Dorian Breh
Veteran
The way people talk about this shyt makes it sound like some mythical beast, exactly how powerful was it potentially?
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.
“Even desktop chips nowadays, the fastest Intel stuff you can buy, is not by far as powerful as the Cell CPU, but it’s very difficult to get power out of the Cell.
“I think it was ahead of its age, because it was a little bit more like how GPUs work nowadays, but it was maybe not balanced nicely and it was too hard to use. It overshot a little bit in power and undershot in usability, but it was definitely visionary.”
Sony stans a wild bunchCause sony said so and Sony stan’s ran with it.
In reality it was an inefficient headache.
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 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