well, you'd need 3 360s or 3 PS3s, which would cost more than a PC that can handle it XD. You can technically play Froza3(prolly 4 too) or GT5 that way

$$$$$$$$$ costs more than a PC lol

The SAME site posted this:

"WORLD EXCLUSIVE

SegaLeaks can today reveal that Sega’s next generation console and arcade platforms are to be powered by a SoC (System on Chip) manufactured by Renesas Electronics.

The SoC is to consist of three processors, the processors are as follows -

ARM Cortex A15 2.5GHz Quad Core

IMGTEC PowerVR Series 6 Rogue 400MHz

IMGTEC/Caustic Graphics CausticOne 400MHz

The SoC is to be fabbed at 28nm.

- Zach Morris
"

Now, can we end the thread?

Whatever is in the Nextbox I think it will be very powerful. This Gen Sony's PS3 is a about 5% or so more powerful than the current Xbox (so they are basically the same, unlike the Game Cube and Xbox which where both more powerful than the PS2, that last one about twice).  One big advantage I see that if you develop using DirectX it seems easier to work on both the Xbox and PC. But as the Xbox is stuck on DirectX 9C and the current PC's can use the more beautiful and realistic DriectX 11.

The next WiiU uses DirectX 10 or something similar. I'm hoping the Next Xbox will use at least DirectX 12, which is not out yet.

I'm hoping these rumor, such as 6 core, are leaked on purpose and to give the competition a target, and the actually hardware will be much more powerful. (and easy to swap out should a single component fail - like a swappable SSD, like the current hard drives on both Xbox and PS3.)

Much will depend on the WiiU effect.  If it doesn't sell much better than the other two HD's, then they wouldn't really NEED to upgrade quite yet.

Unfoutunatly, you are amoung a very rare breed of people that use logic. Most would rather look past the fact that consoles, and game development has changed. 

Today it takes hundreds of more people making 1,000 more dollars a year to create these consoles and games. There are way more companies that are involved, and many more royalties in return. This is not the days of the little kids Atari, and Nintendo anymore. Gaming is a world wide youth through senior activity. Consoles are expected to have Massive on board storage, traditional, and motion control, internet access, massive online communities. They are the center piece of the entertainment, and communication, and work. Consoles, and smart Phones are one unit combined to seamlessly take care of all of your digital needs throught the day. 

The 360 and the PS3 have done a wonderful job going beyond gaming, and we as gamers should be praising this, and helping change the perspective of the toy console. The more consoles Sony and Microsoft put in homes the better it is for all of us. The more we are willing to spend up front, means a better oppertunity for them to have a product that can out shine the rest, and sell more units. Prices will come down and the will do it quickly. Just look at PS3 5 years ago it cost $850 dollars, to produce costing sony  ~$280 a console sold. Now PS3 is breaking even or profiting at a $250 dollar base price. 

Everything in life gets more expensive with time. More people are born, more industries are created, more jobs are made. If we are not willing to accept this then we will be the cause of death to the industry we love so much. Games have grown up, now its time for gamers to grow up too.

Funnily enough. Except with hardware.

For an example... PC's 10 years ago were considered "cheap" when they were only $2000. Go back 15 years and cheap was $3000.
These days. Cheap is $200-$300 which outperform those machines.

DVD drives when they first came out alone cost almost a grand... Now they're sitting around $10-$20.

Supply and Demand play a much larger role in prices than time when it comes to technology.

But...but...logic.

These people don't realise that only  a very  small portion of the console buying market thinks like them. They're out of touch.

Making consoles more expensive so you can pack in more tech isn't going to help anything.

Funny that KBG29 would start with 'console development has changed' and then go on to say we need to be willing to spend alot of money to buy consoles so they can pack more tech into it. Because that would totally help development costs.

New tech is always very expensive, a computer on the relative level of the $2000 ones of ten years ago is more than $2000. Ten years ago broad band Internet was brand new, to run simple programs like paint and word you needed a high end computer, and at that things moved at a snails pace. Just because a $300 computer now days that comes with a 10 year old OS, a 8 year old processor, and the 2GB of RAM does’t mean they are worthwhile. They are the computers poor families buy for the uncle that's wife died, and was married to a blood relative, but has to much of a cheap ass family to take care of them.

As far as out of touch is concerned, I see that completely. However, I say what I say because, I see that to having a console launch today at $300 like so many want means doing absolutely nothing for the consumer. A $300 new console right now equals, out of date processing power, transfer rates, and storage tech on day one. It means a system that has developers hitting walls, and drudgingly pushing out the same tiered mechanics year after year, because the tech gives them no where to go. All a $300 console does is put big sales numbers up early in the cycle, and line the pockets of the console manufactures with cash. For the rest of the industry it is a trail of red ink, and a door slammed shut in the face of Intel, amd, IBM, and nvidia.

Lastly yes development has changed. Costs are through the roof, and the sales model is not working. Console manufactures selling at a loss is killing developers because of the need for software to re-coupe hardware losses. Hardware needs to be profitable, and software needs to cover its own expenses. When nearly every company in the industry has struggled for a good portion of 6 years, it seems obvious change is needed. However, this leads to another discussion on a unified games platform, but that is for another forum.

You're assuming that outdated processing power is a disadvantage though. And certainly, in terms of pushing graphic fidelity and spectacle, the more processing power the better, but neither of these are in any way essential to gaming. I personally don't see a great need to really push graphical boundaries at the moment. The current HD consoles are quite capable when it comes to animations, lighting, etc., and I don't personally see reason to push graphical boundaries much. If the next generation consoles can play current gen games at 720p with 4xMSAA, 60 FPS and no screen tearing, I'll be more than happy.

Gameplay is much less bounded by processing power, and I don't see how $2000 worth of PC hardware can provide a significantly enough difference in gameplay to give merit to the investment. Certainly, investing in something like Kinect or the Wii U is going to make a much greater difference in gameplay.