Report: Sony working with IBM in new Cell processor

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drkohler said:

Skeeuk said:

sergiodaly said:

two ps3 duct taped is pure genius... is going to be powerful enough and will be cheaper to build... just upgrade the GPU and put 8X the RAM ps3 had...

i was going to say something similar, they only need to tweak it here and there, increase ram and gpu

Add another cell = add 60-80 Watt power usage

Add more ram = add 10-20 Watt power usage

Add better GPU = add 20-60 Watt power usage

End result: PS4 meltdown

Look people, consoles are limited by three constraints: size, price, power usage (which is limited by the first two factors). Otherwise they would be called gaming PCs. Any new console will never achieve the performance of a (good) gaming PC. Sure everyone can dream up a PS4 with a multicore-32SPU cell - not going to happen.

consoles are just more efficiently designed since their standardised.

PC's have thousands of different combinations of parts so they just use a single size (ok theres a couple of different ones but not that many). that means even if you have onboard graphics your pc may still be the same size as someone with a top of the range GPU.

standardisation = efficiency