Xbox Series X's cross-gen approach is robbing players of the next-gen thrill

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

It seems the Cell CPU was far more capable in theory. In practice, developers often struggled with it. So even if Jaguar CPUs are technically inferior, developers did a better job with them.

I genuinely don't believe storage medium was impacting game design much if at all. The gen prior, games were still loading off discs and fundamentally game design remained much the same.

More importantly, RAM and CPU are crucial for loading/streaming speeds as well. For example, we were already seeing significantly faster load times on PC even on HDDs. 9th gen isn't speeding up loading/stream just by using SSDs, the RAM and CPU upgrades are doing much of the work.

Many aspects of AMD jaguar absolutely beat Cell. Integer operations is a massive advantage in Jaguars favor.

The proof is in the games, games that run on AMD Jaguar tend to have superior physics, A.I and higher player/A.I counts than any Playstation 3 game.

There have been articles claiming the Cell is far more capable than the Jaguar CPUs. Maybe its technically true, but it only seems theoretical to me and we can't ignore developers struggled with it. Therefore even if it was more capable, Jaguar CPU was still a better option than the Cell on PS4.

In regard to what we actually saw in games with the Cell on PS3, its worth considering it was limited to the significantly lower RAM and GPU capabilities of PS3. So that would impact AI and player counts as well. Either way, I'm not convinced the Cell was a good CPU for a gaming console.

Last edited by Mr Puggsly - on 19 May 2020