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I think it's flawed. They should have gone with 4 full fledged PowerPC cores and never have started with Cell. It costs billions of dollars and it caused the PS3 to be harder to develop for. Also they intended to use Cell for gpu purposes aswell, causing them to switch to Nvidia to late resulting in the 360 ending up with more powerfull and modern gpu technology.

Then there's Blu-Ray. From a format war point of view a good decision, and it will probably allow the PS3 to enjoy longer support after next gen fully launches. On the other hand it was insanely expensive in the beginning and it caused the PS3 to launch later than planned.

And then there's the RAM. 256mb fixed for both system and gpu was a very stupid move, and they should have gone with a shared memory system.

All in all i consider the PS3 very badly designed, though the strength of the Playstation brand pulled it through in the end.