Oh you have such a one track mind! The pants-wetting penultimate parallellisation of quirky architecture madness is shown and all you think about is a pink pad! You failed the geek test ;-)

 

the pad is the same as the original psx dualshock controller, i got another picture in a magazine where you can clearly see it, without the strange looking pink lighting.

 

I'm confused by this post. Maybe there is a guy around here that goes by Nick, and this Nick guy likes pink, so Evangelion-01 is calling Nick a dirty pig. The only thing I want to know is what did this Nick guy ever do to Evangelion-01? It must have been pretty bad to be calling him a dirty pig.

 

so does anyone want to buy my GScube? *cough* lol