| plip.plop said: Just a quick random thought, but isn't the PS4, and Xbox 1 technically PC's, just running on a custom OS. The only real console left is the WiiU. |
Nope. wrong. Cause something shares a similar architecture with something else doesn't make it the same. Consoles will always be consoles until the day you can swap out the CPU/GPU/PCU/RAM/SORAGE from the console. Right now the only thing you can change (and only one console fully supports this) is the HDD.
The whole point oc consoles is to save costs on a global scale in relation to the board of the system. On a PC, you have a board, then connectors for RAM, then the actual memory chips (which in themselves are built in housings and have their own board), then connectors for drives, then the actual drives which again are built as a seperate entity, expansion connectors, the the expansions cards like GPUs, Modems, sound cards, Tv cards...etc. On a console, the aim is to make one board that has native inbuild support for as many components as possible to minimize costs. Couldn't be more different than a PC. Hell laptops are considered PCs yet all you can change in them are HDD and memory.
