Those specs seems a little weak; the PS4's GPU can push 1.84 teraflops. 2.3 times that gives you just above 4, which is 33% slower than Microsoft's own upcoming revision of their Xbox One (codenamed Scorpio and rated at 6 teraflops). Well, if we can trust Microsoft, that is.
On the other hand, the Neo is rumoured to come out this October, while the Scorpio won't be around until at least fall 2017.
While I did try it on a raspberry pi, I found it was just too slow.
I also found KODI to be slow (albeit usable) on the original raspberry pi, however with a raspberry pi 3 it's basically as responsive as a PC, and it's completely silent (no fans or any moving parts).
The only thing my pi3 refuses to play is full HD x.265 videos, but there's not many of those out there, and you need a fairly beefy PC to play that anyway.
Convenience, mostly.
I know I game on a console instead of a PC because I don't want to be bothered with various incompatibilities and driver issues and games not supporting the gamepad and whatnot.
If this is done properly, and gives me a way to upgrade the hardware seamlessly (i.e. when I pop in the "official Xbox hardware upgrade", the OS automatically recognizes it, all my previous games still work, etc), then that would be a fairly interesting proposition.
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On the other hand, the Neo is rumoured to come out this October, while the Scorpio won't be around until at least fall 2017.
Interesting times!
I'm not sure it gets any more "news for nerds" than this
Well, I would rather say "business as usual for nerds"...
While I did try it on a raspberry pi, I found it was just too slow.
I also found KODI to be slow (albeit usable) on the original raspberry pi, however with a raspberry pi 3 it's basically as responsive as a PC, and it's completely silent (no fans or any moving parts).
The only thing my pi3 refuses to play is full HD x.265 videos, but there's not many of those out there, and you need a fairly beefy PC to play that anyway.
Convenience, mostly. I know I game on a console instead of a PC because I don't want to be bothered with various incompatibilities and driver issues and games not supporting the gamepad and whatnot. If this is done properly, and gives me a way to upgrade the hardware seamlessly (i.e. when I pop in the "official Xbox hardware upgrade", the OS automatically recognizes it, all my previous games still work, etc), then that would be a fairly interesting proposition.