Higher cosole price argument works if it is artificially high.Ex. Wii, Ipod

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point x said:

max power said:
A supercomputer with Blu-Ray and a massive hard drive, for $400?

First of all, hard drives are about $80-90 for a terabyte these days. I'm not sure I'd call 40GB "massive."
Second, blu-ray, yeah that's about $80 for a drive.

And supercomputer? Is that a joke? Maybe it would have been a supercomputer a few decades ago (I'm pretty sure many modern cell phones would be too), but it's pretty weak compared to the standard fare you can buy at Dell.com, and I don't think they sell supercomputers.

+1,,,someone with common sense....

 

 

First I was going to question max power's ability to think this through properly.  Then you came along.  The processing power of the PS3 is not "standard fare" at Dell.  It's not even availabel at Dell.  Granted, the PS3 has its short comings (its cpu is designed for super computing, not video gaming), but that doesn't mean that it's hardware potential can be matched by any piece of crap offered by dell. 

If you want awesome physics in your game more than you want awesome graphics, the PS3 is by far the best option.  Physics, and even graphics, are done better by multiple weak cpus than a single strong one.  Ever notice how new GPUs have hundreds or even thousands of cores?  That's because they are made to accomplish tasks that are easily parallelizable.

Added parallel processing is something the PS3 provides.  It's not for every developer.  It's certainly not for unskilled hacks.  But devs that want to push what the game can do rather than how the game looks can get a hell of a lot more out of the PS3 than they can the the standard low-end PC sold to someone who has no clue about about how PCs work, which is exacly the business model Dell runs on.