American gaming website Gamespot.com today reports Sony boss Ken Kutaragi's latest boasting concerning the forthcoming PS3 console. Kutaragi-san reportedly told the International Digital Conference in Tokyo last week that the new console is 'capable' of running games at a staggering 120 frames-per-second. 60 fps is regarded as very good, by current standards. The report, derived from the Nikkei BP, also notes that no current TV hardware is capable of refreshing quickly enough to support such speed, but this doesn't seem to worry Sony. Kutaragi states that TV's supporting this kind of speed are en route, and that the PS3 will be ready to make use of such power when it does land in living rooms. It might be that the PS4 is with us by this point, however.
120 fps is a quite obscene level of 'smoothness', but we'd have to wonder whether its even dramatically noticeable beyond 60 fps anyway, that said, never let it be said the PS3 and the Cell CPU are short on potential. On this potential, Kutaragi also told the Nikkei that the Cell's uses are multiple; it can be used to display multiple TV channels with HDTV, display newspapers full size, as well as video conferencing. 'Clusters' of Cell processors could also be used for more grandiose computing tasks, and generally speaking the Sony boss is pretty excited about the possibilities. More as we get it, then.
Update: Word just in from one kind reader informs us that this is in fact a mistranslation. Ken was, apparently, merely referring to videos - rather than games. We'll double check this and let you know.
