The cell hasnt just been costly for sony it has been hell expensive for developers hence the ports from the 360. Go back to the amiga and ST days everybody knew the amiga was better butit got so many crap ports from the ST because it had a much easier processor and less costly. In the end it showed tremendously the good developers from the bad. Seems times dont change much. Blue ray really is needed for the PS3 to keep up with the 360 because the cell has made developers lazy (like the ST ports to the Amiga) and the structure of the cell makes it impossible for developers to make a game look as good as the 360 with the same size. Anyway BR will be with us for awhile but it wont be looked at in the future as a fantastic piece of technology. It is past it's date now, I have not seen anyone I know use discs now it feels very 1970's to use discs. Technology is changing so fast now compared to when DVD came out.
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
