Yea this thread is going a little crazy. I wont talk in terms of percentage, but I would expect that they would be able to develop their game better than they could before and they can improve on their programming abilities.

See, the problem is this; my PC has a lot more potential than it will ever use up due to optimalization, coding, bandwidth and bus limits, spin times and downright programming. If I put my PC components to a theoretical number crunching test, the numbers would be simply staggering, but those numbers are not what I'll be getting out of my PC at any one time.
Under optimal conditions, all chips can perform extraordinarily, but conditions are never optimal in a full housing of components matched by proxy and tuned to work systematically and soundly first and foremost.

Take this for example; my Volvo's rear axle can stand to be pressed down by 10 metric tons without a sweat, whereas my Volvo as a whole, can't.
The limit in a hardware setup's power is not in the most powerful part and its optimal and utmost performance, but rather the linkages between the chips and the very limited transistor technology that really doesn't handle heat very well.
My femur can take over 280 kg's of weight on it before snapping, even without any tissue on it, but my body can't support 560 kg's without my legs buckling. Another theoretical example, and just as valid.

The 10% figure seems about right from what we have seen from games and from what we have heard from other developers. The guy who said his game used 2% of the PS3 power could be right, considering his game looks and runs alot worse then RFoM which is using 10%. While the figure for uncharted is 30% from what i heard and it looks alot better then RFoM. Then we have Killzone2 which looks alot better then uncharted.

If we look back to first year PS2 games they look alot worse then the final year of PS2 games. A first year PS2 title looked at about 10% to 30% of the final PS2 games we saw in late 06 and 07. So from the evidence we have so far the figures they say fall inline with what happened on the PS2.

So this thread wasn't a joke?

shame.

Of COURSE future PS3 games will look better.

But the problem with this...10% information is uber-PS3 fanboys are going to say future games will look 90% better than Resistance...whatever that means.

There are limitations, and even if the SPU got used nearly 100%, what the heck does that mean? How much better would a game actually look? You don't know, I don't know, so this information is practically worthless...other than the PS3 is either bottlenecked or future games will look better.

I say a little of both...future games always look better as developers learn how to use the system better...but there's a limit, and games are not going to suddenly look "90%" better. It's like when games are in pre-alpha stages like Killzone 2, and they MAKE SURE to let you know that, so then fanboys go crazy because the game is going to RADICALLY change in alpha, beta, and final stages. It'll change, it'll look better, but there's only so much improvements you can make.

 only 10% WOW that's amazing

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You people do realise that the article says that the resistance code used 10-20% of the SPU not when resistance was running SPU usage was 10-20%. Just resistance was using 10-20% of the SPU that means the background tasks that the SPU is also doing would push usage up to around 30-40% and thanks to bottlenecking and things like ram and cache will make sure that the SPU will never be fully utilized Evin if some programmer makes a game engine that could utilize all the SPU without reaching the limits of the ram and GPU it would probibly look and play like crap with a loading screen every 5mins.

so, will there ever be a game where the dev says "oh we pushed the PS3 to it's peak ".

Bah, I think all of these are a bunch of crap.

I would like to think the system could pull 60 fps on an average FPS...