I think he meant threads. 3 cores 6 threads.

A lot of you are selling this game short. What there doing with destrutable environments is beautiful. Hopefully it will be as fun to play as it is to look at.

So he also ment, the 360 uses only 2 of those 6 threads on Gears 2? I find that hard to believe. Now if it's using only 2 of those 3 cores, then that's more believable. But he never mentioned anything being 3.

I dont want to undermine the achievement, its a great piece of technology im just saying that realistic in terms of unseen calculations does not automatically mean it is always the best solutions.

In order to truely maximise the potential of a system, developers are more often than not geared towards the exact opposite i.e. the illusion of never before seen realism, while in reality doing a far less complex calculation than one would believe when viewing it.

I couldn't care less if it has or hasn't maxed out the 360, the real question is, is this a good game?

People have been using the "maxing out the hardware" line since at least the SNES days. It's always wrong; there are always much more impressive games that come out later in the console lifestyle. It means nothing.

Sorry my bad. Yes it has 3 cores, I meant to say 6 threads. The 360 has 2 threads per core.