MikeB on 25 May 2009
| MikeB said: @ Deneidez And I really would want to see PS4 with more CELL, that would mean pretty much end of playstation. If programming gets any harder than it is already, nobody would use it. Maybe you lack the talent, but the PS3 is much easier to program for than the PS2, you can just do a whole lot more. Any coder I know could get started with the Cell SDK right away. It's far from abra cadabra. However what using the Cell does point out well is bad design, if you have to deal with porting a lot of badly designed legacy code that may cause a few headaches if you want to harvest great performance. |
I also would like to add that moving PS3 Cell code over to a more advanced future PS4 Cell would in fact be a lot easier than having to deal with moving legacy PC code or PS2 code to the PS3 Cell. It's more likely they will add more convenieces rather than take away what's already there in the core design.
IMO the PS3 provides a great stepping stone towards future Cell based systems. And going Cell all the way will not hamper moving code over towards other processors at all, in fact the code will be cleaner and should yield better performance with other multi-core or multi-CPU architectures as well.
