| selnor said: Hmmm Backwards Compatability is a HUGE issue with PS4 it would seem. Also Intel and AMD had faster processors on the market before Cell arrived. ( For PC's ). The future is GPU and CPU on 1 chip. That is the direction Intel are taking and say it makes a HUGE difference to gaming rig PC's. I see M$ adopting this for there next console, Sony have to as well really as PC game devs will adopt this combined method. If Sony don't they will alienate more devs to not develop for them as it will be even more time consuming and costly than Cell is. Sony do the right thing for business and follow the PC boffins. I personally see no advantage of Cell over 360 for graphics or anything else. ( I said personally ) So do the right thing for money and business. |
I could be wrong, but I expect next generation console manufacturers to take a different approach than they took this generation in a large part because of the success of the Wii ...
To put this in the simplest way, I would expect manufacturers to take low cost energy efficient hardware and increase the processing power to a level they desire for their console rather than try to produce the most powerful hardware. A theoretical example of this would be to take a quad core Intel Atom processor, increase it to being a 6 core processor, and to increase the clock speed by 50%; and then to pair it with a mid-range "gaming" laptop GPU. The end result of an approach like this would be a small affordable console that is (potentially) very reliable and yet still is a noticeable improvement over what was produced this generation.
