New Xbox With Six-Core CPU and “Dual-GPU” From AMD (Rumor Analysis)

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Rainbird said:

haxxiy said:
Interesting. I'd like to see at least one company stepping away from IBM's PowerPC architecture.

If all three use the same architechture (more or less), it will be easier to support multiplatform development though. Which I'm pretty sure is what every company in the gaming space wants right now.

yeah, but i think sony wants a little edge over microsoft, while microsoft wants a little edge over sony. The PowerPC Architeture isnt that bad, of course we all know how Uberawesomeleet teh Cell is by now (sticked together 230 times to make a supercomputer that is, or combining 3 systems to perform raytracing) but after all, the sheer horsepower didnt set it that far apart from the 360, in fact, Multiplatform development suffered of the complicated systemstructure.

else, i think - sure, while they want to have amazing Multiplatform games - they want to be able to tell that their system is the best, and prove it with exclusive titles.

@Xbox: it is rumored that this thing has 2GB Ram? Isnt that a bit low? Sure, the OS will consume far less than Windows (for example) since we're talking Console here, but i think one of the most important aspects of the next gen will be highly detailed textures, and those will cost a lot of memory.