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Next-Gen Console CPUs Not Up to Hype

Posted by timothy on from the psss-they're-game-consoles-pass-it-on dept.

rAiNsT0rm writes "Anandtech follows up their initial in-depth coverage of the Xbox 360 and PS3 CPU with the real truth about the next-gen consoles' Poor CPU Performance. From the article: "Speaking under conditions of anonymity with real world game developers who have had first hand experience writing code for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 hardware (and dev kits where applicable), we asked them for nothing more than their brutal honesty. What did they think of these new consoles? Are they really outfitted with the PC-eclipsing performance we've been lead to believe they have? The answer is actually quite frequently found in history; as with anything, you get what you pay for."" Update: 06/30 21:11 GMT by Z : The original article disappeared from Anandtech, so I've changed the link to point to the story as hosted by Google Groups.

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  1. Email to Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Intel,

    We were wondering if you could take a pentium 4 and remove half of its features and put three on one core and sell it to us on the cheap?

    Your pals in Redmond,
    Microsoft


    RE:Email to Intel
    WHY!?

    Intel


    RE:RE:Email to Intel
    Marketing Hype

    MS

  2. Re:Xbox 360 twice as fast as Xbox? by rhennigan · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can guarantee Ninty isn't "expected" to have any kind of processor on the Revolution

    That's because it isn't powered by a processor at all! It's magic!