Why Sony should also use a Cell Processor for PS5 (x86+Cell coprocessor)

[Ruler]

caffeinade said:

Ruler said:

Thats not running fine to be honest. 

Yeah all these stuff you have listed is true but its also true for X86 hardware especially limited to 400$-500$, and i think it still better and easier to just have an extra processor than some Mhz more. Sony knows both architectures now , X86 and Cell, it shouldnt be that hard to make that work together. And as i have mentioned before it should be Reserved for certain things not the whole game. And you forget the XDR2 Ram.

Ah, that is fine for a relatively young emulator.
Given a few years of development pretty much all games will run beyond a PS3 on that same processor.
Sony would use a more advanced, faster CPU in their PS5, with an OS that runs with less overhead.

You don't just hand over some cash to Lisa Su and get some extra megahertz in return.
Sony could spend that fifty dollars and buy extra GPU cores, or whatever.

If they spend fifty USD on a Cell, Microsoft can undercut Sony by fifty dollars, or spend their fifty dollars elsewhere.
Assuming that Sony sells ten million units year one, when the Cell + XDR2 is fifty USD.
What is 10,000,000 * 50?
500,000,000 USD.
Half a billion dollars wasted in one year.

You don't just throw a $50 component into a product.
Half a billion dollars would be better spent on marketing.

Goodbye.

Microsoft wont be around when the PS5 launches, because Sony will be first who will launch their next gen system duetto how PS4 Pro and Xbox 1 X were released. So Microsoft can respond to the PS5 no matter what.

But i tell one thing they wouldnt composite the extra power from a cell processor inside a PS5 by just adding in a Xeon from the 360 for their next xbox, because that would turn their BC roadmap they have taken so far into a waste.

What you just dont get is that a Ryzen is pretty much all what Sony could get out of AMD in 2019 looking at how expensive they are now. It doesnt just work that way that they you can add in an extra core for a CPU. You ether buy an affordable 8 core, or super expensive 12 or 16 core, looking at Ryzen.

NATO said:
go back to the cell processor and write off the entire ps4 games library, and have your competitors have hardware backwards compatibility... or stick with x86 and have native backwards compatibility and a massive library of games directly compatible (potentially with upgrades) at launch?

hmmmmm

 

DialgaMarine said:
No. They’ll face the same high costs that they faced with the original PS3, and it would basically mean no PS4 BC if they decide not to try and fit a PS4 inside of it. I like the idea of building around x86 because developers love it and it means all the games we play right can continue to be relevant as newer hardware offers boosts to performance.

You clearly didnt read my opening post,

-i said BC with PS4

- Ryzen CPU by AMD,

the Cell is just being an extra processor for some extra graphics.