Post by Renown on May 27, 2006 13:13:12 GMT -5
Welcome to part two of my new weekly column, if you haven't read the first then what're you doing here? Are you here because it's new? Hah. Can't blame you for that. Anyway, onto the column, last week the focus (main focus that is) was about the remaking of classic movies and why it's being done. I guess we'll never know the answer to that other than "wanting to relive your favorite movies". Whatever the hell that means.
I guess I'll just ramble again being that I haven't thought of a primary topic for this column. (thinks....) I find it funny how Microsoft and Sony are at each others throats to claim the more powerful console, but I often ask myself "What does a console need so much power for?" I mean, really a console doesn't need 1 primary and 8 (7) secondary CPUs...if anything dual-core CPUs (two CPU cores on one die) has more of a place than multiple cores do. The things consoles should push for...they obviously don't. For example something like voice recognition would be an awesome addition to a console, built-in sound (meaning sound comes from the console as well as the TV).
Multiple GPUs, like a PC but not as intensive...in fact I believe the PS3 uses a PCI-E slot for the RSX. Kudos to Sony. Another thing I've got a problem with is enabling a console to multi-thread, last time I checked a console has a customized form factored OS (or as dubbed by the XBox "dashboard") and you can't run multiple dashboards on a console, because well it's practically worthless whether you could or couldn't.
That's my column for this week and remember it's supposed to be funny.
I guess I'll just ramble again being that I haven't thought of a primary topic for this column. (thinks....) I find it funny how Microsoft and Sony are at each others throats to claim the more powerful console, but I often ask myself "What does a console need so much power for?" I mean, really a console doesn't need 1 primary and 8 (7) secondary CPUs...if anything dual-core CPUs (two CPU cores on one die) has more of a place than multiple cores do. The things consoles should push for...they obviously don't. For example something like voice recognition would be an awesome addition to a console, built-in sound (meaning sound comes from the console as well as the TV).
Multiple GPUs, like a PC but not as intensive...in fact I believe the PS3 uses a PCI-E slot for the RSX. Kudos to Sony. Another thing I've got a problem with is enabling a console to multi-thread, last time I checked a console has a customized form factored OS (or as dubbed by the XBox "dashboard") and you can't run multiple dashboards on a console, because well it's practically worthless whether you could or couldn't.
That's my column for this week and remember it's supposed to be funny.