Looking at your post count, I couldn't have guessed =D

So, that's how they are going to get into the 10yr plan for the ps3. Repackage it as a PS4!

haha jk.

Makes sense, however, based on Wii success I bet the jump from ps3 to ps4 in terms of power will be 1/2 that of PS2 to PS3.

I already am fairly confident Sony and MS will do the same thing, smaller % of raw power jump that this gen to keep cost sub $350 at launch and maybe some form of motion controller.

What I am unsure of is how big of a jump Nintendo will do and how they will change the wiimote/nunchuk configuration. Nintendo has had a new controller every gen.

Pfffft, hahahahahaha.

Does anyone feel the urge of just rushing into this thread and correcting/dissing people who say stupid shit?

But it's sooo much, so I won't bother.

Probably they will reach the 360 levels (Maybe a little bit more), keeping IBM, Ati and maybe BC with the Wii/GC games, the new control, well most likely will have similar features to the Wiimote+Motion plus, for me thats the safe path, but how knows...

@groucho, the fundamental change to the arch would be a new product replacing the ram would create a need for emulation, or a conveter of some kind, though not near as hard as emulating prossessing chips. on top  of that the artical sugest new graphics card which would also imply a new chip, combined with what stickball said it would seem sony has decided to switch directions

ah that is most of what the artical i posted says, just in a better easier to read format, i was unsure about the launch dare given the muddyness of the articaqls translation

it will be interesting, the powerpc chip that ms uses is easier to scale in terms of power, but with that comes heat, the major problem with that series of powerpc, i could see it going uniform quad core, or even different changes like that, since none of that would effect coding, but we just havent seen any new info from ibm on this series of chip, something the publish quite regularly along with the cell updates, and the joint project with motorola (now freescale) that produced the GC/wii chip

side note, it is very weird readign the thread through now that yoshi! has been deleted from our colective history, with only quotes to remember him by (and wow yoshi! took this thread for a weird direction for a bit)

also thank you for the people who came through and actually commented on the topic, interesting read

They can both easily jump to the high performance POWER line of processors, it includes the entire old PowerPC instruction set, but they are going to cost a lot.  Power7 is an 8-core and is supposed to be out by 2010. 

true, but power7 would not work with the current power4 dirvitive that is in the 360, or the  cell power arch, the instruction sets are not the same, and the power 8 was additional features that are useless to both of them, the 360 uses  gutted power4, the wii uses a power2 or 3  derivative.  changing arch would hurt either console as seen with the wii keeping the same arch helps in cost, and developer ease.... cell is the more interesting of the two as the 360s chip is already very traditional power pc just stripped down for gaming. the cell if they were to rework it which it looks like they will not, could be made more programer friendly however that would be at the cost of programing assets made for the current cell. if they jus advance it, there will be some change to the arch and dev assets but they may still be useful. though it may just be an issue of cost, and bringing the next ocnsole in where it can turn a proffit at a cost of say 399 at launch or a small loss at 299