Your technical opinion on Blu-Ray and the Cell as found in the PS3

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@HappySqurriel

I sort of agree with you on the year later, and more expensive side. However, had Sony released the PS3 with a 3 core processor and a DVD drive and launched day and date with the 360 would the system be that much more awsome to you? Sure if they had done that and launched at $299 with the strength of the PS brand at the time we would have the PS3 sitting above the Wii right now, but at what cost to us consumers? In this case we could have seen much lower quality titles, and they would have stayed exclusive to the PS brand. Games like GTA4, DMC4, FFXIII, and Assasins Creed may have stayed only on Playstation, but they would have been nothing like they turned out as we know them today.

So yeah, from a financial perspective a $299 PS3 with of the self componets would have been great, and probably would have put the indusrty on better footing. But, the stuff we have seen from Killzone 2, Uncharted 1 & 2, Little Big Planet, Resistance 2, and many upcoming games would still be years away, even not possible tell next gen. Fianlly, FFXIII would not even be close to what it is today. Had it not be for the space of Blu-ray this game would have been greatly reduced in size and scope.

As for the best of the PS3 already in the past, that is some major news. I guess MAG, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, Agent, and The Last Gaurdian are going to be worse than the 5 games listed in the above paragragh?

The above can also be applied to Sirromon.

@nightsurge

Plenty of people said Cell and Blu-ray would add nothing to gaming back in 06 - 07.