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PS3 Cell Processor 'Broken'?
D-Fly writes "Charlie Demerijian at the Inquirer got a look at some insider specs on the PS3, and says, Sony screwed up big time with the Cell processor; the memory read speed on the current Devkits is something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the write speed; and is unlikely to improve much before the ship date. The slide from Sony pictured in the article is priceless: 'Local Memory Read Speed ~16Mbps, No this isn't a Typo.' Demerjian says when the PS3 comes out a full year after the XBox360, it's still going to be inferior: 'Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.'" This is the Inquirer, so take with a grain of salt. Just the same, doesn't sound too good for Sony or IBM.
Yeah, but its graphics were the worst of its generation. Even the Dreamcast had much better graphics. The only reason the PS2 succeeded was Sony's superior marketing.
Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.
I think they meant third after the Wii and 360. So I'm a troll - at least I have superior gaming tendencies.
Why is that every time something is posted about the PS3 people go on rambling on about their Wii
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