IBM continues Cell development

[MikeB]

@ RAZurrection

Doesn't look like it to me, 4 years after developers got cells, they still can't achieve parity between the old-ass Xbox 360 and PS3.

Actually most games are as good as on par. Most users won't notice a difference without running side by side (and often won't agree on which version is better).

And the game engine enhancements required on the PS3 directly translate into better performing (more efficient) gaming engines on other platforms as well, including on the XBox 360 and the PC.

Like was the case on the Amiga vs the Atari ST it took years to clearly show off the hardware in exclusives. Some publishers like Ocean still continued to use the Atari ST as a lead platform for their multi-platform games, so despite most games running more impressively on the Amiga, their games stayed on a Atari ST level (which weren't bad, just lacking things like parallax scrolling, fewer colors, less technically impressive audio and such compared to other Amiga games of the time, they were still much better than PC games).

But there isn't going to be any more cells, not even in the PS4.

Nothing like that has been announced and the PS4 is still many years away.

It's no surprise Factor 5, Free Radical and Grin

Factor 5 was most criticized for their sixaxis support (which I greatly prefer in this game BTW), Lair needed more polish, better story telling and better characters, etc to make it really stand out. Lair didn't fail to get good reviews overall because of using the Cell processor.

Free Radical designed Haze as a multi-platform game. It was only intended to be a timed exclusive. Most criticism was directed against gameplay and story elements. I thought it was an ok game like Lair, but being PS3 exclusive (in the case of Haze, it was to be timed exclusive) seems to heat things up quite a bit.

Grin, did they ever do a PS3 exclusive?

Many companies have gone out of business the last couple of years, not only PS3 software developers.

Gabe was just incredibly accurate in his prediction, much to the chagrin of PS3 fanboys, but much to the joy of all developers worldwide.

lol