Ubisoft: Apple Could Be In The Console War

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bardicverse said:
The article touches lightly on a thought I had a while ago - What if consoles were more openly mod-friendly. In other words, instead of buying a new box, make it easy to swap out the GPU and put a better one in as tech gets better, upgrade the ram easily, swap out cpus quickly. Make it a mod box that keeps the parts under control by the console designer, allowing for compatibility among games, just played at different quality settings, basically an easy access micro pc

that is exactly what a computer is.

Yes. The first computers were basically consoles, and then IBM followed the route of allowing third parties to make parts and software, until IBM lost control to the dominant third parties Intel and Microsoft. Since then most 'progress' in the architecture of PCs has been due to standards set by those two or else adopted by them. For example ACPI (Intel/MS), DirectX (MS), EFI (Intel), USB (Intel), 64-bit (AMD, hijacked by Intel), PCI-E (Intel), Plug-and-play (MS)...

The openness of the PC architecture is basically an accident.