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thanks

If someone did boycott Valve for this, I'm glad. Less idiots on the servers.

It's yet to be proven that the Cell is the best choice for making games. It seems to be pretty great for scientific number-crunching applications though (which is not surprising to anyone who understands CPU architectures).

If the Cell in the PS3 had included 3 PPEs instead of one, the PS3 would be much more powerful than the 360. As it stands, the Cell is more of an obstacle in many ways, since the SPEs often have to do work which would be best done in a generic core (such as the PPE is).

 I agree with you

Te article did say that Portal was working fine and this game alone would be worth buying the game.
I don't know much about Portal, but is it worth it?

I'm not going to argue what is the "best choice" if such a thing even exists. Simply, Sony is trying something new. To that respect, you can't make games in the old style using this new technology. You can argue that the Cell lacks this or needs that, but it's really how that hardware is used that will determine how successful it will be. The DS isn't suffering from any sort of technical inferiority in comparison to the PSP but last I heard the PSP isn't exactly a chore to develop for as evidenced by the wealth of homebrew apps available for it.

 In all honesty, Sony fucked up by ignoring the developers this generation. Dev kits were dumped into their laps in early 2006 so I'm not surprised that decent games are just beginning to roll out.

Maybe I should have been clearer. I was specifically replying to the part where you talk about the Cell as being "progress" for gaming. I did not mean to imply you had said it was the best thing ever.

Simply put, I don't think it has yet been proven that the Cell (in its PS3 configuration of 1 PPE + 6 game usable SPEs) constitutes valuable progress for gaming.

First of all, people complained about the F.E.A.R. port but I played it and it was fine.  Rainbow Six had a few problems supposedly but received great reviews despite those problems and played fine.  I enjoyed them both.

That said, NCAA for the PS3 was terribly slow compared to the previous PS2 versions.  I even decided to get the PS2 version and return the PS3 version.

If this Orange Box has problems closer to F.E.A.R. there shouldnt be a problem, especially since Portal seems to be working fine.  If the game runs closer to what NCAA did then there will be problems.

The one thing UT3 has going for it is the fact that it has mods.  There is no reason to trash Valve except for not knowing the value of the PS3.  They do make great games and the Orange Box is the best deal in videogame history.  The only better deal is the PC version which is not only $10 cheaper but includes all mods.  The game I've played the most on the PC besides Blizzard games is Counter-strike, which everyone knows was a mod of Halflife.

If the PS3 version does suck, just get it for the PC like I'm doing for Bioshock.  Steam is a great service anyway.  It's better than Games for Windows and Live and it's free.

I did play CoD4 on the PS3 and that game is great.  It's not as good a deal as The Orange Box, but it's fantastic. 

 I believe the problem with F.E.A.R. was that it was pretty inferior to the 360 and PC versions. Not that I'm ever going to play it on the PS3 as I already have it on the PC. . . and I don't care much for the game itself anyway. 

I want to know why exclusives look beyond anything on the 360 or PC for that matter on the ps3. Bu multiplatforms look like 360 wash outs?