The Glade 4.0

Can we get back on track and discuss how stupid Sony is for saying they're "in no rush to announce" the next gen and then they hold an event and can't even show a final build/date/price?

Or maybe how much the PS4 is going to seem lacking vs a 720 + IllumiRoom?

Sony is the suxxorz. Their quality has slipped, their user interfaces are stodgy and dated. They seem very out of touch with their customer base, so I am not sure why it is surprising that they missed the boat again.

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I fail to see how an embedded, unified APU architecture that's several orders of magnitude slower and less impressive than current commodity PC hardware offers any sort of substantial hardware upgrade over the current generation. The notion that Microsoft's successor is using the same or similar hardware amuses me to no end, especially considering the failure of AMD's embedded platforms to deliver over the last several years. Our games have been CPU bound for nigh on a decade; video cards are great for pushing large amounts of raw data, but CPUs have been holding our games back far longer than our on-the-fly rendering capabilities. It's both counter-intuitive and stupid to based your next generation architecture on an APU that barely pushes the same amount of floating-point performance as your current generation.

17w low-power processors have their place, but if I want an ultrabook that can handle HD playback, that's what I'll buy.

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