Alby_da_Wolf said:
(*) Answer #2 was for the bolded part. but what is cheaper,slower and not necessary? About part #1 I didn't know, good, this means that if absolutely needed Sony could launch an early PS4 roughly 2 times as powerful as PS3 without losing money, very good. they will still lose a bit as they do always as they try to bring the new tech in.but it will be recouped in the first year itself About doing graphics with a second Cell, I guess it can be done, but a specialized GPU, good only for its work, could do the same work for less money. yes but it has the limitatiosn,if you have CELL alone then you use it for anything and optimize itself not to deal with two things and getting them to work with each other Maybe dropping NVidia and chosing ATI instead. that really doesn't matter as the deals that happen are wholesale kind so they would get any more cheap with ATI Cell SPEs will help graphics and physics more and more with time anyway, as dev tools evolve, and programmers' experience increase. yes and with 2 CELL their is unlimited power.you can just go on and on and don't have to worry about the limitations of the other parts About SSD, they can provide a swap file enormously faster than electromechanical magnetic drives, but they are too many steps behind dynamic RAM, particularly for writing. Life of the drive is another issue, even if less than in the past, writes still shorten flash memories' life, using them for SSD writes can be managed quite well to reduce the problem, using them instead of RAM the problem would be very serious, as writes to RAM are in numbers several orders of magnitude larger than writes to disk. i thought so it would be the problem i was just thinking if it could do it then the SSD drive space could be used and so ddevelopes would have unlimited power as SSD's would be provided with each console |