While Sony has yet to announce anything concrete about their next generation console, speculation is rife about what snazzy doodads it will be bringing to the table.<\/p>\n
The PlayStation 3 makes use of a 550MHz Nvidia ‘Reality Synthesizer’ GPU while its rival, the Xbox 360, uses a 500MHz AMD Xenos.<\/p>\n
The rumour, stemming from former AMD employees, indicates that Sony intends to abandon the green team in their next console and switch over to the red demon.<\/p>\n
Both AMD and Sony have declined to comment.<\/p>\n
A patent has recently been filed by Sony for a motion tracking camera similar to that of Microsoft’s Kinect.<\/p>\n
The patent is essentially for a device with a specific depth range, with distances being mapped and registered. Capable of interpreting people and static objects which are then \u201crendered and displayed in a virtual scene\u201d, it definitely sounds like Kinect material.<\/p>\n
However, we already know Sony isn’t focussed on the next generation of consoles, sticking firmly to its belief that the PS3 still has a couple of years left of its ten-year run, expected to end in 2016.<\/p>\n
For now, at least, it’s fun to speculate what the next generation PlayStation will hold in store for us.<\/p>\n
Rumour control: Sony is developing a 3D camera peripheral<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sony “just entering into this great period for PS3”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n