Shaping the Next Generation Consoles

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dharh said:
* Keep the Prices Affordable

Hell yes.

* Add motion sensor and vibration ability to the consoles

Please just no wiimote type control as the main way to play games. I would scream in frustration in having to play final fantasy or halo with that damned wiimote.

* Make it generically upgradable
* Keep the models simple

Yes. PS3 failed in that Sony should have had one SKU (no BC except through sony store via ps1/ps2 downloadable games) with a way to swap the harddrive in and out kinda like the X360 except MS should never have come out with the arcade SKU. Harddrive should be standard and required to even turn the console on.

* Eliminate the bottlenecks and parallelize

Next gen is probably going to go dual or quad core, or even Cell (though maybe Sony will do the smart thing and drop it). Parallelization is a hard thing to do right, most of the time programmers do fake parallelization via doing a few different things at the same time instead of splitting a single task into parallel chunks. You'd be surprised how much more efficient the latter can be compared to the former. In order to adhere to making the console easier to program on they need to be careful not to do what the Cell did and make it the worst console to program on this gen.

Hell, you are right! I couldnt aggree more on the last paragraph!