My XBox 360 vs PS3 comparison (mostly technical)

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2. How does that take care of the rushed GPU design? The GPU in the PS3 is a nvidia G70 variant put in the console at the last moment, it was rushed. All unless what your getting at is that Sony never seriously considered 4-Cell solution; which is odd because they were working on this until a couple months before they went to Nvidia. You dont work on something for that long, with no real alternative, if you arent seriously considering it. Remember that in the past Sony had created their own graphics solutions for their consoles including systems as recent as the PSP. The move to an external vendor for the GPU is quite the change in Sony strategy.

3. It doesn't imply that it was designed to replace the GPU, although it does support the idea that they wanted a 4-cell solution.

Can you point me to some reputable, unbiased source giving a detailed history of PS3 development? That would settle most of my questions. Until then I have a hard time believing that Sony ever thought that a 4-Cell design could be remotely cost-conscious.

To respond to your reply #2: If Sony was trying to close a deal with ATI and it fell through, forcing them to turn to Nvidia at the last minute, any multi-Cell designs that may or may not have existed before the attempted ATI deal are irrelevant to the fact that the Nvidia-GPU PS3 design was rushed because of the failed ATI deal.

To respond to your reply #3: In what way is the fact that the Cell is good at things GPUs are good at evidence that a Cell or Cells was/were meant to do the job of a GPU in the PS3?