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Ascended_Saiyan3 on 25 February 2009
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Legend11 said:
Procrastinato said:

Yes, even the Cell, the first such processor, kicks the Xenon's ass... in the hands of a badass programmer.  The Xenon rules all in the hands of a newb <-- which describes a LOT of game programmers.

 

Funny you should say that...  The following was stated by John Carmack in a interview he gave yesterday:

"And there is a little bit of least common denominator-ing, where usually the PS3 becomes the sticky point in terms of [being] a little bit slower on the graphics, you’ve got a little bit of less memory to deal with but a little bit more processing power. So you kind of have to balance the things between all of that."

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/02/24/john-carmack-talks-possible-wii-development-iphone-doom-4-more/

Do you really think Carmack has migrated all his code over to the SPEs?  I mean Naughty Dog is a 1st party developer and they JUST have been able to migrate their systems over to the SPEs (and that's not even optimized).  Just look at Uncharted 2 DIRECT FEED screenshot.

http://playstation.joystiq.com/photos/uncharted-2/1313471//full

No one has seen anything like that in-game.

Team Ninja says the PS3 is the most powerful system out there.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3836/team_ninja_ready_for_more.php