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disolitude said:
superchunk said:

ummm, Microsoft tried a straight off the shelf system and I'm pretty sure it cost them billions in losses. I don't think SEGA could afford that.

This is clearly a bunch of BS.

Its actually the best way to go for a smaller company.

I mean, howmany billions has Sony lost making that Cell chip? They had to price the console at 599 at launch to boot and still take a huge loss. For 599 they could have easily built and  equal or greater power console in 2006.

The only way a smaller company can make a console/portable device is to use off the shelf parts, Google Android OS and sell it to you at cost.

Regardless, the story is still BS

most cost was for blu-ray as SONY always goes for ROYALTIES making formats

 

also CELL is powerful as it has all the power that games need atleast for now on consoles

and it was pretty powerful even back in 2006,now don't compare it to a PC as even though if it had more specs the game quality wouldn't have been much better for most of the games as the gamemaking expenses going up and most games developed for both 360 and PS3 so most devs would have just ignored making more quality for PS3 as it would cost more

it cost CELL makers $400m to make CELL.This was the final figure and its not just alone SONY