Garnett said:
Maybe, Sony was over exagerating about the graphic potential of the PS3?!?!!?!? Nevermind they would NEVER Do that...
Seriously, Everyone has been saying PS3 wont have super duper 1000x better graphics than 360, i doubt it will even have the same graphics as the 360, because the weaker GPU.
My opinion.
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Everyone knows thats the case. But Sony had to do the "we have premium graphix" pr cause of the cost of the console.
The fact that PS3 came out a year later and is on par with the 360 tech wise is quite a bad planning decision by Sony. A year is an eternity in R&D time...3DO to PS1, Dreamcast to PS2, PS2 to Xbox 1.
I believe the cost of the Cell processor screwed them. The initial yields on that processor were like 25% successful and I don't think they got much better for a few years. They couldn't afford to use a better GPU and add more ram (as well as other promissed features which were missing or cut like dual HDMI outputs and backwards compatibility).
If sony were to use a less powerful, over the counter available CPU and a 8800GTX GPU (most powerful GPU at PS3s release), the console graphics race would have been a slaughter.