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Originally Posted by Shotty

The reason sony is gettin screwed here is because of blu-ray. They are really taking a gamble. Cell really isnt special its just a processor just to make calculations. The gamer actually observes what the video card spits out which I believe the one is the 360 is more superior. The cell is just a marketing thing that sony is using to hype up the product. Why do we care if the cell has so much theroretical power. The developer have to work even harder to get that power out which means more monet spent on the games. With playstation losing more dominance in the gaming world it just isnt cost effective for the smaller developer to even attemp to get all that power out of it. Which is why some are moving to the 360.

You do bring up some reasonable points about the ps3. It really does come down to the gpu in gaming, but with both of these consoles, the gpu/cpu work together, so each have to pull a large workload....

I personally believe that the ps3 is imbalanced and that will work as a disadvantage for the console and the developers.

You are correct when saying that it is more expensive to develop for ps3. In fact the basic game was calculated at almost $5 million more than to develop for xbox360 (forgot the source....old article). Just the basic!