MikeB on 11 April 2009
@ nightsurge
The PS3's only real advantage is the Cell and the extra storage capacity. The Cell is not exactly the best processor for gaming tasks, though, and the blu-ray drive/disc has it's disadvantages as well, as described in the article.
Although everything has its stronger and weaker points, the Cell is most excellent for gaming (just looking at what kind of systems are running on the SPUs for various games already makes this pretty evident). Blu-Ray disc is far more modern technology and compared to DVD provides mainly advantages in this regard.
Of course it's new and different, thus requiring different care than was implemented for many legacy game engines. The Wii for example has the advantage of being very similar to the GameCube, it does not make the Wii a high spec console, but it allows developers to move over and enhance GameCube optimised game engines fairly easily. If there was no GameCube before the Wii launched, this would require far more effort from such developers.
