Finally Intel is the biggest processor manufacturer with the most advanced technologies. So ea are basically trying to say a 2004 developed 90nm IBM powerpc triple core is as fast as my 45nm 2008 quad core made by Intel, dream on. IBM powerpc processors are renowned for not living up to expectations, hence why Apple moved to Intel core 2 duo/quad. The powerpc in the g5 was being hyped by IBM to beat the fastest pentiums and athlons out at the time yet which supposed to beat everything got beaten by the majority of budget athlons and pentiums out, no wonder why Apple switched. They probably couldn't afford to get embarrased any longer of why their macs were so slow compared to windows computers although the os was not the issue just the over hyped slow hardware. I hope the ps4 and the new xbox will move on to intel processors as well as better graphics cards as no wonder why most games can't run at 1280*720 at 30fps on the ps3.
EA like IBM are over hyping the consoles outdated processors saying 3-4 year old IBM's processors are faster than the best offerings of the biggest processor manufacturer intel. Intel are starting to make their first major supercomputer now which will overtake the IBM's fastest number 1 supercomputer by 2012 and using about 280 000 processors less. No wonder why Nasa went with Intel. IBM have been making supercomputers for ages yet they are going to get overtaken by newcomers intel very quickly by the use of the current xeon quad cores and soon xeon nehalem quad cores.
Now ea most people who play the latest games on pc have a cpu made after 2006 which is two years newer than the next gen consoles cpus. Most people who play crysis don't use slow p4s, but core 2 duo or above with good mid range graphics cards that are over 3x times more powerful than say a ps3 graphics card.
Now you tell me why we can't run next gen?
I guess you will say that the processors in the console are designed to run games while Intel/AMD processors are for general pc tasks and not dedicated gaming cpus.
So why is it then the actual game developers complain about developing games for consoles as they feel limited in what performance they can achieve out of it after coding for pc games. The only people in EA who think it won't run are the people who represent EA publically in public relations. However if you ask the actual developers/coders they will say to you the majority of pc gamers computers can run next gen gameplay and graphics with ease.
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