A benefit of Bluray isn't its streaming speed in any sense at all MikeB (not at 2x), that is actually FUD like you're accusing others of spreading. If you were to say that Uncharted 2 benefitted from using Bluray by amazing graphics largely due to a huge number of assets they could fit on bluray and indeed excellent audio and cutscences for this same reason too then you might have a point. The streaming speed the PS3 drive is not better than DVD or HDD so is not a benefit, the extra space however is.
The Cell hasn't been a benefit for anything other than a handful of games so far, imo this shows it was a mistake to include such a complex architecture in a games console. The Sega Saturn did the same thing an despite it's amazing power it was just too hard for developers to bother trying to get parity with its rivals. If you want a vote of it was the right call for one percent of games released on the system so far then I'm afraid I cannot agree.
Overall I'd say Bluray is a benefit when the game engine is built to stream and cache properly, the Cell has been a failure that has caused more harm than good (poor ports, ridiculous cost).
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