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1337 Gamer on 28 May 2009
bardicverse said:
The article touches lightly on a thought I had a while ago - What if consoles were more openly mod-friendly. In other words, instead of buying a new box, make it easy to swap out the GPU and put a better one in as tech gets better, upgrade the ram easily, swap out cpus quickly. Make it a mod box that keeps the parts under control by the console designer, allowing for compatibility among games, just played at different quality settings, basically an easy access micro pc

that is exactly what a computer is.



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Tyrannical on 28 May 2009

I bet an Apple console would be aimed at stealling market share from the Wii, instead of fighting for the 360/PS3 for their market.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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Finnbar on 28 May 2009

Id buy it! use the itouch at the controllers so everygame could have ds like controlls, or button mapping however you want it.



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Zlejedi on 28 May 2009

When they release their iconsole it will have:

aluminium casing
ps2/wii level hardware inside
controler with single button
$800 price tag

and every firmware update will be paid DLC :)



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Maskedpainter on 28 May 2009

I'd love to see that epic fail.




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Hephaestos on 28 May 2009

cause the pippin sold so well...



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Soleron on 28 May 2009
1337 Gamer said:
bardicverse said:
The article touches lightly on a thought I had a while ago - What if consoles were more openly mod-friendly. In other words, instead of buying a new box, make it easy to swap out the GPU and put a better one in as tech gets better, upgrade the ram easily, swap out cpus quickly. Make it a mod box that keeps the parts under control by the console designer, allowing for compatibility among games, just played at different quality settings, basically an easy access micro pc

that is exactly what a computer is.

Yes. The first computers were basically consoles, and then IBM followed the route of allowing third parties to make parts and software, until IBM lost control to the dominant third parties Intel and Microsoft. Since then most 'progress' in the architecture of PCs has been due to standards set by those two or else adopted by them. For example ACPI (Intel/MS), DirectX (MS), EFI (Intel), USB (Intel), 64-bit (AMD, hijacked by Intel), PCI-E (Intel), Plug-and-play (MS)...

The openness of the PC architecture is basically an accident.



ChichiriMuyo on 28 May 2009

Wow, some of you clearly don't understand Apple. Yes, the hardware is overpriced for what the give. Of course, 360-level tech is pretty cheap now. Crap you could sell for $200, even. An apple branded version of 360-like hardware would be, what? $300? Still significantly less than a PS3? Yeah. Yeah it would be. If Apple were to make a console they'd come in competitive. The Pippin, for the one person that remembers it existed, was made when Jobs was not a part of the company. Under his lead such a tragedy wouldn't have existed at all. But with him, should they choose to go gaming (think Apple TV, people, lest you be so ignorant as to not understand how Apple works), it will be the cool thing. That means no one will care that they pay $100 more than the system is worth. Only you "core" gamers will, and the Wii has already proven that you don't count for much. Good luck.



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bardicverse on 28 May 2009
1337 Gamer said:
bardicverse said:
The article touches lightly on a thought I had a while ago - What if consoles were more openly mod-friendly. In other words, instead of buying a new box, make it easy to swap out the GPU and put a better one in as tech gets better, upgrade the ram easily, swap out cpus quickly. Make it a mod box that keeps the parts under control by the console designer, allowing for compatibility among games, just played at different quality settings, basically an easy access micro pc

that is exactly what a computer is.

Yup, but with controlled hardware development, to ensure compatibility with the game libraries. If they make it simple enough to swap parts, its a lot more eco-friendly.



Soleron on 28 May 2009
bardicverse said:
1337 Gamer said:
bardicverse said:
The article touches lightly on a thought I had a while ago - What if consoles were more openly mod-friendly. In other words, instead of buying a new box, make it easy to swap out the GPU and put a better one in as tech gets better, upgrade the ram easily, swap out cpus quickly. Make it a mod box that keeps the parts under control by the console designer, allowing for compatibility among games, just played at different quality settings, basically an easy access micro pc

that is exactly what a computer is.

Yup, but with controlled hardware development, to ensure compatibility with the game libraries. If they make it simple enough to swap parts, its a lot more eco-friendly.

I don't see how they could 'control' it more than a PC while still allowing swapping. The most crucial parts of a PC for compatibility (OS, CPU, GPU, Motherboard) are already compatible forwards and backwards to the maximum extent while still allowing new features. PC game developers will in general make games that 95% of PC owners can play at a given release time.

The historical advantages of consoles are: no hardware swapping at all; constant OS; no patching; moderated software environment; and no additional hardware requirements. All of which are being eroded by the current gen, especially PS3/Xbox 360; new to this gen are: multiple SKUs with big hardware changes (HDD/no HDD; BC/no BC), OS updates, the ability to patch games, partial custom software running and needing an HDTV to play properly.)