AmigaOne X1000, Amiga OS 4.1.x, & Gaming

[Digiman]

66 million XBoxes @ USD 100 to 300.
55.5 million PS3s sold @ USD 300 to 400.
95 million Wii sold @ USD 100 to 300.

250 AmigaOne X1000s made. Priced at £1799, USD 3000.

If I'm a developer, which platform/s am I likely to develop for?

Fair comment. Wii has Xbox1 quality visuals at best though

Firstly the PS3 has twin 6800GTX SLI type performance.  The 360 has ATI Radeon X1800/1850 type GPU. Both are old hat really. However the CPU is about the same as an AMD triple core Phenom so it isn't the CPU grunt as such either, and the G5 class PPC is not even close to the PPC performance of the IBM Xenon 3.2Ghz CPU in the 360 and even if it was OS4 can only use one core.

What IS different is the architecture of the consoles, the bus bandwidth is incredible for a start. The OS overhead is minuscule too and the hardware specification is locked. This means consoles are very efficiently utilized unlike Win7 gaming PCs.

What x1000 needed in the first place was a locked graphics card with top end specification, and then pay for full 3D driver development for that one and only 3D card specified.

As it stands the x1000 technically could never compete with even a £500 PC gaming wise, so it might get better games than SAM based machines but that's not really enough IMO.

[Digiman]

Actually, the G5 core is more capable then the cores in the Xenon.
The Xenon cores and the PPE core of the Cell BE (in the PS3) are both in order execution designs.
The G5 is an out of order processor and is significantly more powerful per clock cycle.
Current game machine processors, while clocked fast, are closer to G4s the their performance.

That doesn't really matter for running game code on a locked hardware reference design, only on a generic OS like Windows on a complete disaster of an open hardware specification. OS4 can only use one core of the G5 and it's cocked at half the speed too though.

But like I said, it's not just the CPU that makes games like Killzone 3 possible on PS3 for $300. Amiga 1000/500 used to have all the advantages of a console and a home computer which is why it was unique in the 80s.