From a technical aspect they already know the limits of the consoles through the hardware specifications. Unlike the previous generation in which the Xbox 360 had a PowerPC CPU and the PS3 a Cell Broadband Engine. These two CPUs are different than standard processors, especially the Cell processor. The systems are not using some strange hardware, they are essentially 'normal' PCs(except for a few caveats here and there). Also the hardware isn't even that impressive considering tha...
From a technical aspect they already know the limits of the consoles through the hardware specifications. Unlike the previous generation in which the Xbox 360 had a PowerPC CPU and the PS3 a Cell Broadband Engine. These two CPUs are different than standard processors, especially the Cell processor. The systems are not using some strange hardware, they are essentially 'normal' PCs(except for a few caveats here and there). Also the hardware isn't even that impressive considering tha...