why did Sony do it.......

[Icyedge]

Xelloss said:

Icyedge said:
Wow, your post is very good. Im not too sure about saying that the cell is a failure considering that the PS3 will sell a lot and that there will be a lot of japanese developer exclusive in the next couple of years. But the rest of it is very well written ;).

 

 I think what he was referring to, was if Sony had gone with a more standard x86/64 or Power architecture, their Bill of Materials could have been lower, and Dev buy-in and mastery could have been alot quicker, costs overall could have been lower including at retail sooner... and maybe instead of losing 4Billion thus far they might have only lost 1 or 2... or possibly already broke even. Cell is a success as far as being a quality chip, just in hindsight it is not hard to conjecture that they might have been better off with a more typical, lower cost platform.

 

 Imagine if PS3 had been 50$ cheaper per unit to make, games had come more quickly, and they had both more and higher quality multiplatforms that were only on xbox/PC. It is not that Cell is a bad tech.

Ok yes with that point of view it could be consider a failure.