| MikeB said: @ couchmonkey release a brand-new system with a more traditional architecture (no cell and maybe no Blu-ray) Hello Gabe!  Yes let's make the PS4 a cutdown PC! Drool!! Who really wants innovation, advanced features and product diversity when we can all have a cutdown console PC next to our oridinary PCs within our homes?! LOL  |
Well, in theory, it would be entirely possible for Sony to have worked on improving the Emotion Engine and released a 4 to 8 Emotion Engine core that was running in the 2GHz to 3GHz range which would give performance in the 25x to 80x range (as compared to the PS2); developers would be familiar with the architecture, there would be tons of well known tricks to get decent performance, backwards compatibility would be 'free' and it would be trivial to improve performance (and upscale with a similar GPU architecture) existing PS2 games.
Seriously, if Sony choose DVD and the processor I described above (with a decent GPU) they could have sold the PS3 for $300 with a minimal loss and demonstrated similar performance to the XBox 360 ... But Sony choose the architecture that was going to ensure poor sales ...
