greenmedic88 said:
Maybe MS should just design and engineer a poorly disguised PC as the Xbox 3.0 to make it easier for all those overworked and perplexed software engineers.
High yield (low cost) Nehalem i7 quadcore based CPU, high yield Nvidia R200 based single core GPU, and a full GB of shared DDR3 memory and MANDATORY mass storage media.
But then, what would be the point of marketing such a box other than as a budget gaming PC that costs less than what a system builder could make themself using off the shelf parts? Hm... MS still gets to sell hardware and licensed peripherals and collect licensing fees for apps published on their platform and maintain their own fee based network gaming service. Oh right; that.
Not much point in speculating what the next gen of hardware will be using since A) the basis for the the components most likely does not currently exist, and B) there is no definitive answer as to when consumers will actually be seeing it.
I believe that both Nintendo, Sony and MS believe it's in their best interests from a financial standpoint to keep their current gen hardware for as long as consumers are still buying games en masse for them.
What will probably happen is that the first company whose platform starts to experience seriously flagging soft and hardware sales (drop over previous year) will end up jumping the gun on the next generation.
Personally, I think he just like to complain. It's not a knock on Valve or the games they make (which I love), but seriously Gabe, just do your flippin' job and be done with it. He sounds like a professional race car driver who always blames the car he's driving for the difficulty he's having cutting faster lap times on a track.
Newell would probably still be complaining about the implementation of a quadcore CPU despite the overwhelming odds that's where the entire industry's headed anyway.
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they are doing that already, well the only difference it's PPC based.
but of course PPC are PC processors used at MACs even if apple fanboys scream and cry they PCs too.
