A Change For Possible PS4 Cell Chip

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by Ascended_Saiyan

Media hubs are the future. They want these devices to be your gateway to entertainment in your home. If you want to play games, it's great at that. If you want to listen to music through your home, it's great at that. If you want to watch movies, it's great at that. If you want to show your photos to visiting family and friends, it's great at that. If you want to surf the web, it's okay at that.

See...game consoles need to become more and more powerful to provided more and more immersive environments. Gaming has been pushing tech forward since the beginning (the Wii being the only exception AFAIK). The SAME tech can allow for you to do many other things besides gaming.

Sony and Microsoft have figured out that gaming is not people's ENTIRE lives. They are trying to cover those bases as well (just like Microsoft). Welcome to the battle for your living room!

I, for one, am enjoying these benefits. I have never gotten this much use out of my console before. And, it has uncluttered my equipment rack (it replaces 3 products that would be there otherwise).


I think Microsoft may force Sony out early by rushing their console out...again. MS likes that head start. Then, they can use fuzzy logic like...we have sold more units so far...like they didn't have a head start.

Of course, this time around, all the Cell programming skills will transfer over to the PS4. Developers will have to learn how to program for MS next offering. In other words, ease of development will be with Sony next time around. The only thing that will need to be learned is how to take advantage of the new GPU.

+1

Well stated.

I'm expecting to pick up my new PS4 in November 2010, personally.