| curl-6 said: So the general consensus seems to be that Cell/Blu Ray were a mistake, and that the system would've been better off without them? |
Blu-ray might've not been good at first, since it increased the cost of the console. In the long run, it was good for the console. PS3 is very much a multimedia machine, and without the emerging Blu-ray format it would lose some of that status.
I don't think I've seen anyone argue that the Cell processor was a good thing. It was costly, and hard to develop for. It's still baffling that Sony went with it. It also made it extremely difficult for backwards compatibility. As such, there's no true backwards compatibility on the PS4. I don't see any future PlayStation console having PS3 backwards compatibility because the effort would not be worth it.
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