Jaffe floats the idea of a single standard for consoles

David Jaffe is an outspoken man -- one not afraid to voice his opinions, concerns, qualms, and superstitions (really?) over the interweb highway. In a recent update to his blog, he argues for a "single standard" console -- that's not to say one console to rule them all, but a single standard upon which all developers could work on. We're probably crazy for suggesting it, but if all future consoles used the Cell Processor as the basic standard, it could help developers ease into making games play similarly across consoles. Assuming there's more than one and assuming any company would go multiplatform across similarly build consoles. Messy, no?

Our friends at Joystiq seem to have offered their own ideas on the subject, and they're not bad if you assume Jaffe means a single console (which he originally seemed to, but in his edit he changed his mind clarified). A single standard is a little different, but really, the two would meet at some point. Who knows if it would work. If it did -- wouldn't we just have one automobile company? Different strokes for different folks and all that.