Onyxmeth said:
PS3 tech isn't going to be the medium, if by medium, you mean the standard. There's absolutely no evidence to support that Microsoft or Nintendo would pick this up. Microsoft has always lucked out developing consoles alongside PC tech so ports between the two are easy as pie. They will stay that course. Nintendo just has no reason to adopt the Cell architecture since it has to do with the overall graphics, seems to be a bit of a money sink, and neither of those two things mesh well with Nintendo's philosphy. |
That's what I was going to say given that's what he meant. If he meant became more common to hardware (not necessarily used as a main CPU but for media - as in the Toshiba Qosmio G50 which will have a Core 2 Duo as well as a Cell chip mainly for multimedia processing) then the problem of it being a hard to develop for architecture will have already been overcome. As the cell architecture becomes more mainstream, more people will be using it, developing for it and generally learning how it works. If it goes mainstream (regardless of whether MS or Nintendo decide to use it for their game boxes) many more people around the world will know the ins and outs of the architecture. So it really won't be a problem at that point if it has become the "medium" in the sense that it's more mainstream.
