With today's rendering technology in consoles, the quality of graphics, or who has "better" graphics depends not on the power nor speed of the hardware, but the programmers behind the hardware. IMO, the problem with most games on consoles these days is that the programmers are lazy. It all started with Mode Seven. Since then, it's all been about the bigger, better box. I'm still more impressed with Future Crew's _Second Reality_ demo than I am with anything I've seen on the Playstation 2.
One problem that consumers and companies face with the introduction of a new PCI standard is that, once the standard is born and grows, all current PC hardware will become obsolete. This means that there will be no buying a new processor for your PC (Remember when everything went Slot1 or Socket A?) and calling it good. By re-working the entire subsystem of PC's, Intel has found a new way for Intel and Micros*ft to make MORE MONEY. It's not about faster busses or better hardware, it's about MON-NEY. I can guarentee that as soon as the new Intel spec starts to go mainstream, the newest incarnation of Windows will be ready for it. However, if Intel doesn't let the public have the design specs, we'll all be forced to use MS OS's. Intel has already expressed their disdain for open-source OS's by designing an entire line of USB web cams that are hopelessly obfuscated so that no one could possibly develope drivers for any open-source platform. Intel designs a new chip, Microsoft sells a new OS. Reverse and repeat.
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With today's rendering technology in consoles, the quality of graphics, or who has "better" graphics depends not on the power nor speed of the hardware, but the programmers behind the hardware. IMO, the problem with most games on consoles these days is that the programmers are lazy. It all started with Mode Seven. Since then, it's all been about the bigger, better box. I'm still more impressed with Future Crew's _Second Reality_ demo than I am with anything I've seen on the Playstation 2.
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One problem that consumers and companies face with the introduction of a new PCI standard is that, once the standard is born and grows, all current PC hardware will become obsolete. This means that there will be no buying a new processor for your PC (Remember when everything went Slot1 or Socket A?) and calling it good. By re-working the entire subsystem of PC's, Intel has found a new way for Intel and Micros*ft to make MORE MONEY. It's not about faster busses or better hardware, it's about MON-NEY. I can guarentee that as soon as the new Intel spec starts to go mainstream, the newest incarnation of Windows will be ready for it. However, if Intel doesn't let the public have the design specs, we'll all be forced to use MS OS's. Intel has already expressed their disdain for open-source OS's by designing an entire line of USB web cams that are hopelessly obfuscated so that no one could possibly develope drivers for any open-source platform. Intel designs a new chip, Microsoft sells a new OS. Reverse and repeat.