Mummelmann on 03 April 2014
| MohammadBadir said: Pushing cell was a mistake, by the time the devs learned how to use it properly, most gaming PCs already surpassed the PS3 by a longshot. They learned from that and made the PS4 use standard x86 architecture. |
That's more or less what I'm thinking; the whole Cell period seems like an enormous waste, there were other and more efficient multicore processors being developed and sold at the time, and they were all cheaper alternatives with kinder coding environments.
I'll never understand the Cell, I guess it could be Sony wanting to push a chipset archetype to gain a foothold as an overall provider (not unlike the formats over the years), they had the muscle to flex after the PS2's staggering success. The Cell remains a huge mistake though, possibly their biggest one in two decades or so.
