| finalsquall said: I can tell you know nothing about the ps3.1. the interface is not bad... The XMB is great and is more practical than the Blades. 2. The PS3 is an Evolution as is the PSP. It could possibly last longer than 10yrs, in updates and new advances. 3. laugh all you like Wii fans... But the Wii is running fast... It won't be long til the Wii will run out of steam. Not many casuals actually play the Wii all that much. I know a few casuals that play it every now then then... but oh well it's still prints money :P |
I own a PS3 -- play Warhawk and UT III on it A LOT, -- but it is not any sort of evolution. It's merely a more powerful PS2 with online and fixed storage, or a weak computer with HDMI out and Blu-Ray.
Everybody said the PS2 would last 10 years too, and it just well might, because the fact is most consoles do have a serviceable life of 8-10 years or even longer, but that does not change the fact we'll probably see a PS4 within as little as 5 more years. Companies tow the line about a 10 year plan with every console, but we always get the next gen after around 6.
Cell is a microprocessor architecture. It is not some future-proofed magic bullet. Yes, it's powerful. But that doesn't change the fact that the PS3's processor and GPU are ALREADY old tech (that stuff is soooooo 2006). Engineers are at work right now devising something better and more powerful.
Even using the existing parts, without inventing something groundbreaking and new, Sony could release a Playstation 4 tomorrow many orders of magnitude more powerful than the PS3 just by including multiple Cell processors and a newer GPU, or multiple internal GPUs-as-SLI. At a minimum, Sony needs to get a TV-tuner in the unit so we can start using that power for DVR and get one appliance out of the entertainment center.
And BTW, XMB is counter-intuitive and clumsy once you get a boat load of crap installed into it.
Stop being a fanboy.
