Alby_da_Wolf on 05 January 2009
Now that the initial and most expensive development of Cell is done, it would be unwise to throw it away, they could simply put the same or only slightly increased number of SPE's in next model, adding more PPE's (that are PowerPC cores, ubiquitous in consoles, so easing porting amongst consoles and making 3rd party developers happy) instead. Already in 5 years from PS3 release, for Moore's law, a 4 PPE's, 12 SPE's Cell would cost less than the current one, not only at release time, but even now. By then, BD drives too will be cheap. Throwing away all this when they are cheap, after paying so much to develop and launch them would be crazy.
