A Record: Guinness just added the Playstation 3 to their Book of World Records. Apparently the PS3 is the most powerfully distributed computing system in the whole wide world. That’s because when you aren’t using your PS3, its constantly doing math for some sort of laundry experiment called FOLDING@home. We don’t understand it either.
A Win: As if this milestone weren’t enough for the prospering console, Punch Jump is reporting that the PS3’s 80GB model (recently dropped to a mere $499 in the US) was the top seller on circuitcity.com.
Hey, it’s a start right?
A Loss: Sony announced this week that its losses for the PS3 are now expected to come in at a cool Bah-Bah BILLION dollars.
Say what you will about the PS3, but something tells me that any company willing to lose a Billion dollars on a console is in it for the long haul. It won’t happen overnight, but I expect that Sony’s gonna put on their thinking caps and hit us with something special this year. Maybe they could channel some of that Folding@home processing power to their development and marketing departments!
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7 responses so far ↓
1 Nicholie // Nov 5, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Sony Exec : “Ok, so what do we have all these chumps who bought the PS3 without any games do?”
CEO : “Hm.. maybe something chariable.. FOLDING@Home?”
Exec : “Done. I’m going to go back to praying for MGS4.”
2 igot99problems // Nov 5, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I had a choice between a capachino machine or buying a PS3. Sony owes me a decent cup of joe.
3 mrpuggywuggy // Nov 5, 2007 at 2:34 pm
i have a ps3 and enjoy using it but i have no clue what folding@home is or what its for?
4 Sean "rothbart" Workman // Nov 5, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Don’t be a lazy ass, run it and it’s got an FAQ link right inside the program to tell you what it’s about.
I think 73% of the people that say they don’t know what folding@home are hilariously lazy because it takes less typing to type “I don’t know what folding@home is” than it does to type “folding@home” into your Google toolbar or search field on your browser and clicking on the results. For me, the FAQ shows up in the FIRST entry on Google. Lazy… ass…
Also, Microsoft was willing to take a billion dollar loss recently too… oh wait, that’s right, that was $1.15B to handle fixing their faulty consoles… doh!
5 Sean "rothbart" Workman // Nov 5, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I’m a tard, I meant less time to do the Google search than feign ignorance.
6 wifey // Nov 5, 2007 at 9:33 pm
If I get you a Playstation 3, will you start doing some Folding @ Home?
7 BlacKRaiN_666 // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:14 am
they never spent a billion dollars fixing faulty consoles, are you sure ur not talking about microsoft? the ps3 was actually working properly all-around whenever it came out and it wasnt put out insanely early
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