The Cell certainly has an edge over the 360 for certain tasks. It's just that none of those tasks are really applicable to the way games are programmed.
I'm an IBM mainframe Z/os operator. You might think of a mainframe as a super fast computer, and it does have a lot of CPU power but that is not it's key strength. What a mainframe IS designed for is massive I/O and database updates.
A cluster of cheap Unix boxes might beat a mainframe for CPU intensive jobs, but when it comes to I/O and database commits, nothing else comes close.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
