Is Hardware getting TOO Powerful?

[Pemalite]

Jumpin said:

Pemalite said:

The PS3 wasn't too powerful.
Sony just burdened it with unnecessary junk. - Essentially including PS2 hardware with every console, Blu-Ray player, Card-Reader, Wifi, Hard Drive, Other-OS, tons of I/O and more.
Cell was an unnecessary chip in the grand scheme of things... And nVidia charged a premium for their GPU which didn't offer much of an advantage over the Xbox 360 and could be argued was an inferior chip to the 360.
The Ram was expensive.

Once they slimmed and refocused the hardware, they managed to reduce it's cost and thus price.

Sony was just trying to make a jack-of-all-trades console that could do everything, cost be damned.

OK, I'll change my previous answer to this: I don't think any home console has been too powerful.

But I've been getting to thinking about handhelds and battery life. The Game Gear comes to mind.

Battery life only needs to last a single gaming session.

For most that is just a few hours, for others, that may be 6+ hours, all down to personal needs and usage.

I know when I was younger I wouldn't want anything less than 8+ hours of life because I could game that long, fast forward to today and 2-4 hours is fine, not ideal, but fine, I don't have the time that I used to.