HappySqurriel on 11 February 2008
| ChronotriggerJM said: I have a feeling the next generation of consoles will be MUCH cheaper. It's a shot in the dark, but if the Cell Chipset and multi-thread programming takes off, couldn't Sony just theoretically "double-up" on their current CPU? Hell like I said, it could be a shot in the dark, but could you imagine if the next Nintendo and MS consoles used Cell's :P I have a feeling hard drives will be major players, Sony will probably include a blu-laser drive for BC, but by that time they'll be dirt cheap. MS and Nintendo are beyond my gasp of power and specs because they're not as predictable as a hardware manufacturer. But I'd say Sony will stick to their 10 year plan, it seems to be working thus far, and they'll introduce the PS4 5 years into the PS3's life cycle. |
Hypothetically speaking, Nintendo could use the Cell processor and (probably) still maintain backwards compatibility with the Wii and the Gamecube. Personally, I don't see this happening because Nintendo (since the N64) has favoured an architecture which is easy to develop for and their enhancements on the hardware have been heavily videogame specific. I think it is more likely that Nintendo would build a physics processing unit inside of their processor than for them to use a processor like the Cell.
