Its not a rumor. Its gonna be kick ass, way frickin better than the Gameboy Advance, oh wait, I mean the Lameboy... not... advanced.. Lol.
And Coolsquirtle, stop getting a chubby at the idea of all these CELLS!!! Trust me, you wont have a thousand cells doing graphics calculations for your ps3. Graphics and most AI will occur within the ps3, other cells accross the network will contribute with *some AI, and with the game world/landscape in games like Evarckwesst Tooo, and... three? Only multiplayer games btw will use other cells for any calculations, even then like i said its mainly some ai and level stuff, and some other junk but not graphics.
BTW Matrox will be releasing another gaming card next year (i read a few sentences on it somewhere), most likely sometime after the r420 but before the 6 month refresh, called.. you guessed it, the Parhelia 2.
But like its predesessor I expect 'cool' sounding features, and lack-luster performance at its launch, but it will keep surround gaming which is looking quite attractive to many gamers (mainly rich gamers who can afford 3 monitors).
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