The people buying dont care how its more powerful, only that it is.Bubba wrote:If you mean controller design, then yes. Anything else then I'm afraid I've gotta disagree with you. It's a vastly different architecture to what's gone before it.Darkflame wrote:Yes, as a buisness, they are on shaky ground, but as far as design goes they are playing it safe.
They dont care about number of cores, and if they do its only because "its more powerful".
Your thinking of it from a coding perspective, where it certainly is vastly different, true. (and it would have been even more so if they went with a cell gpu ^_^)
But from an end-user perspective Sonys not making any moves that couldn't have been predicted almost a decade a go.
Console are normally sold and marketed on their "power".
Heck, I cant think of a console that hasn't.
Its the tradition, bog-standard, way to go about making a console.
a) Take your previous successful console and control pad.
b) Change the chips to make it more powerful, make the case bigger to fit it. Add a button to the controller if your feeling generous.
c) Adjust price for inflation and release.
Sony is sticking to their formula.
(even so much as bluray can be seen as dvds were to the ps2, pretending your console is a pc, and trying to get your expensively developed chip used in other things......sony is mirroring their PS2 release pretty closely)
