Baryonyx said:
Zappykins said:
Ok, heard it was the other way around - as it was with HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, VHS/Beta, Reviewer Fraud/Consumers but it may have happen that way.
PS3/360 sales, yes OK.
"Cell processor managed to do a lot more for the Ps3 then what the GPU managed to do for the XB1." Um, what? You were making since, then this statement? The Cell was a failure. Futher shown by the fact Sony themselves dropped it. They could hardly even uss it in other things - it was supposed to be a powerful low cost innovation, but didn't really work out. The 360s GPU has set the standard since.
"... atleast they can't fuck us over with the lack backward compatibility now since the architecture will remain the same lol"
I like your optimism, but they still could try to make up new excuses. I could belive we might hear: "The PS5 is so much different that we can't get the PS4 games to work properly." "Xbox Next uses DirectX (13 or 14) and the way it's optimised it doesn't work with Xbox One games."
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So the Cell was a failure? according to who? Yes it was difficult to work with and it was bottlenecked by the GPU but in itself it was not a failure, the only thing that made it a failure was lazy developers who prefered to port games to the Ps3 and downgrade it instead of actually coding the game for the Ps3.
Developers finally caught up on it after 2010, and the games started to perform more or less the same on both consoles. TLOU would have been downgraded heavily on the 360 if it was later ported to the 360. The 360 is simply not strong enough to run that game on the same settings as on the Ps3.
Atleast the Cell ended up sucsessfull in the end, while the *secret sauce in the XB1* is nothing but a false dream. The Dx12 will not give the same results as the Cell gave for the Ps3 towards the end. The fate of the cell was decided by the devs not by the hardware in itself. Atleast learn how to differentiate the difference between the lack of optimization failure and hardware failure. if something was a failure on the Ps3 it was the gpu.
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Oh, is the Cell being used now in new Tech? Is the Cell being upgraded to Cell 2.0? Was it such a bad investment that Sony stopped making CPU's in the consoles and hire someone else?
"The PlayStation 4 will not use Sony's Cell processor nor any possible successor to the vaunted chipset that was introduced to the world through the PlayStation 3, gaming industry sources tell Kotaku." http://kotaku.com/5889410/playstation-4-ditching-the-cell-processor-sources-say-which-leads-to-some-wild-theories
If it was so great why didn't they just share their 'magic powerful tool' with other game developers? Wouldn't Sony want the world to ditch the x84 for the Cell? So Sony doesn't want that propitary monopoly they have been trying to get for the last few decades?
Oh, you just want to bash the Xboxes? Ok, why didn't you just say so.
