| OriGin said: A lot of people posting in this thread don't actually know what they are talking about and are spreading the 'AI Physics' BS that is realistically not true. |
Yes, most of these claims were simply marketing, nothing more. In reallity HD output even for 720p needs a lot of computing power and memory. In fact even the processors were optimized for graphics. Every core of the Xenon has two AltiVec Engines (really good for vector handling), while the Cell has most of its computing power in the cells, which are optimized for vector calculations ,too.
While you could use these abilities for physics, I'don't knw where these features are really needed. For most physics in games there are much easier solutions, that give results, before you have setup these power houses.
And these plattforms were simply not designed for complicated AIs. While you could do more things, due to ingrease in memory size, most of the memory will be consumed by the graphics.
