Comment by MBCook
But were there fast/powerful enough ARM chips to be competitive with what ended up in the PS4/XBox One?
They certainly exist today. But could Sony and Microsoft have chosen them or would they have had to have them developed?
But were there fast/powerful enough ARM chips to be competitive with what ended up in the PS4/XBox One?
They certainly exist today. But could Sony and Microsoft have chosen them or would they have had to have them developed?
I'm not sure, the Jaguar CPUs in them were pretty underpowered at the time too, they were tablet/netbook level. I think they were in some ways a bit of a downgrade in CPU performance compared to the Cell in the PS3.
Biggest issue at the time would have been an ARM CPU with a decent GPU if they wanted a SoC instead of having them separate dies