Report: Sony working with IBM in new Cell processor

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NJ5 said:

Xen said:

Pointless.

The limiter in current gen consoles and modern PC's is the GPU. It's very rarely the CPU. They better partner up with AMD and get a smokin' new GPU first.

It's not entirely pointless, it has the benefit of easy backwards compatibility...

Other than that it's pretty dumb to continue using the Cell IMO. Unless Sony truly wants to make life hard for developers as they once claimed...

Developers are getting more and more used to it, so I doubt it's a development disaster of any kind. Especially not if it means that development tools can be carried over to the PS4.

We don't know what Sony's plans are though, so I think it's too early to call it a dumb move.