| zarx said: I mean that sony are pretty much the only company still using it, mainly because they invested so much money into it. That raises costs. how many have put inferior multiplats on the PS3 because it is to expensive to utilise the CELL? Adding the CELL would add cost with little to no actual benefit, while backwards compatibility is nice to have most people won't avoid a console because it doesn't offer it. The PS3 is doing fine without it, it would be stupid to include backwards comparability at such a cost. More likely the SONY patent for the add-on that adds backwards compatibility will be used next gen for the people that wan't it. |
I actually think they may keep a version of Cell in PS4. From what I've read CPU architecture is undergoing a bit of an overhaul with both Intel and AMD coming up with CPU/GPU hybrids, much like the Cell was originally meant to be. It could even be that devs that used the Cell processor on the PS3 will actually have an easier time with the new PC CPUs. Alternatively, they may even be able to emulate the Cell processor with the new batch of CPUs comming out.
