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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 1116299" data-attributes="member: 360">Unless Sony's had a massive change of heart from both the PS2 and the early 'cell' PS3 statements, they're going to be using a new, complex, proprietary architecture, which means developers are going to need a long lead time, unless they want a games situation like the PS2 launch, where there weren't any decent games for a year, and people were buying them on hype and -- in Japan -- as relatively cheap DVD players. And it's hard to avoiid leaks once a lot of developers get their hands on the specs. Microsoft hasn't said anything apart from announcing a partnership with ATi, but it's very safe to say that Xbox 2 won't be spec'd all that different from a high-end gaming PC, circa late 2004. CPU could be a Pentium 4 derivative, a Pentium-M derivative, or an Athlon 64-derivative. I think the Pentium-M family is the most likely, as Microsoft is inclined to stick with Intel, and the P7 cores (Pentium 4, Prescott, and Tejas) use too much power for a console. Nintendo hasn't said anything at all, but if the next Nintendo machine is built along the lines of the current one (ATi graphics, IBM G3-ish CPU), it'll be spec'd similarly to a Mac with a good graphics card, circa late 2004. Certainly IBM should have an iBook-ready G5 variant by then.</blockquote>