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SegataSanshiro on 27 December 2017
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Pemalite said:
SegataSanshiro said:

Not agreeing with anything OP says but it is true Sony originally planned for the PS3 to have a second cell instead of a GPU. The Nvidia GPU was a fairly late addition to the machine before release.

http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/10/08/playstation-3-was-delayed-originally-planned-for-2005

The console had no GPU at one point, doesn't mean it was going to have a second Cell processor or no GPU at all, just means the GPU wasn't the focus during that part of the consoles development, Sony was simply fixated on developing the CPU to make it the best it possibly can be, to build the tools and the technology that was going to run on it.



Sony had actually designed a separate GPU in-house for the Playstation 3, but scrapped it and opted for nVidia's solution as thanks to the power of competition... nVidia and AMD were ahead by the entire industry by a significant margin.

Skip to 18 minuets.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/08/playstation-3-was-delayed-originally-planned-for-2005