Exactly.  A gamer wouldn't want wifi in most cases.  Wifi is slower than wired (802.11g vs 100mbit, anything vs gigabit), it is less reliable than wired.  It is higher latency than wired due not just to the fact that hardware demudulation of RF is slower than copper, but also due to the fact that the protocol itself has RTS-CTS inefficiencies inherant in sharing a medium. 

The only thing Wifi does better than wired is that it is easier to use in some areas than cables.  But in every other way, it is vastly inferior.  For some people it works good enough and that's fine, but it isn't as good as a wired connection.

Unless you have no choice, you use wired.  It isn't like you are going to be carrying your console around while you're gaming on it.

Alright...I think hes had enough. Hes been banned, his points have been proven as opinions... I think we can let him off the hook thi time :)

He is not, and he never claimed to be one as far as I remember.

When discussing things with people with actual programming experience, he usually gets lost pretty quickly. (i.e. as soon as the subject goes a bit outside the scope of his stockpile of quotes from industry sources). That has rarely stopped him from trying to defend some provably silly claims though.

In other words, he's an armchair programmer.

@ NJ5

I have been a tech writer in the past (have been an advisor for various tech companies and been a spokesperson for a big developer consortium in the past), However I am not a professional programmer as you know. People who never programmed can't imagine how boring and frustrating that can be if you're ambitious. Hence I prefer my current profession.

I want to know how tech works, that's why I had in depth discussions with IBM technical experts and fellow tech writers like my buddy Nicholas Blanchford regarding the Cell and Xenon in the past. There are some roadblocks regarding the introduction of innovative new processor designs, but there's no doubt the Cell processor like it's implemented in the PS3 is a lot more powerful potentially compared to what the 360's Xenon can provide.

@MikeB: I admire you for your tenacity in learning about technical stuff, the only problem is that sometimes you talk a bit too much for what you know. You do occasionally bring up valid points though.

I'm a programmer, not a doctor, so I don't go into medical forums making absolute statements about cancer.

Value is really up to the purchaser. For some who want their exercise games with motion controls, a $600 wii is more valuable than a $100 ps3.

For me a BC ps3 would always be more valuable than anything else because I still play ps2 and ps1 games, use the wireless feature, stream movies, upgraded my HD to 320gb with ease and watch blu-ray every now and then. This puts the ps3 miles ahead of any other option but that's just MY TASTE.

Fanboys incoming !!!!!

No offence, you have programmers and you have "programmers". It's really the low level coders out there, with in depth low level knowledge of the hardware of whom the statements are more relevant regarding the issues at hand. Mike Acton, a highly acclaimed low level software engineer explains this well within the links in my signature with regard to the differences of competence levels amongst programmers.

Don't you agree?

@MikeB: You often use quotes from valid sources. But you also often misuse them or interpret them wrongly.

In my everyday work I program with an architecture very similar to the Cell (proprietary though). I'm not a games programmer (except for some amateur PC projects), but I do appreciate the problems programmers go through when using it to make games. You don't see me making too many comments about rendering engines, but I will and do discuss the architecture and programming models.

@ NJ5