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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hollywood" data-source="post: 1122894" data-attributes="member: 7408">Yup, if people though the PS2 architecture was whack, wait til the PS3 comes around.  Sony, with their consoles, tends to think first about the architecture that can run the fastest given the constraints, and lastly about how the heck are you going to develop on it. My bet is on a P4 derivative.  Most of my feeling comes from the fact ATi is now the partner for it, so MS no longer has the NVidia chipset/graphics card system they had before.  That pretty much leaves Intel as the only true chipset vendor unless ATi is able to cook something up in pretty quick order.  As for "too much power for a console", eh, I must disagree as the thing plugs into the wall just like any computer.  Its not mobile so it doesn't have limited power requirements... MS wants to make the fastest console they can, that stresses the budget as little as possible as all console developers make their money on the lisencing, and not the sale of the consoles.Actually the GC is not powered by ATi, its powered by Art-X who ATi bought. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Symantecs, but you know.  Since MS has partnered with ATi, it'll be interesting to see if ATi is allowed by MS to supply graphics for the GC as well.  And yes, I'd be so hyped about having yet another IBM G-series processor in a console, as much as I was by having a P3 in the Xbox... in otherwords, not at all.</blockquote>

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