| captain carot said: Actually the PS3 GPU was weaker in some ways. Cell was brute force and at the same time a 'dumb' design, from the beginning intended to do some graphics work. Basically the opposite of what is done today.
Blu Ray is a thing. Going for a PS3 with Blu Ray helped Sony massively winning the HD-format war. It made the PS3 expensive for some time which increased their loss per console. But in the end Sony won against HD-DVD partially due to selling millions of Blu Ray players (aka PS3). |
Arguments can be made why Bluray in PS3 was a good idea. Did it benefit games in a significant way? Not really, 360 was fine sticking with DVDs. Especially when 360 began using a disc as installion data and other discs as play data.
It seems like the real reason PS3 was so expensive was the Cell processor. It was an incredibly powerful CPU, so much so that PS3 was even used as a cheap super computer. However, did the Cell benefit games in a significant way? Fuck no, a complete waste of money for Sony. They should have used a cheap processer with a common arcitecture. Those resources would have been better spent on a powerful GPU.
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