Xbox 2 to be powered by 3 G5 processors

[lnoelstorr]

Someone just posted this on a gaming forum I visit. I thought it may be of interest to you guys:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7849191.htm

 

[lnoelstorr]

or maybe four (or more):

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=dev&aid=2897


One good things is that, although they probably won't be straight G5 processors, this could well help drive down the production costs of the G5s.

It's also rumoured to be likely the the next Nintendo console will use IBM PowerPC processors too.


Hopefully this will also make games for these consoles easy to port over to the Apple platform.

 

[ora]

On a similar topic,
Some sort of PPC is being used by NASA for the Spirit mars rover (see article here).

If they're good enough for traveling a few million miles and zipping round the martian surface then it must be good enough to run a few consoles.