Two pieces of PS3 speculation are doing the rounds this morning. First up, the Inquirer reckons the next-gen machine is still far from complete. Apparently, the innards are too big to fit into the casing and Sony is still bidding on components for the end product - two aspects which are usually ironed out at this stage in a console's pre-launch gestation.
Meanwhile, PS3portal.com claims to have spoken to developers who believe PS3, like Xbox 360, will have an OS running in the background while you're playing games in order to facilitate in-game chat and live downloads. However, the site suggests that in PS3, this will take up, "25% of the available Cores on the CPU and 18.75% of the available RAM in the system". In other words, a lot of the available resources.
Is this just typical scaremongering conjured up by an online media community fascinated by the prospect of Sony falling on its face? Or are there real concerns amid the vague conjecture and non-attributed developer chat?
