| disolitude said: Well you people want low price point, better graphics, full backwards compatibility, motion controls, diverse library out of the gate, Bluray...anything else the next gen consoles need to work on?
PS. Xbox is selling you a console with minimal profits. PS3 is still being sold at a loss... The only one who could afford to give you more stuff for the money is the wii...yet I don't even have an ethernet port on mine. So saying "For howmuch it costs...it should include original xbox" is not really justified. You get plenty for what you pay... |
There is nothing saying that you can't have an affordable console which is powerful and still maintains backwards compatibility. The problem is that Sony and Microsoft choose to completely abandon the architecture of their previous generation consoles.
The Emotion Engine was actually a very small processor and could have been used as the core of a multi-core processor (or even been the heart of a SPE on the Cell processor); at the same time Microsoft could have used an Intel, ATI, or (possibly) Via processor in the heart of the XBox 360. These processors are not (necessarily) underpowered, and had affordability been a core consideration with the design of either system they would have been affordable.
