With both Microsoft and Sony laying their cards on the table over the past week, the opening skirmish of the next-gen console war has tipped heavily in favour of the PlayStation 3 - but the war is only starting, says Rob Fahey.
Originally posted by: dguy6789
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p1.html
Contrary to popular belief, the Xbox 360 is more powerful than the PS3.
Not only is the Xbox 360 faster than the PS3, it has a sweet game lineup. Perfect Dark 0, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3, Quake 4, Gears of War, Project Gotham Racing 3, Dead or Alive 4, DOAX2, UT2007, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, and of course Halo 3. There are a good bit more games that I havent read up about and they could be sweet as well.
The Cell's seven DSPs (what Sony calls SPEs) have no cache, no direct access to memory, no branch predictor, and a different instruction set from the PS3's main CPU. They are not designed for or efficient at general purpose computing. DSPs are not appropriate for game programming.
Originally posted by: LordGorzul
PS3 Hands Down, no questions. First Sony Playstation has better games and is a better brand, Xbox has no experience in the field. Second the PS3 is far superior than Xbox360 in every way, and most importantly in the selection of games that's going to be available. Besides Microsoft said it themselves, X360, isn't really Xbox2, it more like Xbox 1.5, which only consolidates my argument.