| kitler53 said: there you go making the same statement that i both agree and disagree with. when you say, "..has a serious design flaw at its core in that it was not built to play games specifically" i disagree, the ps3 was designed with games in mind. it's just that the only part of games they kept in mind was maximizing performance. what they forgot was with this amazing new performance came a shift in how things need to be programed in order to leverage this performance increase. I work for a software company and our software is quite the resource hog. we got to the point that running on a "standard" processor was just not enough due to the cost of equipment and in order to keep cost in line we tasked ourself with doing pretty much exactly what the cell does - spread our programming out over several smaller computers instead of one large one. we actually had to fire a good portion of our staff because they weren't willing to work in such a manner replacing them with programers who were willing to be more open minded. i tell you this story just to illustrate the point - the hardware is a great solution to today's challenges but it's the people that are resisting the changes and it's the people that sony forget to consider NOT the design of the ps3. but yeah, as an overall i still agree with your general gist. i'm mostly nit picking. |
Well as you may note I am behind this even though Sony is pushing the cell with PS4. I have no issues with the technology specifically. What should have been done is have the software team working on getting a good set of tools that guide people into the programming a game with the cell should that have been their ideal. Of course I'd say multi-core processors in general under-cut the importance of the cell, but this is mostly based on second hand info from friends who studied both fairly intensively with possible personal biases. I do know the cell does a few things rock solid though, which makes it good tech to have around. Pushing forward, and dropping those that cannot, or will not adapt is the life blood of technological advancement.
Although to counter somewhat the PS3 being designed with games, you might remember the big changes that had to be done last second on the PS3. Originally it was to have 2 cells, and no GPU which ultimately proved to be far far too hard to work with and thus led to a very last second change. From memory the GPU is almost off the shelf PC parts which causes some problems. It kind of cuts against both of our arguments though as they did make changes to an original design for games, but the original design was quite obviously not up to snuff by their own standards for game development.
