| NJ5 said: I thought the current rumors were that Nintendo was going for quite powerful, at least decently powerful hardware by today's standards. We know that Sony or Microsoft won't make another $600 console, so even with an alleged launch date one year later that Nintendo, I don't see them making systems much more powerful than Nintendo's. More powerful, yes, but in the sense that games will enable some extra effects or run at slightly higher resolutions. But that doesn't make a port hard, it's just simple tweaking to adapt for each hardware as all PC games already do. What Sony could do to make the Cell easier to use would be to provide more PPU cores which are easier to port for than the SPUs. But if they did that I doubt they could put 16 SPUs in it, and it would be a departure from what the Cell is supposed to be all about. |
My interpretation of the Café rumors are that Nintendo is going for something slightly more powerful than what we have today with the PS360. My guess is that Microsoft and Sony will create hardware powerful enough to the point were porting to Café will require some reeengineering, maybe in the same degree that porting between the PS3 and 360 does today.
Not to mention that we don't know what other alterations might be made to the Cell. Sony are taking input from their developers on how to make their platforms easier to program for, and if it becomes easier to program for, then it becomes easier to port games to and from it. And studios like Criterion Games already makes PS3/360/PC games where a lot of the code is the same on all three platforms.
I'm not saying you might not have a point, I'm just saying that it might turn out not to be a problem at all. It just depends on a lot of things, and we have absolutely no knowledge about any of them. Even this is just a big, fat rumor.
