Groucho on 21 January 2009
Keep in mind that the PC CPUs have a LOT more hardware than chips like the Xenos do. The Xenos lacks out-of-order instructions, and has a really cheap branch predictor, as well as a pretty small cache, relative to PC cores.
No one will use a next gen Intel, AMD, or IBM processor out of the box. They will minimize it to a huge degree before putting it in a console, and that will cost a lot of R&D money.
