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They should make them. I want my million-core game console.

Only your great-great-great grandkids will see a 1,024,000-core console.

It's likely we'll have 1000 core processors within 10 years, and that's pretty much a 250-fold increase over today's number, so at that rate we could see them in less than 30 years.
How long the software takes to exploit that power is another matter entirely....

I think we'll eventually figure out optical computing and be able to run them in the multiple hundred terahertz range.

I like the idea of being able to build circuitry in 3 dimensions perhaps using carbon nanotubes, instead of the way photolithography currently limits us to just the 2 dimensions. With optical computing, quantum computing, nanotube-based solutions, DNA-computing; Moore's Law probably won't hit a brick wall for a very long time. Next several decades should prove to be very interesting indeed.

The problem with digital computers now is propagation delay.

I actually kind of want hardware homeostasis for home systems, not at this point, and not for a good deal of time <I want photo realistic graphics rendered in real time before that point> mostly because it would drive down the cost of in home systems, but also because the gaming industry could then reach some standards for compatibility which would allow a much higher quality of product and a much greater quantity also

We probably could get to photo realistic graphics in games if we focused on doing better job on the software side of things rather than relying on more advanced hardware.

I love Civ4, its modablitity is just staggering and the use of python is great.

Right now I'm playing Neverwinter Nights I and II with some buddies on the lan I have set up.


I think the future of computing is going to be in light sensitve magnetic plastics. One kind of light makes them more magnetic and anther color makes them less magnetic. But whatever the method used, it is for sure that they will get a lot faster and smaller.

My 6-year-old team:

http://matureasskickers.net/

We started in Tribes 2, moved to Battlefield 1942, then 2, now 2142. We have a Guild Wars and WoW group (I mostly play WoW now). We're looking forward to Quake Wars and Team Fortress 2 later this year. We have little pockets of interest in other games. We have over 100 members.

One of the fabless chip places just came out with a new technology for stacking circuitry on the chip, which should increase density.

A bigger problem is heat. As you pack stuff tighter, the heat density goes up. Voltages are getting lower, which somewhat mitigates that.

Another problem is quantum effects. As things get tinier, uncertainty and randomness increases, and those are the enemy of deterministic (repeatable) logic.

I play or have played

Operation Flashpoint
Operation Flashpoint Resistance
Armed assault

GTR
GTL
GPL
F1 Challenge

HL2
Farcry

PC GAMING FTW!! !!

I first played Doom back in the early 1990's...teh "oldsk00l" DOS version!

I play adventure games mostly, but on occasion I play Sim games and RTS games.

I have been into PC gaming for maybe a dozen years. Every once in a while I will try a console but I have never been able to get into it that much. To be honest, I am not as much into it as I used to. Often I will buy games I never finish them. It's more a distraction then anything else now.

Games presently playing:

Out of the Park 2006
Heart of Iron Doomsday
Company of Heroes
Battlefield 1942+the expansions
Battlefield Vietnam
President Forever + Primaries
Basic Little Windows Games (Like Spider Solitaire and Jezzball)

PC games are great, it's just such an expensive hobby. If you want to play the latest games you have to upgrade every year or two.