Already 360 launch games used up to 85% of Xenon cycles (all 3 cores), Gears 2 uses more combined with heavy optimisations. IMO no more major technical gains are to be expected, other than maybe for future 360 games a harddrive becomes mandatory and games span several disc (crossing the 6.8 GB barrier of dual layer 360 discs).

super mario galaxy used only 0.00000001% of wiis power.
wii>>>>>>>>>ps360

see, i can tell facts taken out of my butt too.

 Do not forget PS3's RAM runs at 3200 MHz which is more than five times faster than X360's memory and faster than almost every PC around.

It's even more funny when the same game is already suffering from framerate issues even at only x% use of the CPU. Clearly the bottleneck is not the CPU (perhaps one core of it or the GPU or whatever, but not the whole CPU since they are reportedly not even using all the SPUs).

^ GPU =/= CPU

And even if the remaining SPU's were used for graphics processing it still would write at mere 4 MB/s at PS3's video memory.

@haxxiy: That was my point.

@ NJ5

Killzone 2 runs very solid already and they are adding more stuff, it's a preview build and already runs far more solid and is far more impressive than finalized releases.

I find your comments funny coming from an alledged developer, everyone knows that betas aren't finalized.

@ NJ5: saw the edit?

I didn't mention KZ2 specifically regarding framerates, did I? Did you read the post I quoted?

It makes no sense for the Cell to use GDDR3 memory, it uses the low latency much faster XDR Ram. It only makes sense in some cases for the RSX to use XDR Ram in addition to its GDDR3. The Cell to GDDR3 link is mostly useful for testing purposes and such.

The RSX using XDR, doubles bandwidth and increases graphics memory. I guess this is only useful for games where the Cell doesn't have to move around data too much.