@ nightsurge
Oh, great my favorite guy....
We will have to wait and see, if the technology will be around by then. The PS3 is said to have a decade lifecycle, so the possibilities should be clear before its discontinued (if it needs to be at that point).
Something I wrote a couple of years before the PS3 launched:
"If it's an online or networked game it would be possible to use the concept of distributed processing of data and objects across a network of connected systems. For instance a single PS3 may do the AI of just a few characters, a remote games server collects the data from thousands of PS3s (many thousands of AI characters) decisions, etc."
I would like Sony to explore such potential as well.
If the PS3 mainly has to decode and upscale, it could do stuff like that in the background regarding some kind of modern RPG. Or it could just do some Folding@Home.







