Tekken 6 to use the Cell Broadband Engine (Arcade)

[TheApprentice]

Summary:
According to Namco, the first arcade game to run on the Cell microprocessor will be Tekken 6, marking the first commercial usage of Cell technology outside of the PS3.



According to a report by the Mainichi Daily News, Bandai Namco Games Inc. announced that their upcoming arcade fighting game Tekken 6 will run on the Cell processor, the famed microchip jointly developed for the PS3 by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM.

Although the chip had been highly touted by its creators from its onset as a processing engine that could be applied to a wide variety of household devices, this announcement marks the first time that the Cell is being used for a commercial device other than the PS3.

Bandai Namco spokeswoman Miki Baba told Mainichi that, although it's been confirmed that Tekken 6 will utilize the Cell, they still have not made a definite decision regarding their future arcade hardware. Namco has used arcade technology based on PS2 architecture in the past, but the company is still uncertain as to whether they should base future arcade hardware on Cell-based technology.

Tekken 6 will debut in Japanese arcades later this year, but an exact launch date has yet to be announced.

Source: http://www.gametrailers.com/viewnews.php?id=4307

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[Imperial_X]

The local t6 arcade scene is so bleak looking right about now.

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as is the local T5 DR and T6 scene..

[TriniXaeno]

as is the local arcade scene period.

went san fernando the other day and walked into an arcade in La Pique plaza with about 5 patrons only.

That used to be the mecca for us as school kids back in the day. Chicken Roost and La Pique arcade.

Well as they always say, the only constant is change.

The king is dead, long live the king.

viva la console and pc.