But it is definately possible, as 360 does better out of order threading operations, it also has alot more "general" processing power, which is what is used for AI and physics...360 is an eligantly designed machine, which MS built from the ground up with the idea of it being able to run games efficiently....that is why the 2TFLOPS that sony fanboi's like to throw around means absolutely nothing....my buddy had an old beater muscle car with some crazzy ass engine in it and the car had 500hp, but it would still get blown away by a porsche with half the horsepower.....same idea, an elegant and well thought out design can beat just raw horsepower.....

You are right...the cell as a stand alone processor is an amazing development and Sony will make much money selling huge arrays of cell processors to universities and governments. The thing is, I don't think they were thinking too much about how well it would do as a video game processor. I see their mentality being somewhere along the line of: "if we just spent 100's of millions of dollars developing this new processor, why make another one for our video game console, let's just use this one." and tossed it in there without too much thought as too the overall architecture of the machine.



Only time will tell how it will do as a gaming chip, but it is very specialized and games like more general processesing....

lol, and you really think this is real? LOL

I mean, it's not like the AI is really hard to run for a console like the ps3, the x360 and even the wii! I mean, the AI on the ps3 should normally be even more mowerfull, a lot, because of the specialisation of the cell! yeah I suppose to multi-platform it's harder but to say 2 version of the same games will be different? this would just show how useless their ps3 devs are. I mean, nobody would say that if they were not paid my M$, lol. Like mistwalker making exclusive x360, they've been paid 40 M$, it's a LOT. so personally I suppose the big difference between the ps3 and x360 won't be the hardware at all, but the games!



ps: this is fake, I mean, LIKE the xbox 360 uniformed platform could run faster than the 7 CPU cell processors, lol. it's absurd, anyway, I like ubisoft so I'll let them for this one, but they should stop saying stupidity like that, even if they were paid... ( even morst ).

You look really stupid posting what you said without reading any of the other posts before you.

Ok, I have run over all the 40+ comments before me in 10 minutes; however, the thing most of you talked about is not important after all, I think. Most of you’re talking on the power between the PS3 and X360 and the PS3 games are not getting the optimizations they need to really shine if the games were first or mainly made for the X360 then ported. Here’s another fact we must realize; the earliest time when I can actually buy the PS3 console is late February or March of 2007 (I’ve talk about this issue before. If you want to buy the PS3 before Feb of 2007, you must pay so much money to buy bundled cr$ps like extra controllers and mediocre games such as, Cr$pji: Days of the Blade and extra batteries). This is a thought-provoking piece of writing and not written for everyone. If you couldn't take it so far, stop reading.



Discussing the hardware specifications of consoles are not important folks. Why? Due to the fact that when I actually (yes, this word is important since it means I actually pay money to buy the console) buy a game for the PS3, it won’t happen until so many days and weeks later. (Yes, MS is having unfair advantages in many ways with their unfinished and rushed X360 consoles by releasing a year early.)



One more reason why it’s completely useless to talk about the power between the two consoles like most of you talked so far (or the differences between the same game which is designed for both consoles). When I actually buy a game, I go to one or two gaming sites then download actual gameplay footages (no real-time renders) and reviews. Then I decide whether or not I’ll waste money on this game based on the detailed impressions, detailed pros and cons of the game. (Yes, I don’t care anything about screenshots of a game, they have no importance. Why? Screenshots don’t say anything about the frame rates. Starbreeze’s upcoming The Darkness is a multiplatformer . The developers said that when you compare the screenshots of both games, they will look almost same or the PS3 version having very slight advantage. Yes, it’s only screenshots which are not moving; I watched actual footages of both X360 and PS3 versions of Call of Duty 3. X360 version’s graphics was like 6 out of 10 while having like 15 frames per second. PS3 version’s graphics was like 10 out 10 while having like 60 fps just like most other PS3 titles.)



Now, if you’re not dumb-witted, you realised my point yet. I’ll not even think about how powerful the console (hardware) is when I actually pay money to buy a game (software). Moreover, many ppl here also talked about some extra content Assassin’s Creed will have for the X360 version. I just don’t care about those cr$ps. Why? When I paid about $110 (Canadian dollars) to buy Half Life 2 (something like special edition which contained books and even a pair of T-shirts and some more) just after when it came out, I have never played the single player portion of H.L.2 more than like 2 hours in total (that means since 2004 until now). I just used cheat keys (CVars: command variables) to start every single level and see what’s in this game.



Ubisoft in the whole is a very big game publisher and developer in France. Ubisoft has several (I don’t remember the exact number now) game developer studios worldwide in the US, Canada, France, and some other countries. The one and only game called Assassin’s Creed is developed by Montreal, Quebec, Canada studio. If Jade Raymond, the female boss who thinks she suddenly became the hot new girl on the block of that Montreal studio supports MS, it’s only one of several Ubisoft studios anyway. Yes MS paid huge money to bring Peter Jackson and Jade Raymond to their X06 expo and for some more which to come.



Anyway, have you heard the rumor that the new Halo game will be titled as ‘Peter Jackson’s Halo 3: The Official Game of the Movie’. If this comes true, I’ll have to buy a copy of this ridiculous 3rd Halo game because it will be so fun to play ‘Catch with the Box’ game with my friend. (I have bought the original Xbox years ago only because I heard all those hu

My main arguement was that 360 is better equiped to handle general processing, such as physics AI and game control....



"At any rate, Playstation 3 fanboys shouldn't get all flush over the idea that the Xenon will struggle on non-graphics code. However bad off Xenon will be in that department, the PS3's Cell will probably be worse. The Cell has only one PPE to the Xenon's three, which means that developers will have to cram all their game control, AI, and physics code into at most two threads that are sharing a very narrow execution core with no instruction window. (Don't bother suggesting that the PS3 can use its SPEs for branch-intensive code, because the SPEs lack branch prediction entirely.) Furthermore, the PS3's L2 is only 512K, which is half the size of the Xenon's L2. So the PS3 doesn't get much help with branches in the cache department. In short, the PS3 may fare a bit worse than the Xenon on non-graphics code, but on the upside it will probably fare a bit better on graphics code because of the seven SPEs. "



taken from



http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/xbox360-2.ars/7



That's what I was refferring too, the 3 ppe's vs 1