[SV_BubbleTime]

>Sony have shown they are willing to make esoteric gaming hardware in the past (cell architecture)

Just so we’re clear, you’re talking about a decision that didn’t really pan out made over 20 years ago.

PS6 will be an upgraded PS5 without question. You aren’t ever going to see a massive divergence away from the PC everyone took the last twenty years working towards.

The landscape favors Microsoft, but they’ll drop the ball, again.

[esperent]

> you’re talking about a decision that didn’t really pan out made over 20 years ago.

The PS3 sold 87m units, and more importantly, it sold more than the Xbox 360, so I think it panned out fine even if we shouldn't call it a roaring success.

It did sell less than the PS2 or PS4 but I don't think the had much to do with the cell architecture.

Game developer hated it, but that's a different issue.

I do agree that a truly unusual architecture like this is very unlikely for the next gen though.

[llbbdd]

It sold well, but there are multiple popular games that were built for the PS3 that have not come to any other platform because porting them is exceptionally hard.

[dataangel]

they were hoping Cell would get more widespread use though, which it did not