Dorian Breh
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The way people talk about this shyt makes it sound like some mythical beast, exactly how powerful was it potentially?
Why is the PS3's Cell processor considered so legendary?
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I don’t think it ever was considered “legendary” lol
Basically it was powerful for its time so in-house devs knew how to get the most out of it, but it was harder for third party devs to develop for compared something based more on PC architecture. Some multiplat games had various issues because of that
One of the more famous ones was the skyrim save bloat glitch. Due to how the ps3 handled saves at the system level, and how skyrim “saves” the world state, it basically caused your save file to continuously grow until after about 35-40 hours where your load times slowed to a crawl because your game is loading a 300MB save file. Took bethesda a lil bit to fix that at the time.
Basically it was powerful for its time so in-house devs knew how to get the most out of it, but it was harder for third party devs to develop for compared something based more on PC architecture. Some multiplat games had various issues because of that
One of the more famous ones was the skyrim save bloat glitch. Due to how the ps3 handled saves at the system level, and how skyrim “saves” the world state, it basically caused your save file to continuously grow until after about 35-40 hours where your load times slowed to a crawl because your game is loading a 300MB save file. Took bethesda a lil bit to fix that at the time.
Dorian Breh
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The cell processor came from the future
Pure Water
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Did matter in the end. The separated memory in the system caused the PS3 to have a lot of games that looked and performed worse than it's counterpart. Sony really fukked up with the PS3. They learned their lesson going into the PS4.
Cause sony said so and Sony stan’s ran with it.
In reality it was an inefficient headache.
In reality it was an inefficient headache.
Dorian Breh
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Sony stans a wild bunch
It was legendary in complexity and the low ram was a good kick to the nuts dealing with those cores. The APIs and documentation were also poor from what I remember. It ran hot and Sony skipped out on some cooling.
Fanservice
Bih call me senpai
Legendary? It’s the reason 99% of games ran better on 360. It’s the reason all our digital ps3 games were sent to the shadow realm, never to be playable again with bc.
Fukk teh cell
Fukk teh cell
Kurt off them percs
With Booker T wife
I heard cell was hella difficult to use
Womb Raider
sigh….*unzips pants*
That’s actually crazyLegendary? It’s the reason 99% of games ran better on 360. It’s the reason all our digital ps3 games were sent to the shadow realm, never to be playable again with bc.
Fukk teh cell
I never realized Sony shot themselves in the foot with that cell processor shyt. I just know all my ppl had 360s.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
I don't think legendary is the right way to describe it. It was a bytch to for developers to use, but it was pretty damn powerful. MGS 4 still doesn't look bad to me
Raiden Break dance swinging around those mini-cow metal gear was peak kojima nonsense
