It’s pretty safe to say that May was not a good month for Sony, and judging from articles starting to show up June might not be so great either. A recent article in TheInq lists some interesting tidbits about the second-gen Playstation 3 development kits. The bottom line: they’re not fast enough, and the specs aren’t final.

“The slightly more curious bit, encouraging and disturbing at the same time, is the current state of RSX. The disturbing part is that the slide I was shown had “Current DEH’s aren’t final spec or speed” in bold letters. Speed, OK, but not final spec at this point in time leaves precious little room for debugging before the console release. On a different note the current ones are running the RSX core at 420MHz with 550 expected for launch. Memory is set at 600MHz with 700 hoped for as final.”

It looks like a lot of game programmers might be spending a lot of late nights before the PS3 releases. And with the possibility of speed bumps and spec changes this close to launch, it should be interesting to see which console reigns supreme in the area of overheating / crashing.

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