Is the X86 architecture good?

[Ruler]

the-pi-guy said:

Ruler said:

Its defeniatley better than PowerPC which we all saw how fast the 7th consoles broke down on us (RRoD etc) and the dissapointing Wii U Graphics performance over PS4.
But Emotion Engine for example had a lot of potantial if Sony and Toshiba made it alone, we all saw how easy the PS2 could compete dispite having no real GPU inside. When the PS2 was launched it was ahead of PC gaming in terms of visuals.

RRoD quite literally had nothing to do with the PowerPC.  RRoD basically went away after this:

"There was a theory," Moore remembered. "We had changed our solder, which is the way you put the GPU and the fans, to lead-free. Todd, who is the most sincere human being, was going crazy trying to figure it out."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-02-peter-moore-recounts-xbox-360-red-ring-of-death-saga

Wii U's poor performance had more to do with poor parts, than the actual architecture.  

 

This is the GPU in the PS2, the "Graphics Synthesizer"

Its not really a GPU but a video chip, defeniatley far far behind the Gamecube and Xboxes GPUs who were used in the PC space as well. Even the Dreamcast GPU was stronger.

The overheating issues are also blamed dueto the CPU which made most of the heat. CPUs are in general reliable and cant break that easily, but they can cause a lot of heat dueto bad design which can result into defect motherboards or GPUs