Rumour: PlayStation 4 Ditching The Cell Processor, Sources Say

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Troll_Whisperer on 01 March 2012

If this is true... yet another PlayStation without backwards compatibility. Sigh.

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Galaki on 01 March 2012

Troll_Whisperer said:
If this is true... yet another PlayStation without backwards compatibility. Sigh.

Wouldn't want to be caught copying Nintendo, you know :)

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superchunk on 01 March 2012

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I thought this was pretty much a fact? Who really thought Sony would continue CELL?

*sighs :(

I take it you thought it would continue? Sorry. :(

But considering they stopped working on it a couple years ago, sold all rights to it, and then IBM stop pursuing it as well... and Vita doesn't use any variation of it... I just figured it was common thought at this point.

I am glad they are ditching the cell but didn't sony buy the toshiba cell prodection plant a while back?

No. Sony sold all production and rights to CELL. They dropped it completely.

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Staude said:
One one hand, I'd prefere they keep it, so you'll be able to play ps3 games on the machine.. And because I think the structure, when used properly, is badass.

On the other hand. A lot of people who are not sony, have problems using the structure properly, and a more common structure, will likely allow developers to invest less into making games on the machine.. Since they wont have to figure out how it works first :P

ppl at SONY have problem s with it. ( Team ICO, Suker punch)

Sucker Punch has sung nothing but praise for the processor.

Team ICO has problems but there's no real evidence to point at the Cell being one of them.

Team ICO said that actual development didnt start on TLG for awhile due to studying the complicated PS3 architect. Sucker stated during a interview on infamous 2 that they had trouble with the PS3 architect in infamous 1 and ended up not using it efficiently which they improved in infamous 2

I remember that Sucker Punch interview. They stated that they made some bad design choices in inFamous 1 which they improved on in part 2 (some of which I think were down grades). They never stated they had trouble with the system but that they could have done things more efficiently. Which is always a duh. Every developer learns ways to get more out of a system the more they work on it.

You've got a point with Team ICO. However, technology changes. They were gonna have to learn to work on something different from what they were used to at some point.

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BlkPaladin on 01 March 2012

Well this isn't a surprise since the Cell project was canned by IBM about three years ago. So if Sony wanted another Cell processor they would have to do it themselves. Since they can not afford to do that. (They had to go to IBM and nVidia to get the PS3's chip done) The Cell processor is now a failed project though the ideas that made the Cell are being incorporated into new chip.

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/11/24/ibm-to-drop-the-cell

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sales2099 on 01 March 2012

Yet another bit of news that showed PS3 wasnt all Sony expected it to be

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BlkPaladin said:

Well this isn't a surprise since the Cell project was canned by IBM about three years ago. So if Sony wanted another Cell processor they would have to do it themselves. Since they can not afford to do that. (They had to go to IBM and nVidia to get the PS3's chip done) The Cell processor is now a failed project though the ideas that made the Cell are being incorporated into new chip.

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/11/24/ibm-to-drop-the-cell

That's more spin than truth.

The project was completed. It was done in conjunction with Toshiba and Sony. Sony had no plans to improve the chip and neither did Toshiba. The result is IBM focusing on it's core instead of making products that were funded by other companies.

And yes, the tech from the cell is going into new processors. So to say the cell is canned is really a misnomer. The cell is evolving, if you will, or merging with something else. That's what cells do.