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

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KratosLives said:

Pemalite said:

What you describe will happen with/without Cell.

Maybe, but i still think had they gone with cell we'd have a more powerful processor on the ps4 and possibly ps5.

Had Sony actually utilized Cell in the way Kutaragi road mapped it, they would be in a better position than Apple and Google are now. If they had Cell in every Sony device, they would have gained massive support, and R&D would have continued. It would be very interesting to see an alternate path where they dropped a PlayStation Portable with Micro Cell, and delivered the high end PS3 Ken promised the A/V community.

With every Sony device, TV, Phone, Console, Portable, Reciever, Audio Deck, etc. running on some form of Cell, and a common OS things would have turned out a lot different. Sadly Sony didn't have a grasp on the company at the time, and the divisions where horrible at working together.

Moving forward they have dropped Cell and are seeing success with X86 on PS4. Hopefully Kaz has enough sway to get them unified across all divisions in the next decade. They can build an excellent ecosystem around X86 with AMD and the PS4 OS. Maybe down the road they can bing their chip development in house if they are successful enough, like we are seeing with Apple. We will probably never see anything as radical as Cell again, but it is possible with enough sway in the market.

Any continued success though is very dependent on dropping Android and ARM from their Phones and TVs, and building a Sony experience across all of their platforms. Thus the PS5 has to stick to X86 and simplicity that can scale across all of Sonys products.