PS3 vs PC

[The Anarchyz]

Spankey said:

scottie said:
Ahh RedDevils :P

Ok, Sony's biggest mistake this generation was the Cell processor.

In a current gaming PC, the limitation on performace is usually the ram and graphics card. Old computers have an adequate processor to play Crysis, but don't come close to having the ram or graphics card.

The PS3 has a more powerful processor than many computers, but much less ram and a worse graphics card. Why?? because Sony isn't actually very good at making hardware

PS: I don't know if you are wrong, or simply lying to make a point. but the way your post reads seems to be implying that the PS3 has 256 mb of video ram, and 2x256 mb of ram. This is not true, you counted the video card's ram twice.

 

err...what? Sony has made hardware for years.

If they suck so badly, why are they still around?

 

Actually, it's not that they suck at making hardware, making a console is different than making a PC, even when they try to emulate one... they have to build something that brings to us video games out of the box, it needs to have a reasonable price (Wii and 360 have it, but the PS3 Blu-ray player and the Cell made for them inevitable to have the high price tag, and it's understandable because Sony put a lot of money in R&D of the Cell along with IBM and Toshiba, while Microsoft didn't do the same with the Xenon and Nintendo with the Broadway), and it needs to have some physical specs worthy of a console (dimensions, weight, power consumption, etc.), in conclusion, the consoles have a lot of restrictions while the PCs have more freedom, Sony decided to sacrifice things in favor of putting others, they suffered from it, but they won a fight (Blu-Ray), now let's see if they can win the others (HD-Console War and recovering from the tremendous losses)...

BTW, i thought abouth the comparison, and it was unfair again, PS3 hardware was made years ago, and at that time the price of making it was between 800 and 900 if my memory is right, and the more i think it, the more things i have to add to make the comparison close to fair, so i decided to stop thinking about it and comparing from web sites, and now i'm using that time to play Fallout 3 on PC...