@NNN2004 - Please note these articles are old and they made some assumptions regarding performance that we are not seeing in the real world. Microsoft claimed that the spe's would be glorified DSPs and useless for game design. It was part of their pre-launch anti-PS3 viral campaign. You see a lot of MS originated information in threads like these. The SPE's are not the equivalent of a stand alone processor cores but they are much more valuable than DSPs. The article discusses the best use for the SPEs in the engine architecture. Some of the design choices that Epic made with UE3 did not pan out and thus the PS3 has problems with some UE3 based games. (I think they corrected most of these issues with Sony's assistance prior to the launch of Unreal Tournament 3). The answer to your question of Xenon vs Cell is somewhat irrelevant to which system is better for gaming. You need to look at the overall system architecture processor, memory, hard drive, Blu-ray/Dvd...
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
