Pretty much every anticipated feature point on that poll is available on other platforms...
| Barkley said: According to the Wired article "it will ditch the spinning hard drive". So it might not be a cache after all. |
Will be interesting to see how that works in conjunction with external mechanical drives if that's truly the case.
| DonFerrari said: Besides SSD and Ray tracing the rest is almost irrelevant, just adopting to current standard.The thing I'll be most excited is game. |
Pretty much. The games are what is going to be truly interesting.
| haxxiy said: The controller features sound very interesting, but potentially also a potential point for breaking / battery drain. I want to check them out. |
Shouldn't affect reliability to much.
Sony has always made pretty solid controllers anyway...
| haxxiy said: I don't think the newer CPUs will make as much of a difference as some people believe. Remember we once moved from simple 1990s RISC CPUs to the 3.2 GHz, multithreaded CBE design in the X360 and PS3, and yet graphics and RAM proved to be the most important factors in the following years. |
They make a massive difference.
The 7th gen CPU's ended up wasting CPU cycles on things like Morphological Anti-Aliasing, texture decompression and so on, so the CPU's didn't get the chance to well... Do CPU stuffs.
Plus those IBM PowerPC chips weren't exactly great performers to start with anyway, they were cost-sensitive chips, plus they only became relatively "acceptable" once you loaded up the thread counts, which not many early games did... Those simpler in-order core designs just didn't do them any favors.
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