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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...nals-a-sea-change-in-the-console-industry.ars
hmm sony using a 6 core or even 8 core cpu from amd, doesnt sound cheap. heck even current pricing of some consoles reaches entry level pc prices. it is how ever about time that all consoles use off the shelf parts, as it will help keep costs down on the HW. look at how long it took to come up with the specialized cell cpu with ibm or the one that ms used in the xbox 360. MS needs to get on board with the same thing, why powerpc cpus after all? apple ditched using those a long time ago since cpu speeds can not be increased that fast on that platform. i havent seen any news (but i havent gone looking for it either) about big gains in the power pc market. i dont even know when the last power pc cpu was sold in a device, it sure seems like a long time ago. it would make more sense for ms to go with a TI based arm cpu and interlink more of the quad core TI arms together. as the latest gen TI arm will have cpu speeds reaching 2.5ghz. the cpus will still also have 1 or 2 lower powered cpus to use as well.
for console manufactures it makes more sense to use pc parts then specialized parts. lead you to reduced time to different markets, there would be no need to recode the game from pc to the console or console to the pc. this way we wouldnt wind up with poorly coded games like the old GTA(dont recall which one but it was about 1-2yrs ago now, im pretty sure when it came out ?GTA 4? around the time of the debate about getting a quad core over a dual core here in the forums.) that needed a quad just to run smoothly.
gonna be interesting to see what they really spec out the ps4 and xbox with.
hmm sony using a 6 core or even 8 core cpu from amd, doesnt sound cheap. heck even current pricing of some consoles reaches entry level pc prices. it is how ever about time that all consoles use off the shelf parts, as it will help keep costs down on the HW. look at how long it took to come up with the specialized cell cpu with ibm or the one that ms used in the xbox 360. MS needs to get on board with the same thing, why powerpc cpus after all? apple ditched using those a long time ago since cpu speeds can not be increased that fast on that platform. i havent seen any news (but i havent gone looking for it either) about big gains in the power pc market. i dont even know when the last power pc cpu was sold in a device, it sure seems like a long time ago. it would make more sense for ms to go with a TI based arm cpu and interlink more of the quad core TI arms together. as the latest gen TI arm will have cpu speeds reaching 2.5ghz. the cpus will still also have 1 or 2 lower powered cpus to use as well.
for console manufactures it makes more sense to use pc parts then specialized parts. lead you to reduced time to different markets, there would be no need to recode the game from pc to the console or console to the pc. this way we wouldnt wind up with poorly coded games like the old GTA(dont recall which one but it was about 1-2yrs ago now, im pretty sure when it came out ?GTA 4? around the time of the debate about getting a quad core over a dual core here in the forums.) that needed a quad just to run smoothly.
gonna be interesting to see what they really spec out the ps4 and xbox with.