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Adinnieken on 05 June 2012
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VetteDude said:
Adinnieken said:
Millenium said:
Hope this doesn't mean they're going to release the most expensive device whilst realising last whilst "having no gamez" during the first 1-2 years, cause guess what, it's debatable whether it actually turned out "better", and secondly: You can't afford it.

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Honestly, I think the reason why the PS3 didn't have a lot of games to begin with was the difficulty level in development.  If, as rumors suggest, Sony is going with an AMD Fusion processor, then I doubt they'll run into those problems.

If they go AMD Fusion I will never buy another Sony system. Fusion sucks, the GPU in them is terrible. Same if they go with a Bulldozer processor, they suck down soo much power and have terrible cache latency and a horrible decoder and front-end. Only AMD part they should have is an AMD Southern Islands GPU.

Plus Fusion doesn't make sense, why would they use an x86 CPU?

Well, the rumors are they're including two GPUs, the Fusion GPU as well as a secondary GPU.

My guess is that any processor that Sony used would be customized, no different with the an AMD Fusion processor.  So, some of the issues you speak of could very well be rectified by a customized processor.  That being said, there are no specs for AMDs 2012 slated Fusion processors, so how you can determine that they would offer poor performance is beyond me.  Yes, older, lower-end Fusion processors perform worse than a Pentium 4, but you're guessing as to what a future product with 0 specs does.

The reason for using an x86 processor is the ability to code for such a processor is significantly and fundamentally easier than coding for a Cell processor.  The vast majority of developers educated in the US and around the world learn how to develop object oriented code on multi-threaded symmetrical processors, not on parallel processors.  A development studio doesn't have to waste time and resources to re-train developers on parallel programming.  Not to mention, IBM has dropped all future development of the Cell processors. 

Would it be wiser for them to stick with a Power processor?  Yes, of course, but I haven't heard a single rumor to suggest Sony is going with a Power processor.  The only currently legitimate rumor is an AMD Fusion or AMD CPU, or you have the fanboy rumor of a 16 SPU Cell processor, 10GB of XDR2 memory and 10GB of GDDR6 memory.  As much as I would like to believe the next PlayStation will be produced with a non-existent CPU and non-existent video memory, as well as severely out of date system memory, I'm gonna say no and go with the more logical rumor of an AMD processor.

In January, you'll start to hear more concrete rumors regarding both the next PlayStation and Xbox.  If not, before then.  I sincerely doubt Sony will stick with the Cell, and until I hear a convincing rumor sourced from a solid source, I'm going to personally believe it is anything but a Cell processor.