What's the point of cell?

[Bokal]

NJ5 said:

misteromar mk4 said:

bdbdbd said:
People seem to miss completely one important thing, which is that PS3 was designed for multiple tasks, in which Cell is definately at its best. It can handle multiple tasks at a time, with none to little loss in performance.
Then, Cell is designed for another use than just PS3, so PS3 was a good trojan horse for the Cell to enter the market. The devs would become familiar with programming the Cell and the price of the processor would also drop significantly.

I agree, it was Sony using their gaming division R&D dollars to further themself with a processor which would excel in HD tv's etc. Kind of like how they also forced blu-ray on their playstation customers.

 

So you're saying that not only did they sacrifice/risk the Playstation brand for a disc format, but also for a CPU?

I don't think Sony hates their gaming division that much.

 

Where have you seen them sacrifying/risking anything?

They built an excellent system for a really decent price if you consider all it is able to do.

It might not be the best gaming system this gen (I think it is, but still...), it's definitely an AWESOME multimedia center, again for a really decent price. I challenge you to build a system with the same functions for the same price...

Anyway, the Cell is used in the fastest supercomputer of the world, it will be used into Toshiba's High End TVs, it's used into the PS3 in an awesome way, and it will probably be used again into the PS4. I don't think Sony did anything wrong in chosing the Cell for the PS3.

The main problem of the PS3 today is that sony hasn't been able to produce a 3D engine that would push the PS3 to its limits and that developpers use the very cool Unreal Engine that runs like shit on the PS3 but runs flawlessly on PC and the 360.
I hope Guerrilla will sell the engine from Killzone 2 to other developpers, I hope Insomniac could do the same, I hope Naughty Dog could do the same. But yet, they haven't.