Gabe Newell says the PS3 is a waste of everybody's time

[LordTheNightKnight]

TheBigFatJ said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
"There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else."

THAT'S the key to his comments. He's just reacting to the fact that the work on the Cell is so far on one device, that is selling below expectations.

If the Cell picks up in a few years, the way multi-core processing did, then investment in the Cell will be worth it.

Yet RIGHT NOW, the Cell needs a lot of work to fit all the data it can generate in the PS3's relatively small memory.

You seem to misunderstand the problem with the Cell. The problem isn't that it's too powerful for the PS3's memory, but that it's not as powerful as the 360's processor for gaming. The cell can generate a lot of throughput if you feed it very specific algorithms, but for most gaming algorithms it holds the PS3 back. The Cell as Sony originally envisioned it was twice as capable for gaming (general purpose CPU two cores instead of one).

 I didnt' write "too powerful. I wrote "to fit all the data it can generate". There is a difference.