MS's Xenos with the 10MB smart EDRAM is pretty revolutionary, and I think you'll see that in future consoles. It's too bad MS didn't use more then 10 though. But being on a seperate bus and same chip as the GPU, it can take the huge bandwidth load that anti-aliasing and other processing uses off the main bus.
Next gen consoles are going to launch with a lot less expensive HW I think, so less powerful but multicore gpus I'd think.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
