MikeB on 24 May 2009
| jonnhytesta said: no wonder why it is so freaking expensive. like 50% of ps3 manufacture cost. |
The R&D costed a lot of money, manhours and required a lot of talent expertise. It wasn't fully Sony's burden though, IBM is pretty much leading the effort.
Currently the PS3 Cell is rather cheap to make. Newer faster and smaller Cell chips are and will become available. Regarding the PS3, it paves the way regarding proper adaptation of legacy game engines and other multi-media uses. The Cell is also rather excellent for cluster computing.
