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Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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Re: Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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mytailorisrich wrote: post #113
PeterisP wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" there is no comparable pool of labour anywhere in the world " -> this is not fully true, as when wages in China started to rise, lots of labor offshoring moved to SE Asia (e.g. Vietnam) and there's still a lot of potential for the same to happen in various African countries.

There are pools of cheap-ish labour but none comparable to China. They are much smaller and many, like Africa, are not able to take this on now.

You made a prediction that these places will never be comparable to China. What do you base this on? What prevents India and African countries from establishing special economic zones that are attractive to foreign investors?

Re: Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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rusk wrote: post #11

God I love my PS4 - it has to be the peak of this class of machine. I can't imagine how it could be improved upon without going beyond the "box under the telly format". Incredible piece of machinery. I can't imagine the PS5 will be much more than an upgrade. In my opinion the second best console is the PS2. I love Nintendo but they're more like toys than hard core gaming and entertainment machines. PS2 up until PS4 w…

I agree. The PS2 is great. It's the bare minimum needed to achieve a good 3D experience. PS3 and PS4 are good because they add more horse power but the controller is almost the same and the single player games that can be created on these consoles are not that different from what was possible on the PS2. The PS3's strong points mostly revolve around online multiplayer.

Re: Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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easytiger wrote: post #32
rusk wrote: post #11

God I love my PS4 - it has to be the peak of this class of machine. I can't imagine how it could be improved upon without going beyond the "box under the telly format". Incredible piece of machinery. I can't imagine the PS5 will be much more than an upgrade. In my opinion the second best console is the PS2. I love Nintendo but they're more like toys than hard core gaming and entertainment machines. PS2 up until PS4 w…

> it has to be the peak of this class of machine. I'm sure phones had better GPUs 3-4 years ago than the PS4, and more RAM When i enter the notification quick tab it takes 30-40 seconds to show the message I've received, then another 10-15 to accept it. Currently one single game, COD:MW consumes the entirety of the space on the device. From launch it wasn't ever going to be enough. You need to keep space free because…

>I'm sure phones had better GPUs 3-4 years ago than the PS4, and more RAM

I'd like to see that phone. The PS4 was slightly weaker than my AMD 7870 at the time. If I could get the performance of a 7870 on a laptop without a discrete GPU that would be amazing.

Turns out it's grim. Even a snapdragon 855 doesn't even reach a single TFLOP... [0] If you want to wait until the end of July you can get a phone that breaks the first TFLOP (snapdragon 865)

Meanwhile the ancient 7870 had 2.56 TFLOPS (which is what I am equating the PS4 with). Twice the performance of the unreleased snapdragon.

Going from 4 years ago to a GPU that hasn't even been released yet not even scratching the performance of a PS4 turns your entire comment into a big disappointment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon_sy...

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