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Cross-X on 21 September 2010
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Joelcool7 said:
Cross-X said:

What's the Cell in the PS3?

Cross-X said

But could you answer why graphics at 30 fps will look better than 60 fps?



It can't. As far as I know our eyes apparently can barely regester over 60 frames a second. if something clocked in at 120 frames a second it would be so fluid it's like real life. The more frames a second the better. Technically a game running at a solid 60 frames a second is going to look better then one running at 30 fps.

The Playstation cell proccessor is an additional proccesor most often used as a replacement for its inferior GPU. I don't know too much about the cell other then the fact that Sony invested millions in the technology and that today its what seperates the X-Box 360/Wii from the PS3. Both the 360 and Wii use PowerPC instead of Sony's Cell processing power. Essentially the cell processor is made up of seven microprocessors..... well since you don't understand the console tech me using technical language and trying to explain it would be hard.

Long story short Sony wanted the PS3 to pack some serious punch so together with IBM and Toshiba they created what they though was the ultimate processor, called the cell processor. While Nintendo and Microsoft used the PowerPC.

Well it's just that I hear that statement a lot. Like even when Gears of War 3 was announced, Cliffy B said that Epic chose to stick with 30 fps because of the graphics. Or maybe every devs opts for the 30 fps on consoles because console tech isn't good enough yet to maintain 60 fps with amazing graphics?

So I get that the Cell is an extra processor and so is the Cell the primary reason why the PS3 used to and still sometimes get crappy ports from the X360 version? Is that why Devs find it harded to develop for the PS3?